MedPage Today December 15, 2025
We cannot wait for the next election or hope that federal policy changes
The scientifically unsound “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) initiative is devastating our country’s scientific infrastructure, medical research capacity, epidemiologic surveillance, and public health response capacity. MAHA has promoted pseudoscience, disinformation, and hucksterism as official national policy. It has challenged historically successful protective measures; eliminated transparent and rigorous safety and evaluation processes; and rejected experienced clinicians, researchers, and public health professionals for having conflicts of interest despite (or perhaps based upon) their involvement in the research, development, and manufacture of vaccines.
This is leading our great scientific and public health accomplishments into the abyss. History tells us that when science is dominated and distorted by ideology, tragedy follows....
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