In late summer, #HHS instructed #CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health to prepare research about #WindFarms’ impact on fishing businesses…. #RFKJr has personally met with #NIOSH director John Howard about the issue & listed particular experts for Howard’s team to contact. The office of the #US #SurgeonGeneral has also been involved…, which HHS leadership…had aimed to have completed within a couple months.

#Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ClimateChange
https://archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/rfk-jr-orders-cdc-to-study-alleged-harms-of-offshore-wind-farms

An interesting opinion piece. #SurgeonGeneral #medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/casey-means-surgeon-general-nominee.html

The #Senate hearing for #Trump’s nominee for #SurgeonGeneral & #RFKJr ally, #CaseyMeans, postponed as she has gone into labor with her first child, according to a Senate Health, Education Labor and Pension Committee spokesperson and a person familiar with Means.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/health/casey-means-surgeon-general-hearing-delayed-labor?cid=ios_app

6 Former Surgeons General Across 6 Administrations Publicly Warn Of The Danger Of RFK Jr.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/14/6-former-surgeons-general-across-6-administrations-publicly-warn-of-the-danger-of-rfk-jr/

: #democrats #donaldthehoaxtrump #donaldtramp #eightysix47 #health #healthcare #presidenttramp #rfkjr #surgeongeneral #trumpstein #trumpsteincoverup #uspol #uspolitics :

6 Former Surgeons General Say RFK Jr. Is Endangering the Health of the Nation

https://murica.website/2025/10/6-former-surgeons-general-say-rfk-jr-is-endangering-the-health-of-the-nation/

#Loneliness #MentalHealth #PublicHealth #Science #Government #SurgeonGeneral #SocialIsolation #Wellbeing #HealthCrisis #wellnessweek #wellnessplanner #wellnessalthletic #wellnessaesthetic https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/115242665927020340

Classy!

How Trump's surgeon general pick uses her online following to make money
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/6/2326329/-How-Trump-s-surgeon-general-pick-uses-her-online-following-to-make-money

#CaseyMeans #SurgeonGeneral #MAGATrash #GOPTraitor #USPol

#CaseyMeans’ use of affiliate marketing & other methods of making money from her recommendations for supplements, medical tests & other health & dietary products raise questions about the extent to which she is influenced by a different set of #SpecialInterests: those of the #WellnessIndustry.

Means earned her MD from Stanford, but she dropped out of her residency program in Oregon in 2018, & her #license to practice is inactive.

#Trump #SurgeonGeneral #law #science #medicine #PublicHealth

Though scientists debate whether continuous glucose monitors are beneficial for people WITHOUT diabetes, US *#Health* Secy #RFKJr has promoted their use as a precursor to making certain weight-loss drugs available to patients.

The aspiring #Trump #SurgeonGeneral has built her own brand in part by criticizing #doctors, #scientists & government officials for being “bought off” or “corrupt” because of ties to industry.

#ConflictOfInterests #corruption #law #USpol #science #medicine #PublicHealth

The nomination, which comes amid a whirlwind of #Trump admin actions to dismantle the government’s #PublicIntegrity [legal depts charged w/combating #political #corruption] guardrails, also has raised questions about whether Levels, a company #CaseyMeans co-founded that sells subscriptions for devices that continuously monitor users’ glucose levels, could #profit from the admin’s health guidance & policy.

#SurgeonGeneral #ConflictOfInterests #hypocrisy #law #science #medicine #PublicHealth

Still, #legal & #ethics experts said those #business entanglements raise concerns about conflicting interests for a #SurgeonGeneral, a role responsible for giving Americans the best scientific information on how to improve their #health.

“I fear that she will be cultivating her next employers & her next sponsors or business partners while in office,” said Jeff Hauser, exec dir of Revolving Door Project, a progressive ethics watchdog monitoring #ExecutiveBranch appointees.

#law #PublicHealth

#CaseyMeans, 37, has said she recommends products that she has personally vetted & uses herself. She is far from the only online creator who doesn’t always follow federal #transparency rules that require #influencers to #disclose when they have a “material connection” to a product they promote.

