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I support the good work of a new organization, MAHA Action (Make America Healthy Again). They are medical people, other experts (like me), and citizens who support the efforts of the Secretary of DHHS, Kennedy. They now have a weekly meeting (with several speakers) on Wednesday afternoon, for an hour or so. Here is a notice. Feel free to join if this is of interest to you.

I’ve volunteered to speak. If they say yes, this is what I was planning on saying:

I’m a scientist (a physicist), and would like to briefly touch on Science, which I believe needs to be discussed even more at the good MAHA meetings. This is quite relevant as ultimately, our healthcare successes and failures start with how well we adhere to real Science. I have just a few minutes of time today, so I will just give you some highlight points to reflect on. I’ll be glad to come back again and expand on them.

#1: Although the public strongly supports Science, some 97%± of the public doesn’t understand what Science actually is. This dichotomy means that this is a wide-open opportunity for self-serving parties to easily fool the public. All they have to do is to claim that what they are doing is “based on Science,” and 97% will not be the wiser… It’s important to note that citizens do not have to be scientists to be Critical Thinkers — and Critical Thinking is by far our best defense against any scam.

#2: The definition of Science is that it is a PROCESS. (At a recent meeting, Dr. Malone insightfully said that Science is a VERB. Yes!) The point of the process is to help us discover the Truths of our world. FYI, the most time-tested Science process is the Scientific Method.

A favorite tactic of snake oil salespeople is to substitute Political Science for Real Science. A key difference is that political science has nothing to do with the Scientific Method. Again, they make this substitution as 97% of the public will not be aware of the deception. Today, almost everything we hear the media proclaims to be “Science” is actually political science. Think Climate Change, our energy options, COVID policies, etc. Critical Thinkers are not taken in by the political science ruse.

#3: Another major strategy employed is to conflate Science and scientists to the public. They are not synonymous! Just like some priests are not holy people, and some lawyers are not law-abiding citizens, a large number of scientists (due to greed, political agendas, incompetence, etc.) have knowingly abandoned the principles of Science.

#4: Why are there more derelict scientists than priests or lawyers? Because there are no serious consequences for acting contrary to the standards of Science! If a priest acts counter to his vows, he can be defrocked. If a lawyer acts illegally, they can be disbarred. If a scientist goes afield, there is not only no punishment, but they are often rewarded by being employed by or given grants from like-minded parties.

#5: As a physicist, I am used to dealing with complicated matters, but I firmly believe that the simple route can frequently be the way to go. For example, regarding COVID, the public should have been told that they would be better off if they did such elementary things as strengthen their immune system, and took Vitamin D — which are actually Science-based. I never heard those words from Dr. Fauci or Dr. Birx.

#6: Surprisingly, I have not heard anyone discuss the Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs). Bobby needs to fix the EUA process ASAP. Rather than analyzing injections, the problem is easier to understand by looking at treatments. E.g., Remdesivir got an EUA (with Scientific studies concluding that its effectiveness is -1%) while Ivermectin was not granted an EUA (even though Scientific studies concluded that its effectiveness is over 60%). This is one of many damning indictments of the EUA process. The evidence indicates that the perversion of the EUA process has led to some 500,000 Americans unnecessarily dying during the COVID period. This is why I say that the EUA process warrants a LOT of attention, both from us and from RFKjr.

#7: As Calley Means repeatedly stated recently in prior meetings, our opponents play the long game. That means that they have no qualms about embarking on a project that might take 20 to 30 years to come to fruition. Since most of us do not think in those time frames, we often miss what they are doing, even when it is right out in the open.

#8: A prime example of this is what has been happening in our K-12 schools. American children are purposefully having their Science education sabotaged. For example, in 48 States, K-12 children are not being taught the traditional Scientific Method — which has been a key underpinning of Science for many centuries. This is happening with what is called the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

#9: Also, in 49 States, again via the NGSS, our children are being filled with progressive ideology in their Science classes.

