Robert F. Kennedy Junior's nomination for Donald Trump's health secretary is tired of long records of anti -vaccine and anti -science statements. Despite the Republican members accepting him as an iconos crust, the Democratic Party and other critics have accused Kennedy unknown without a scientific or bureaucratic experience to effectively work. did.
However, when Kennedy is drawn as a clown, those criticisms have missed important things. Kennedy not only published for his strange claims, but also broadcast them and earned a lot of money. And he was able to stand to make more from the anti -Waksin Crusade as the top health official in the United States. This is a brave self -transaction that is almost normal in Trump's United States.
As the New York Times reported last week, Kennedy was a potential plaintiff (people who were injured by the vaccine) in Wiss Baum, a law firm who appealed to Merck on suspicion of HPV vaccine. I introduced it. (He is also involved in other incidents for the company.) Wiss Baum pays Kennedy in these introductions, vaccines, and other cases. He has earned more than $ 2.5 million in the past two years. If a vaccine manufacturer loses the lawsuit, Kennedy will receive a financial reward.
At the hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday on Wednesday, Kennedy refused to end his relationship with Wiss Baum when asked by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma).
After Kennedy did not accept the pharmaceutical company's money as a secretary of a pharmaceutical company, Warren asked if Kennedy would not take money from the lawsuit. To Pharmaceutical company under the agreement with Wisner Baum.
“You make me sound like a silk,” Kennedy replied. After that, I refused Warren's question with an excuse and “I ask me not to appeal to a pharmaceutical company.”
Warren, while serving as a secretary of the United States Health and Welfare, rushed through various ways Kennedy could affect the results of those lawsuits. She said he was able to publish an anti -vaccine theory theory, “This time with the US government letter head.” He was appointed anti -vaccine scientists as a federal vaccine panel, and was able to remove vaccines from a child's schedule recommended by the federal government. According to Warren, he even provided FDA data, appealing to a drug company and told a law firm to compensate for their victory.
Considering another opportunity by Warren, Kennedy refused again to delete financial interests from the anti -Wakshin lawsuit. Instead, a few minutes later, he argued that he had an unfair malice as a conspiracy theorist because he opposed the interests of powerful companies. Profit conflict.
“No one should be fooled here,” Warren said. “As a secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy has the power to weaken vaccine and vaccine manufacturing throughout our country … Kennedy kills the vaccine and can earn millions. Children may die, but Kennedy can maintain cash. ”
Despite all of these, the Senate has at least on track to approve his nomination. Kennedy testifies the Senate Health Committee on Thursday.
The second Trump term has been further restricted by the old governance norms that praise the avoidance of public servants who can benefit from their roles. In that respect, Kennedy is very similar to Trump itself. His RISIBLE official statements, designed to draw spectacles, can be distracted by the old -fashioned corruption that is occurring behind the scenes.
For the past 30 years, vaccines have saved more than 1.1 million children in the United States alone. During the same period, they also saved $ 540 billion in medical expenses and $ trillions of social costs directly to Americans by preventing illnesses such as polio and measles.
Kennedy has been spreading anti -vaccination pseudo -science for decades, and his organization, which is led by, has been one of the most important anti -Waksin protection groups in the United States and overseas. As part of his disclosure as a candidate for cabinet, Kennedy reported his income from Wiss Baum, as well as his income from his public profile and his involvement in his involvement. 。
Kennedy's anti -vaccine campaign also had a serious effect on health. His support in the anti -vaccine in Samoa in the United States has helped to promote the waves of vaccines in the island country. In 2019, measles epidemics killed 83 people there, and most of them killed their children.
When he criticized his involvement by Senator Ron Widen (D-Or) at a hearing on Wednesday, Kennedy claimed that he did not play a role in outbreak, and many people were actually dying with measles. I claimed. (The dead are reported by WHO related to measles, but they continue to kill 100,000 people around the world every year.) He also answers questions from Widen about whether measles are fatal illness. I refused that.
Kennedy has supported ideas that include other conspiracy about health. The fluoride is a “industrial waste” associated with various diseases, suggesting that it must be removed from all US water systems. He speculates that the gender discrimination can be caused by the herbicide exposure, and the tacit mass shooting is related to antidepressants.
These views have been angry at scientists, but have also helped to promote rapid growth. At present, influencers and companies are trying to make money by selling themselves like Kennedy as a substitute for the conventional drug and wellness industry.
One of the more prominent hearings, Senator Michael Bennett (D-CO) asked Kennedy about his unfounded beliefs in a series of rapid questions. Bennett urged Kennedy about his past claims, such as the possibility that Lime disease was designed by the army, “very high.” “I probably said that,” Kennedy said.
Despite the long history of Kennedy's anti -Waksin Letrick, he said he would not take his vaccine before, before the election, and again. “We support polio vaccines. I support measles vaccines,” he said in exchange with Warren. In spite of the long record of his official statement, despite the light PAR of the vaccine, the chicken soup, including questioning the need for a shot, is ill. It suggests that it may be cured.
However, the co -chair of Trump's shifting teams accessed the federal health data just a week ago to access the federal health data for the purpose of proving the vaccine and to withdraw from the US market. He said he wanted to do it.
And if the federal government says that the vaccine is not secure under Kennedy, it may provide more basin lawsuits and increase Kennedy's income. He refuses to say that he will withdraw from the conflict of profits speaks and raises their fears. Warren gave him easy to commit to a good government principle. He refused to take it.
In addition to the possibility that Warren has floated, Kennedy can ask doubts about the safety of the vaccine. He monitored the safety of the vaccine with a specific strictness, but was able to revive the HHS national vaccine program office closed between President Trump.
As a health secretary, he also supervises the disease management prevention center (CDC) under HHS. The institution plays two important roles in promoting vaccines in the United States. Concluding an advisory committee on vaccination practices, we will provide expert recommendations for who will acquire which vaccine and what age and what age should be managed. Millions of low -income families.
The Advisory Committee is not obliged by federal law. This is convened because the CDC historically wanted it. A vaccine skeptician who was appointed to operate a CDC will put a staff member in the vaccination prevention activist's committee, completely dissolves, further invades the religion of the people, and is more often in anti -vaccine litigation. It may provide fuel.
It is unprecedented to have a very open and hostile president and HHS secretary to the establishment of a public health in the United States. Already, as vaccination rates have slipped nationwide, the United States is increasing the occurrence of measles and other diseases that were previously engraved by vaccines. Usually, we hope that the top healthcare representatives in the country will appear to restore the resources necessary to prevent such occurrence. However, Kennedy has financial interests, as well as the ideologies that deny vaccine effectiveness and safety. We are in an unprecedented area.
