From "Has the MAHA Movement Given Up? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies promised public-health libertarianism. The idea couldn’t survive once they took power" (NYT)(gift link, because there's lots more at the link).
"Kennedy’s team of contrarians arrived in Washington already divided on some big questions: Were drugs overregulated or underregulated? Were vaccines rushed to market or too slow to get there? Did 'gold-standard science' require randomized controlled trials or just compelling anecdotal evidence...? Should we embrace medical miracles like GLP-1s...? Do chronic disease, disability rates and skyrocketing mental illness reveal a medical system designed not to cure people but to treat them for profit? Or were they projections of safetyist hysteria, the way liberals made meaning out of anxiety while dreaming of a world without risk?..."
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Maybe he should just pull on a dress and declare victory, like the last one did.
Trump’s a genius. If you’re agnostic on the subject of public health, why not hand the job to a jacked-up Democratic philanderer, then sit back and enjoy the spectacle?
Getting rid of the Faucis and career parasites heading government programs devouring taxpayer money is a success of "libertarianism". What the hell does the Surgeon General do anyway? It's been a joke ever since the guy in the admiral outfit came out of the shadows for the cameras and media attention.
They list all the non-existent department heads as if that’s a bad thing.
Suprised to see a negative take from the Times!!!
Surprised too.
MAHA is a grass-roots idea. The Bloomberg style, "ve have vays of making you healthy" is anti-American. Just talking about health, and getting Americans to question our foods and our pharmaceuticals, is a wonderful thing. A lot of the good in the Trump administration comes from a destabilization of government "solutions" and empowering people to take care of ourselves.
MAHA is a brilliant second-term strategy, in many ways more important than MAGA ever was.
Maybe he should just pull on a dress and declare victory, like the last one did.
…what I came to say. Maybe the twinks the Kamala people would have appointed can volunteer all their solutions on X?
When you read this story from one end to the other, it's relentless in its negativity. It's a wedge, in search of a crack. It should have been a clarion call of support for reform.
Meanwhile, whenever 'Junior is in front of a microphone, his take is always a positive one. Each sentence is providing an update, and showing progress. I've heard him say multiple times that what impresses him about this administration is the ownership people are taking of issues, of the sense of idealism that each person seems to carry within.
I am seeing stories now that the vaccine makers are going to be saying 'goodbye' to their fat-as-a-hog immunity from prosecution, going forward. That is a long overdue ending to a national disgrace that never should have been put in place without a short term sunset.
Aggie said, "It's relentless in its negativity."
Evergreen observation about the NYT. Yawn.
I saw junior standing with the people rounding up the biggest medical entitlement fraudsters. A small dent but a success, if only because the last administration was assisting in setting up the fraud. Bet NYT doesn’t have much to say about that…
As if I believe a damn thing the NYTimes “reports”.
" Do chronic disease, disability rates and skyrocketing mental illness reveal a medical system designed not to cure people but to treat them for profit?"
And while we're asking questions, where do all those bears go to take a shit, anyway?
Seriously… FUCK THE NYT!!!!!!!!!
Investigate the fraud committed around the country, you worthless pieces of excrement.
Happy 4th!!!
“At present, there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or of the Food and Drug Administration. There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease... no confirmed boss at the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research”
Yes, yes and yes. What would we do without experts (and assorted government liars, crooks, and parasites)?
RFK is an abject failure, as expected.
"Investigate the fraud committed around the country, you worthless pieces of excrement" ... says Iman unironically days after they exposed the Trump family billion dollar Presidential grift.
Journalism is the product of magical thinking. Articles aren't about what happened or what is happening but about what the journalists want to happen. There's a great pleasure in seeing shipwrecks everywhere and thinking oneself the only survivor of catastrophe and carnage, but MAHA may continue after the journalists have lost their jobs and lost all hope of getting another.
So I take it from this report that we were super healthy before 2024.
Food pyramid is gone. Drug prices are lower. Fauci may still go to jail. We don’t have a Surgeon General that can’t explain what a woman is. The is no longer billions of fraud lost due to mentioned agencies, nor spending on making bio weapons in hostile foreign countries. That’s a lot of win.
Who even knew we don't currently have a surgeon general and who the hell cares?
The headline is ignorant, because a “libertarian” system wouldn’t have layers of government bureaucrats dictating policy. The achievements above without those people is exactly what I would consider a libertarian system. So if that was RFK Jr’s promise, then he achieved it.
