Here is a detail of the open letter to RFK Jr and his colleagues sent by policy experts disappointed by today's HHS policy direction, and consider the mRNA rulings a betrayal of campaign commitments:
"MAHA is not the possession of Secretary Kennedy, Commissioner Marty Makary, advisor Calley Means, or Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means. MAHA is the voice of millions of desperate parents, many with injured or deceased children. Those furious parents were active before any of you were in office, and their activism will outlast any administration. The MAHA vote, especially of independent moms, is an historic game-changer. Neither MAGA nor the Democrats could have won without this critical swing vote.
We ask you to deliver our actual policy goals in the near term....
1. Ban mRNA/gene therapy-derived technologies for all vaccines, due to definitively demonstrated abject failure regarding safety, efficacy and disease prevention in the real-world setting of over 4 years of deployment and billions of administered doses.
2. Terminate the PREP Act declaration for COVID injections, as there is no emergency.
Extension of this declaration, with its ironclad liability shield for manufacturers and administrators, serves no public health interest whatsoever.
3. Recommend that Congress repeal the PREP Act entirely, due to numerous Constitutional conflicts.
4. Ban pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, as is the case in every other country except New Zealand.
5. Review and revise current HHS level policies that create perverse incentives for healthcare providers for medical coercion, including but not limited to vaccinations.
6. End conflicts of interest at CDC, FDA, NIH and NIAID.
At 6:52 on a school morning, somewhere in your neighborhood, a ten-year-old is standing at the end of a driveway in the dark. His backpack weighs about a fifth of what he does. He ate breakfast in four bites. The bus is late again.
For a long time I thought of that kid as a scheduling problem. Early mornings, long days, a lot of sitting still. Then I sat down and did the math, and it stopped being about scheduling.
Over thirteen years, that boy will hand roughly 16,000 hours to a building. Homeschooling gives most of them back.
Robert Bortins
"In the words of Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, the midterms were ‘an extinction-level event’ for the Republican party."
British academic Matt Goodwin
American foreign policy must consider not only the condition of allied nations today but also the direction or trajectory in which they are moving. European leadership restricting freedom of speech and banning entry to peaceful activists cannot be dismissed as purely domestic when it affects American citizens and raises questions about the values on which the transatlantic alliance rests.
Kristin Ziccarelli