Given the track record of Trump's cabinet picks, it seems fitting that the Secretary of Health and Human Services would follow the same trend of 'unique' qualifications. Consistency is key, right?
No one is against improving the USofA diet, it's globally infamous for sugary toxicity.
RFK Jr's idea of a good diet, however, includes parasite ridden roadkill. Then there's all his other weird little fringe beliefs.
Edit: All the criticisms I can find online seem to point towards creating a top caloric standard with no change as kids age (and that seems to be pretty valid criticism to me). Also that she established low fat options which increased sugar intake (perhaps wasn’t as dubious then, but definitely seems to be more valid criticism now)
I could not be more embarrassed for humanity, and my country.
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You can not be pro DEI and still find competent people. Just by the numbers, it’s possible.
To be “most unqualified” you can select from DEI or not, as any group will have horribly qualified people.
There are many in the medical field that aren’t DEI that care deeply about, and are knowledgeable about the major health issues in this country - vaccines, obesity, malnutrition, mental health, fertility, cancer, food supply (and its poor quality), environmental, activity, elder care, dementia, early childhood health care, just to name a few.
I am unaware of his qualifications to lead such an org, but at that level, he’s mostly a political talking head anyway. Still, I agree it’s quite bad. We’ll know in a few years the outcome.
All that said, “could not be more embarrassed for humanity and my country” - really? You think this is worse than the Great Depression when security forces were paid to guard piles of rotting fruit so the starving couldn’t eat them? The rise of the KKK? The horrors of the civil war?
Inflationary language might feel good, but its effect is it encourages the forgetting of worse things, increases internal conflict, and makes reconciliation and course correction even harder. So the next time you read how someone is “the worst” or a Nazi, ask yourself if you are truly aiming for the erasure of Nazi crimes and further fracturing of society or simply exaggerating to highlight a point. One person’s exaggeration becomes someone else’s truth.