Nominee for health secretary decried as ‘vaccine denier and conspiracy theorist … this is going to cost lives’Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories.In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump claimed that Americans have been “crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies” and that Kennedy will “will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!” Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/trump-administration-rfk-criticisms
Author : Maya Yang
Publish date : 2024-11-14 23:45:29
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.