‘Chemtrail’ Theories Warn of Health Risks from Breathing Smoke Idea Takes Wing at Kennedy’s HHS.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to investigate climate and weather control, an idea gaining traction as an updated development of a fringe theory linking aircraft vapor trails, or jets, to toxic substances that poison people.

Kennedy is expected to form a task force to recommend possible federal action, according to a former agency official Internal agency memorandum It was obtained by KFF Health News, and a consultant says he helped with the memo.

“The Department of Health and Human Services does not comment on future or potential policy decisions and task forces,” agency spokeswoman Emily Hilliard said via email.

The plans show how rumors and conspiracy theories can gain an air of legitimacy under the Trump administration, as researchers say unscientific ideas have extraordinary power to control and shape public health policy.

The concept assumes that jet vapor trails exist Really “chemtrails” Which is harmful to public health. Another version claims that planes or devices exist Which is published by the federal governmentOr private companies or researchers to cause significant changes in weather, such as hurricanes, or to change the Earth’s climate, emitting dangerous chemicals in the process.

The Department of Health and Human Services is expected to appoint a special government employee to investigate climate and weather control, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. gray delaney, Previous head One of the department’s agenda is “Making America Healthy Again.” He said he drafted the agency’s internal memo. Jim Lee, a blogger who focuses on weather and climate, said the Department of Health and Human Services interviewed applicants to lead the “Chemical Pathways” task force, which Delaney said helped write the memo, which Lee confirmed.

Delaney, who was He was ousted in August From the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy showed a strong interest in chemical compounds, Kennedy said. The memo claims that “volatile heavy metals such as aluminium, barium and strontium, as well as other substances such as sulfuric acid precursors, are being sprayed into the atmosphere under the auspices of combating global warming,” through a stratospheric aerosol injection process.

“It’s a very shocking note,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California. “They don’t get any more tinfoil hats. They really think they’re being sprayed with toxins.”

Deploying chemical drugs to poison people is just one of many baseless conspiracy theories that have found traction among health policy officials in the Trump administration led by Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist long before entering politics who espouses a range of such ideas.

In April, Kennedy was asked on “Dr. Phil Primetime” about chemicals being sprayed into the stratosphere to change the Earth’s climate. “This was done, we believe, by DARPA.” Kennedy said, Referring to a Department of Defense agency that develops emerging technology for military use. “And a lot of it is coming out of jet fuel now. This stuff is being put into jet fuel. I’m going to do everything I can to stop that. We’re bringing in someone who will only think about that.”

DARPA officials did not return a message seeking comment.

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