With outbreaks of bird flu on farms, Human Health and Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has a suggestion to fight the flu: let it spread.

Kennedy Jr. proposed a novel fix to the nation’s bird flu epidemic: Let the virus spread. “They should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flocks so that we can identify the birds,

The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.