If the “Make America Healthy Again” slogan were being promoted by a conventional secretary running the Department of Health and Human Services, one might consider it an aspirational effort to encourage Americans to live healthier lifestyles. But Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is anything but a conventional choice. Having spent years living an extremely unhealthy lifestyle before changing his ways, he now wants to use the government to “make” the rest of us healthy.

Kennedy has made many controversial health care-related claims widely covered in the media. He not only doesn’t “follow the science,” but he also rejects long-established scientific thinking on just about every health issue. But given the flawed guidance that emerged from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans appear to be more open to a contrarian.

In April, Kennedy announced he wanted the CDC to stop recommending communities fluoridate their public water systems. He had previously said on X, “Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.”

State and local governments, not the federal government, decide whether to fluoridate, and about

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