How RFK, Jr.’s false vaccine claims are holding up $600 million to fight diseases in poor countries

How RFK, Jr.’s false vaccine claims are holding up $600 million to fight diseases in poor countries

Carmen Paun | Politico |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to remake the U.S. vaccination schedule is on hold following a federal judge’s decision last ...
Despite disease surges, poll shows Kennedy-driven disinformation has left most Americans skeptical of vaccines

Despite disease surges, poll shows Kennedy-driven disinformation has left most Americans skeptical of vaccines

Lauren Gardner | Politico |
Results from the March poll of 3,851 U.S. adults conducted by Public First show that a plurality of Americans question ...
RFK, Jr.’s attacks on Big Pharma and Big Ag are finding surprising new allies among Republican voters and leaders: Predatory tort lawyers  

RFK, Jr.’s attacks on Big Pharma and Big Ag are finding surprising new allies among Republican voters and leaders: Predatory tort lawyers  

Amanda Chu | Politico |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s demonization of food and pharma has put the Trump administration on the wrong side of its ...
Anti-vaccine activists are pushing the courts to allow doctors to spread disinformation about shot safety to patients

Anti-vaccine activists are pushing the courts to allow doctors to spread disinformation about shot safety to patients

Lauren Gardner | Politico |
Doctors who give health advice to their patients or community that runs counter to the medical establishment face a rare ...
RFK, Jr.’s aversion to legislation raises the question: Will his revolution endure?

RFK, Jr.’s aversion to legislation raises the question: Will his revolution endure?

Over the course of his year in the Cabinet, Kennedy has racked up major wins for his Make America Healthy ...
RFK, Jr. dilemma: American Medical Association leadership split over whether to ostracize HHS secretary or vainly try to educate him

RFK, Jr. dilemma: American Medical Association leadership split over whether to ostracize HHS secretary or vainly try to educate him

Simon Levien | Politico |
A meeting ... between the head of the American Medical Association and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has prompted ...
How the pro-life movement undermined Trump’s free IVF campaign promise

How the pro-life movement undermined Trump’s free IVF campaign promise

Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating ...
Animal rights advocates align with RFK, Jr.’s attempt to phase out animal testing in favor of high-tech, human-based alternatives

Animal rights advocates align with RFK, Jr.’s attempt to phase out animal testing in favor of high-tech, human-based alternatives

Erin Schumaker | Politico |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s making animal welfare a component of his Make America Healthy Again mission. The health secretary has ...
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Republicans in Congress and RFK, Jr. find common ground in using psychedelics to treat traumatized veterans

Erin Schumaker | Politico |
Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden ...
Nanny state hypocrisy: When Michelle Obama advocated improving American’s diet, she was mocked. Now it’s mainstream MAHA

Nanny state hypocrisy: When Michelle Obama advocated improving American’s diet, she was mocked. Now it’s mainstream MAHA

Marcia Brown | Politico |
Before there was MAHA, there was Michelle. Anyone following the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again ...
Viewpoint: For European farming to innovate, patents are critical

Viewpoint: For European farming to innovate, patents are critical

Hélène Guillot | Politico |
EU policymakers are currently negotiating new rules for developing innovative plant varieties through new genomic techniques (NGTs). These techniques allow plant breeders ...
Turmoil at RFK, Jrs.' HHS. Two weeks into the job, top spokesperson resigns claiming the recent appointee is bungling the measles outbreak response

Turmoil at RFK, Jrs.’ HHS. Two weeks into the job, top spokesperson resigns claiming the recent appointee is bungling the measles outbreak response

David Limm | Politico |
[HHS chief spokesperson Thomas Corry's] sudden departure was prompted by growing disagreement with Kennedy and his principal deputy chief of ...
The fake call for ‘choice’ in medicine: RFK, Jr. is normalizing science-rejecting vaccine opponents

The fake call for ‘choice’ in medicine: RFK, Jr. is normalizing science-rejecting vaccine opponents

Adam Cancryn | Politico |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want to talk about his past as a leader of the anti-vaccine movement. But as ...
Viewpoint: 'Alt-right' piles into the RFK. Jr. science-distorting chemophobia-promoting clown car

Viewpoint: ‘Alt-right’ piles into the RFK. Jr. science-distorting chemophobia-promoting clown car

Ariel Wittenberg | Politico |
[Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.] has spread misinformation multiple times over the past three years claiming that herbicides and other chemicals ...
Republican Congress planning to target transgender rights to promote what they call ‘common sense guardrails’

Republican Congress planning to target transgender rights to promote what they call ‘common sense guardrails’

Anthony Adragna | Politico |
Republicans’ first response to Sarah McBride’s election to Congress was to ban her from using women’s restrooms throughout the Capitol ...
RFK Jr. is touting regenerative agriculture. The problem is no one knows what it is.

