The claim

Apparently Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won a lawsuit in the US Supreme Court against all pharmaceutical lobbyists, according to which the corona vaccines were not real vaccines.

Our conclusion

There is no ruling from the US Supreme Court ruling that corona vaccines are not real vaccines. Kennedy Jr. also denied ever making a statement. The often linked ruling about the reinstatement of unvaccinated employees has nothing at all to do with the claim.

Hardly anyone noticed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won the trial against all the pharmaceutical lobbyists ,” is the claim again on social media. And of course the main stream press doesn't report it. Because suppression of the truth or something. But perhaps also because the claim is not only older, but such a process never took place!

The claim circulating

This longer text with smaller variations, sometimes with various links (which we'll get to), is circulating again:

A small selection of the current articles with the claim
A small selection of the current articles with the claim

Supreme Court Ruling: Covid Vaccines Are Not Vaccines
Hardly anyone noticed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won the case against all the pharmaceutical lobbyists. Covid vaccines are not vaccines. In its ruling, the Supreme Court confirms that the damage caused by Covid mRNA gene therapies is irreparable. Since the Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States, there are no further appeals and appeal options have been exhausted. Robert F. Kennedy emphasized in an initial statement that this was a success that was only possible thanks to the international cooperation of a large number of lawyers and scientists.

Many of the articles also contain links to an article from “Presseteam Austria” and an article from Fox News. The press team article also contains the text above, supplemented by the information from the Fox News article, according to which the New York State Supreme Court ordered that all unvaccinated city employees who were fired as a result must be rehired.

Below we address the individual claims.

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The alleged trial of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

That claim has been circulating since April 2021 ( we reported ). At that time it was even said that the USA would therefore now stop vaccinations against COVID-19. But as we all know, that never happened.

Fortunately, you can search for rulings on the Supreme Court website (see HERE ), so you can try to find this ruling yourself. Good luck with that, we didn't succeed. There is also an unofficial search engine for judgments (see HERE ), but there too: none.

Of course, the sites and social media accounts that spread the claim also provide no evidence: no links or at least screenshots of the verdict. It should simply be believed. And it is also believed by those who think for themselves. Simply because it is there.

Because of this, Kennedy's “initial statement on the non-existent process cannot of course be found anywhere. That statement was even longer in the old versions of the disseminated text, but Kennedy himself denied the claim.

Both the Associated Press and USA Today asked Kennedy Jr. himself about the alleged statement in May and September 2021. He only said very briefly to USA Today: “ This statement is untrue. I don’t know where she comes from “.
Kennedy spoke in more detail to the Associated Press:

The article about the Supreme Court is misinformation. The quote is fake. Apparently someone made it up and is spreading it, because the same quote keeps popping up no matter how many times I deny it. The same article keeps popping up “.

No real press release

Many claim that the report came from a “Press Team Austria” (archived HERE ), i.e. it is a real press release, which is why the claim must be true. But a quick look at the masthead shows that it is purely an opinion page from Moldova that simply took a circulating claim and presented it as real.

The imprint of the site
The imprint of the site

“All contributions, articles, reports, readers’ opinions, etc. appearing on this site exclusively express the opinions of their authors and do not have to agree with the views of the media owner, manufacturer, publisher and editorial team.”

Both that article and the circulating text make completely incoherent references to a Fox News article from October 2022 (see HERE ), which talks about laid-off, unvaccinated employees of the city of New York who were rehired according to a court ruling Need to become.

The court ruling on the reinstatement of the New York employees

Relevant sites (e.g. HERE ) report on it as if it were very current and link back to the Fox News article mentioned above, but it is from October 2022 . However, the content of the Fox article is correct; CNN and Forbes, on it at the time.

Also, mentioning the ruling along with the claim about the Supreme Court's non-existent decision on coronavirus vaccines creates the false impression that there is some connection, when the real court ruling on the New York employees was about something different.

The court's decision and reasoning can be read in great detail, especially in the Forbes article According to this, it was primarily about the unequal treatment of the employees: some of them did not get a “second chance” to get vaccinated afterwards, they were treated unevenly, the separation of powers was disregarded, the employees should have continued to be employed until their lawsuit against dismissal was decided would have been.

Let's summarize

Rating: FALSE
  • There is no ruling from the US Supreme Court ruling that corona vaccines are not real vaccines
  • The claim has been circulating in German-speaking countries since April 2021 and in English November 2020
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. himself denied having made a statement about the non-existent verdict
  • The site that published the same text is not an official Austrian press organ, but an opinion site from Moldova
  • The court ruling on the reinstatement of unvaccinated New York employees has absolutely nothing to do with the widespread claim

The spread text is therefore a pure false claim.


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