{"id":25825,"date":"2025-04-11T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25825"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:27:58","slug":"rfk-jr-accuses-fda-of-drug-industry-influence-that-barred-alternative-remedies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25825","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Accuses FDA of Drug Industry Influence That Barred Alternative Remedies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation\u2019s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kennedy told the agency staff members, in the throes of losing 20 percent of their work force under his overhaul of the Health and Human Services Department, to boldly avoid the impulse to protect the corporations they regulate.<\/p>\n

The layoffs, voluntary departures and cutbacks in funding have already decimated<\/a> divisions that govern oversight of tobacco, the drug approval process, testing of cow\u2019s milk and cheese for avian flu, and food safety that monitors and protects consumers from food-borne illnesses.<\/p>\n

In his remarks on Friday, Mr. Kennedy suggested that the reason the agency did not approve \u201calternative medicines\u201d was because of its subservience to well-heeled corporations. Agency veterans have argued that alternative products often fail to pass the standards for safety and efficacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He has previously accused<\/a> the F.D.A. of suppressing raw milk, ivermectin and stem cell treatments.<\/p>\n

He urged the staff to resist the temptation to serve a small group of wealthy companies at the cost of public health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to break away from this so we can make our kids healthy,\u201d he said, according to a transcript of his speech that was shared with The New York Times. At another point, he said, \u201cthe deep state is real,\u201d a pejorative reference to the sprawling federal bureaucracy that President Trump blamed as an obstacle to achieving his goals in his first term.<\/p>\n

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In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation\u2019s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A.Mr. Kennedy told the agency staff members, in the throes of losing 20 percent of their work force under his overhaul of the Health and Human Services Department, to boldly avoid the impulse to protect the corporations they regulate.The layoffs, voluntary departures and cutbacks in funding have already decimated divisions that govern oversight of tobacco, the drug approval process, testing of cow\u2019s milk and cheese for avian flu, and food safety that monitors and protects consumers from food-borne illnesses.In his remarks on Friday, Mr. Kennedy suggested that the reason the agency did not approve \u201calternative medicines\u201d was because of its subservience to well-heeled corporations. Agency veterans have argued that alternative products often fail to pass the standards for safety and efficacy.He has previously accused the F.D.A. of suppressing raw milk, ivermectin and stem cell treatments.He urged the staff to resist the temptation to serve a small group of wealthy companies at the cost of public health.\u201cWe want to break away from this so we can make our kids healthy,\u201d he said, according to a transcript of his speech that was shared with The New York Times. At another point, he said, \u201cthe deep state is real,\u201d a pejorative reference to the sprawling federal bureaucracy that President Trump blamed as an obstacle to achieving his goals in his first term.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25827,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25828,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25825\/revisions\/25828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}