#10: Worse, in 49 States, our children are purposefully being taught to NOT be Critical Thinkers, again under the NGSS guise of Science. This is being communicated by indoctrinating them with such ideas as: defer to experts, accept consensus views, go along with computer projections, etc. Note that this is exactly what these self-serving parties want US citizens to do when dealing with healthcare matters: go along with what you’re told and don’t ask any questions.

#11: Consider this number: 4 Million. That’s how many annual US high school graduates there are. A good estimate is that today, at least 3 Million of them are lemmings (i.e., NOT Critical Thinkers), who are also heavily propagandized with progressive ideology. What happens in relatively short order is that most of these will become voting citizens. Due to this pernicious long-term plan (that almost no one is doing anything meaningful about), they will soon become the majority of American voters.

#12: Lastly, if we do not fix this K-12 Science debacle quickly, the results will be catastrophic and irreversible.

So, my plea is that citizens need to do more Critical Thinking, pay more attention to what is real Science, and speak up about how Science is being taught in our K-12 education system — which is a disaster.

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‘Extinction-Level’: MAHA Warns Pesticide Immunity Provision Could Mirror Anger-Inducing Bill From 1980s

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Critics are sounding the alarm over a provision in a House appropriations bill they say could shield pesticide manufacturers from legal liability — drawing comparisons to the 1986 law that granted similar protections to vaccine makers.

The rule, tucked into Section 453 of the House’s Fiscal Year 2026 Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, has sparked backlash from supporters of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. They argue it could mirror the fallout of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which created a no-fault system protecting vaccine producers from injury lawsuits.

“If you don’t like what happened with vaccine indemnification, you’re really not gonna like what happens with pesticide and herbicide indemnification,” Dr. Robert Malone, a prominent and longtime critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, said in a July 24 video.

“If you aren’t mad now, you damn well should be,” Malone, who currently sits on the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), added.

Kennedy himself acknowledged the follies of the 1986 Vaccine Act in an X post.

“The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries,” he tweeted Wednesday in a scathing criticism of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program created by Congress in conjunction with the Vaccine Act.

However, despite the popular uproar, Kennedy Jr. has yet to publicly comment on Section 453.

The lack of coverage from MAHA reformers within the government has invoked sharp criticism.

“You get that Section 453 of the new Appropriations Bill — that would shield pesticide manufacturers from liability in U.S. courts — will undo ALL of the good from the MAHA healthy food campaign, right? Yet MAHA insiders haven’t said a word of protest. Makes you wonder,” Toby Rogers, Ph.D. and fellow at Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, tweeted Wednesday.

Rogers did not lay the entirety of the blame at Kennedy Jr.’s feet, however.

“Secretary Kennedy understands that we need systemic change in order to improve the health of all Americans. We need to clean up our industrial food system to get rid of toxic chemicals and heal the soil, he told the Daily Caller.

“Unfortunately, in this administration, Secretary Kennedy has been siloed into working on just a few parts of the health system. That’s not going to work. The entire system is poisoning us and Section 453 will wipe out all of the good that MAHA has done in connection with food thus far,” Rogers also told the Caller.

He spoke of 453 in biblical terms.

“Section 453 + the 1986 Act are an extinction level event for the U.S. Together they represent the largest self-inflicted mass poisoning in human history. They reveal a level of depravity in our political system straight out of the Book of Revelations,” Rogers also tweeted.

Section 453, critics claim, would grant immunity to pesticide manufacturers from “failure to warn” lawsuits that consumers could file if chemicals within the pesticides and herbicides sicken them.

The text of the stipulation reads as follows:

“None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to issue or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from the conclusion of (a) a human health assessment performed pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act … or (b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.”

While a causal observer may view the bill text as mundane, Rogers argued it was that ambiguity precisely that made the language so dangerous.

“The bill was clearly written by lobbyists for the pesticide and chemical industries. They knew exactly how to word the rider to gut existing safety laws while hiding their true intentions. Once again Congress is working on behalf of toxic industries and against the interests of the American people,” he told the Caller.

Republican Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee as well as its environmental subcommittee, does not appear to believe Section 453 is as damning as the provision’s detractors.

