Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services petitioned the FDA over the shot that saved thousands of lives

The potential elevation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation’s largest health agency could be detrimental to the government’s goal of preventing cervical cancer through vaccination. That’s because Kennedy has a long history of making misleading claims about and being involved in legal challenges to the human papillomavirus vaccine,

Kennedy, who suspended his independent bid for the presidency to endorse Trump immediately following the Democratic National Convention last summer, has vowed to “Make America Healthy Again” by battling chronic health conditions and restoring American health agencies to their “ rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science .”

The prospect of having vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation’s health policy has doctors speaking out to oppose his confirmation as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. The Committee to Protect Health Care says it has more than 15,

A handful of Senate Democrats are said to be leaving the door open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next Health and Human Services secretary. As preparations for confirmation hearings begin to take shape,

Experts call the health implications “dire” with some fearing Kennedy could set off a fresh round in the school culture wars over mandatory vaccines.

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Trump's pick for health secretary has a record of attacking vaccines. In fact he's even taken direct aim at bird flu shots. Some scientists fear this doesn't bode well in case of a crisis.

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements about drinking raw milk have reignited the debate over food safety and government regulation. The well-known activist has put raw milk in the spotlight, a product that the FDA bans in much of the United States due to its high risk of bacterial contamination.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s choice to lead HHS, is back on Capitol Hill today to pitch himself to Senate Democrats to lead the sprawling agency.