259: MAHA is Project 2025’s Trojan Horse
We’ve been talking about RFK Jr for years, and even dedicated an entire chapter to him in our 2023 book—and we’re going to keep covering him. Since his power and influence has only grown, and since he’s now in charge of America’s entire health apparatus, there’s no way to avoid it.
This week we catch up on the last few months of MAHA. Derek looks into why he believes Kennedy’s apparatus, despite claims of being about health, is really a cover for Project 2025’s deregulatory agenda. Julian discusses a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Covid contrarians Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad, who now both work under Kennedy. Finally, Matthew will contemplate Kennedy’s crude remarks on autism through the lens of disability politics.
Show Notes
What Has All This Restaurant Food Done to My Gut?
Function Health is Another Theranosesque Scam
MAHA’s Goal Is Not Health: Robert Kennedy’s movement promises more privatization
RFK Jr. meets with health tech startups, most backed by Andreessen Horowitz
COVID infection no longer gives lasting immunity
Hybrid Immunity May Be the Key to Developing Better Vaccines
Makary, Bhattacharya in New England Journal of Medicine
Concerns About ABA-Based Intervention: An Evaluation and Recommendations - PMC
Adler-Bolton, Beatrice, and Artie Vierkant. 2022. Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto. Verso Books.
SURPLUS. Adler-Bolton, The New Inquiry. October 18, 2022.
Extractive Abandonment - Stimpunks Foundation
Social and medical models of disability and mental health: evolution and renewal - PMC
