Trump Picks RFK Jr. to Run Dept. of Health and Human Services

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated vaccine conspiracy theorist and failed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote in a statement, adding that RFK Jr.‘s HHS “will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country.”

Kennedy has already been meeting with members of Trump’s transition team in recent weeks, and has signaled that he will usher in a large-scale transformation of American health care if he’s appointed to a government role. It seems he will be. 

Last week, Kennedy told The Washington Post that “the president has asked me to clean up corruption and conflicts at the agencies and to end the chronic disease epidemic.”

“He wants measurable results in two years and to return those agencies to their long traditions of gold-standard evidence-based science and medicine,” he added.

Kennedy has also bragged separately that Trump had promised him “control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH, and a few others … and then also the USDA.”

The conspiracy theorist gained infamy as one of the most prominent peddlers of the false claim that vaccines are the root cause of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Kennedy has also suggested that vaccine research is responsible for the creation of diseases like AIDS, the Spanish Flu, and Lyme disease. 

Kennedy’s plans for America’s health care systems are wide ranging. In an X post earlier this month, Kennedy wrote that he plans to combat the “aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”
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Trump Picks RFK Jr. to Run Dept. of Health and Human Services

He’s also said that one of his first orders of business will be to remove fluoride from the nation’s drinking water.

Kennedy has threatened to purge federal health and regulation employees who might oppose his plans. “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags,” Kennedy wrote.