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The HHS secretary promised to look into the causes of autism. There’s a long and disturbing evidence trail (not to vaccines!) that he should have paid more attention to.

Joan Swirsky | June 19, 2026

At 72, Robet F. Kennedy, Jr. is an impressively educated environmental lawyer, author, aggressive activist on vaccines, critic of the pharmaceutical and food industries, and a lifetime political activist, many of whose credentials — particularly his creative thinking — appealed to President Trump, who nominated him to be secretary of Health and Human Services.

Of course, lifetime Democrats went crazy, as did a good number of his still prominent relatives, as well as Big Pharma and also 75 Nobel laureates who urged the U.S. Senate to oppose Kennedy’s nomination.  But RFK Jr. was ultimately confirmed and sworn in by Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch in the Oval Office on February 13, 2025.

Since then, RFK Jr. has accomplished many groundbreaking initiatives, including — this is the very short list — the following:

1. Establishing the Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool (CCTT), an online database that the public can use to search for the levels of harmful chemicals allowed in food.

2. FDA GRAS Rule Reform.  RFK Jr. wants to close the current loophole in food safety checks in which companies bypass these safety checks and fail to ensure that ingredients being introduced into foods are safe.  Some of the ingredients pushed through were linked to tumors in animals; damage to DNA; and liver, kidney, and intestinal issues in high doses, plus possible heart and brain defects.

3. Operation Stork Speed was launched to ensure that baby formula in the U.S. is safe, nutritious, and always available.

4. Proposing that the MAHA Commission ban candy and sugary drinks from the food........

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