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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the US Department of Health and Human Services, has supported the debunked ideas that vaccines cause autism and that organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have helped cover up the link. He’s skeptical of the chemicals in our foods and skies, and worries that we’ve veered too far from all that is good and natural. Yet for all this, he admits to taking testosterone regularly as part of his “anti-aging protocol from my doctor.” In April, in an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, the septuagenarian began to lament the testosterone levels of o