Listen to your doctor, not anybody else

In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America's health with his pseudoscience nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing.

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President Donald Trump, after all, has been focused lately on priorities such as militarizing America's streets and policing late-night talk show monologues. It wouldn't be surprising to learn RFK Jr., with his multi-pronged assault on mainstream medical science, was just being allowed to go off down his own rabbit hole while the boss was busy pursuing autocracy.

Alas, Trump himself demolished that hope on Monday in a joint news conference with Kennedy that medical professionals across the country are describing as an especially dangerous moment in this dangerous era of politicized science. Trump fully endorsed Kennedy's unsupported dogma linking acetaminophen to autism and described Kennedy as "the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics," according to the Tribune News Service.