RFK Jr.’s contentious Senate listening to: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s listening to earlier than the Senate Finance Committee.
One couldn’t help however be embarrassed by the present administration watching Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testify earlier than the Senate (“Quacking under pressure,” Sept. 5).
He was clearly in over his head as senators from each side uncovered him as a harmful spreader of disinformation. It rapidly turned apparent that he doesn’t do his homework, he’s not in command of the info and his subjective opinions are based mostly largely on a whim quite than scientific proof.
Bob Ory
Chicago, Ill.
The vilification of RFK Jr. and his makes an attempt to deliver sanity and transparency to the insurance policies of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appear to be off the mark.
He is doing a very good job opening the ugliest and most harmful can of worms that has been hidden and unchallenged for many years.
Ruth Rozenberg
Queens
RFK Jr. believes average residents are good enough to judge the science of vaccines and make choices for themselves.
But we mandate that people should not drive 100 miles per hour on the freeway, don’t we? Many speeders really feel like they’re in control of their automobiles, when they aren’t.
We commonly implement heavy penalties for the sake of health and security. Most of our people get that and respect the legal mandates.
Vaccines don’t stop car crashes, however can stop raging epidemics that take lots of of hundreds of lives — as illnesses usually did earlier than the development and introduction of vaccines.
The great majority of residents aren’t competent to guage the findings of biomedical science. Kennedy himself, who has no medical coaching, is one of these.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
How would you’re feeling in case your youngster acquired the measles as a result of one other mum or dad selfishly didn’t vaccinate their youngster?
For illnesses with an efficient vaccine, the instances are few and much between, if not eradicated.
Where do you assume smallpox has gone?
Mindy Rader
New City
If nothing else, the Senate grilling of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proved that bipartisanship isn’t useless.
Paul Newman
Merion Station, Pa.
No one is aware of what causes autism or why persistent illnesses have elevated over the previous couple of a long time. But one factor is for sure: We won’t ever have an sincere dialogue about it so long because the Democrats are half of the dialog.
Dems couldn’t care much less about making America healthy. Like every part they do, it’s all about politics and regaining energy.
Michael D’Auria
Bronxville
Watching a small half of the hearings was like watching the Maury Povich show. Senators who carried the Biden water of misdirection, senility and downright lack of curiosity, attacked RFK Jr. as if he had been in workplace during the COVID years.
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With politicians coming into public service with meager web price and leaving as multi-millionaires, we should beg the query: How did their wealth explode?
RFK Jr. has all the time been controversial, however at the least we all know the place his wealth got here from.
Lee Fleischman
Stamford, Conn.
The United States is 4.3% of the world’s population and accounts for a good portion of pharmaceutical drug consumption, but our total health is horrible.
We have staggering charges of persistent illnesses, particularly in younger people, an rising mental-health disaster and unbelievable weight problems charges throughout all age teams.
We ought to proceed alongside the trail RFK Jr. is paving that exhibits good health has little to do with taking pharmaceutical medicine.
Francis Rushford
Manhattan
For some inexplicable motive, President Trump proffers this fellow who’s hell-bent on putting off scientific medical developments.
Trump sits by idly as RFK Jr. works feverishly to dismantle the company which was as soon as the gold commonplace in health care.
How does anybody trust RFK Jr.’s judgment?
Lou Maione
Manhattan
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