“I’m going to be deeply involved in helping to choose the people who can run F.D.A. and N.I.H. and C.D.C.,” [said] Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Now branded as “Make America Healthy Again!,” Mr. Kennedy’s health freedom movement is preoccupied with instances where the government is supposedly colluding with industry to make people sick. The prevalence of chronic disease, America’s declining life expectancy, vaccine mandates: These are all, in Mr. Kennedy’s view, not just public health conundrums but also elite conspiracies.
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Mr. Kennedy says he will also cease funding for infectious disease research and brags that he will round up the editors of the top medicine journals and accuse them of publishing “fake science” at the behest of industry.
