Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for an end to the public health practice of putting fluoride in water. Why it matters: If he's confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the new Trump administration,

Days before the election, Kennedy posted on social media that a Trump White House would advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from the public water supply, which goes against public health recommendations yet jibes with a large number of people who question the safety of fluoridating water.

A recent post on X by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to remove fluoride from America's public water systems under a Trump presidency, connecting it to conditions like arthritis, IQ loss, and bone cancer.

One compares Kennedy being considered to “having somebody who doesn’t believe in gravity being the head of NASA.”

Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated to be the next US health secretary, but some of his views are not backed by science.

Shares in European vaccine makers tumbled after President-elect Donald Trump picked vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Trump has selected vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the nation's top health care agency, which would give him power over food and drug regulation, Medicare and Medicaid policy,