Donald Trump announced that Robert Kennedy Jr. is his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and he’s getting support from unusual quarters.

Kennedy has no background in medical science and is known for his wacky, anti-scientific approach to health, which includes opposition to vaccines and sunscreen, health interventions that have saved millions of lives. Kennedy himself has a history of poor health, which included a parasitic brain worm that resulted in “mental fogginess and memory loss.”

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“Out country has a health pandemic, or epidemic even,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told reporters when asked about Trump’s intention to nominate Kennedy. Greene is an outspoken opponent of vaccination. “I think he’s gonna do a great job. He’s gonna fire all the people that are responsible for the most atrocious things that have been, you know, regulated and put into law and forced on Americans.”

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She said that Kennedy will bring the U.S. to the “European standard,” even though European countries generally had more strict vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.