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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jun 10, 2025, 02:54 PM Tuesday

Top RFK Jr. aide attacks US health system while running company that promotes wellness alternatives

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calley Means has built a following within the “Make America Healthy Again” movement by railing against the failings of the U.S. health system, often pinning the blame on one issue: corruption.

Means, a top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was hired as a White House adviser in March. He has used that perch to attack the nation’s leading physician groups, federal agencies and government scientists, claiming they only protect their own interests in the nation’s $4.9 trillion-a-year industry.

In recent interviews, speeches and podcasts he has called the American Medical Association “a pharma lobbying group,” labeled the Food and Drug Administration “a sock puppet of industry," and said federal health scientists have “overseen a record of utter failure.”

Means, however, has his own financial stake in the sprawling health system. He’s the co-founder of an online platform, Truemed, that offers dietary supplements, herbal remedies and other wellness products. Some of the vendors featured on Truemed’s website are supporters of Kennedy’s MAHA movement, which downplays the benefits of prescription drugs, vaccines and other rigorously tested medical products.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-rfk-jr-aide-attacks-130052455.html

Who needs vaccines when you have herbal remedies? Time to bring back blood lettings and leeches.

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RFKJr accuses the actual scientists and vax experts of "corruption" because HIS OWN friends ... CousinIT Tuesday #1

CousinIT

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1. RFKJr accuses the actual scientists and vax experts of "corruption" because HIS OWN friends ...
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 03:00 PM
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... are the source of it.

It's classic Republican hypocrisy ie: whatever they accuse others of, it's because they are guilty of it THEMSELVES.

There's corruption, alright. It's all coming from RFKjr and his friends in HHS

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