Eat more butter! Ahha. MAHA exists outside of the government and only needs a voice to awaken your inner MAHA.
And while we’re at it, F**K GAVIN NEWSCUM AS WELL…
https://x.com/ChefGruel/status/2072923763575058781
Bullshit, MAHA has given up. With the high food prices, that are a direct result of Donald J Trump's economic policy failures, US citizens can hardly afford groceries anymore. And with beef prices sky high and rising, more and more Americans are doing without the artery clogging delicacy.
“Evidence regarding the association between prenatal acetaminophen exposure and risk of autism in offspring remains inconsistent,” the study authors wrote. “One large Swedish cohort study reported a small but statistically significant increase in autism risk among children in a population-level analysis; however, the association was not observed in a sibling matched analysis, raising questions about residual confounding.”
From the article, the stats are equivocal but the bold quotes are very confident. It does not convince me, and then they sneak in quotes from the papers like above that are opposite their bold conclusions, I guess hoping no one will read them.
Leland listed some accomplishments.rfk jr is the most visible hhs secy I’ve ever seen, using his bully pulpit to push common sense health moves like daily exercise and ending the American love affair with highly processed foods. He has returned the childhood vaxx schedule to its sensible 1980s levels, and has exposed the long relationship of our health agencies with big pharma and big chem. Yes he’s been bucked at every turn, and every fb post I see with him has hordes of mean girls picking apart his every move as incompetent, as though the status quo over the last 50 years is something we should conserve. I don’t know how you can stand the relentless bullshit nyt.
According to the NYT, MAHA is a failure because it has not hired/promoted enough bureaucrats?
Did I get that right?
RFK is an abject failure, as expected.
I notice you have no specifics. And then changed the subject.
We all know (or should know) that the NYT delivers the talking points for Democrats, especially those in the media.
“ beef prices sky high and rising, more and more Americans are doing without the artery clogging delicacy.”
As intended by progressives in the Biden Administration.
What they said
What they actually did
Protein doesn’t clog arteries.
While grocery prices are up, I'm struck by how stable staples have been, except for beef. Milk, eggs, cheese and bread have not risen a lot. Flour and sugar are similar. Same with fresh fruits and veggies, chicken and pork. If you purchase processed foods like cereal, granola bars, crackers and fruit snacks, it's expensive. We had some bad habits I gave up bc it's too expensive. Better food for cheaper.
Oh no! Beef prices are "sky high and rising"! It's the end of the world! I've been forced to eat less beef and more lamb chops, bacon, pork belly, ham, and chicken cooked six different ways. Since all those things are (when cooked right, as I cook them) every bit as tasty as beef, and some of them (bacon!) even tastier, it is not in fact a serious problem, just a talking point for whiny lefties.
Aggie, there is some caution required here regarding:
"vaccine makers are going to be saying 'goodbye' ... immunity from prosecution"
That whole thing was, or at least had the possibility of being, a genuine attempt to solve the insurance problem. The core issue is that nothing is perfect, nothing in biology, metabolism, or medicine is 100% predictable. Systems like the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program have at least the possibility of being reasonable responses to risk situations, with all the pluses and minuses inherent to no fault insurance situations. Whether that is how it is working out, and whether that was genuine at the beginning or the whole thing has been a cover, is an entirely different question
"there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or of the Food and Drug Administration. There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease... no confirmed boss at the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research."
Somehow, the republic is still standing! Bravo!
BTW, I used to be a biotech/pharma researcher at company with an important anti-infective research program (not my field, though).
I remember when the viral liability and insurance regulations were enacted. It's easy to forget that the big worry in government and among public health professionals at the time was that vaccines have historically been so challenging from both the scientific and the business perspectives that most companies back then had dropped or were considering dropping their vaccine research programs. There was a real worry that in the event of a serious new virus, there would be no credible defense. Sure, in hindsight you can say that we didn't have a credible defense against COVID anywat, but the fear that sparked the regulatory changes back in the 90s and early 2000s was real, and it was driven at least as much by legitimate worries as by anyone's favorite conspiracy theories.
So, the US Senate refuses to confirm these department heads, and, it remains in pro-forma session to keep recess appointments from happening. Who is the villain here?
