There's a reason so many Americans trust RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz
Neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, nor Dr. Mehmet Oz, his pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is a stranger to scandal. But it’s their connection to “wellness” ideology, which includes the belief that health is holistic and that individuals are the most qualified experts on their own experience — that should command our attention.
Kennedy and Oz are dangerous choices to lead major federal agencies because they amplify the worst aspects of that sprawling wellness culture: conspiracy theories, cheap hucksterism and an anti-institutionalism that undermines the very agencies they’ve been slated to run. But we must separate our justified outrage at Trump choosing them from two key truths: The health issues they discuss pose legitimate problems for many Americans — that’s how each became so popular — and the wellness movement in which they participate has positively contributed to our understanding of health and well-being in the United States.
Kennedy made his name as an environmentalist legal crusader, but his passion for protecting all that is “natural” has led him to make arguments far outside accepted scientific opinion, most infamously in his championing the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, but also that contaminated water can make people transgender, that 5G cell towers “control our behavior” and that raw milk is safe for consumption.
Oz, trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon, was affiliated with Columbia University (until it cut ties with him in 2022) but rose to celebrity as the host of “The Dr. Oz Show” (a spinoff of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”), where he offered mainstream diet, nutrition and sexual health tips interspersed with recommendations for unverified cures and supplements. It was those recommendations that landed him in a Senate hearing, where he admitted much of his advice doesn’t “have the scientific muster to present as fact.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-rfk-jr-dr-oz-115959705.html
Not sure how many people trust these two. They're both a little bizarre to me.
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BAWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! 
Look. This isn't Lake Woebegone. Whether you like it or not, there's a region of the bell curve, beginning not all that far to the left of the mean, where people's ability to tie their own shoes declines drastically. Much less having a fucking clue about what's going on with them medically. Oh, but they can diagnose and heal themselves. Do what they think feels right. 
Someone queue Darwin.
And don't even get me started on allowing these loons to vote. OK, so R's don't think voting is a right? Fine. Let's limit it to only those with the cognitive abilities, education and training necessary to do it rationally and in an informed manner. Oh, R's don't like that? Tough. 
