US’s RFK Jr claims Arabs ‘don’t produce science’: Why he’s very, very wrong

Author: Al Jazeera StaffPublished on: October 27, 2026Country: United States

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US’s RFK Jr claims Arabs ‘don’t produce science’: Why he’s very, very wrong

US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr claimed that Arabs produce no science or literature and do not win Nobel, Fields or Wolf prizes. The remarks, made at a Grand Rapids campaign event supporting Republican Mike Rogers, were condemned as racist, Islamophobic and factually inaccurate. Rogers is facing Arab-American Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in a close Michigan Senate race ahead of the midterm elections. The article points to Arab contributions to mathematics, medicine and science, including during the Islamic Golden Age.

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