RFK Jr. and Our Public Health Disasters

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Silence of Barking Dogs

On Thursday the full Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This gave Kennedy full authority over one of America’s largest government bureaucracies, including its 90,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $2 trillion, twice that of the Department of Defense.

Ironies abounded in that narrow 52-48 vote, which was almost exactly along party lines, with every Democrat in opposition and...