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As Trump’s HHS pick, RFK Jr. stands to honor or squander the Kennedy legacy in cancer

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President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, placing the vaccine skeptic in charge of a vast empire of research, engineering, regulatory, and health care agencies.

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