{"id":2496,"date":"2024-11-15T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nuts-on-a-lot-of-fronts-new-york-post-condemns-kennedy-pick-to-lead-hhs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:02:48","slug":"nuts-on-a-lot-of-fronts-new-york-post-condemns-kennedy-pick-to-lead-hhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nuts-on-a-lot-of-fronts-new-york-post-condemns-kennedy-pick-to-lead-hhs\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nuts on a lot of fronts’: New York Post condemns Kennedy pick to lead HHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New York Post editorial board slammed President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, calling the secretary-designate \u201cnuts on a lot of fronts.”<\/p>\n

The Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is reliably conservative and endorsed Trump for president this year. But Trump\u2019s selection of the anti-vaccine activist Kennedy to lead HHS, the tabloid\u2019s editorial board argued, would violate the first rule of medicine, \u201cdo no harm.\u201d <\/p>\n

Recalling a 2023 meeting with Kennedy, the Post\u2019s editorial board called his views \u201ca head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy is well known for touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism and questioning other issues widely seen as settled by the scientific community. The sprawling vision laid out by his Make America Healthy Again movement includes bans on pesticides and genetically modified organisms, curbing additives and chemicals in foods and a decoupling of corporate influence from regulation.<\/p>\n

Kennedy\u2019s appointment to run the federal agency tasked with drug approvals, food safety and disease surveillance amounts to a promise kept by Trump, who during the presidential campaign said he would allow Kennedy to \u201cgo wild\u201d on health policy. \u201cHe wants to do some things, and we\u2019re going to let him go to it,\u201d Trump said in his Election Night victory speech. \u201cGo have a good time, Bobby.\u201d<\/p>\n

But allowing Kennedy to run HHS, the Post said, will put Trump in the position of answering for positions that many see as fringe or conspiratorial.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump won on promises to fix the economy, the border and soaring global disorder; his team needs to focus on delivering change on those fronts \u2014 not spend energy either having to defend crackpot theories or trying to control RFK Jr.\u2019s mouth,\u201d the editorial board wrote<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is not the first appointment that the Post\u2019s board has criticized. When Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be his Attorney general, the editorial board called it<\/a> \u201cnot a good look,\u201d putting the paper at odds with Trump despite praising his victory last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Post editorial board slammed President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, calling the secretary-designate \u201cnuts on a lot of fronts.” The Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, is reliably conservative and endorsed Trump for president this year. But Trump\u2019s selection of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}