It would be a stretch to say that Health and Human Services (HHS) is being led for the first time by someone who is out of their depth, but it’s certainly the case that, for the first time, its chief is deeply suspicious of most modern medicine. Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as HHS secretary, he has upheld his reputation as a conspiracy theorist, most recently pledging that the agency would identify the cause of autism “by September” and appointing a discredited vaccine skeptic to contribute to the research.

RFK Jr is often described as having made a remarkable switch from lifelong Democrat and environmental lawyer to serving in the cabinet of the Trump administration, an ostensibly pro-fossil fuel and anti-regulatory White House. This misunderstands the extent to which conspiratorial views transcend partisan fault lines.

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