Trump appoints vaccine sceptic RFK Jr as health secretary

He has no medical qualifications and has been a prolific spreader of health misinformation, but the anti-vaccine campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr ran a presidential campaign that garnered support from hundreds of thousands of Americans.

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Author: @siobhankennedy4

Democrats don’t need their own Joe Rogan

One of the new cliches of American politics is that progressives need their own Joe Rogan. The comedian turned podcaster has an audience that is four-fifths male and 51 per cent aged 18-34, and it has not escaped the Democrats’ notice that, while women aged 18 to 29 voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris, men in

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Author: Stephen Daisley

Health stocks hit after Trump taps RFK Jr for top regulator post

Investors are “spooked” by plan to name a vaccine-sceptic as US health secretary, analysts say.

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Author: @BBCNews

‘Bobby is an outlier’: Inside RFK Jr’s mad world of crackpots, cranks and vaccine conspiracies

The next US health secretary has suggested erecting a statue of the disgraced British doctor who claimed the MMR vaccine causes autism

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Author: Brian Deer

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried

Although Trump signaled in the runup to the election that he planned to let the vaccine skeptic “go wild” on health, food and medicine, Kennedy’s official selection for the nation’s top health post sent shockwaves through the public health world, concerned about his potential effects on vaccination rates, research on infectious diseases and misrepresentation of established science.

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Author: Meg Tirrell, Katherine Dillinger

How controversial is Trump’s pick of RFK Jr as US health secretary?

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Author: Al Jazeera Staff

Global health chiefs welcome RFK’s attack on junk food as ‘poison’ and the need for more exercise

With obesity rates soaring, many experts have been lobbying for better regulation of the US ‘industrial food complex’ for years

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Author: Ben Farmer,Paul Nuki

Mike Pence urges Senate Republicans to reject RFK Jr for US health secretary

Ex-vice-president rebukes Kennedy’s stance on abortion while Matt Gaetz, another Trump pick, faces ‘uphill battle’

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Author: Richard Luscombe

What RFK Jr could do on US vaccines, fluoride and drugs

The vaccine sceptic would have broad power over food safety, vaccinations and pharmaceuticals.

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Author: bbc.com

What Trump’s pledge to close Dept. of Education means for students, GOP-led states

President-elect Trump promised to close the Department of Education. We asked several education policy experts what the impacts of doing so would mean for students and the country.

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Author: Steve Inskeep

Vaccine stocks hit by Robert Kennedy Jr nomination

GSK, Sanofi and Moderna shares all sink after Trump chooses vaccine sceptic as top US health official

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Author: Ian Johnston,Oliver Barnes

Vaccine stocks plummet after Trump names Robert F Kennedy Jr health secretary

Appointee is known for expressing scepticism about the efficacy and safety of inoculations

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Author: Chris Price,Pui-Guan Man

Pharma shares hit as Trump picks RFK Jr to lead health department

Appointment of vaccine critic knocks some of world’s biggest drugmakers including Moderna, AstraZeneca and GSK

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Author: Mark Sweney,Graeme Wearden

Opinion: Trump picks a fervent Israel first team, but the Democrats brought us here

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Author: @middleeasteye

Why the Democrats Lost Workers

The Democrats’ failure to reconnect with American workers cost them the election, leaving the party adrift in a coalition dominated by elites and urban professionals

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Author: Daron Acemoglu