Stephen Mihm, Columnist

Think RFK Jr.’s Vitamin Crusade Is All MAGA? Think Again

Sounds a lot like the 19th century.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who once said that he’s taken so many supplements that he “couldn’t even remember them all,” has pledged to end what he has described as the “war on vitamins.”

He has largely kept his word, placing supplement proponents in positions of authority and advocating for alternative treatments that have provoked outrage in the medical establishment. His suggestion that vitamin A can treat measles is most memorable.