Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

On May 17, the New York Times published a guest essay by Katya Ungerman—“We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages” — attributing a strange surge of both conventional religious observance and…

A great deal of the attention on Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general nominee, has focused on the fact that she doesn’t even have a medical license and has never practiced medicine. An influencer and…

In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy Jr has promised “massive studies” to investigate a link between school shootings and antidepressants…

Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural…

In a rambling press conference last week, Donald Trump announced that commonly used over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol is “not good.” Specifically addressing pregnant women, Trump repeated “don’t…

Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get…

The National Institutes of Health are (still, again) trying to create a registry of autists, according to a report released by the Senate Appropriations Committee last week. “The Committee”—wow, is…

A century ago today, America fixed its attention on a Dayton courthouse. Tennessee was prosecuting John T. Scopes for violating a 1925 law forbidding public schools and universities to teach the…

Another day, another series of alarming claims from Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the current head of Health and Human Services. This week, on Dr. Phil Primetime (currently available on YouTube or his own…

Just before the November election, future Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr tweeted that seed oils (those extracted from canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower…