The appointment of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was a shot across the bow to the public health aristocracy that the days of avoiding public scrutiny were over. Kennedy is a skeptic about vaccines, food additives, and a lot of other things that had operated out of sight and with little to no transparency on how public health decisions were made, research grants awarded, or the massive conflicts of interest endemic throughout that space. Leviathan does not give up power, perquisites, and money easily. The $48 billion in biomedical research funding NIH doles out to over 2,500 research institutions in all 50 states buys a powerful lobbying arm to keep the status quo.
BACKGROUND: BREAKING: Trump Announces Pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services
While Kennedy has the star power and toughness to do the job, to really make things happen, he will need the…
