Last month’s news about the administration’s health policies and recommendations was shocking. From President Trump’s unfounded claims about Tylenol and vaccines causing autism, to the Food and Drug Administration’s fast-tracked approval of leucovorin as an autism treatment, it was clear that scientific evidence is not being prioritized by our nation’s leaders.

Add to this the havoc wrought by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he has fired key scientists and is undermining longstanding vaccine guidance.

Reports last month also confirmed that the FDA is conducting a senseless inquiry into the safety of mifepristone, the abortion medication first approved 25 years ago.

While a letter from Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary stated that the agency was conducting “its own review of the evidence,” the HHS secretary has made previous comments implying that decisions about the future of mifepristone would be based on politics more than science, noting that “the policy changes will ultimately go through the White........

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