President Donald Trump feels he is qualified to tell American women that if they take Tylenol during pregnancy they might give their children autism. The declaration came during a joint press event on Monday. Trump — flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Administrator for …
Read More »Ousted CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Tried to Bar Her From Speaking to Lawmakers
Former high-ranking officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told senators on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment as the nation’s top health care regulator has created an anti-scientific culture of censorship and arbitrary policy changes that are endangering Americans’ health. At the center of lawmakers focus …
Read More »How One Man's Struggling Tallow-Fried Food Stall Got Caught Up in the Culture War
Last Saturday, Abed “Abe” Ibrahim reached a breaking point. The fledgling restaurateur, who fully embraces the current trend of frying foods in beef tallow rather than the seed oils commonly used throughout popular eateries, even naming his food stall “Tallow” for good measure, took to X and bemoaned how poorly …
Read More »Team Trump Probes Dissent at CDC as 'F-CK RFK' Sign Goes Up at Agency
Earlier this week, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received a message from the higher-ups, vaguely informing them of an “obscene” placard and some “vandalism” on government property. “We received a report of vandalism on Roybal Building 18, where an obscene sign was placed in the window,” …
Read More »Stephen Colbert Calls RFK Jr. 'Roid-Addled Nepo-Carnie' After Cutting Vaccine Funding
Stephen Colbert is not impressed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cut $500 million in funding for vaccines. On the latest episode of The Late Show, Colbert took aim at the Health and Human Services secretary over the decision, which former Surgeon General Jerome Adams said “is going to cost …
Read More »Trump's Former Surgeon General Says RFK Jr. Gutting Vaccine Research Will 'Cost Lives'
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it will be ending its mRNA vaccine development program, and former Surgeon General Jerome Adams is warning that “this move is going to cost lives.” In a video released on Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine …
Read More »Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants
President Donald Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines, urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The latest example came on Monday, when the Department of Health and Human …
Read More »RFK Jr. Says He's Fine With Giving Americans 'More Cavities'
In the 1950s, conspiracy theorists opposed to the introduction of fluoride to public water supplies claimed that the mineral was actually a communist chemical weapon created by the Soviets to make American children stupid. Seven decades later, a large body of evidence exists supporting the introduction of low levels of …
Read More »RFK Jr. Fires Entire Panel of Vaccine Experts
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired a panel of 17 medical and public health experts that advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy, and is expected to replace them with individuals aligned with his own vaccine skepticism. In a statement issued on Monday, the …
Read More »RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist
President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have released the first report authored by the so-called Make America Healthy Again Commission — and it’s riddled with citation errors and even outright fake research. The “MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again,” which was released …
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