Lobbying against Kennedy, they say, would probably be unsuccessful and counterproductive.Instead, they hope to find areas of engagement, looking to build a relationship that would allow them to find places to work with Kennedy and others who might fill the ranks of the new Trump administration.

One compares Kennedy being considered to “having somebody who doesn’t believe in gravity being the head of NASA.”

In a move guaranteed to alarm many, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of vaccines and other tenets of mainstream health care, to head the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).