Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinks it may be detrimental for Americans to follow the “crackpot ideas” brought forth by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Clinton talked about Kennedy’s ideas as “anti-science” in an appearanceon “Morning Joe” Wednesday.
This comes after Kennedy and President Donald Trump revealed there was an alleged link between pregnant women taking Tylenol and their babies having autism.
“We’re doing a series of working groups, and in those working groups are experts, not just from the United States but all over, and one of the biggest concerns is what we are doing in our own country to put our own people’s health at risk: dismantling public health, listening to literally crackpot ideas about what’s happening,” Clinton said.
She also said that in 1800, U.S. life expectancy was 35; now it is 78.
“When I hear people like, you know, Kennedy and others talking about getting back to a time when we aren’t vaccinating, we’re drinking raw milk – yeah! And people didn’t live,” Clinton continued. “I mean, this is so crazy, it’s so wrongheaded, it’s so shortsighted, and it’s going to cause deaths. We just saw two children die from whooping cough. We saw the deaths from measles.”
Under Kennedy’s time as head of Health and Human Services, funding for mRNA vaccine research has been cut.
Several people have also left the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Clinton also said the Trump administration is attempting to “turn the clock back” on medical progress.
“These guys want to literally turn the clock back. And, you know, when I see what is likely to happen because people are being confused – when your president says something, when Kennedy who’s the secretary of HHS says something, what are you supposed to believe?” Clinton said, “When you fire experts who’ve spent their entire life studying something that I want to know about.”
“I have three grandchildren. I want to make sure they’re healthy.
People are confused, and too many Americans are listening to this, you know, very destructive, anti-science tirade that we’re hearing from this administration. And it’s going to cost lives. It already is costing lives,” she added.
Watch Clinton’s interview on YouTube:
During Monday’s press conference, Trump offered his own take on the MMR vaccine, IJR previously reported.
“We want no mercury in the vaccine. We want no aluminum in the vaccine. The MMR I think should be taken separately,” Trump said, about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine.
“This is based on what I feel. The mumps, measles and — the three should be taken separately. And it seems to be that when you mix them, there could be a problem,” Trump said. “So there’s no downside in taking them separately. In fact, they think it’s better. So let it be separate.”
