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RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary will be a catastrophe for public health and medical research

RFK Jr. being RFK Jr.
RFK Jr.

President-Elect Donald Trump has nominated antivax activist, conspiracy theorist, and all around crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. We are so screwed.

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Antivaxxers easily see through RFK Jr.’s MAHA con

RFK Jr and Donald Trump: MAHA?
RFK Jr and Donald Trump.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been antivax for two decades. His fellow travelers are not happy about his leaving out vaccines in his “Make America Healthy Again.” To them it’s an obvious misdirection to hide his antivax views, and they are turning on him.

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The NCCIH embraces the “integration” of functional medicine quackery with medicine

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NCCIH: Integrating quackery with medicine.

The process of “integrating” quackery with medicine continues apace as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health embraces the quackery that is “functional medicine” to promote “whole person health,” whatever that means.

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“MAHA”? Antivax conspiracy monger RFK Jr. is not the one to “make America healthy again”

RFK Jr and Donald Trump: MAHA?
RFK Jr and Donald Trump.

Shortly after endorsing Donald Trump for President, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he and Trump will “make America healthy again.” His proposals to do that range from semi-reasonable to outright quackery.