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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, told Congress that hes directed the Food and Drug Administration to review regulations around the abortion pill mifepristone, outraging reproductive rights advocates after he cited a flawed study on the widely used medication.
Ive asked Marty Makary, whos the director of the FDA, to do a complete review and report back, Kennedy, a notorious skeptic and conspiracy theorist on vaccines and other public health matters, said of the medication during a Senate budget hearing Wednesday.
Makary is a former Fox News host known for claiming on national television that fetuses can resist an abortion.
Kennedy confirmed that any decision on the drug will be informed by a deeply flawed report published last month by a conservative think tank, even though experts say the so-called study has a clear conflict of interest and wasnt peer-reviewed ― a baseline expectation for research used to alter access to a medication thats been used by millions of Americans to manage their reproductive health for a quarter-century.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-says-hes-exploring-215128097.html
WTF brain worm
milestogo
(22,450 posts)Disaffected
(6,118 posts)RFK Jr. is not actually a "skeptic", notorious or not.
An actual skeptic bases his/her skepticism on logic and scientific evidence. Kennedy does neither so does not meet the definition.
Personally, I think "crackpot" should be the appellation of choice.
Norrrm
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FloridaBlues
(4,646 posts)Just a matter of time.. on top of all the other corruption coming our way
UTUSN
(76,703 posts)Abolishinist
(2,878 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,465 posts)This is to induce labor when the baby is over due or causing health problems for both baby and Mom.
I have never had a problem pregnancy. I do think I have a better idea about what might be the problem than he would.
I wish the men in this world would just leave women to take care of each other.
From dentists and dermatologist to pulmonary docs and obgyn's I have had the alll and happy to walk away.