To the editor: All Republicans on the Senate Committee on Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions — together with members who’re physicians — voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to manage healthcare in the USA. His nomination for Well being and Human Providers secretary now goes to the Senate.
Kennedy is already chargeable for illness and dying as a result of his giving false warnings about vaccines. He’s untrained in science and drugs. He invents his well being recommendation apparently from his creativeness. He has been debunked repeatedly.
However he has pledged to do what he’s instructed by President Trump. That, apparently, is his qualification for the job.
To the Senate committee members, I hope you lose sleep.
Michael Gross, M.D., Woodland Hills
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To the editor: Each op-ed article author Lee Fang and RFK Jr. have zero medical or scientific credentials. Zero. (“Why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has captured the attention of everyday moms,” Opinion, Jan. 30)
Fang claims in his title that Kennedy has received over on a regular basis mothers, with zero proof. Actually, greater than 15,000 physicians signed a letter urging the Senate to not verify Kennedy’s nomination. His personal cousin, former U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, who has identified him from childhood, denounced him as unfit.
As a doctor myself, I see little profit to affirming RFK Jr.’s nomination to go the Division of Well being and Human Providers, aside from maybe banning Skittles — although the Meals and Drug Administration already banned purple dye No. 3 on Jan. 15.
So please, Mr. Fang, follow the information, as Kennedy ought to, and as any good scientist routinely does.
Rose Maly, M.D., Los Angeles
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To the editor: Fang’s op-ed article on RFK Jr. gave me a flicker of hope that possibly The Occasions will really current some subtle views from each side of the political spectrum.
The thesis that the COVID-19 pandemic launched the Democrats in a path contradictory to their values was fairly insightful. The article additionally took a welcome and temporary break from portray RFK Jr. as an entire lunatic by stating that then-President-elect Obama almost nominated him for Environmental Safety Company administrator in 2008.
David Waldowski, Laguna Woods
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To the editor: Fang’s hyperbolic castigation of the Democratic Social gathering and seemingly each elected Democrat from Obama to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apart, the difficulty with Kennedy isn’t his “Make America Wholesome Once more” plans, which embody some cheap concepts.
It’s his resolution to disregard information and embrace conspiracy theories reminiscent of childhood vaccines inflicting autism. Kennedy refuses to acknowledge when he’s incorrect and continues to espouse disproven theories for no matter motive.
Fang declares the Democrats’ “institutional deference” to be the true revelation of the Kennedy affirmation hearings. I declare {that a} man with the ability to execute well being coverage in the USA ought to have the ability to use crucial pondering and alter course when his beliefs are totally confirmed to be incorrect.
On a regular basis mothers might not be so enamored of RFK Jr. when their kids start dying from preventable childhood ailments as a result of rigidity of the nominee’s debunked “beliefs.”
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
