Qualifications: served as a lawyer for an environmental nonprofit. 

Disqualifications: Not a doctor; has never managed a large bureaucracy. Made a failed bid for the GOP presidency.

Views: RFK Jr. evolved from a health-conscious environmental lawyer to a committed libertarian. He believes US health and regulatory agencies are primarily fronts for profiteering pharmaceutical companies. He is a notorious anti-science, anti-vaxxer who once claimed Covid-19 was targeted to attack Whites and Blacks and spare Jewish and Chinese people. He’s stated that chemicals in the environment make people gay and trans, and that Wi-Fi causes “leaky brain” – unproven quackery. A recovered Catholic, former addict, and serial womanizer, Kennedy has publicly embraced the Bible as his north star. 

On a positive note, Kennedy is concerned about processed foods, and supports nutritional supplementation. But by categorically rejecting evidence-based science about, for example, the tried-but-disproven off-label use of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid, or mega-vitamin supplementation to boost specific immune defenses to Covid, he is harming the field of complementary medicine, say critics. As HHS head, he plans to remove fluoride from the US water supply and fire 600 NIH employees.