RFK Jr. prematurely declared the cyclosporiasis outbreak under control in July 2026. The outbreak was not over before mid September. The lack of clear and truthful communication from HHS Secretary cre...

RFK Jr. is deregulating and downsizing the sixty year old Head Start program, despite its impressive record of improving the long-term health and well-being of children and their families.

Secretary of Health Kennedy accused Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro of fabricating measles deaths for political gain, then tampered with how the CDC logs infectious disease cases and deaths reporte...

RFK Jr. has undermined the USPSTF, which is charged with recommending preventive health services, and then tried to justify his actions by accusing it of negligence. Silencing USPSTF hurts primary car...

RFK Jr. has undermined the USPSTF, which is charged with recommending preventive health services, and then tried to justify his actions by accusing it of negligence. Silencing USPSTF hurts primary car...

The new Executive Order on vaccines is not supported by any scientific evidence demonstrating that the current childhood immunization schedule is unsafe or that its proposed changes would improve chil...

We're getting a stark reminder of what happens when you gut a public-health system.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD reviews Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s science-deficient podcasts about psychiatric medications and longevity hacks. The whopper is treating anecdotes as scientific evidence.

Per the tally posted online Monday night, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been flooded with nearly half a million comments, many of which came from members of Defend Public H...

RFK Jr refuses to warn the public about the risks inherent in consuming raw milk and has said the FDA is suppressing access. As Secretary of Health, however, he has not yet tried to dismantle the federal ban on inter-state sales, and now says raw milk sales falls to the states. Why has he changed his tune?

RFK Jr. recently launched Moms.gov, a pro-natalist website to "foster healthy pregnancies". The website is the whopper because it is full of misinformation, omissions and deception. It also papers ove...

A new federal rule seeks to defund public health degrees, even as RFK Jr.’s anti-DEI, pro-“efficiency” crusade erodes care capacity

The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.

RFK Jr. told Native American tribal leaders that Type 2 diabetes is curable through diet. His message of personal responsibility is overly simplistic and disregards the social determinants of health a...

The Trump administration has pursued an extensive pro-tobacco agenda as the president and his political movement have been buoyed by a flood of tobacco industry money, federal records show.

RFK Jr has been silent as the Trump administration dismantles the federal loan programs which, for decades, ensured Americans could pursue careers in health. A better Secretary of Health would have fo...

Decades of research show no link between modern migration and the spread of infectious disease to host populations, but that didn't stop RFK Jr from blaming immigrants for communicable diseases in his...

Middle East crisis and impact on global hunger The Middle East crisis threatens to plunge millions more people into acute hunger in some of the world’s most fragile, food-insecure countries.The emerge...

RFK Jr. is unhappy that one in six American adults takes an antidepressant and believes that the U.S. faces a dependency crisis, driven by overmedicalization. The idea that reducing the use of drugs w...

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The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressiona...

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The government’s destruction of our pandemic preparedness is.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kennedy often calls out moms as his biggest supporters. His message to women sounds like praise and empowerment, but he's actually shifting the burden of evaluat...

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The distributor of the shots said it would cost tens of thousands of lives.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

An organization of public health advocates has released a 10-point platform for politicians to consider endorsing ahead of the congressional midterm elections.

In April 2025, Kennedy promised to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply in order to restore “gold-standard science” and “earn back the public’s trust.” Since then...

RFK Jr is hyping peptides and promising changes to FDA rules that would make some unapproved peptides legally available from compounding pharmacies, despite concerns about their safety. His claims tha...