Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has controversially promoted vitamin A as a treatment for measles, despite evidence showing it can be toxic in high doses and is no substitute for vaccination. Kennedy's view is particularly ironic given his criticism of genetically engineered Golden Rice, a crop designed to boost...vitamin A levels in developing countries.
Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 108 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
Lost in the conversation about measles and vitamin A is the mind-boggling irony of RFK Jr.’s position on using the vitamin. He promotes it as a measles treatment — where it is useless — while condemning millions of children to blindness and death by opposing GM foods like Golden Rice, a clear solution to vitamin A deficiency in poorer countries. It’s almost impossible to be more wrong than this.
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