Anti-Science Advocacy Leaders Profit from Make America Healthy Again Movement
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7mo ago· 13 min readenNews
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Summary
The article exposes how leaders of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement are profiting financially from anti-science advocacy, particularly through promoting supplements, raw milk, and alternative health products. Key advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are shown directly telling industry groups that the movement's goals will help their bottom lines. The Associated Press investigation reveals that well-funded national groups are driving what appears to be grassroots activism, with state legislation explicitly written to increase sales for specific industries like dairy farmers.
Key quotes
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"The goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement will help your bottom lines"
"They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but it's fueled by a web of well-funded national groups"
"people who've profited – financially and otherwise – from sowing distrust of medicine and science"
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but it’s
