It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later in the show for this Friday,

we'll have two episodes of our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things, and they're both about magazines.

We'll do 100 years of the New Yorker, now celebrating its own centennial, and around 1130, ahead of the Grammy Awards this weekend, we'll do 100 years of the Billboard Music Charts.

And for that one, we'll play Name That Tune

and give away Brian Lair's show Totebags, our pro-democracy tote, and we'll invite you to call

in and say what the biggest hit song from your high school years was from whenever you went to

high school, at least as you remember it.

So we'll have some fun today

with 100 years of the New Yorker and the Billboard music charts, but we'll start on the news.

Here is maybe the moment of the biggest concern for RFK Jr. from the two days of confirmation

hearings he just sat through to be Health and Human

Services Secretary. This is from yesterday's hearing in the Health, Education, Labor, and

pensions committee. The speaker is Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who is also

a physician. Now, my responsibility is to learn, try and determine if you can be trusted to support the best public health.

A worthy movement called Maha to improve the health of Americans or to undermine it always asking for more evidence and never

accepting the evidence that is there. And that is why I've been struggling with your nomination.

There are issues we are, man, ultra-processed food, obesity, we are we are sympathetic. We're

completely aligned. And as someone who has discussed immunizations with thousands of people,

I understand that mothers want reassurance that the vaccine their child is receiving is necessary, safe, and effective.

We agree on that point, the two of us, but we've approached it differently.

And I think I can say that I've approached it using the preponderance of evidence to reassure,

and you've approached using selected evidence to cast doubt.

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