A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy was forced to backtrack this week following reports that one of his key aides tried to get the polio vaccine certification revoked in the United States. "What I was excited to hear him about was getting away from guessing, into facts. Do science, get behind the science, stay with it, don't be guessing. That's a lot of what these vaccines have done," said Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). The senator then went on to baselessly suggest that "everybody" in the room probably knew someone who died from a COVID-19 vaccine injury.