“The provision does not address the substance of any health assessments and does not change current authority that States have to regulate the use and sale of pesticides within their own State,” a spokesperson for Simpson’s office told the Caller.

“The health and safety of Americans is a priority throughout our FY26 process,” the spokesperson added.

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Trump Taps MAHA-Favorite Doctor Casey Means To Replace Surgeon General Nominee

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President Donald Trump is nominating Dr. Casey Means for the position of surgeon general after pulling Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination, Trump announced on his Truth Social account Wednesday.

Means, a Stanford-educated doctor, co-authored a book on metabolic health with her brother Calley, who has become a fierce ally and public facing spokesman for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.

“Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans,” Trump wrote in his announcement.

Means focuses on using nutrition to restore metabolic function as a means of preventing chronic disease. She has made appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience, Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson’s podcast, and other alternative media programs.

She has been highly critical of the medical establishment, aiming criticisms at even her own Stanford education.

“I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate the root causes of why American health is plummeting,” Means said in 2024.

Means, who graduated Stanford Medical School with her Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2014. She left her residency at Oregon Health and Science University in her fifth year “to focus on the real root causes of why Americans are so sick,” she wrote in her LinkedIn.

Trump’s former pick, Nesheiwat, a family doctor and former Fox News contributor, was scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for her confirmation hearing Thursday.

Nesheiwat was blasted by Trump supporters shortly after her nomination for past comments about the Covid-19 pandemic, including praising Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg for censoring individuals who questioned vaccine effectiveness and supporting mask mandates.

Her record came under fire again in April after writer Anthony Clark accused her of lying about where she went to medical school.

Nesheiwat, Clark claimed, received her medical degree not from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as she claimed, but from American University of the Caribbean.

Clark provided an alleged screenshot of Nesheiwat’s LinkedIn profile which said that she got her Doctorate of Medicine from UAMS. Nesheiwat also claims to be a medical alum of UAMS in her X profile and Trump touted her alleged credentials in his statement announcing her nomination in November 2024.

Since Clark posted his accusations on April 20, Nesheiwat updated her LinkedIn profile to show that her MD came from the American University of the Caribbean.

A screenshot of Janet Nesheiwat’s LinkedIn profile showing her education history. 5/7/2025.

Nesheiwat may still be offered a different role in the Trump administration, as Trump wrote that he looked forward to seeing her work with Secretary Kennedy somewhere else in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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Robert McGreevy

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Trump Has Made Conservatism ‘Hot’ Again—I Found Out for Myself at the Latest D.C. MAGA Social

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Welcome to the Golden Age, where being conservative is trending, and for more reasons than their commonsense politics.

I attended the latest “cool kids” social at Butterworth’s, MAGA’s well-known hangout spot in Washington, D.C.

On Thursday night, The Conservateur brought its famous “Make America Hot Again” social to the district—this time calling it “America Is Hot Again.” After all, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are back in the White House.

The Conservateur, a conservative lifestyle brand inspired by “America’s quintessential style and traditions,” was founded in 2020 by Jayme Franklin and Isabelle Redfield. Recent college graduates at the time, Franklin and Redfield wanted a brand that would serve and represent conservative women.

“Young women of traditional inclination need a place to go for inspiration, aspiration, and light, and we’re proud to be that place,” said Caroline Downey, The Conservateur’s editor-in-chief.

Upon entering the sold-out event, I was met with wall-to-wall conservatives—Hill and White House staffers, influencers like CJ Pearson and Link Lauren, and reporters from The New York Times and The Boston Globe who wanted to cover the movement that has taken the country by storm.

Attendees were dressed to the nines in their chic blazers, stiletto heels, and bright pink “Make America Hot Again” hats, designed by The Conservateur as a nod to the historic MAGA hat. If you were lucky enough to make it through the crowd to the bar, you could enjoy themed drinks like “The Conservateur,” “Appeal to Heaven,” “J’adore Cowboy,” and “God & Country,” a unique touch that tied the theme together.

“This was one of the coolest events—not just that we’ve ever had at Butterworth’s—but that I’ve seen on Capitol Hill or in D.C. in an extremely long time,” Butterworth’s co-owner Raheem Kassam said.

