His woo-woo “alternative” prescriptions are having the predictable results:
Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.
Parents in the region have increasingly turned to unproven treatments to protect their children, many of whom are unvaccinated, against the virus. Local doctors say they have now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A — which Kennedy has promoted as a near-miraculous cure for measles — that they showed signs of liver damage.
Most of the article is all about how Kennedy’s attack on the food supply and condemnation of certain industries is gaining converts among more liberal members of the public who have long criticized the food “industrial complex” for its contribution to the poor health of Americans. Maybe they’ll succeed in getting the unhealthy processed food out of Americans’ diets and persuading them to stop eating sugar and industrial farming products. I’m sure everyone would benefit. But I’m not going to hold my breath on that.
What these people are actually going to succeed in doing is providing validation to someone who is an anti-science, conspiracy theorist crank who wants people to reject medical science in favor of woo-woo bullshit even he doesn’t follow. (The man is a walking steroid bomb.) And a lot of people are going to get a whole lot sicker in the long run.