5 Of The Wildest Ideas Floated By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Kennedy has pledged to "return our health agencies to their rich tradition of gold-standard, evidence-based science."
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday. If confirmed, the agency that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health would be run by a vaccine-skeptic who has repeatedly pledged to overhaul the nation’s health standards.
Here are some of Kennedy’s sweeping ideas for the country during Trump’s second term:
Remove Fluoride From Drinking Water
Kennedy has pledged the upcoming Trump administration would advise “all U.S. water systems” to remove fluoride from public water, claiming the mineral “is an industrial waste” linked to “arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”
That is not true at levels recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency that were lowered in 2015. The National Institutes of Health outlines some health risks of excessive exposure to fluoride at higher levels, which can lead to rare side effects. The NIH said that some evidence showed excessive exposure led to lower IQ in children but cited experts as saying the evidence was “weak and methodologically flawed.”
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