America's Medical & Scientific Revolution Facing Resistance From Entrenched Interests
Can 'the experts' accept their shortcomings and understand the desperate need to end the institutional bias towards change?
There is now a vocal minority, with industry backing and corporate media cover, engaging in a bizarre orchestration to keep the failed status quo in science and public health. With RFK Jr’s rise to prominence at the head of HHS, the once-dominate public health and science cultures are in full public meltdown.
The recent firing of senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Steven Hatfill, critic of the mRNA Covid shots and proponent of early treatments during the pandemic, has raised eyebrows.
Hatfill told the NY Times he was ousted as part of “a coup to overthrow” HHS Secretary Kennedy, being carried out by Kennedy’s chief of staff Matt Buckham. He claimed he was fired after refusing to resign and is making the media round defending his case.
Meanwhile, a manufactured march for ‘science’ in D.C. is planned for November 5th which has all the hallmarks of industry influence and little to do with grassroots anything.
Corporate media hit piece articles are still being forced out to the public as if there were buyers to their narratives. AP feints horror at 420 bills working at state levels to pull America out of the dark ages of medicine. Sheer panic rings from their piece as they screak at “….around 30 bills [that] have been enacted or adopted in 12 states.”
As America leans into the winds of change, the U.S. faces unique challenges.
If there is hope to reboot science, medicine and health in this country, it may very well rest with the ability for the formerly renowned institutional culture to accept that change is here.
The previous institutional reflex action to double down on failure, perfected during the pandemic response, only serves to isolate and divide further – maybe that’s their goal?
In order for advancement and progress to happen, two ingredients must be acknowledged and understood by those occupying the various levels of medicine and science who are resisting common sense changes.
First, that a portion of their academic belief system was built on incorrect information – one could imagine not an easy task for some to accept. So far, many are digging in their heels on even the slightest alterations like the shared decision making model (instead of mandated medicine) CDC now has adopted for Covid shots.
Second, to understand that an ever-growing, critical mass of the public is losing trust in what comes from their professions no matter how good their intentions, inventions or medical breakthroughs may be.
For regular readers, these points are probably understood. For those within siloed institutions, I’m curious how this lands. As a journalist tracking public health and the social appetite to accept its recommendations for the last decade, the near-universal rebuttal are facts witnessed.
One thing is for sure, doubling down on ‘appeal to authority’ [trust the experts] while ignoring the current global medical turning will cause more mistrust and division from the public. Hypocrisy doesn’t go over well either.
Recently, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted Anthony Fauci whose advice to the audience was:
“Science itself is not a political thing. It’s facts and evidence.”
Volumes could be written on the gaslighting hypocrisy of his statement. Rather than relive the past, here is a current example contradicting an increasingly tone deaf institutional medical class.
‘Science is not political’ unless you are part of the East and West Coast Alliances. A new coalition of all blue Democrat-run states who banded together for the purpose of ignoring the ‘facts and evidence’ to push the Covid shot on infants and healthy people sans any pandemic emergency.
A bizarre and self-defeatist move refusing to acknowledge any new science since 2020 on the mounting dangers of the Covid shot – the alliances are not only a danger to public health but to the credibility of the very institutional trust they claim to be standing for – perfect inversion.
HHS Secretary Kennedy’s direction and policy initiatives have revived a broken system which ran itself into the ground during the failed Covid response. The hope infused into American regulatory agencies now focusing on ending chronic disease and looking to onboard revolutionary therapies to change how we approach cancer, mental health and our broken food system has been met with expected resistance from corporate media (whose public trust is down to an all-time low of 28%).
As outlets like the Atlantic attempt to demoralize the public by telling you that Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic, new waves of scientists are busy publishing studies to arm the public with factual ammunition to help them make the right choices.
A recent landmark study now shows the ultra-processed food ingredient propylparaben, (in the class of endocrine disruptors known simply as parabens) banned in the E.U. but widely used in the U.S., can cause a multigenerational fertility decline.
Parabens will show up on packaged food labels as hydroxybenzoic acid or p-hydroxybenzoic acid ester.
U.S. Right To Know says this about the new study:
This latest study, however, is the first to link propylparaben exposure to through biological changes that “reprogram” sperm or eggs and pass impacts down to offspring without changing DNA.
Hard facts are now being mainlined like never before. Another landmark report has furthered the evidence that vaccination is the dominant risk factor for autism spectrum disorder.
Before we enter the promise of a full medical revolution, past scientific transgressions must be brought to full public light and be accounted for.
We think of progress in a linear fashion. What’s right is built upon and what’s wrong is eventually accepted as such and learned from. Momentum in science and public health moves a little differently.