Kennedy is a former environmental lawyer who is utterly unqualified to hold any position with power over anyone’s health, much less a huge department that includes the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Mother Jones wrote, “If Kennedy—who has also promoted dangerous and ludicrous ideas about fluoride, 5G technology, and the causes of HIV/AIDS, among innumerable other pseudoscientific claims—assumes the position, ‘the damage he could do is near infinite,’ warns Dr.