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  1. Attn: all in the U.S.! Have you told your senators yet to oppose the latest quack nominated by #Trump to be #SurgeonGeneral? It takes just 2 minutes! Details here: defendpublichealth.org/campaig

  2. Trump's #MAHA pick for surgeon general flounders amid #GOP doubts

    President Trump's pick for surgeon general, #CaseyMeans , is in jeopardy, as at least four #Republican senators have expressed misgivings over her #medical qualifications, views on #vaccines , and some dubious advice she's given as a wellness #influencer , according to reporting from The Washington Post.
    #Trump #surgeongeneral #maga

    arstechnica.com/health/2026/03

  3. Casey Means dropped out of her residency program.

    She’s not a practicing physician.

    She’s a “wellness influencer”.

    She wants you to vibe your way to better health.

    She’s skeptical of birth control, Advil and vaccines.

    She’s not just unqualified, she’s dangerous.

    The wellness to eugenics pipeline is well documented:

    disabledginger.com/p/why-the-n

    #uspol #wellness #eugenics #ableism #disability #surgeongeneral

  4. Surprise, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, has nominated a kook to be surgeon-general of the US:
    "In one of her newsletters, Means once said, 'When it comes to a question like raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.' While this is perhaps not the best test for listeria anyone has ever come up with, I can honestly say that after trying to understand Casey Means’s integrity, looking her in the eye and (metaphorically) petting her cow, I would not feel safe with her as the Surgeon General of the United States." -- Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
    wonkette.com/p/surgeon-general
    #SurgeonGeneral #CaseyMeans #HealthInfluencer

  5. Casey Means, trump's nominee for Surgeon General, faced Senate's questions at her nomination hearing.
    Means has cast doubt on vaccines, birth control, and anti-depressants, rejecting evidence based research findings.
    Has been criticized for conflicts of interest. She's also a fan of magic mushrooms, spirit guides, and full moon ceremonies. Says that the US is sick "from a broken heart".
    #surgeongeneral
    #senate
    #maha
    #quack

    cnn.com/2026/02/25/health/case

  6. LIVE: Surgeon General nominee Casey Means testifies before Senate

    The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions holds a confirmation hearing for Casey Means, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general and an ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.   #SurgeonGeneral #CaseyMeans #Senate #ConfirmationHearing #Trump #PublicHealth #USPolitics #Healthcare #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:

    fllics.com/en/video/live-surge

  7. Casey Means is an MD who never finished a residency, and who does not have a current medical license in any state. She endorses drinking raw milk (if she can meet the farmer and pet the cow). Yet she is being considered for the post of US Surgeon General.

    As of Wednesday morning Feb 25, her confirmation hearing by the US Senate is in progress.

    Casey refuses to say if she'll recommended the MMR vaccine.

    I remember that during his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr said that he wouldn't do anything to weaken vaccinations or public health -- and I've seen how that worked out.

    I've called both my senators and urged them to block her appointment.

    #CaseyMeans
    #SurgeonGeneral
    #vaccines
    #PublicHealth

  8. 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
    archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/h

  9. 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
    archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/h

  10. 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
    archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/h

  11. 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
    archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/h

  12. 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
    archive.ph/2025.10.28-194544/h

  13. 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.

    cnn.com/2025/10/30/health/case

  14. #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

  15. #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

  16. #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

  17. #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

  18. #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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. #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

  31. #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