RFK Jr.’s new bully pulpit sends public
health shock waves
Posted By: Mercedes44, 11/10/2024 11:29:56 PM
President-elect Trump’s promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on health is demoralizing public health experts, who worry he could meddle with key government agencies, amplify vaccine hesitancy and direct agency funding to favor his preferred views. Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them. But with Trump’s victory, Kennedy could soon be in charge of those same agencies. “FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote on social media shortly before the election, referring to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Poppycock, responded the press, regurgitating talking points from the agency.
Trump's Promising Health Agenda
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The Left is hysterical over the prospect of a Trump administration in charge of the nation's health policy.
But life expectancy in the U.S. peaked in 2014 and has been shrinking nearly every year since then, an indicator that Americans' health is declining. This despite the trillions spent covering the uninsured. Expanding insurance is not the panacea it was promised to be. A shakeup is needed.
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Those include removing fluoride from public water, promoting a wide variety of unorthodox and unproven treatments and pushing a deep skepticism of pharmaceutical companies and the agencies overseeing them. But with Trump’s victory, Kennedy could soon be in charge of those same agencies.
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote on social media shortly before the election, referring to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
Advises Liberals on How to Move to Another Country 27 replies
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Network May Fire Hundreds After Trump
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The legacy media is dead.
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on not helping Trump-voting hurricane victims 17 replies
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