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He is re-litigating and churning settled science so we can’t go forward and find out what the cause of autism is and treat these kids and help these families, ... When you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward.”
With mifepristone, President Trump has not chosen a policy and I will implement his policy,
Kennedy told the committee My father told me when I was 13 years old, he said, ‘People in authority lie’.”
A worthy movement called ‘MAHA,’ ... to improve the health of Americans, or to undermine it, always asking for more evidence, and never accepting the evidence that is there … That is why I've been struggling with your nomination."
My responsibility is to learn, try and determine, if you can be trusted to support the best public health,
Cassidy, a former physician, said during his closing remarks at Kennedy's Thursday confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). That would have an incredible impact,
There are issues we are, man, ultra-processed food, obesity, we are simpatico. We are completely aligned,
Cassidy continued during his closing remarks Our country is not going to be destroyed because we get the marginal tax rate wrong. It is going to be destroyed if we get this issue wrong,
he said of chronic diseases I have been struggling with the nomination,
he said at the end of Thursday's Senate health committee hearing to consider Kennedy to run the massive Department of Health and Human Services Does a 70-year-old man ... who spent decades criticizing vaccines and who's financially vested in finding fault with vaccines, can he change his attitudes and approach now that he'll have the most important position influencing vaccine policy in the United States?"
Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician from Louisiana, told Kennedy If you are approved to this position, will you say unequivocally, will you reassure mothers unequivocally and without qualification that the measles and hepatitis B vaccines do not cause autism?”
It’s no secret I have some reservations on your past positions on vaccines and other issues,
This is not a hearing to get into the details of a particular program that is mind-numbingly complex to begin with,
he told reporters outside the hearing room I think inevitably you’d have public policy decisions and administrative decisions around, potentially codes for Medicare, Medicaid, that come out of that science,
I see this every day, all these people capitulating to Trump and his dictatorial needs. And it’s just very, very bad, I think. We’re in a lot of trouble.”
I don’t think he’s the only person who can do that,
Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children, ... vaccinating his own kids while building a following hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs.”
Caroline Kennedy warned lawmakers in a document obtained by The Washington Post, I believe that vaccines play a critical role in health care. All of my kids are vaccinated. I've written many books on vaccines. My first book on vaccines in 2014, the first line in it is 'I'm not anti-vaccine,' and the last line is 'I'm not anti-vaccine.'
Kennedy said during his confirmation hearing Broadly speaking, his appointment is concerning on all levels. The one thing I can say is a good thing, is his desire to look at chronic disease in America and make that a priority. I worry that he will greatly shift the priorities of HHS and turn his position of power into a means to spread disinformation, misinformation and purposefully spread misleading information to the public."
Kirsten Hokeness, director at the School of Behavioral Health and Science at Bryant University, told Newsweek
