December ninth, 2024
To Members of america Senate:
We, the undersigned Nobel Laureates, are writing to ask you to
oppose the affirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of the
Division of Well being and Human Providers (DHHS).
The proposal to put Mr. Kennedy accountable for the federal companies
accountable for defending the well being of Americans and for
conducting the medical analysis that advantages our nation and the
remainder of humanity has been extensively criticized on a number of grounds. In
addition to his lack of credentials or related expertise in
drugs, science, public well being, or administration, Mr. Kennedy has
been an opponent of many health-protecting and life-saving
vaccines, corresponding to people who forestall measles and polio; a critic of
the well-established optimistic results of fluoridation of consuming
water; a promoter of conspiracy theories about remarkably
profitable therapies for AIDS and different ailments; and a belligerent
critic of revered companies (particularly the Meals and Drug
Administration, the Facilities for Illness Management, and the Nationwide
Institutes of Well being). The chief of DHHS ought to proceed to nurture
and improve— not threaten—these vital and extremely revered
establishments and their workers.
In view of his report, putting Mr. Kennedy accountable for DHHS would
put the general public’s well being in jeopardy and undermine America’s world
management within the well being sciences, in each the general public and industrial
sectors.