When U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently wrote that vitamin A “can dramatically reduce measles mortality,” he was remarking on what happens after someone gets infected,
A longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon and best-selling author, he has advised the World Health Organization and been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. (Makary, whose confirmation hearings kicked off in the Senate this morning,
After promising an ambitious effort to rid America of chronic disease, Kennedy has spent his early tenure defending his handling of a measles outbreak in Texas and fending off cuts from DOGE.
Because if you believe that mental illness is not real illness, that depression can be vanquished with a little fresh air and time spent with friends, or that anxiety is a result of “unresolved sin” or not enough faith, then medication is not needed at all.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned vaccines could turn "birds into mutant factories."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services testifies during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing for his confirmation on Capitol Hill, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)