Welcome back to the channel.

In this video, I'm going to talk about RFK Jr.

Becoming the HHS Secretary.

I'm going to talk about layoffs at the CDC and NIH,

and I'm going to talk about some stray comments made by Harold Varmus,

the former NCI director that is disparaging of J. Bottacharya.

Let's get started.

If you're watching on YouTube, this is going to be one long video.

If you're watching on Instagram and other platforms like X, I'm going to put it out in clips. Robert F. Kennedy,

Jr. has become the HHS secretary. This is an astonishing development. This means so much,

I think, for health, public health and what might come in regulatory science in the years to come. I just want to start

by saying it was a close vote. 52 votes in favor. He lost Mitch McConnell. Trump, I think, is saying

that that's not a vote against Kennedy. That's a vote against me. That's what Trump says in an

interview. But 52 votes, Republicans put him into that position and he gained no votes from the

Democrat side. Right off the bat, I want to say that's

surprising to me, actually, because it speaks to how polarized politics has become. Because Robert

of Kennedy Jr. is, spoiler alert, actually a Democrat. I mean, he's somebody who is in the Kennedy

family. He is a Democrat. And if you look at his policy positions, historically, they would have been in the

Democrat Party. It would have been, perhaps 15 or 20 years ago, a progressive or democratic

thing to do to remove dyes and pesticides that are already banned in Europe and Australia and other

places. It would have been a Democrat thing to do to sue the companies that make very

expensive medical products. That would have been a

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