by Katie Pavlich at Townhall
Newly minted Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to the microphone at the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday morning ahead of his first full day at the agency. He spoke to thousands of government employees, many in person, about his mission under the direction of President Donald Trump.
“My mission at HSS, and I hope you all will join me, is to reverse the chronic disease epidemic in America,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency. Only with radical transparency can we provide Americans with true informed consent.”
Kennedy pointed out the Founding Fathers were citizen scientists, from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Franklin.
“Science and democracy were born together,” he said. “Science and democracy flourish from the free and unimpeded flow of information.”
He vowed to remove conflicts of interest, make data and policy process available without a Freedom of Information Act request and much more.
“Our health shouldn’t be a political issue,” he said. “It should be an issue of science and basic human compassion.”
His leadership at HHS comes at a time of deep distrust of the public health system,…
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