Washington. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is to become US Secretary of Health and Human Services. But the personnel are already making doctors, scientists and some senators sick.
Donald Trump remains true to himself – after defense, justice and intelligence coordination – when it comes to appointing the financially largest unit of his future government apparatus: he is relying on a highly controversial one outsider.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the legendary President John F. Kennedy, is said to be the Top position in the Ministry of Health (HHS). The 70-year-old, who fought for the presidency as a non-partisan rival against Trump, but later defected to his camp due to lack of prospects, would receive a vote if he were confirmed by the Senate enormous power.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the massive Medicare and Medicaid programs, the poor, people over 65, and Providing disabled people with state health insurance coverage then fell under his responsibility. HHS annual budget: over three trillion dollars, almost a quarter of the entire US budget.
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The 47th US President-elect stated: “For far too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug manufacturers Deception, misinformation and disinformation when it came to public health.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) is expected to become Secretary of Health and Human Services in the incoming Donald Trump administration. © DPA Images | Evan Vucci
Kennedy will ensure that “all people are protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products and food additives that contribute to the overwhelming Health crisis contributed to this country,” said Trump.
Against this Lawrence Gostin, Professor of global health law at Georgetown University in Washington, states: “Trump will ruin public health, sow distrust and allow false health information to spread widely.”
Resistance in the Senate against the vaccination opponent
Similar comments are made Dr. Ashwin Vasan, Former New York City health department chief: “I think this could have really devastating consequences for the health of Americans. Kennedy has no experience. He has no specialist knowledge. He is completely unqualified for this task.”
Democratic Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray is already pushing for RFK Jr. to refuse consent in the Senate: “There is no telling how far a fringe conspiracy theorist like RFK Jr. could set America back on public health, reproductive rights, research and innovation, and much more.”
Dr. Michael Osterholm, renowned infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota: “We have noted for many years that Mr. Kennedy does not follow good science in his statements on health issues. Vaccinations remain the most important health measurewhich ensures that babies not only live to see their first birthday, but also remain healthy into adulthood.”
Osterholm is alluding to the most prominent feature of the “black sheep” of the Kennedy dynasty: his Anti-vaccination sentiment.
First a Democrat, then independent of party, then a Trump fan: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with his future boss in the background. © IMAGO/ZUMA Press Wire | IMAGO/Gage Skidmore
The former environmental lawyer, according to his own statements a parasitic worm May have eaten away parts of the brain, claims vaccines contain mercury. What causes autism in children.
Kennedy compared corona protection measures to reprisals in Nazi Germany
For him, giving vaccinations to children represents “criminal medical malpractice“For him, the corona vaccinations were the “deadliest vaccinations ever created”. He compared protective measures (school closures, mandatory masks, etc.) to reprisals in Nazi Germany. In general, he said in a podcast that there is “no vaccination that is safe and effective.”
At an event last year, he claimed that the coronavirus had been “genetically modified” to spare “Jews and Chinese” from it. “Certain races” are disproportionately affected by the infection, he said, due to alleged “genetic differences in certain receptors,” a derivation that could come directly from Nazi racial theory. For Kennedy, the coronavirus represents a “biological weapon.”
Other Kennedy beliefs: Microsoft founder Bill Gates wants to use vaccinations to implant microchips in people. 5G technology causes cancer. Polio can be prevented more efficiently through better hygiene than through vaccinations. None of this is scientifically proven.
Kennedy recently made a name for himself with his small-scale demands. That’s how it should be Fast food giant McDonald’s Stop frying fries in vegetable oil. He wants to ban fluoride additives from public drinking water. Although dentists strongly advise against it.
The resistance to Kennedy in the scientific and medical communities is enormous. Zach Weinberg, head of the biotech investor Curie, warned: “RFK is scary and unqualified to run anything other than a trip to the supermarket.”
Jerome Adams, in Trump’s first term „Surgeon General“, The nation’s chief doctor fears that RFK will “further undermine people’s willingness to stay up to date on recommended vaccines.”
Kennedy is through his Broadband criticism of the pharmaceutical industry become popular. “There is nothing more profitable for a large part of the health system than a sick child,” is one of his standard sentences. Or: “The sicker Americans get, the richer Big Pharma gets.”
Kennedy: “The sicker Americans get, the richer Big Pharma gets.”
This is what Kennedy wants under the slogan „Make America healthy again“ (Make America healthy again) with a horse cure. Thousands of employees in the apparatus are to be laid off.
Half of the budget of the National Institute of Health (NIH), which is responsible worldwide for… Gold standard in biomedical research is to be spent in the future on “preventive, alternative and holistic approaches in the health sector”. That would be over $20 billion.
Anthony Fauci, Trump’s most important advisor in the corona pandemic, is on Kennedy’s red list. He despises the infectious disease expert. © AFP | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
Kennedy claims that US health authorities systematically “Raw milk, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine and exercise” oppressed. Because none of this could be patented by companies like Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson, i.e. monetized.
Popular demand for capped drug prices
In his approach, Kennedy takes advantage of real problems that are striking on a global scale. This is nowhere in the rich industrial nations obesity as common as in America. However, the treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases costs enormous amounts of money compared to Europe. In addition, there are regular food scandals and serious drinking water breakdowns.
Capital Inside by Jörg Quoos, editor-in-chief of the FUNKE central editorial team
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Kennedy’s call for capped drug prices and a restriction on the inflationary advertising of drugs on television is popular across party lines. If Kennedy survived that Hearing marathon (Republicans can’t tolerate more than three dissenters), these could be the consequences: greater vaccine hesitancy, more infectious diseases and less trust in public health.