This glamorous party for young conservatives is not the first of its kind.

Pearson, conservative influencer and personality, hosted an earlier inauguration weekend party in D.C. that was bashed by New York Magazine for its “casually cruel Trumpers” who craved “cultural domination.” As an attendee of the event—and an American during the four years of the Biden administration—I would say our celebration was more than justified.

“To see so many smart, aesthetically-minded women coming together to celebrate a new Golden Age was heartwarming and bodes incredibly well for the future,” Kassam says.

“We are standing up for God first and foremost, for family, motherhood, marriage, and our country—the greatest nation that’s ever existed. We stand for everything that is true and beautiful,” said Franklin, the co-founder.

“Most of all, we are the antithesis of feminism—an ideology that worships the self, destroys the family unit, and leads to a life of misery, resentment, and loneliness,” she added.

Butterworth’s, located on Pennsylvania Avenue, has become one of the go-to spots for conservatives despite opening just recently, in October 2024, only a month before the reelection of Trump.

Kassam, who is also editor-in-chief at The National Pulse, co-owns the spot with Bart Hutchins, the chef running the day-to-day operations, and Alex Butterworth, the restaurant’s biggest investor.

“What the ladies at The Conservateur have done especially as volunteers, in a few short years, is nothing short of remarkable,” Kassam said. “More power (and caviar) to them.”

You are living in the Golden Age, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s raise a glass—to America, to conservatism, and to making America hot again.

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Georgia Bill Sparks MAHA Concerns About Alleged Chinese Poison Chemicals

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MAHA advocates are warning about a bill Georgia lawmakers passed in March that they allege would allow manufacturers of pesticides to escape liability for poisoning customers.

Senate Bill 144 would make it so “that a manufacturer cannot be held liable for failing to warn consumers of health risks above those required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with respect to pesticides.”

Environmentalists and regenerative farming advocates warn that the bill would be detrimental to public health.

“Stripping our right to be able to sue if we have a different opinion than what the EPA has is really going to be catastrophic for public health, because then we have no recourse whatsoever,” Kelly Ryerson, the founder of American Regenerative and Glyphosate Facts, told the Daily Caller. Ryerson, a Stanford University MBA, has a certificate in public health policy from Stanford Business School.

The bill’s primary sponsor, Republican Georgia State Sen. Sam Watson, pushed back on the idea that the bill would prevent Americans from being able to sue manufacturers.

“It’s dealing with failure to warn, it’s not providing immunity,” Sen. Watson told the Caller. “It’s not preventing anyone to go after [manufacturers] because they thought that a product caused cancer. You can still do that, you just can’t do it for failure to warn of it causing cancer.”

Manufacturers that would be covered under Georgia’s bill include Bayer, who owns Monsanto, the maker of RoundUp. A Georgia jury is fresh off awarding a plaintiff over $2 billion in a judgement against Bayer after he blamed RoundUp for his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a lawsuit.

RoundUp’s active ingredient is glyphosate, the most commonly used pesticide in the United States. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said glyphosate likely causes cancer in 2015, labelling it as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”

“It says it’s likely and we saw that same report. It doesn’t say it does. It says that it suggests or it may be or probably or could cause,” Sen. Watson told the Caller.

The EPA reached a different conclusion. After a February 2020 review, the agency found “that there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label,” according to its website.

The IARC was accused of manipulating their data in 2017. A draft document of IARC’s 2015 study was unearthed and, according to Reuters, showed the agency dismissed and edited out conclusions contrary to their final report.

Watson claimed that the study which the IARC based its carcinogenic conclusion on also found a number of other common American lifestyle choices increased the risk of cancer.

“If you’ll keep reading in that study it also says that red meat is carcinogenic and night shift work is carcinogenic and a lot of other things that people do are carcinogenic. So, I mean, you need to read the whole study because one studies shift and dictate,” Watson told the Caller.

While the EPA did not concur with the IARC’s conclusion that glyphosate is a carcinogen, Ryerson alleged that the research they based that conclusion on was manipulated by Bayer/Monsanto.

