"Let's get this out of the way first: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not going to be successful at his stated MAHA goal. You can't make America healthier-I refuse to even say "again" when we weren't healthy before-while you are simultaneously so drastically slashing budgets for scientific research. You also can't make America healthier while ignoring any expert who is not a crackpot-and so very much data-on the basics of vaccines."
"Kennedy is encouraging women to breastfeed, to provide their babies with, as he puts it, "the infant formula that God made, the infant formula in a mother's breast." (Would that not be the infant formula that the woman made, with her own body? I digress.) While increasing breastfeeding rates is a goal shared by many legitimate public health experts (see: broken clock), the biological advantages of breastfeeding are somewhat limited, making this a strange enterprise for a government official."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not achieve his MAHA goal because making America healthier requires robust scientific research funding and engagement with mainstream experts. Cutting research budgets and dismissing non-crackpot experts undermines effective public-health policy, especially on vaccines. Claims that seed oils are harmful are incorrect. Kennedy's approach will likely worsen American health overall and will disproportionately harm women. He promotes breastfeeding as superior, calling breast milk "the infant formula that God made," but breastfeeding's biological advantages are limited and exclusive breastfeeding imposes significant costs on women, including large time commitments and burdens.
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