It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. One of the things we're doing on this show during Trump's first hundred days is a health and climate Tuesday section of the show.

As some of you know, this builds on and expands the climate story of the week that we had

been doing on Tuesdays the last two years. Our thinking right now is that there are so many

headlines coming from the new administration that are pretty monumental on a daily basis

that health and climate ones risk getting lost in

the shuffle. Today, for example, the big headlines are about Trump's tariff chaos,

apparently tanking the stock market and Ukraine launching an actual military attack on Moscow.

We're talking about those things too, of course, on the show and throughout the day on

the station, but we lead today with our health and climate section to make sure these things

don't get lost. We'll keep doing this on Tuesdays, at least through the first hundred days.

On climate, the new energy secretary, Chris Wright, yesterday shrugged off climate change as a side effect of building the modern

world and said the cure is worse than the disease. As the Trump administration cuts back on

permits and investment in renewable energy, we'll talk to climate journalist Emily Atkin

coming up. And on health, we're staying on the RFK beat this week. We'll do this one first

and get to Climate Second. There's a headline in the New York Times today. Kennedy links measles

outbreak to poor diet and health citing fringe theories. It was about an interview we gave to Fox News, and it actually gets

fringier than that headline as you read through the article. Also, in the Trump addressed to Congress

last week, with all the lies he told about millions of 140-year-olds getting Social Security

payments and other things, getting so much attention afterwards,

we may not have noticed as much, or people around the country may not have that.

He promised that RFK would get to the bottom of what's causing the rise in autism diagnoses in

children, which implied that it could be vaccines, because we know what RFK says.

...