Snake Oil and Tin Foil
Honolulu Civil Beat
February 4, 2025
A reaction to news that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is on track to be confirmed as the Trump Administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite his utter lack of qualifications and dangerous, conspiratorial thinking around health and healthcare. Hawaiʻi Governor Josh Green, a doctor and vocal opponent of RFK’s nomination, did his best to lobby U.S. senators on Capitol Hill, but it doesn’t seem to have been enough.