By tapping Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Thursday, Nov. 14, to become his health minister, President-elect Donald Trump provided a new illustration of his desire to shake up the establishment. Antivax, without scientific knowledge, “RFK Jr”, nephew of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, announced his intention to “Clean up corruption” which he believes exists in federal health and food control agencies.
Donald Trump has specified that the main mission of this former environmental lawyer will be to attack the large pharmaceutical and agri-food monopolies. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the agribusiness complex and pharmaceutical companies that have engaged in public health deception and misinformation.”he denounced.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which RFK Jr. will lead if confirmed by the Senate, oversees key areas, such as drug, vaccine and food safety, medical research and the Medicare and Medicaid programs, crucial in the field of health insurance. President-elect says Robert F. Kennedy must ensure Americans are protected “unsafe chemicals, contaminants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food additives that have contributed to the enormous health crisis in this country.”
Committed to the environmental fight
Robert Francis Kennedy Junior, 70, has always been a special figure in the political and social life of the United States. Deprived of his father at the age of 14, Robert Kennedy, candidate for the White House assassinated in 1968, studied at Harvard, where he left the memory of a small trafficker – and large consumer – of drugs. In 1984 he was arrested for heroin possession. He got back on track thanks to his commitment to the environmental movement. As part of his volunteer work for the environmental organization Riverkeeper, he sued polluters of the Hudson River in New York. For twenty years, he was praised by the American environmental movement, particularly for leading the fight against Monsanto and its herbicide Roundup.
When fighting against multinationals, it has distinguished itself by positions that are increasingly further removed from common sense. His reputation was tarnished by his publicly stated belief that vaccination could cause autism in children, a claim for which the medical community has never found any scientific basis.
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