RFK Jr. Questions Scientific Consensus on Skin's Efficacy in Congressional Testimony
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The Onion Staff
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Summary
RFK Jr., as Health and Human Services Secretary, publicly questions the efficacy of skin during Congressional testimony, dismissing decades of scientific research and claiming that knowledge about skin comes from corporate-funded studies. He positions himself as a 'membrane skeptic' and suggests skin is an unnecessary man-made layer covering musculature.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledEverything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh
In a firm dismissal of decades of scientific research and real-world data on the organ's benefits and safety
declaring that the ubiquity of skin in modern society is not evidence of its necessity
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