Robert F. Kennedy Jr. serves as Secretary of Health and Human Services despite lacking medical training. He holds a long history of baseless and false beliefs about vaccines, COVID, AIDS, and other health topics. He has also collected dead wild animals, sometimes only their heads. He facilitated the reported ouster of Susan Monarez as CDC director after clashes; Monarez had been confirmed by the Senate last month and at least three top CDC officials resigned in protest. Kennedy claimed he can identify mitochondrial challenges in children by observing their faces, movements, and social connection. Those public remarks provoked sharp criticism and concerns about his influence on public health policy.
I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like, Kennedy said. I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street. And I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation. You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection. And I know that that's not how our children are supposed to look.
What on Earth are you on about?! You can see the kids have mitochondrial problems? Their lack of social connection? You can see that? Their faces aren't healthy, to you, RFK Jr. Should you bring your kid to RFK Jr. with their face and say, What do you think, Bobby? Healthy or not? I know it's kind of a cliche at this point, but imagine if the guy
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