President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Casey Means to function surgeon basic of america. Means by no means completed her surgical residency, doesn’t have an energetic medical license, and hawks dietary dietary supplements and pseudoscientific “treatments” to her a whole bunch of 1000’s of Instagram followers.
Trump made the announcement in a Reality Social submit, writing:
I’m happy to announce that Dr. Casey Means, can be nominated as our subsequent Surgeon Basic of america of America. Casey has impeccable “MAHA” credentials, and can work carefully with our fantastic Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to make sure a profitable implementation of our Agenda with a view to reverse the Power Illness Epidemic, and guarantee Nice Well being, sooner or later, for ALL People. Her tutorial achievements, collectively along with her life’s work, are completely excellent. Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of many best Surgeon Generals in United States Historical past. Congratulations to Casey! Secretary Kennedy seems ahead to working with Dr. Janette Nesheiwat in one other capability at HHS. Thanks in your consideration to this matter.
Means is an anti-vaxxer who has solid doubt on vaccines and the childhood vaccination schedule.
For instance, she railed towards giving newborns the Hepatitis B vaccine, writing in a submit on X in August 2024: “There is no benefit to the baby or the wider population for a child to get this vaccine who is not at risk for sexual or IV transmission. There is only risk. Kids who don’t have this unnecessary pharmaceutical can’t go to school in many states. EVERYONE should become curious about why these interventions are institutionally jammed down our throats and people are made to be heretical whackos for questioning it.”
In fact, precise medical doctors say hepatitis B—which has no treatment—may be transmitted to newborns via their mom in childbirth or via touching contaminated blood on a floor.
“The younger someone is when they get hepatitis B disease, the worse the consequences. Kids don’t show symptoms like adults do. If infected at a young age kids are more likely to go undiagnosed and become a chronic carrier of the virus. Chronic carriers have lifelong problems and issues from this infection,” the College of Michigan Well being System wrote in a reality sheet urging dad and mom to vaccinate their kids towards the virus.
And like fellow conspiracy theorist Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Means additionally rails towards the meals business, even writing a e-book along with her brother discussing the supposed connection between metabolic perform and illnesses like “depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, [and] cancer.”
Means can also be nuts.
In her e-newsletter, she described making a shrine, holding full-moon ceremonies, speaking to timber, and doing psychedelic mushrooms to assist her discover love.
“There were so many ‘out there’ things I did to try to tap into the ‘mystical’ side of evolving my consciousness and ultimately being ready for partnership,” she wrote about how she discovered love on the age of 35, writing that she “prayed to photos of my ancestors asking for support on my personal journey, and wrote mantras and manifestations on small pieces of paper and tucked them around the shrine”; did “full moon ceremonies with grounded, powerful women where we called in abundance and let go of what wasn’t serving us, and amplified each others’ dreams”; in addition to “did plant medicine experiences with trusted guides and wrote extensively about my experience and insights,” including an emoji of a mushroom on the finish.
Finally, Trump nominated Means after pulling his preliminary nominee for the position, Janette Nesheiwat. Bigoted right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer complained that Nesheiwat—who’s the sister-in-law of Mike Waltz, Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser whom Loomer has a vendetta towards—was too pro-vaccine.
Nesheiwat had referred to as the COVID-19 vaccine a “gift from God”—which apparently was an excessive amount of for the anti-vaccine crowd round Trump.
However now Loomer is railing towards Means as nicely, writing in a submit on X that Means is pro-transgender and “never supported Donald Trump, and she doesn’t even have an active medical license in Oregon where she says she’s a doctor.”
“So basically, we are now going to have a Democrat US Surgeon General who doesn’t even have an active medical license and whose family is writing books about how to make children transgender. What a mess,” Loomer wrote. “Donald Trump has the WORST VETTING TEAM EVER!”
With Loomer now towards Means, let’s see how lengthy this decide lasts.
