RFK Jr. calls FDA a 'sock puppet' for industries in private speech to agency staff

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at one point saying that the agency “became a sock puppet” for the industries it was meant to regulate.
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