How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?
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Here is more about Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump’s US health secretary pick who is sceptical of vaccines, the FDA and fluoride in water.
On Thursday, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to head up the country’s top health agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.
“I am thrilled to announce Robert F Kennedy Jr as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS],” Trump wrote on Thursday on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Kennedy, 70, also known as RFK Jr, is an environmental lawyer and member of the American political Kennedy family.
He is the son of late US senator and attorney general Robert F Kennedy and nephew of John F Kennedy, who was US president between 1961 and 1963, when he was assassinated.
He is known for having a neurological disorder that affects his voice, and which US media has reported he blames on a flu vaccine he received.
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