The Make America Healthy Again movement, which has turned dissatisfaction with mainstream medicine into a disruptive political movement, was poised on Wednesday to put one of its leading figures, Casey Means, at the top of the U.S. medical system.
Means, an entrepreneurial wellness influencer but no longer a practicing doctor, is President Trump’s nominee to be U.S. surgeon general and an ally of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. At her confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee Wednesday, she sparred with senators of both parties about Kennedy’s changes to vaccine policy and autism research. She also faced questions about her medical credentials, conflicts of interest through her businesses, and her use years ago of psychedelic mushrooms.
