Robert Kennedy Jr. ‘s appearance before a Senate committee on Thursday earned coverage across all three major news networks, and it is easy to understand why: He’s at the center of tumult at the Department of Health and Human Services , his replacement of members of a vaccine panel, and his firing of the head of the Centers for Disease Control, after she was in the job for less than a month.

Kennedy’s contentious exchanges fit a familiar pattern, with the longtime vaccine skeptic stridently denying statements made in the past when pressed by lawmakers.

“You are just making stuff up,” Kennedy said to Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), who noted that he went on Fox News last week and blamed school shootings on antidepressants. His appearance followed the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Schoo

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