Trump proposes to appoint anti-vaccine and conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former presidential candidate and anti-vaccination activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

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The president-elect said that this candidate would "make America healthy again". Kennedy spread the idea that vaccines cause autism, and called antidepressants the cause of school shootings. The possible appointment has already caused alarm among scientists.

"Together, we will clean up corruption, stop the revolving door between industry and government, and return our health agencies to their rich tradition of evidence-based gold standard care," Kennedy Jr. wrote.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the Senate should confirm or reject Kennedy, but was sceptical about the right choice.

"Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the best person in the United States of America to lead us forward as we grapple with the enormous number of healthcare issues in this country? The answer is unequivocally no," Jeffries said.

Earlier, JFK Jr. spoke about his own health problems, claiming that a worm had "eaten part of his brain."

It is also worth mentioning that in August, he withdrew from the presidential race and expressed his support for Trump.

Source: Politico