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applegrove

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Sat Nov 30, 2024, 03:47 PM Nov 30

How RFK Jr. Has Worked to Weaken Global Public Health

How RFK Jr. Has Worked to Weaken Global Public Health

November 30, 2024 at 7:36 am EST By Taegan Goddard 178 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/30/how-rfk-jr-has-worked-to-weaken-global-public-health/

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“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is in line to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the next Trump administration, is well-known for promoting conspiracy theories and vaccine skepticism in the United States,” the New York Times reports.

“But Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has also spent years working abroad to undermine policies that have been pillars of global health policy for a half-century, records show.”

“He has done this by lending his celebrity, and the name of his nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, to a network of overseas chapters that sow distrust in vaccine safety and spread misinformation far and wide.”

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How RFK Jr. Has Worked to Weaken Global Public Health (Original Post) applegrove Nov 30 OP
Is he a shill for the private enterprise part of alt-health industries? bucolic_frolic Nov 30 #1
The dietary supplement industry is thrilled. Irish_Dem Nov 30 #2

bucolic_frolic

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1. Is he a shill for the private enterprise part of alt-health industries?
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 04:18 PM
Nov 30

The vitamins and supplements industries, government is the problem crowd. There are a lot of them.

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