You cannot say "hopefully his influence there will be limited" while we are actively discussing unannounced cancellations of vaccine studies. His influence there is already overarching, malevolent and clandestine.

You'll note that nowhere in his GRAS announcement did he list any examples of GRAS ingredients that have been found to be unsafe, or are suspected to be unsafe. Consumer reports will give you two:

- Quorn, which has credibly caused one asthma attack in 20 years

- Trans fats, which the FDA ruled weren't GRAS in 2015

The Environmental Working Group came up with three more:

- Propylparaben, which has shown to disrupt endocrine systems

- BHA, which people have been complaining about for longer than they've been complaining about aspartame

- BHT, which has been heavily studied with inconclusive results

Meanwhile:

That 2014 spike? Here he is:

My wife was teaching vaccine safety classes in LA at the time. Big ol' enclaves of unvaccinated kids in Malibu and Ventura. Buncha women surrounded by their friends who all shopped Whole Foods and knew vaccines were unsafe because Robert Kennedy told them so. I used to have to talk to Larry Cook weekly. Why were there 130 cases of measles in California in 2014? RFK. Full stop. Ask them and they'll tell you.

But sure. Hooray for reviewing GRAS rules. Except the FDA was already doing that. That table is linked in an August 8 2024 article from NYU Law. GRAS guidelines have been under review since March 2024.

So why talk about it now?

So that people who hope RFK won't be a public health disaster have something to shout down people who know RFK already is a public health disaster. There's nothing complicated about this. It's how RFK has operated his entire career.