Ethicist Art Caplan discusses challenges for practicing physicians should Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., lead the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Served as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: Johnson & Johnson’s Panel for Compassionate Drug Use Hi. I’m Art Caplan. I’m at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Division of Medical Ethics.
A large amount of attention is paid to the fact that he has historically been a vaccine skeptic, and that is true. He has certainly circulated the idea that vaccines could causeOn that issue, there’s plenty of reason to be upset because I think vaccines are one of the great achievements of science for humanity.
He wants to shift us to organic foods, which is problematic for a whole host of reasons.First, there’s no definition of what organic is. Second, it’s not affordable. Organic foods, if we tried to shift our food supply, would raise prices enormously in terms of producing them.
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