Tag: RFK Jr

  • Mercury Out: RFK Jr. Makes Good on Vaccine Promise

    Mercury Out: RFK Jr. Makes Good on Vaccine Promise

    Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put his signature on a document Wednesday that vaccine critics have been demanding for decades. After years of debate, false claims, and scientific studies clearing the ingredient in question, American flu shots will no longer contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used since the 1930s. Yet the…

  • The Political Science Of Ending Animal Testing In The US

    The Political Science Of Ending Animal Testing In The US

    The landscape of American biomedical research is undergoing one of its most surprising transformations in decades. What was once a point of deep partisan division has become an unlikely point of unity. At the center of this shift stands Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose push to end animal testing in drug and chemical…