Robert Kennedy's Senate hearing to review his nomination to head Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to begin next Wednesday. Still, Donald Trump is not waiting for his candidate to get confirmed before launching a full-scale war on public health.
For weeks now, some Democrats have tentatively expressed hopes that the vaccine denialist and former Democrat might not be so bad, pointing to Kennedy's statements about promoting healthy food as evidence that he might have good qualities. Kennedy's critics pointed out that empty rhetoric about nutrition and exercise is a standard deception ploy from anti-vaccine activists. It's designed to make their hatred of preventive medicine seem "reasonable," but is insincere, as evidenced by the lack of interest in doing anything substantive to improve public health.