#Trump #SurgeonGeneral #ConflictOfInterests #corruption #hypocrisy #law #USpol #science #medicine #PublicHealth

Yet as Dr. #CaseyMeans has criticized #scientists, #MedicalSchools & #regulators for taking money from the food & #pharmaceutical industries, she has promoted dozens of #health & wellness products—including specialty basil seed supplements, a blood testing service & a prepared meal delivery service—in ways that put money in her pocket.

#Trump #SurgeonGeneral #ConflictOfInterests #corruption #hypocrisy #law #USpol #science #medicine #PublicHealth

#Trump's #SurgeonGeneral pick criticizes others' conflicts but #profits from *wellness* product sales

Trump’s pick to be the next US Surgeon General has repeatedly said the nation’s #medical, #health & #food systems are corrupted by #SpecialInterests & people out to make a #profit at the expense of Americans’ health.

#hypocrisy #law #USpol #PublicHealth #science #medicine
https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-trump-casey-means-affiliate-conflicts-8d8cb29defa07028dbd97fc24a72c474

Donald Trump has picked Casey Means as his nominee for surgeon general. But Means, whose alternative approaches have mentioned practices like ancestor shrines and full moon rituals, has drawn a firestorm of criticism from Trump’s Christian base.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/05/controversial-surgeon-general-nominee-accused-of-witchcraft-ties-they-may-be-true.html

#witchcraft #drcaseymeans #healthandhumanservicessecretary #maha #SurgeonGeneral #wicca #pagan

Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general – AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is tapping Dr. Casey Means, a physician-turned-wellness influencer with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as his nominee for surgeon general after withdrawing his initial pick for the influential health post.

Trump said in a social media post Wednesday that Means has “impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials” – referring to the “ Make America Healthy Again ” slogan – and that she will work to eradicate chronic disease and improve the health and well-being of Americans.

“Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump said. “Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History.”

In doing so, Trump withdrew former Fox News medical contributor Janette Nesheiwat from consideration for the job, marking at least the second health-related pick from Trump to be pulled from Senate consideration. Nesheiwat had been scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday for her confirmation hearing.

Trump is nominating Casey Means after withdrawing his initial pick for the influential health post.

Editor’s Note: Featured image by WP AI.

Read more: Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general – AP News

Source Links: Donald Trump taps wellness influencer close to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for surgeon general

#AP #APNews #AssociatedPress #CaseyMeans #RobertFKennedy #SurgeonGeneral #Trump #wellnessInfluencer

“Let’s not kid ourselves, people who held eugenicist beliefs have always existed. Covid simply gave them permission to publicly express them. We went from being all in it together to sacrificing the elderly and the disabled because people wanted to ‘go back to normal’.”

My latest tells the story of my experience down the “wellness” rabbit hole after losing my Mom to cancer and nearly losing my life to medical neglect.

I genuinely believed that I could “cure myself”. When it became clear that wasn’t the case, my wellness friends abandoned me.

Told me I hadn’t tried hard enough. That I wanted to be sick. That I was “bad” for relying on medicinal and traditional medical care.

That experience shook me to my core. It exposed the eugenics beneath the false claims of caring.

It’s also why I believe Casey Means is exceedingly dangerous to the disability and chronic illness community.

They’re setting the stage to lay all blame on those who are sick, despite making policy decisions that create more illness in the first place.

It’s eugenics and it’s ramping up:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-the-new-surgeon-general-pick

#uspoli #fascism #eugenics #ableism #surgeongeneral #caseymeans #wellness #disability #chronicillness

"Wellness" is eugenics adjacent, and not about health. It's about blaming disabled & chronically ill people for being sick.

It's about selling the comfortable lie that you can avoid disability through diet and exercise.

It's about disappearing those of us who challenge that narrative.

My latest:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-the-new-surgeon-general-pick

#uspoli #surgeongeneral #fascism #eugenics #wellness #caseymeans #ableism #disability #chronicillness

Former #SurgeonGeneral Richard Carmona on #Trump's nominee for his old job: "Leadership in the Public Health Service must remain merit-based and above politics. Appointing a nominee who lacks the credentials expected of even entry-level officers in the corps threatens the credibility of this proud institution."
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5295964-i-was-surgeon-general-and-trumps-nominee-is-not-fit-to-be-surgeon-general/

#PublicHealth