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What RFK Jr. really means for America’s health

Keren Landman: Really, his contact with health, at least his professional contact with health, is that he has helped lead an organization called the Children’s Health Defense. But he’s a lawyer by training — an environmental health lawyer, and he spent a lot of his career litigating cases around pollutants causing health effects in people.

I think he feels that gives him a lot of legitimacy, and I think a lot of people feel it gives him a lot of legitimacy, to talk about various things in the environment or medicines and link those with various health effects. But he really over-simplifies a lot of the things that science aims to understand better, and he really distrusts people who actually trust science.