Summary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to overhaul parts of the FDA, specifically targeting the agency’s nutrition department, which he claims “are not doing their jobs” and failing to protect public health.

Kennedy, a known opponent of vaccinations and the pharmaceutical industry, said he could “clear out” corruption in health agencies. President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he would give Kennedy significant influence over health policy, though Trump’s campaign denied he would lead HHS.

Experts and family members warn that Kennedy’s anti-vaccine stance could have serious public health repercussions.

  • @[email protected]
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    13615 days ago

    People had no idea how good we had it. Guess we all have to learn the hard lessons again.

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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      8115 days ago

      Those of us who survive it anyway

      I’m serious folks, a lot of people died the first term and a lot will die again.

      • @[email protected]
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        5115 days ago

        Calling it now:

        Bird flu will make the jump this summer. It will be just like The Spanish flu and start at a pig farm in Kansas.

      • @wolfpack86
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        214 days ago

        Well, then maybe we will be cured of the republican problem when boomers die and younger conservatives sacrifice their children to their emperor via antivaxxing.

        Nature always finds a way.

    • @Clent
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      6415 days ago

      How presumptuous of you to assume they’ll learn anything.

      • Flying Squid
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        1715 days ago

        They sure didn’t learn anything from the 1940s.

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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          13 days ago

          If your referring to the fox trot you are correct. I take the electric slide the best I can

      • @[email protected]
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        714 days ago

        They’ll just blame illegal immigrants for spreading disease, and the liberal Hollywood elite for letting them come here.

      • @APassenger
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        615 days ago

        The only thing to learn from history is that people don’t.