STAT November 11, 2024
S. Bryn Austin, Amanda Raffoul

RFK Jr.’s promise is a threat

The health community is spinning with worry about the fate of science and evidence-based medicine if Trump makes good on his promise to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild” on the nation’s leading health agencies. Kennedy has rightly received widespread condemnation for his contradictory anti-vax and pro-ivermectin views. Many businesses operating in the health space are leery of Kennedy’s potential influence in a Trump administration, but there’s one that is likely gleeful about the prospects of a free pass from the feds: dietary supplements.

This concerns us because the dangers of dietary supplements, particularly those sold with false claims for weight loss...

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