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Okay,
we're gonna be talking about some big questions in today's episodes We always talk about big questions,
but these are particularly big ones ones about science about health about disease about medicine and the role of public health in America and particularly what has been happening recently with vaccines at the center of all of this is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is the secretary of health in the Trump administration and he has been promising a radical transparency in his department.
But critics say he has been delivering something very different.
In fact,
some of the main scientists in charge of public health in America have either been forced out or directly sacked by RFK Jr. in recent weeks.
And they say that they are being forced out
because RFK Jr. is making decisions based not on public health on science,
but on ideology.
So, are these criticisms valid?
Or is RFK Jr. bringing this radical transparency and reshaping American public health and making America healthy again,
as Donald Trump likes to say?
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it's Anthony in the BBC Bureau in Washington DC.
And it is Marianna, a.k.a. misinformation, not in the worldwide headquarters,
but actually in San Francisco,
where I'm doing this documentary for BBC Two about social media algorithms.
So I am even further time difference back than Anthony, which is something I'm not used to.