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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Dec 10, 2024, 06:24 PM Tuesday

Nobel Prize Winners Call On Senate To Reject RFK Jr. Nomination

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have sent a letter to the United States Senate urging Senators to reject the nomination of RFK Jr. to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The letter, which was first reported by the New York Times, highlights concerns the Nobel laureates have with Kennedy's lack of "relevant experience" along with many of the anti-science positions he has taken.

The letter read, in part:

“In addition to his lack of credentials or relevant experience in medicine, science, public health, or administration, Mr. Kennedy has been an opponent of many health-protecting and life-saving vaccines, such as those that prevent measles and polio; a critic of the well-established positive effects of fluoridation of drinking water; a promoter of conspiracy theories about remarkably successful treatments for AIDS and other diseases; and a belligerent critic of respected agencies (especially the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health)"


The Nobel laureates who signed onto this letter won Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics.

https://meidasnews.com/news/nobel-prize-winners-call-on-senate-to-reject-rfk-jr-nomination
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Nobel Prize Winners Call On Senate To Reject RFK Jr. Nomination (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday OP
That alone is a sure reason for the GOP to fight for his nomination - anyone walkingman Tuesday #1
Nobel Prize winners, huh - what do they know? Jim__ Tuesday #2

walkingman

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1. That alone is a sure reason for the GOP to fight for his nomination - anyone
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 06:31 PM
Tuesday

with any intelligence would not support the GOP of today. It is simply the party of Trump and absolutely nothing to do with traditional GOP values except the traditional racism that has been their hallmark, at least in the South for the last 50 years.

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