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RFK Jr.’s Senate Ravings Prove He Won’t Bring Sanity Back to Public Health | Red Hot Takes

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Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is. NY Post Assistant Editorial Page Editor Brooke Rogers shares this story.

In a Finance Committee grilling focused on his vaccine policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy came off as a paranoid kook connecting red strings on a whiteboard.

When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — no fan of the pharmaceutical industry himself — pressed him on his criticism of major medical organizations that disagree with him on vaccines, Kennedy raved that they were bought and paid for by Big Pharma.

The American Academy of Pediatrics? It’s “compromised” because its “biggest contributors are the four largest vaccine makers.”

Oh, and the American Heart Association, too, “has been corrupted by the pharma industry.”

Whatever either outfit’s failings (and each has some), this is pathetically simplistic one-villain-for-all-ills conspiracy theorizing.

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