Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to launch several investigations to provide Americans with health transparency.
“Only through radical transparency can we provide Americans with genuine informed consent, which is the bedrock and the foundation stone of democracy,” he said. “Transparency allows diverse parties to establish common ground of mutually trusted information. That’s a basic precept of science.”
Kenney declared that his goal as HHS secretary is to “create a culture of competency, of ethics, of openness, of transparency, of caring, and of pride so that individuals who share these ideals can flourish and thrive.”
He explained that he aims to be so transparent with Americans that “people won’t even have to file a FOIA request.”
“We will convene representatives of all viewpoints to study the causes for the drastic rise in chronic disease,” Kennedy added. “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.”
He listed childhood vaccine schedules, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate and other pesticides, ultra-processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRIs and other psychiatric drugs, PFAs and PFOAs, and microplastics.
“Nothing is going to be off limits,” Kennedy declared, noting that “unbiased science” will be the foundation of HHS.
“Let’s use protocols that we all agree on and advance, and not alter the outcomes of studies when they’re halfway through and that they look inconvenient,” he said. “Let’s all depoliticize these issues and reestablish a common ground or action and renew the search for existential truth with no political impediments and no preconceptions.”
Following Kennedy’s confirmation as Secretary of HHS, the Trump administration launched the Make America Healthy Again Commission to combat chronic childhood diseases. The commission will “advise and assist the President on how best to exercise his authority to address the childhood chronic disease crisis” through a “Make our Children Healthy Again Assessment.” It will then develop a “Make our Children Healthy Again Strategy” to restructure the federal government’s response to childhood diseases.