Concur with above comments from Kirk and Biff that many things can be true about the protection for pharmaceutical companies particularly with vaccinations and abuse of those protections. Back to the headline, if the goal was to be more libertarian about such policies, then it would be best for the government to remind the public of caveat emptor and stay out of the way or contrary to that policy; what government does best, manage large scale risks and mitigations that smaller entities couldn't handle.
All I really want from MAHA is encouragement to healthy living—eat better and get some exercise. But the govt’s been trying to do that since at least the Carter administration and Americans don’t care and won’t listen.
Oh well.
> Who is the villain here?
Orange Man Bad. Duh...
You know, your question shows yet again how the Constitution is only suitable for moral and religious people. Those who are dealing in bad faith can easily find a way around things.
I'm tempted to say that we need a constitutional amendment specifying that, if the Senate lacks a quorum for five consecutive business days, then it is no longer in session. But of course in our current environment such an amendment would never pass.
The left would do shots of Roundup if Trump and RFK wanted to get rid of it.
That is where the public debate is on MAHA.
"But of course in our current environment such an amendment would never pass."
"Government knows best." Doesn't matter what people want. See: California's Superintendent of Public Instruction election...
There's less government and fewer regulations, and NYT thinks the health libertarians have failed?
Disruption is sometimes necessary, but there is always a cost. Maybe in the long run the disruption will prove worth it, but so far there is too little success to balance it. In the end what will matter is not whether he had the right enemies, but how good his medical interventions were. So far, not much.
Are you telling me there's no surgeon general? The horror!
"Are you telling me there's no surgeon general? The horror!"
Not even a surgeon captain? Or private?
"There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease... no confirmed boss at the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research."
Is their absence being felt? Are the people that worked under the previous holders of these positions continuing on doing what they did before? Maybe we don't need them on a day-to-day basis.
Bobby Jr. Is just another rudderless opportunist seeking power. Only in the Trump administration would such an ambitious chaos agent have found such traction. Not only does Trump admit to surrounding himself with "stupid people because they make me feel better about myself," but he clearly scouts for controversial extremists just to distract from his own duplicitous ways.
Two words - Xavier Bacerra. Remember him? Super qualified with a long medical background (actually not qualified nor did he have a medical background) was appointed to the RFK, Jr. position under Biden. You remember him, right? For sure no one can forget Fauci. He fabricated so much Covid 19 information his name should be a verb. Lied under oath. Was given a pardon by Biden, because innocent people get "pre-pardoned". The New York Times doing what the DNC told them to do. Lie some more.
"Bobby Jr. Is just another rudderless opportunist seeking power."
Care to provide anything, anything at all, to back up this claim? Even the very negative article itself is saying he is powerless, rather than the usual ominous invocation of such statements as yours with regard to anything any member of the Trump administration does.
And also: IEE is SUCH a tool. I'm just out of patience.
Every minute you spend reading nonsense is a minute you can't spend reading something informative/thought provoking.
Just sayin'.
Gotta give RFK Jr props. He’s in great shape.
From CNBC via Stephen Green at Instapundit, demand for beef isn't dropping. (link to CNBC at his post)
**“We are seeing customer demand for steaks remain quite high, with a shift towards more premium and organic options,” a Kroger spokesperson told CNBC. “We’ve also seen beef continue to be a preferred choice during recent holidays, including Easter and Memorial Day.″**
To overturn the mindless tripe regarding ‘health’ that democrats have foisted on us takes a lot of time to undo the indoctrination.
The foisted heads of these departments ran as a dictatorship; RFKjr, I believe is forcing us to make the decision as to what to put in our bodes, rather than government.
"With the high food prices, that are a direct result of Donald J Trump's economic policy failures, US citizens can hardly afford groceries anymore."
Lies.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/food-inflation
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/food-inflation-in-the-united-states/
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth
https://www.atlantafed.org/research-and-data/data/wage-growth-tracker
Food price inflation is below median wage increases. Beef is an exception. People are not starving. Chicken and pork are relatively cheap. Eat up! Enjoy your Fourth!
Shorter NYT--"We're all going to die!!"
Remember how back in 2019 we all trusted the CDC, the NIH, and the FDA, and the "experts" and "public servants" they employed, to tell us the "truth" about matters relating to diet and health?
Gee, I wonder what happened?
Writers got to write, and negative gets more eyeballs, especially with the chronically concerned.
LOL!: Beef is "artery clogging." That's a prime example of 2023 think. Enjoy your skim milk, sucker!
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