To the editor: All Republicans on the Senate Committee on Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions — together with members who’re physicians — voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to control healthcare in the USA. His nomination for Well being and Human Companies secretary now goes to the Senate.
Kennedy is already answerable for illness and demise attributable to his giving false warnings about vaccines. He’s untrained in science and medication. He invents his well being recommendation apparently from his creativeness. He has been debunked repeatedly.
However he has pledged to do what he’s advised by President Trump. That, apparently, is his qualification for the job.
To the Senate committee members, I hope you lose sleep.
Michael Gross, M.D., Woodland Hills
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To the editor: Each op-ed article author Lee Fang and RFK Jr. have zero medical or scientific credentials. Zero. (“Why Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has captured the attention of everyday moms,” Opinion, Jan. 30)
Fang claims in his title that Kennedy has received over on a regular basis mothers, with zero proof. In reality, greater than 15,000 physicians signed a letter urging the Senate to not affirm Kennedy’s nomination. His personal cousin, former U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, who has identified him from childhood, denounced him as unfit.
As a doctor myself, I see little profit to affirming RFK Jr.’s nomination to move the Division of Well being and Human Companies, aside from maybe banning Skittles — although the Meals and Drug Administration already banned crimson dye No. 3 on Jan. 15.
So please, Mr. Fang, follow the info, as Kennedy ought to, and as any good scientist routinely does.
Rose Maly, M.D., Los Angeles
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To the editor: Fang’s op-ed article on RFK Jr. gave me a flicker of hope that perhaps The Instances will truly current some refined views from either side of the political spectrum.
The thesis that the COVID-19 pandemic launched the Democrats in a route contradictory to their values was fairly insightful. The article additionally took a welcome and transient break from portray RFK Jr. as an entire lunatic by stating that then-President-elect Obama practically nominated him for Environmental Safety Company administrator in 2008.
David Waldowski, Laguna Woods
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To the editor: Fang’s hyperbolic castigation of the Democratic Occasion and seemingly each elected Democrat from Obama to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apart, the problem with Kennedy isn’t his “Make America Wholesome Once more” plans, which embody some cheap concepts.
It’s his choice to disregard info and embrace conspiracy theories comparable to childhood vaccines inflicting autism. Kennedy refuses to acknowledge when he’s fallacious and continues to espouse disproven theories for no matter motive.
Fang declares the Democrats’ “institutional deference” to be the actual revelation of the Kennedy affirmation hearings. I declare {that a} man with the ability to execute well being coverage in the USA ought to have the ability to use crucial pondering and alter course when his beliefs are completely confirmed to be fallacious.
On a regular basis mothers will not be so enamored of RFK Jr. when their youngsters start dying from preventable childhood ailments as a result of rigidity of the nominee’s debunked “beliefs.”
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
