Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has expressed opposition to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS, two issues that critics say should give senators second thoughts about confirming him as Health and Human Services secretary.

Health and Human Services secretary is undoubtedly one of the most worrisome and consequential. Kennedy, who has vowed to “Make America Healthy Again,” is an infamous proponent of various alternative views about public health and food and drug safety,

In one of his most controversial Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Here, we summarize our past work fact-checking Kennedy's claims about health and science.