"I will commit to not firing anybody who's doing their job. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. I support vaccines. I support the childhood schedule. My approach to HHS, as I said before..., is radical transparency. I'm pro-good science."
"His HHS tenure has seen the U.S. childhood vaccine program reduce the number of recommended shots to protect against 11 diseases instead of 17, thousands of public servants (many of them scientists) have been fired, standard-setting scientific practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have been replaced with gold-standard dictates that scientists call dishonest, and judges have blocked funding cuts as illegal."
One year after Senate confirmation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leads the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services after a 52–48 party-line vote with one Republican no vote. He pledged under oath to refrain from firing employees, support vaccines and the childhood schedule, practice radical transparency, and back good science. His HHS tenure has reduced recommended childhood vaccine protections from 17 diseases to 11, terminated thousands of public servants including many scientists, and replaced standard scientific practices at CDC, FDA and NIH with gold-standard dictates critics call dishonest. Judges have blocked some funding cuts as illegal. He frames his Make America Healthy Again agenda as a shift toward preventing chronic disease.
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