“He’s going to help America get healthy again,” Donald Trump said in his victory speech after he was confirmed as president in the early hours of last Wednesday morning. “He wants to do certain things, and we’re going to let him do it. Go have fun, Bobby,” he added. The Bobby in question is obviously Robert Kennedy Jr, whom the president-elect appointed this Thursday to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and pharmaceutical companies that have engaged in deception, misinformation and lies when it comes to public health. The safety and health of all Americans is the most important role of any administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services will play an important role in helping to ensure that everyone is protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming health crisis in this country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these agencies to the traditions of gold-standard scientific research and transparency, to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America great and healthy again! ” Trump said in a statement.
Public health experts have already expressed fears over the possible appointment to such a position of an anti-vaccine activist who has already falsely linked autism to the vaccination of children against several infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and polio, and who wants to put an end to the fluoridation of drinking water, among others. “I’m going to let it run wild [go wild] on health, I’m going to let him run wild on food, I’m going to let him run wild on drugs,” Trump said during one of his campaign speeches.
Days before the election, in a message posted on He further listed some of the products he said have been subject to “aggressive suppression” by the FDA, including ivermectin, raw milk and vitamins, and stem cell therapies. and hyperbaric oxygen.
Kennedy adheres to several theories which are based on vague or dismantled theories. He notably declared that COVID-19 was “destined to attack Caucasians and Black people”, while “people with the highest immunity [étaient] the Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese.”
Politico says Trump could always choose someone else to serve as health secretary.
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