These two grinning, dangerous IDIOTS--RFK Jr. and #Trump do not care about your kids health--they ONLY want to make more

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RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health

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RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health
But the demise of American leadership in science didn't begin with him

By Heather Digby Parton Published August 31, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/31/rfk-jr-tightens-his-chokehold-on-the-nations-public-health/




Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))


The recent purge of several high-level members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent shock waves through the political establishment. And with political shock waves seeming to hit every few hours these days, that’s quite a feat.

The ouster of Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s new director and an infectious disease expert who was just confirmed by 51 Republican senators in July, was unexpected. But it was her unwillingness to sign off on dubious new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and the apparent pre-determined findings of the vaccine board, which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has packed with his quack cronies, that likely did Monarez in.

That it immediately triggered the resignations of five other top CDC scientists in protest made it all the more astounding.

Kennedy is probably the world’s most famous vaccine skeptic, having spent years wallowing in the rabbit hole of dark conspiracy theories. A card-carrying practitioner of the woo-woo wellness movement, he was a known fanatic on this issue when he and Donald Trump apparently struck a backroom deal during the campaign to deliver his followers in exchange for a role in the new administration. Since the woo-woo and wingnut factions of the growing anti-vaccination movement merged in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, that represented a fairly good-sized chunk of voters. Trump needed them, especially since he’d lost credibility with that crowd when he bragged about Operation Warp Speed, which produced and approved COVID vaccines in record time...................................