The health secretary, appearing before two separate congressional committees, was grilled about slashes to disease research, maternal health and the U.S. measles outbreak.
Strictly speaking his job is administrative - he’s not an expert on health nor does he really need to be. He’s a political appointee charged with advising the president and enacting the president’s policies. The career bureaucrats and scientists in his employ are the experts.
It is, however, expected that he would at least understand and listen to those teams on what the correct science is and provide feedback from those teams upward to the president to ensure that the president’s goals align with good public health policy.
But he’s a whackjob conspiracy theorist who has no idea what he’s doing.
“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy said.
Well then, the next questions should be, “what is your job title?” and “what exactly is it that you DO here?”
Strictly speaking his job is administrative - he’s not an expert on health nor does he really need to be. He’s a political appointee charged with advising the president and enacting the president’s policies. The career bureaucrats and scientists in his employ are the experts.
It is, however, expected that he would at least understand and listen to those teams on what the correct science is and provide feedback from those teams upward to the president to ensure that the president’s goals align with good public health policy.
But he’s a whackjob conspiracy theorist who has no idea what he’s doing.