Wisner Baum, a law firm which Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once worked for, published a trove of documents that appeared to implicate Monsanto in ghostwriting a number of reports on glyphosate’s toxicity.

One email published by the firm allegedly shows that Monsanto commissioned scientist David Saltmiras and former Monsanto consultant Larry Keir to recruit respected names to write a review of glyphosate’s toxicity. “[E]ven though we feel confident that glyphosate is not genotoxic, this became a very difficult story to tell given all the complicated ‘noise’ out there,” the correspondence reads.

Keir’s name appears on the review that was eventually published, according to the documents obtained by Wisner Baum.

Other manufacturers that could benefit from the limited liability include Chinese chemical manufacturers. When ChemChina, a Chinese state-controlled chemical manufacturer, bought Swiss AgTech company Syngenta for $43 billion in 2017, it was forced by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to divest its rights to the company’s paraquat chemical business in the U.S. to an American firm.

However, China is still the primary producer of paraquat used in the U.S. while America is the world’s biggest importer, according to global shipping tracker Volza. The U.S. imports from 4,000 to 5,000 tons of the product annually, making up over 10 percent of China’s export supply, according to agropages.com

Like glyphosate, the EPA found “no dietary risks of concern associated with paraquat when it is used according to the label.” But others have called it “the deadliest chemical in US agriculture.”

National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies have linked the chemical to Parkinson’s disease, finding that people who used paraquat were 2.5 times more likely to develop Parkinson’s. Over 50 countries have banned its use, including China.

Sen. Watson, a vegetable farmer who uses RoundUp himself, argued it’s China’s very stranglehold over the paraquat market that makes SB 144 so necessary.

“If the Chinese become the only manufacturer of a product, you can’t go after them. It’s very difficult to go after a Chinese manufacturer for any kind of negligence claim,” he told the Caller.

“So I feel like they’re already protected, which makes it even more important to keep manufacturers in the United States because those are the ones that we can have recourse if they here in the United States.”

Ryerson disagreed. “I actually don’t care who manufactures it,” she said. “I just don’t want it anywhere in our system.”

Additionally, 99 percent of glyphosate used in the U.S. originated from China in 2024, according to a Farm Business Network survey.

The bill now sits on Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for him to sign. “Our office has 40 days following the last day of the legislative session to conduct a thorough review of legislation that received final passage by the Georgia General Assembly. We will make an announcement upon the conclusion of that review process,” a spokesperson for Kemp’s office told the Caller.

Georgia’s legislative session ended April 4, giving the governor until May 14 to make a decision.

The bill represents a test of power for RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition. Self-proclaimed “MAHA moms” have been lobbying hard against its passage, imploring Kemp not to sign it. RFK, who tried and won cases on behalf of Monsanto victims in his past life as an attorney, has yet to publicly comment on the bill.

The Daily Caller reached out to HHS to get Secretary Kennedy’s thoughts on the bill but did not receive a response.

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Trump Gives RFK New Assignment Leading ‘MAHA Commission’ Hours After Senate Confirmation

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WATCH: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. statement

The Trump administration is kicking off the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. era with a massive new health commission, according to a Thursday evening White House press release.

Just hours after the Senate confirmed Kennedy Jr. as the next HHS Secretary, the White House announced the Make America Healthy Again Commission.

The Commission is a sprawling new initiative which will, among other things, address America’s chronic disease epidemic and ending childhood chronic illness.

“American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years.  This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population,” the press release read. The release also noted that six out of 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease and four out of 10 have at least two.

The announcement emphasized making a shift in the way Americans view their health. “This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety,” the release read.

The sprawling commission will be chaired by Kennedy Jr. as the HHS Secretary and co-chaired by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Other members of the commission will include the Education Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the FDA Commissioner and at least 10 other cabinet members and senior officials.

The initial mission of the commission, according to the readout, will be to study and combat childhood disease. Within 100 days, the commission will present to Trump a report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues.

