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Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - C C - Oct 31, 2024
INTRO: Concerns about what a second Donald Trump presidency could mean for public health and biomedical research ratcheted up this week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told supporters Trump has promised to give him “control” over agencies at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The former presidential candidate, who dropped out in August and then joined Trump’s campaign, told supporters that “President Trump has promised me … control of the public health agencies.” He ticked off “HHS and its subagencies, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], FDA, NIH, and a few others, and then also the USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture],” according to a video that CNN reported on Tuesday.
The remarks, made 8 days before election day, followed Trump’s suggestion on Sunday during his campaign event at Madison Square Garden that he would allow Kennedy to “go wild on health” and “the medicines.”
Public health researchers are alarmed, especially given Kennedy’s opposition to vaccines. “I can’t imagine anyone who would be more damaging to vaccines and the use of vaccines than RFK,” University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm told CNN.
Kennedy has long claimed that childhood vaccines contribute to autism, despite numerous studies disproving that notion. In 2017, early in Trump’s presidency, Kennedy said he had been asked to head a vaccine safety commission, but that did not come to pass.
This time, however, Kennedy appears to be poised to wield substantial influence should Trump win. Trump has embraced Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, which calls for removing allegedly harmful chemicals in foods and water and cracking down on ultraprocessed food, among other steps... (MORE - details)
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - confused2 - Nov 1, 2024
Kind of stepping back to the early 1960s when men were still men and women were still women. The women at home looking after the children, baking good wholesome food for the family .. the American Dream .. what could be better?
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - Syne - Nov 1, 2024
Researchers conclude that these patterns of declining happiness may be an indication of changing realities for women; they note that “life satisfaction may have previously meant ‘satisfaction at home’ and has increasingly come to mean some combination of ‘satisfaction at home’ and ‘satisfaction at work.’ This averaging over many domains may lead to falling average satisfaction if it is difficult to achieve the same degree of satisfaction in multiple domains.”
- https://journalistsresource.org/race-and-gender/paradox-declining-female-happiness/
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - confused2 - Nov 2, 2024
Personally I'm all in favour of educating girls. When they have children they become teachers for the male children who will go on to be more successful than they might have been. Any girls will go on to repeat the cycle of rearing well educated males. When men are paid more than women they are better able to support a family and the ability to support a family (and be supported) is fundamental to the American Dream.
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - confused2 - Nov 3, 2024
Call me British if you like. I'd guess history will record that the moment Joe Biden couldn't remember the name of the comedian who called Puerto Rico a floating island of trash .. was the moment Donald Trump realized, with Joe out of the way, he couldn't possibly fail to become the next president of the USA.
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - Syne - Nov 3, 2024
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - confused2 - Nov 3, 2024
Hm. Maybe American humour is different.
Biden calls Trump supporters 'garbage' (you can work on whether he did or he didn't) .. and Trump goes out collecting support(ers) in a garbage truck .. maybe that sends a different message to Americans. [Image: donald-trump-wisconsin.webp?w=790&f=1de8...e834e379a7]
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - Syne - Nov 3, 2024
Trump used it to, again, show that he respects working class Americans, from fast food workers to garbage collectors.
He's not above serving fries or donning a safety vest and getting in a garbage truck.
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - confused2 - Nov 4, 2024
The BBC records Trump as saying ..
"How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honour of Kamala and Joe Biden."
RE: Researchers panic after RFK Jr. says Trump will hand him the health agencies - stryder - Nov 5, 2024
(Nov 3, 2024 03:56 PM)confused2 Wrote: Hm. Maybe American humour is different.
Biden calls Trump supporters 'garbage' (you can work on whether he did or he didn't) .. and Trump goes out collecting support(ers) in a garbage truck .. maybe that sends a different message to Americans. [Image: donald-trump-wisconsin.webp?w=790&f=1de8...e834e379a7]
I'm thinking Oxford Comma...
Donald Trump, a Garbarge truck, and his supporters. (How Americans see it)
Donald Trump, a Garbarge truck and his supporters. (How we see it)
![[Image: donald-trump-wisconsin.webp?w=790&f=1de8...e834e379a7]](https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/2508776/donald-trump-wisconsin.webp?w=790&f=1de8c68206fe8a25793974e834e379a7)