Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment is characteristic of Trump’s hostility to expertise
The writer is a science commentator If I owned a string of pearls, I would be clutching them at the prospect of Robert F Kennedy Jr taking the top health job in a Trump cabinet. Kennedy has, over many years, voiced an assortment of unorthodox or conspiracist beliefs: that vaccines are linked to autism; that the Covid-19 virus was engineered to target some ethnicities more than others; and that US government agencies suppress treatments that cannot be patented.
In it, he accused the FDA, which would fall under his new remit, of being corrupt and of “aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that . . . can’t be patented by Pharma”.
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