The sweeping commission follows a turbulent Senate confirmation process for Kennedy Jr., who Trump awarded the HHS nomination to after Kennedy dropped his upstart independent presidential bid to back Trump. The language of the press release was rife with many of Kennedy’s key campaign catch phrases and platforms.

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‘People Will Be Outraged’: MAHA Advocates Tell Senators To Think Twice Before Opposing RFK Jr.’s Nomination

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Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea of tanking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination: opposition won’t go unnoticed among the American public.

Though Kennedy’s nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary is drawing fierce resistance from the medical establishment and corporate media, the former independent presidential candidate has a legion of supporters willing to go to the mat to secure his confirmation. MAHA advocates believe that Kennedy is uniquely positioned to help the president-elect usher in a “golden age in health” during the next four years.

MAHA advocates are also prepared to scrutinize senators who oppose Kennedy for any ties to Big Pharma and other corporate interests, according to interviews conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation with several prominent Kennedy supporters.

“It would be outrageous for Republican or Democratic senators to vote no against RFK Jr.,” Zen Honeycutt, founding executive director of the medical freedom and health advocacy nonprofit, Moms Across America, told the DCNF in an interview. “It would be a huge step back in the wrong direction and people will be outraged.”

“It will be a clear sign that those senators [who vote no] are putting the special interests of Big Pharma before the health of the American people,” Honeycutt added. “What Kennedy is asking for is to have safer food and vaccines. How can you be against that?”

Heading Into January With Notable GOP Allies

Kennedy met with more than a dozen GOP senators on Capitol Hill in December during which the life-long Democrat appeared to win the support of several social conservatives, including Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, by committing to uphold pro-life Health and Human Services (HHS) policies that Trump pushed during his first term.

Senate Republicans also appear to be embracing many of the food and health policy issues raised by MAHA advocates as a considerable number of the GOP conference rallies behind Kennedy’s nomination.

On Dec. 19, Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall announced the creation of the Senate MAHA Caucus, which promises to “work with RFK Jr. to be the legislative force that ensures the key pillars of MAHA are executed.”

Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming are founding members of the Senate MAHA caucus.

No GOP senator has yet to oppose Kennedy’s nomination, but Republicans seen as more willing to cross Trump, including Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are noncommittal.

‘Trying Desperately To Derail’ Kennedy

Long experiencing contempt from corporate media over their advocacy, MAHA advocates are tuning out outlets’ coverage of Kennedy’s nomination and hoping that senators are as well.

“They have not been reporting accurately on vaccine safety or on the pesticides in our food. They’ve been putting their ad dollars — from Big Pharma to Big Ag — before the health and safety of Americans,” Honeycutt told the DCNF. “We see through that. Mainstream media does not tell us hardly anything that is truthful.”

McConnell issued a veiled threat to Kennedy to distance himself from efforts to probe the safety of vaccines following the release of a misleading New York Times exposé on Dec. 13 alleging that Aaron Siri, one of Kennedy’s lawyers, asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an independent agency under the HHS, to “revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.”

“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts,” McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement on Dec. 14.

But the New York Times’ story was “categorically false,” according to Siri, because his petition only sought to have the FDA conduct another clinical trial of one of the six polio vaccines licensed in the United States to ensure its safety when administered to children, Siri told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson during an interview in December.

“Even if this petition was granted, there is not a single child or adult in America that would not have had access to a polio vaccine,” Siri told Carlson. “That is what makes the New York Times headlines absolutely false. They knew it was false. They intended for the country to be deceived because they’re trying desperately to derail Mr. Kennedy’s nomination.”

MAHA advocates believe that Kennedy’s prior statements advocating for subjecting vaccines to further scientific study is a position most Americans would support.

“Bobby Kennedy has said one thing consistently, which is pharmaceutical products should be subjected to science,” Calley Means, a prominent MAHA advocate and co-author of the best-selling book, Good Energy, told the DCNF. “The president’s directive is to figure out why kids are getting sick, why kids are getting autism. And that includes resetting research to answering that question.”

“I don’t think any American disagrees with the idea that pharmaceutical products should be continually studied,” Means added.

