<p><a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> loves to preach health eating, as he defines it. But what he won't tell you is that not everyone has the same level of choice in such things, and that lack of choice has a lot to do with <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> and <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#discrimination</a>. My latest: <a href="https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.defendpublichealth.org/opi</span><span class="invisible">nion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0</span></a></p>
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<p>After Sowing Distrust in Fluoridated Water, Kennedy and Skeptics Turn to Obstructing Other Fluoride Sources<br>---</p><p>Florida and Utah have banned fluoridation, with multiple other states looking to do the same. Critics of fluoride in drinking water point to other fluoride sources as an alternative, but many are creating barriers to these very products.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/flu</span><span class="invisible">oride-supplements-fda-rfk-jr-ken-paxton-restrictions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/family/" rel="tag">#Family</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#Utah</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#Florida</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a></p>
<p>NEW: For years, the <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> website warned of products and remedies claiming to treat <a href="/tags/autism/" rel="tag">#autism</a> that were being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. </p><p>Just a few: <br>•hyperbaric oxygen therapies <br>•chlorine dioxide<br>•raw camel milk. </p><p>Now, under RFK Jr, that advisory is gone. </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJR</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#medicine</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#safety</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a></p>
<p>RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.</p><p>History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a></p>
<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.</p><p>This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.<br><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/childh</span><span class="invisible">ood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/model/" rel="tag">#Model</a></p>
<p>In 2023, the FDA deemed 19 peptides too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies.</p><p>Now, under RFK Jr., the agency is poised to reverse itself — despite the fact that few clinical studies support claims of the peptides’ effectiveness or safety.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/peptide-safety-fda-compounding-pharmacies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/peptide-safety-fda-compounding-pharmacies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/pep</span><span class="invisible">tide-safety-fda-compounding-pharmacies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/fda/" rel="tag">#FDA</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/peptides/" rel="tag">#Peptides</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/pharmacy/" rel="tag">#Pharmacy</a></p>