The hill r.f.k. jr. will die on
At a White House Cabinet meeting earlier this year, R.F.K. Jr. declared that, “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic, and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures.” It’s now October, and, other than the last-ditch attempt to pin the blame on Tylenol last week, the secretary has shockingly little to show the class. Despite having the full resources of the U.S. government at his disposal, he’s no closer to proving that vaccines cause autism. The obvious solution, of course, would be to focus on the environmental pollutants with proven links to autism—but that would conflict with the big boss’s assault on the E.P.A., which rolled back regulations on those very pollutants and fired the scientists studying the links. So much for “gold star” science, and so much for the man Time once heralded as a “hero of the planet.”
TRUMP RX
In an Oval Office conference this week, Trump announced a new deal with Pfizer that will see prescription drugs highly discounted for American consumers. The drugs will be available for purchase on a new Web site, TrumpRx.gov, joining the portfolio of Trump Gold Cards, Trump Accounts, and the $Trump meme coin. In his remarks, R.F.K. Jr. joked that the president has “harangued and harassed” his department for months to finish the deal à la The Apprentice. The tagline of TrumpRx, we’re told, will be something along the lines of Walgreens’ “At the corner of happy and healthy”—but the opposite.
