Tag: MAHA
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Kennedy Brings Serious Nutrition Education to Medical Schools
by James Lyons-Weiler, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 11, 2026) — For the past thirty years, American medicine has systematically neglected one of its most fundamental pillars: nutrition. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that dietary habits significantly influence health outcomes, medical education has persistently underemphasized nutritional science, especially impacting pediatricians, who bear a critical responsibility for guiding…
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HHS Signals MAHA Inquiry on Baby Formula Is Next in Queue
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Feb. 20, 2026) — From the moment the Human Foods Program was reorganized and the MAHA framework articulated its structural objectives, infant formula stood out as the inevitable next front. The regulatory lag was measurable. The contaminant discourse was already active. The nutrient standards were anchored in 1998-era…
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An Earned Reckoning: Fired Scientists Cannot Pretend Surprise When Trust Runs Out
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Jan. 21, 2026) —The human cost is visible, and it is not to be minimized. Researchers cry in federal parking lots, their belongings packed into bags. Lifelong scientific vocations rupture in a single administrative notice. Labs go dark. Careers flatline. Nature’s latest feature on the fallout from U.S. science…
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The Great MAHA Experiment Begins: Five States Ban Junk Food SNAP Purchases
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Jan. 2, 2026) — On January 1, 2026, the most aggressive nutrition-linked reform in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) took effect in five U.S. states. Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, and West Virginia have officially banned SNAP purchases of specific categories of food widely associated with…
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MAHA Contagions: Industrial Contaminated Food and Cooking Oils as Structural Drivers of Non‑Infectious Epidemics of Chronic Illness
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Dec. 9, 2025) — Key Takeaways: Industrial cooking oils—including today’s seed oils—have repeatedly served as silent carriers of chemically driven epidemics, from Spain’s Toxic Oil Syndrome and PCB-contaminated rice-bran oils to epidemic dropsy, trans fats, and diacetyl-laden aerosol sprays. Kennedy’s MAHA framework reframes these events as structural contagions arising…
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It’s Launch Day: The Courage In Health Series Starts Now
by Courage in Health Series (Nov. 1, 2025) — Today is launch day. The Courage In Health Series is officially LIVE at 9:00 a.m. EDT/6:00 a.m. PDT — and the movement is gathering for 9 days of powerful conversations that expose what’s broken in the system… and how we rise above it. Watch now for…
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Film Featuring Unprecedented “Vaccine” Research to Premiere Sunday Evening
by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 11, 2025) — On Sunday the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) will live-stream its production of “An Inconvenient Study” at 8:00 p.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. PDT at the Malibu Film Festival at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles. The non-profit research arm of “The Highwire” founded by medical journalist…
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The Restoration of Gold-Standard Science: NIH Adopts the MAHA Playbook
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Aug. 18, 2025) — Since 2015, I have called for the full restoration of scientific integrity—for biomedical research to be ripped from the hands of politicized, captured institutions and returned to a rational, objective, methodologically rigorous foundation. I have written books, launched independent research platforms, published peer-reviewed critiques,…
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Understanding Chronic Illness Means Embracing Complexity in Medical Research
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, reposted with permission (Jan. 20, 2025) — In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decisive win as Donald Trump’s backer in the 2024 presidential election, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative has emerged as a transformative force in public health policy. With its ambitious goal to tackle the epidemic…