President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Casey Means to function surgeon common of the USA. Means by no means completed her surgical residency, doesn’t have an lively medical license, and hawks dietary dietary supplements and pseudoscientific “remedies” to her a whole lot 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 the USA 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 to be able 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 most interesting Surgeon Generals in United States Historical past. Congratulations to Casey! Secretary Kennedy appears to be like ahead to working with Dr. Janette Nesheiwat in one other capability at HHS. Thanks to your consideration to this matter.
Means is an anti-vaxxer who has forged doubt on vaccines and the childhood vaccination schedule.
For instance, she railed in opposition to giving newborns the Hepatitis B vaccine, writing in a submit on X in August 2024: “There is no such thing as a profit to the newborn or the broader inhabitants for a kid to get this vaccine who is just not in danger for sexual or IV transmission. There may be solely danger. Children who don’t have this pointless pharmaceutical can’t go to highschool in lots of states. EVERYONE ought to turn into interested in why these interventions are institutionally jammed down our throats and individuals 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 by means of their mom in childbirth or by means of touching contaminated blood on a floor.
“The youthful somebody is after they get hepatitis B illness, the more severe the implications. Children don’t present signs like adults do. If contaminated at a younger age youngsters usually tend to go undiagnosed and turn into a continual provider of the virus. Power carriers have lifelong issues and points from this an infection,” the College of Michigan Well being System wrote in a truth sheet urging mother and father to vaccinate their kids in opposition to the virus.
And like fellow conspiracy theorist Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Means additionally rails in opposition to the meals business, even writing a e book along with her brother discussing the supposed connection between metabolic perform and illnesses like “melancholy, nervousness, infertility, insomnia, coronary heart illness, erectile dysfunction, kind 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, [and] most cancers.”
Means can 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 have been so many ‘on the market’ issues I did to attempt to faucet into the ‘mystical’ facet of evolving my consciousness and finally being prepared for partnership,” she wrote about how she discovered love on the age of 35, writing that she “prayed to pictures of my ancestors asking for help on my private journey, and wrote mantras and manifestations on small items of paper and tucked them across the shrine”; did “full moon ceremonies with grounded, highly effective ladies the place we known as in abundance and let go of what wasn’t serving us, and amplified every others’ desires”; in addition to “did plant medication experiences with trusted guides and wrote extensively about my expertise 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 in opposition to—was too pro-vaccine.
Nesheiwat had known as the COVID-19 vaccine a “reward from God”—which apparently was an excessive amount of for the anti-vaccine crowd round Trump.
However now Loomer is railing in opposition to Means as effectively, writing in a submit on X that Means is pro-transgender and “by no means supported Donald Trump, and she or he doesn’t even have an lively medical license in Oregon the place she says she’s a physician.”
“So mainly, we at the moment are going to have a Democrat US Surgeon Basic who doesn’t even have an lively medical license and whose household is writing books about find out how to make kids transgender. What a multitude,” Loomer wrote. “Donald Trump has the WORST VETTING TEAM EVER!”
With Loomer now in opposition to Means, let’s see how lengthy this choose lasts.
