Donald Trump is expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to reports.

The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

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Kennedy junior is not remotely qualified for the role,” said Dr Peter Lurie, president of the Centre for Science in Public Interest, a public-health watchdog, in a statement, adding that “nominating an anti-vaxxer like Kennedy to HHS is like putting a Flat Earther at the head of NASA .

CNN’s Jake Tapper turned to gallows humor when talking about Donald Trump’s tapping of anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Well America,

Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has promised sweeping changes to food and drug regulation and government-funded scientific research.