The confirmation games are continuing on Thursday, and some of the questions and statements are, as one might expect, treading into the realm of the sciences, specifically, biology and the practice of medicine. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), is still undergoing his confirmation hearings (grillings) in the Senate. On Thursday, a couple of gems were dropped. In the first, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) asks a good question and backs it with an interesting – and accurate – observation.
RFK Jr. just told me he’ll stop funding for any NIH research using fetal tissue from abortions pic.twitter.com/X6F5u4ZCJy
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) January 30, 2025
Senator Hawley: In NIH [National Institutes of Health], under the first Trump presidency, HHS stopped new NIH work that involved human fetal tissue…
