‘It’s a peptide wild west’: how RFK Jr is clearing way for a market of untested drugs

A century ago, compounding pharmacies helped people get bespoke drugs. Now these less-regulated businesses are fueling the peptide boom…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/30/peptide-fda-rfk-jr-drug-regulation

 

The War on Science (Conspirituality podcast, #316)

With so much emphasis on global politics and the World Cup in recent weeks, we’re going to focus on the somewhat quieter but intensely important bureaucratic dismantling of expertise occurring in health and science.

First, Derek looks into a recent 412-page OMB proposal that hands political appointees veto power over federal science grants, effectively killing peer review, blocking research on health disparities, and walling off American scientists from the rest of the world. Matthew counters with Canada’s own corrosive behavior.

Then we dig into the contradiction of MAHA: the pro-health movement running cover for the EPA quietly approving new forever chemical pesticides mere days after the Supreme Court gutted Americans’ ability to sue Monsanto (by way of their parent company, Bayer). Again, there’s a Canadian parallel: Bill C-30 hands cabinet the power to override Health Canada’s own scientists and approve pesticides they’ve already ruled unsafe.

Finally, Julian removes gravity from the situation by covering congressional UAP hearings where unverified whistleblower claims about alien bodies and secret programs get treated with peer-reviewed science seriousness.

Only, as with everything else in Trump’s America, the science is thin and the theater, thick.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/316-the-war-on-science

States Sue to Block Medicaid Work Requirements – Mother Jones

In a press release, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, who helped lead the suit, said that the “abrupt changes in [federal] implementation of the statute leave states insufficient time to adjust…or effectively communicate to members what is required.” 

“This eleventh-hour attempt to further narrow protections for medically frail Medicaid recipients seeks to punish those who cannot fend for themselves,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, who is also joining the suit, in a press release…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/medicaid-work-requirements-rfk-oz-cms-state-attorney-lawsuit/

 

Kennedy talks about reducing obesity, ends up defending Trump Medicaid cuts

…Kennedy defended the administration’s record on Medicaid spending, calling Medicaid cuts “a myth people believe.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-06-16/kennedy-talks-about-reducing-obesity-ends-up-defending-trump-medicaid-cuts

RFK Jr under fire for ‘bullying’ letter to scientific journal

Wind-Mozley on Monday claimed the paper was “utter garbage from start to finish – it should never have been published,” and said Kennedy’s “apparent attempts to bully the journal here are low”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/rfk-jr-letter-medical-journal-vaccine-study

 

The Next Plague (Conspirituality podcast #312)

A plague is coming. We don’t know when or which one, but we do know that since humans started gathering in groups numbering in the thousands, plagues became a consistent feature of existence. So a plague is always on the horizon, and public health is the response of a healthy society.

How healthy is America right now? Given that a recent NY Times investigation found that RFK Jr is laser-focused on vaccines and food dyes and not much of anything else, the news is not great. Today we look at candidates for the next plague, how unprepared the government is, and, in classic Conspirituality fashion, the wellness influencers selling products they just know will help your immune system stave off any little virus destined to become a plandemic.

In This Week in Conspirituality, Matthew checks in on someone else’s health: Donald Trump, and the online prediction market that’s emerged to appease a cultural wish fulfillment.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/312-the-next-plague

Autistic children injected with unapproved stem cell treatments supported by RFK Jr

Profoundly stressed parents are being wooed to the clinics with promises that a high-dose infusion of umbilical cord stem cells can lead to dramatic improvements in their children’s ability to speak, socialise, or avoid aggressive or self-harming behaviour. Yet there is no scientific evidence that the procedure works – the most comprehensive clinical trial staged so far, a placebo experiment conducted by Duke University, found insignificant benefits for most of the 180 children tested. 

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directly cautions parents that if they are being offered stem cell treatments outside an approved clinical trial, “you are likely being deceived and offered a product illegally”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/autism-stem-cell-infusions-rfk-jr

 

Do peptides work? Why is it discussed on a government sponsored podcast?...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UU1tsJ9IXQo

America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr. - POLITICO

At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting this week, members of the group’s House of Delegates are sending a clear message to their leaders: Call out Kennedy, even if it costs us in the pocketbook...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/10/ama-doctors-physicians-rfk-vaccines-00957489

 

The MAHA moms who helped elect Trump are out of patience - POLITICO

As Republicans fight to hold Congress, they shouldn’t count on the women who helped elect Trump in 2024, MAHA activists say.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/the-maha-moms-who-helped-elect-trump-are-out-of-patience-00952367

 

Brief: Collapse at the FDA (Conspirituality podcast)

The FDA is bleeding out Covid contrarians. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Høeg—all gone. Jonathan Howard returns to discuss why so many RFK Jr's friends have reached the end of their bureaucratic road.

Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-collapse-at-the-fda-jonathan-howard

‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies

Medical professionals are entering the political arena as funding cuts, layoffs and RFK Jr’s vaccine skepticism spur them to action…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/doctors-midterm-election-trump-policies-health

 

RFK Jr. fires leaders of group that determines what insurers must cover - POLITICO

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired the leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential group of external experts who decide which medical services are preventive and must be covered fully by insurers under the Affordable Care Act...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/rfk-uspstf-preventive-care-task-force-00930447 

President Trump believed that babies get a vat of vaccines. #trump

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RH9rT8C_XLg

 

‘Christofascism’ is here: inside the slow demolition of US public health

From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health

 

RFK Jr. is holding up $600M in vaccines for poor countries - POLITICO

Advocates for Gavi say the withholding of funds will cost children’s lives. They also say the vaccines the group uses are safe and are better-suited to the challenges of immunizing people in the developing world, where refrigeration is spotty and it’s harder to get people boosters, than the vaccines used in the U.S. and other wealthy countries...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/rfk-vaccines-gavi-thimerosal-00893645 

RFK Jr claims that doctors do not treat their measles patients with compassion

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2BpBBQrOK0Q

RFK Jr claims he has never spread misinformation. #publichealth #vaccine...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QN8N-54doYA 

 

The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash - POLITICO

“It’s hard to actually refer to MAHA as a movement when you’re looking at just a small number of donors providing the vast majority of financial support,” said Devin Burghart, president of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, a nonprofit watchdog that studies conservative groups…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/rfk-maha-lyons-pac-midterms-00889913 

Do they really think we are that stupid? #trump #doctor

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bzf00pnbNR

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