The appointment of means was announced Wednesday after Trump withdrew his appointment from Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a former Fox News contributor whose resume has been questioned in recent weeks.
“Casey has impeccable” maha “references and will work in close collaboration with our wonderful secretary of health and social services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our program in order to reverse the chronic illness epidemic and to ensure great health, in the future, for all Americans”, Trump written about social truth.
However, Thursday, when they were asked by a journalist why he chose means, Trump admitted: “I don't know her, I listened to Bobby's recommendation.”
Means the White House and Kennedy did not respond to requests for comments on criticisms concerning the appointment.
A spokesperson for HHS pointed out an article on X by Kennedy, in which he defended the means and suggested that criticisms came from Big Pharma: “I have no doubt that these companies and their conflict media will continue to pay bloggers and other influencers of social media for having highlighted innuees for slander and vilivate Casey, the same way they try Trump “, Kennedy” wrote.
When asked what criticism specifically Kennedy was referring, HHS did not respond.
In an interview on Fox News broadcast Thursday evening, Kennedy rejected Shanahan's claims that he was in a way controlled, saying that “all the leaders of this agency are renegades who are behemoths against the Convention”.
The position of the general surgeon is described by the HHS As a “doctor of the country”, responsible for “providing Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury”.
But many within the general public medical profession have raised serious questions about the means “the ability to fulfill this role, given the lack of references of 37 years.
Means has not owned an active license to practice medicine since 2019 and despite the qualification of an “former surgeon” on his LinkedIn, means have never finished his surgical training at the Oregon Health and Science University, abandoning a little more than four years in a five -year residence.
The means are also a supporter of “functional medicine”, a holistic approach to medicine which is considered by many as pseudoscience due to the lack of robust scientific evidence to support treatments and claims.
During the COVVI-19 pandemic, on Twitter means that “many (otherwise most) COVID-19 deaths could be prevented at W Optimal Metabolic Health”. In an laudice published by The hill At the height of the pandemic, the means seemed to put the blame for the death of people on their poor food choices, call Covid-19 “a Darwinian moment for America” and adding that “the Americans must build defenses of personal immunity by radical changes in dietetics and exercise, or risk falling and dying”.
It also seems to be against the control of hormonal births, Say tucker carlson The abolition of the menstrual cycle reflects “a lack of respect for life”.
And despite the anger to lead anti-vaccine activists, the means have repeatedly expressed the fringe and the viewed views on the subject.