‘There Will Be A Huge Backlash’

Refusing to confirm Kennedy could be seen as senators turning their backs on the millions of Americans who support the MAHA agenda and helped send Trump back to the White House to enact the food and health policies that Kennedy’s campaign helped push into the limelight, according to several Kennedy supporters.

“If RFK Jr. does not get Senate approval, I think there will be a huge backlash,” Valerie Smith, a metabolic health coach and Kennedy supporter, told the DCNF in an interview. “The millions of votes that went to Trump getting re-elected are the same people that are going to be very vocal if RFK Jr. doesn’t get in there [HHS].”

GOP senators voting no on Kennedy’s confirmation could also be viewed as alienating the nontraditional Republican constituencies, such as MAHA advocates, that Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign was able to successfully court and bring into the party’s fold.

“I believe moms are a major part of why Trump won and a major reason for that is because he had the wisdom to bring on Kennedy,” Honeycutt told the DCNF. “The fact that Trump used the words pesticides, autism, chronic illness and cancer on a presidential platform — that moment was historic.”

“Finally, somebody has heard us, and we don’t care which party they come from,” Honeycutt added. “Our kids with autism, with autoimmune issues, with asthma, with allergies — finally, they have a champion and somebody that’s standing up and speaking up for us.”

But MAHA advocates are aware that the reason Kennedy may appeal to so many Americans — his independence from and history of taking corporate interests — is exactly why he may face hurdles along the way to his Senate confirmation, several Kennedy supporters told the DCNF.

“He’s a threat to this massive amount of profit that’s gone unregulated up until now,” Smith told the DCNF. “He’s coming up against some very powerful lobbyists and massive amounts of money. I just hope and pray he can overcome them.”

“He isn’t captured by any industry or corporation, so he’s free to do what’s right by the American people, not what’s in the best interest of corporations,” Courtney Swan, an integrative nutritionist and host of the health and wellness podcast, Realfoodology, told the DCNF.

‘Bipartisan Issue Of Our Time’

MAHA advocates are holding out hope that Democratic lawmakers, already embracing parts of Kennedy’s agenda, will also support the prospective HHS secretary’s confirmation.

“Making America Healthy [Again] is the bipartisan issue of our time, Means told the DCNF. “If you closed your eyes at a Trump-RFK rally, you wouldn’t know which party you were listening to.”

“Transparency, medical freedom, getting conflicts out of science — these are bipartisan issues that President Trump has led on, and it’s encouraging that leading Democrats have expressed support for the MAHA agenda,” Means added. “I’m optimistic they’ll support the unimpeachable bipartisan agenda that Bobby has espoused.”

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who have all complimented parts of Kennedy’s policy agenda, have left open the possibility they could vote in favor of Kennedy’s confirmation to lead HHS.

“I think what he is saying about the food industry is exactly correct,” Sanders said told CBS News during an interview on Dec. 5 during which he also expressed concern about Kennedy’s positions on water fluoridation and vaccines. “You have a food industry concerned about their profits, couldn’t care less about the health of the American people. I think they have to be taken on.”

A mutual understanding that the nation’s food supply is contributing to making Americans sicker could bring Republicans and Democrats together, according to several MAHA advocates.

“Americans have never been sicker, and they are sick and tired of being lied to and gaslit by the food industry and medical system,” Swan, who applauded Sanders’ commentary on the food industry, told the DCNF in a statement. “We are in this mess because we have allowed industry to take control of the narrative.”

“This needs to end and RFK Jr. is the only politician openly talking about wanting to change it,” Swan added. “We have a once in a lifetime opportunity for real change and for people to do the right thing.”

Senators across the political spectrum should take note of MAHA’s and Kennedy’s political ascendancy, Honeycutt told the DCNF.

“The most important issue before us today is health,” Honeycutt said. “Moms have been driving that issue for a very long time and we’re overjoyed that this new administration has heard us and is making health a primary issue.”

“We don’t care what party someone is from,” Honeycutt added. “If they are putting health first, they will have our support. And we want senators to remember that come election time.”

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