In his first address to staff at the Health and Human Services Department this past February, then newly-confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proudly proclaimed that "nothing is going to be off limits" in his effort to end chronic childhood illnesses. Intended as a rallying call for his agenda of vaccine skepticism and scientific revisionism, Kennedy's enthusiasm for working without "limits" has been evident throughout his long career in the public eye — first as an acclaimed environmentalist and now as one of the most consequential health care figures in the world.
While neither a physician nor a researcher himself, Kennedy has nevertheless been at the forefront of what he and President Donald Trump have dubbed the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, upending whole swaths o

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