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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Health influencers flocked to the White House last week for a press event celebrating the release of a report by Donald Trump‘s “Make America Healthy Again”or “MAHA” commission, chaired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The 72-page document, titled “The MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again,” asserts that …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress put in charge of the nation’s health systems, doesn’t think he’s qualified to dispense medical advice. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine conspiracy theorist, was asked about the measles vaccine during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday. The United …
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The United States surgeon general is tasked with representing the nation’s medical community and informing the general public on potential risks to their health. Warning labels on tobacco products, alcohol, and potentially even social media all originate from the surgeon general’s office. Surgeon generals often first serve as high-ranking doctors …
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the most chaotic and consequential in modern political memory. He has wielded the presidency like a king, seeking to bend America (and, far less successfully, the world) to his will. The result has been about what you’d expect from the first convicted felon …
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Rosa DeLauro represents Connecticut’s 3rd District in the House of Representatives. She is the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, as well as on the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee. Last December, I wrote about the dangers of Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, …
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During a press conference last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to paint autism as a one-dimensional cartoon villain sent to destroy the lives of once-“fully functional” children who “regressed into autism.” He claimed that autistic people would never pay taxes, be employed, play baseball, write poems, or even go …
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The Department of Health and Human Services was by no means spared the hatchet job by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE), and big changes are coming to food safety standards and communications over public health risks — and not in a good way. According to a Thursday report …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update took on Donald Trump‘s whiplash actions on tariffs, Elon Musk‘s attempt to get the president to back down, and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s crusade against fluoride in public drinking water, among his other anti-science actions. Co-anchor Colin Jost …
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A former top federal vaccine official spoke on the danger of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. giving “false hope” to people as the Health and Human Services secretary recently promised to identify the “cause” of autism by September. “There are people, probably, who are hearing me now who know that I …
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