"Just last week, in the days after the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in my home state of Minnesota, you went on Fox News, blaming school shootings on antidepressants. Do you have evidence of that? Because you have no evidence of a connection."
"I did not blame that shooting on- I have no idea whether- I have no idea, and I never said that, you're making it up, you're twisting! You are being dishonest right now! You're being dishonest!"
"When someone presents you with information that does not fit with your worldview... this is what you say, right?"
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. became outraged when Senator Tina Smith questioned his recent Fox News comments linking antidepressants to school shootings. Smith referenced the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minnesota where two children were killed and 17 others injured. Kennedy denied making such claims, insisting Smith was fabricating statements and being dishonest. However, Kennedy had made comments on Fox News the previous week discussing medications associated with gender-affirming care in relation to school shootings. There is no established research connecting antidepressants to mass violence, and it remains unknown whether the shooter was taking such medications.
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