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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Of all the medical theories and health hacks that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting, this could be the strangest one of all. Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed pick to …

During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — vaccine conspiracy theorist, former presidential candidate, and Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary — answered most questions about his past and his plans for the future by talking in circles about vaccines, Medicare, …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s long and tumultuous road to Donald Trump’s Cabinet faced its toughest test on Wednesday, when the vaccine conspiracy theorist and former presidential candidate appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to defend his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary. Once a staunch critic of Trump, Kennedy …

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to “Make America Healthy Again” as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services — petitioned the government to stop use of all Covid-19 vaccines in the heart of the pandemic. Kennedy petitioned the Food and Drug Administration in …

An adviser and lawyer helping Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vet potential agency officials has filed over a dozen lawsuits challenging the availability of common vaccines — including the polio vaccine. According to a Friday report from The New York Times, Aaron Siri, an attorney who …

A group of 75 Nobel Prize winners have issued an open letter calling on members of the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to become Secretary of Health and Human Services. “Placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put the public’s health in jeopardy and undermine America’s …

This year’s presidential election was a historic one for weed, with both major presidential candidates endorsing marijuana legalization for the first time ever. Kamala Harris said that she would legalize adult-use cannabis at the federal level. At the same time, Donald Trump announced that he was backing Florida’s Amendment 3, …

Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department is an alarming choice, given Kennedy’s fringe medical views and history of making misleading and often incorrect statements about health matters. Making things worse, the president-elect has opted to surround RFK Jr. with …

Right now, the only thing standing between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and being the head of the Department of Health and Human Services is a confirmation hearing with a soon-to-be Republican-dominated Senate. But given Kennedy’s long history of making misleading and misguided statements about health, we can expect to see …

Most figures at the forefront of America’s anti-abortion movement were less than enthusiastic when Donald Trump announced last week he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services — the agency that governs federal policy related to reproductive health. RFK Jr.’s …