Today’s podcast turns to an issue that worries every parent and grandparent I know — what’s happening to our kids’ health.
A little over a week ago, the Trump regime’s Make America Healthy Commission issued a report entitled “Making Our Children Healthy Again.” It immediately drew fire from the press for citing non-existent studies. Its sections on vaccines embraced the science denialism propounded the Commission’s chairman, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
But as I wrote earlier his week, much of the report echoes the profound concerns most Americans have about the impact that chemical toxins released into the environment are having on our nation’s children, concerns that have long been raised by progressive environmental and public interest groups. Moreover, those concerns have been well documented by solid research conducted by government, academic and independent scientists, few of whom have any financial ties to industry.
The MAHA report appears to be a case where the messenger is suspect, but much of the message is not.
In fact, a few days before Trump took office last January, a consortium of more than two dozen environmental, public health and physician-scientists published a long article in The New England Journal of Medicine calling for new laws to protect our children from dangerous chemicals and toxins in the environment.
I’m pleased to have on today’s podcast one of the co-authors of that NEJM report. Tracey Woodruff is the Director of the Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California at San Francisco. She’s has served on several Environmental Protection Agency committees and won agency awards for her work.
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