Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting eugenics.

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7. The new Lysenkoism

David Gorski on March 31, 2025

... During his time as Josef Stalin’s favorite scientist, Lysenko and his version of biology that came to be known as Lysenkoism led to the persecution of biologists who stuck to science-based views regarding agriculture that conflicted with Lysenko’s, up to and including imprisonment and, in some cases, execution. Worse, his ideas applied to Soviet Agriculture clearly led to crop shortfalls and ended up massively worsening famines. Although no one has been imprisoned (yet) or executed, under the reign of President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary RFK Jr., the suppression of politically incorrect science and purges of the ideologically impure or suspect have already begun, most recently Peter Marks, the FDA’s Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), who was forced to resign last week ...

... now that RFK Jr. and his “make America healthy again” (MAHA) ideology rule HHS, there is no room left for someone who follows the science wherever it goes ...

... Like Trofim Lysenko, RFK Jr. is an ideologue whose “science” flows from his preconceived notions about vaccines, public health, and chronic illness. Like Lysenko, RFK Jr. is not swayed by evidence, science, or reason. After all, many have tried to persuade him that vaccines do not cause autism using scientific evidence, and he still fervently believes it ...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/make-america-healthy-again-the-new-lysenkoism/