RFK Jr. is touting regenerative agriculture. The problem is no one knows what it is.

Indigenous farming practices are the trendy new agricultural craze sweeping both sides of the political aisle. The fight is over ...
Post Dobbs, conservative states’ abortion restrictions are forcing OBGYN doctors to go elsewhere for required training

Post Dobbs, conservative states’ abortion restrictions are forcing OBGYN doctors to go elsewhere for required training

Alice Miranda Ollstein | Politico |
[M]any residents across the country ... have gone out of state for training in abortion since Dobbs. Most of them ...
Forty European health insurers press EU to regulate phase out of agricultural chemicals by midcentury

Forty European health insurers press EU to regulate phase out of agricultural chemicals by midcentury

Forty health insurance mutuals from France, Belgium and Poland have jointly called on the EU not to abandon the goal of ...
Viewpoint: ‘AI is already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that touch millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT’

Viewpoint: ‘AI is already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that touch millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT’

A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s really no going back ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-biotech farmers and green politicians decry EU relaxation of genetic engineering rules — ‘Specter of patentable supercrops from corporate giants looms over Europe’

The specter of patentable supercrops is looming over Europe's agricultural landscape, raising concerns about a handful of corporate giants dominating ...
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Medical tourism: Inside Ukraine’s booming ‘rent-a-womb’ industry

Over the past decade, surrogacy, or the “rent-a-womb” industry, as critics sometimes call it, has become a booming global industry ...
Viewpoint: ‘USDA successfully brought Big Ag aboard in the fight against climate change. Now they have to prove it will work’

Viewpoint: ‘USDA successfully brought Big Ag aboard in the fight against climate change. Now they have to prove it will work’

Doug Palmer, Garrett Downs | Politico |
The strategy of paying large incentives to farmers so they adopt climate-friendly farming methods won over large swaths of big ...
Glyphosate will be re-authorized for 15 years as safe by the European Commission, according to leaked documents

Glyphosate will be re-authorized for 15 years as safe by the European Commission, according to leaked documents

Bartosz Brzeziński | Politico |
The European Commission is readying a proposal for the controversial herbicide glyphosate to receive a full stamp of approval from ...
EU ‘Green Deal’ softens hard-line proposals for extensive restrictions on pesticides as food security concerns escalate

EU ‘Green Deal’ softens hard-line proposals for extensive restrictions on pesticides as food security concerns escalate

Eddy Wax | Politico |
EU countries are pushing back against the European Commission’s plans to radically slash the use of pesticides in the bloc, ...
CRISPR crop regulatory balancing act: EU won’t completely deregulate gene-edited crops but ‘proportionate risk assessments’ are likely

CRISPR crop regulatory balancing act: EU won’t completely deregulate gene-edited crops but ‘proportionate risk assessments’ are likely

Bartosz Brzeziński | Politico |
For the moment, the EU has some of the world’s strictest rules when it comes to approving genetically-altered crops, and ...
EU bans food imports with neonic pesticide residues starting in 2026

EU bans food imports with neonic pesticide residues starting in 2026

Bartosz Brzeziński, Eddy Wax | Politico |
The European Commission announced [September 27] that imports of products containing residues of harmful insecticides known as neonicotinoids will be ...
Long COVID: As many as 30% of victims suffer ongoing health issues

Long COVID: As many as 30% of victims suffer ongoing health issues

Daniel Payne | Politico |
Thousands of long Covid patients across the globe are urging their governments to provide more help for the growing number ...
'I see no need for re-regulation’: Germany’s Environment Minister and Green Party stalwart rebukes EU’s hopes to relax crop gene editing rules, invokes precautionary principle

‘I see no need for re-regulation’: Germany’s Environment Minister and Green Party stalwart rebukes EU’s hopes to relax crop gene editing rules, invokes precautionary principle

Gabriela Galindo | Politico |
German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke on [June 13] rebuffed the European Commission’s plan to propose new rules for crops bred ...