RFK intro speech at HHS - abstract

So my main mission at HHS, in which I hope that you will all join me, is to reverse the

chronic disease epidemic in America.

How are we going to do that?

It isn't by replacing one paradigm with another one by force.

I'm not going to come in here and impose my belief over any of yours.

Instead, we're going to work together to launch a new era of radical transparency.

Only through radical transparency can we provide Americans with genuine informed consent,

which is the bedrock and the foundation stone of democracy.

It's no secret that many of our institutions of democracy,

but even of science and medicine, are no longer transparent.

As a consequence, they have become inefficient, dysfunctional, or corrupt.

They have fallen captive to the profit-making industries.

They have stagnated in bureaucratic secrecy and in siloing.

They have lost touch with ordinary citizens.

But here's the paradox that a lot of crusaders need to understand.

Most of the people who work in these institutions and agencies and organizations

are competent, ethical, and caring, and idealistic.

I think that's especially true at HHS.

Last Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to establish the Maha Commission

to study what has caused the precipitous decline

in American health over the past two generations.

So we will convene representatives of all viewpoints

to study the causes for the drastic rise in chronic disease.

Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo

or insufficiently scrutinized.

The childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides,

ultra-processed foods, artificial food allergies, SSRI and other psychiatric drugs,

PFAs, PFOAs, microplastics, nothing is going to be off limits.

Whatever belief or suspicion I have expressed in the past,

I'm willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science.

That is going to be our template, unbiased science.