Five Questions for Ex-NIH Official Who Says RFK Censored Him

Whether or not you’ve heard the name Kevin Hall, you most likely know about his work. It was Hall’s seminal study in 2019 that showed that consuming ultraprocessed foods like deli meat, white bread and canned refried beans led to weight gain compared with unprocessed foods like baked cod and steamed broccoli, even when the calories, macronutrients and other metrics were all exactly the same. Hall made headlines earlier this year when he resigned from the National Institutes of Health after, he says, the communications team under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to censor his ...