...I still think the ignorant Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. may be the most dangerous. And he is now Secretary of Health & Human Services. Why is this so dangerous? As the NYT notes, he has spent years trafficking in junk science:
As the nation’s health secretary, Mr. Kennedy “would have wide powers to advance his favored research studies, publications, or scientific data,” according to Lawrence O. Gostin, a public health law expert at Georgetown University. Mr. Kennedy’s critics fear that the public will have neither the time nor the training to sort through a war that seems to pit one study against another, and that the result will be a rapid decline in confidence in vaccines.
“The Mawson paper [on vaccines and autism] epitomizes Kennedy’s consistent inability to distinguish junk science from reliable information,” said Dr. John P. Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College, who said that study and some of the others Mr. Kennedy has cited in the past are published by “fringe journals.”
Whether this buffoon destroys public health in America will now turn on whether Senator Cassidy, the cowardly MD from Louisiana, actually exercises oversight. State health departments, at least in the civilized states, will now have to take the lead.
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