One of the most notable things about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a federal agency tasked with 'improving the health, safety, and well-being of America''is how confidently he distorts the basics of health, safety, and well-being. In his short stint as health secretary, Kennedy has touted cod-liver oil as a valid measles treatment (it's not), said that Americans are being 'poisoned' by seed oils (they're not), and claimed that 'many' vaccines are not adequately safety-tested (they are). And he has readily cherry-picked and exaggerated findings to suit his own needs: 'There's a scientist at Harvard now who is curing schizophrenia with a carnivore diet,' he said at a press conference in March (it's not a carnivore diet, and it's not a cure). The secretary also seems to think he knows what causes autism, a topic that scientists have been looking into for decades without producing a simple, clear-cut result, M. Daniele Fallin, a...
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