To the editor: All Republicans on the Senate Committee on Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions — together with members who’re physicians — voted to verify Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to control healthcare in america. His nomination for Well being and Human Providers secretary now goes to the Senate.
Kennedy is already chargeable for illness and loss of life as a consequence of 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 instructed 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 eye of on a regular basis mothers,” Opinion, Jan. 30)
Fang claims in his title that Kennedy has gained 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 go the Division of Well being and Human Providers, apart from maybe banning Skittles — although the Meals and Drug Administration already banned pink dye No. 3 on Jan. 15.
So please, Mr. Fang, stick with the details, 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 possibly The Instances will really current some refined views from either side of the political spectrum.
The thesis that the COVID-19 pandemic launched the Democrats in a course contradictory to their values was fairly insightful. The article additionally took a welcome and transient break from portray RFK Jr. as a whole 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 Get together and seemingly each elected Democrat from Obama to Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apart, the difficulty with Kennedy isn’t his “Make America Wholesome Once more” plans, which embody some cheap concepts.
It’s his resolution to disregard details and embrace conspiracy theories similar to childhood vaccines inflicting autism. Kennedy refuses to acknowledge when he’s unsuitable 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 facility to execute well being coverage in america ought to be capable of use essential considering and alter course when his beliefs are completely confirmed to be unsuitable.
On a regular basis mothers is probably not so enamored of RFK Jr. when their youngsters start dying from preventable childhood ailments because of the rigidity of the nominee’s debunked “beliefs.”
Kent Grigsby, Riverside
