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GOP Should Support HHS Secretary Kennedy Against Big Medicine by Drinking the Kool-Aid

4 min readAug 21, 2025

HHS Secretary Kennedy is Under Attack by Big Medicine — To Show Their Support, President Trump and the GOP Should Drink the Kool-Aid (aka Raw Milk)

Previous American Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretaries have generally aligned themselves with “Big Medicine” — embracing vaccines, pasteurization, and other mainstream public health measures advocated by experts. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary marks a dramatic break from this tradition, signaling a fundamental shift in American public health policy — away from the evils of Big Medicine. Because Kennedy is a truth-teller, he has become a target of establishment criticism. It’s time for Trump and the GOP Senators who confirmed him to “drink the Kool-Aid” that Kennedy prescribes for other Americans.

First, it must be acknowledged that by nominating and confirming Kennedy, the GOP selected someone with unique qualifications. Among them: he is a former heroin addict who pleaded guilty to felony drug possession, and a serial philanderer who meticulously recorded his extramarital affairs; he drove a dead bear — killed in upstate New York — to New York City and left it in Central Park; and a worm ate part…

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Steven Strauss, Ph.D.
Steven Strauss, Ph.D.

Written by Steven Strauss, Ph.D.

From 2014 to 2025 Strauss was the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor at Princeton University

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