Forbes December 4, 2024
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote on X just prior to the November election. “If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
Kennedy is President-elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. He told the Washington Post that “the president has asked me to clean up corruption and conflicts at the agencies.”
It’s not clear which specific corruption Kennedy is alluding to. But it’s known that the Make America Healthy Again movement, which Kennedy heads, favors independence between the public health agencies and the pharmaceutical and food...