RFK's health policies on vaccines and fluoride in public water could exacerbate health disparities across America.

WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, took an apparent swipe at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after reports that one of Kennedy’s top allies, Aaron Siri, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its approval of a ...

An attorney connected to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a petition on behalf of an activist group asking the Food and Drug Administration to suspend or withdraw ...

Scott Gottlieb said he’s worried that Trump’s pick to run HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will follow through on past antivaccine rhetoric. The president-elect also named Jim O’Neill, a Silicon Valley investor and former federal health official, to be deputy secretary of Health and Human Services.

At the very least, he will have an enormous megaphone for claims that have been widely challenged—and in many cases debunked—by both science and industry experts. Kennedy follows a pattern of exaggerating the health benefits of certain food substances while minimizing the risks of those substances. These views merit examination: