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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “I can commit that we are absolutely depoliticizing science.”

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

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Congressional Hearing: Diana DeGette Questions Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on NIH Grant Terminations and HHS Policies

Published | Video Starts at 03:36

Will you commit today that neither you or anyone else at HHS will take any retaliatory action against the brave scientists that work at nih? This would be an easy answer because it's illegal. I can commit that we are absolutely depoliticizing science. Will you commit. You will not take any Biden administration. Mr. Chairwoman, the Biden administration politicizes science. And I just. Okay, excuse me. I just gave you 3,000 examples of how they did that. (03:36–03:42)

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Asserts commitment to removing political influence from scientific processes.

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