Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at Stanford University Medical School, says that American doctors should embrace the reform agenda of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the next presidential administration.

In an article for UnHerd, a nonpartisan website that aims to “test and retest assumptions, without fear or favor,” Bhattacharya wrote that critics of Kennedy focus too much on his belief in conspiracy theories. They fail to recognize his vows to bring together top experts to end the United States’ chronic disease epidemic and clean up perceived corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

The Stanford professor, who previously wrote for Newsweek that our collective response to the COVID-19 pandemic constituted “history’s biggest public health mistake,” said that Kennedy can be a “mirror” for medical officials who deny their own culpability in those COVID statistics.