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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “For 60 years, we've been waiting for the government to…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Discusses Chronic Disease, Environmental Toxins, and Autism Research

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

The word chronic disease was never mentioned. And so gathering. My uncle tried to do this in 1962 after Rachel Carson's book came out. And unfortunately, he was killed before that. For 60 years, we've been waiting for the government to recognize that there's a crisis in chemical exposures and the increase in chronic disease. This was important for that. But this was just the diagnostics. 60 days from now, we put out the prescription. So we will put out a series of policies to address this issue and to eliminate the chronic disease. (00:59–01:10)

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Asserts that the government has not recognized a crisis in chemical exposures and chronic disease for 60 years.

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