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Michelle R Smith

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Sep 15, 2026
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Jul 18, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Michelle R Smith

    US surgeon general nominee made $270,000 from supplement company (opens the original)

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    Tobacco investments raise new concerns about Dr Nicole Saphier ahead of confirmation hearing Donald Trump’s nominee for US surgeon general reported more than $200,000 in business income from a company she owns that sells dietary supplements, a loosely regulated industry that health and consumer advocates say raises concerns about her record and which some critics allege are akin to “snake oil”. Dr Nicole Saphier, who specializes in breast cancer as a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cance

  2. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Michelle R Smith

    Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report (opens the original)

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    Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during Senate confirmation hearings last year. Ron Wyden of Oregon said: “RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake. There are consequences for lying to C

  3. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Michelle R Smith

    RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate (opens the original)

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    Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’ Newly obtained documents indicate that the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, lied during two congressional hearings last year, when he told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation that a 2019 visit to Samoa had “nothing to do with vaccines”. Letters obtained by the Guardian and the Associated Press contradict that testimony. In one he wrote to the Samoan prime minist

  4. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Michelle R Smith

    Medical researcher who touted Covid ‘cure’ and was hailed by Dr Oz under fire over ethics (opens the original)

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    New findings further call into question scientific judgment of current health leaders in the Trump administration A French researcher whose work was praised by Donald Trump and Dr Mehmet Oz during the Covid-19 pandemic published hundreds of papers with “substantial” ethical and legal concerns, according to a new analysis. An international team of scientists found concerns in 853 articles published by the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée Infection, or the IHU, hundreds more tha

  5. Article · Jul 18, 2026 · Michelle R Smith

    An Idaho mom charged with murder says vaccines killed her twins. Doctors say it’s not possible (opens the original)

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    Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr, still stands by Andrea Shaw after her indictment An Idaho mother charged with the first-degree murders of her 18-month-old twins has blamed their deaths on vaccines they received eight days before they died. But doctors who reviewed details about the case at the request of the Guardian say vaccines did not kill them. “This was not a close call,” said Dr Jake Scott, a clinical infectious disease physician at Stanford who

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