The Food and Drug Administration has become a “sock puppet” of the industries it regulates, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday, telling workers at the beleaguered agency that those industries have exerted too much influence on regulatory decisions for too long.
In a roughly 27-minute speech, Kennedy — the nation’s top health official — also said the “deep state is real,” according to transcripts of his speech and a recording obtained by The Washington Post. He urged employees to blow the whistle on their bosses if they believe superiors are approving “something that shouldn’t be approved.” And he urged employees to “break away from the bureaucracy.”
BREAKING: HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr declares that by September, the United States will uncover the cause of the autism epidemic and eliminate exposures:@POTUS: "Think of that, so it was 1 in 10,000 children had autism, and now it’s 1 in 31." pic.twitter.com/Y81wxzOfF1
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