Woo truce? The science and health establishment divided on how to deal with MAHA and RFK, Jr.

Credit: HHS
Credit: HHS

The Trump administration’s celebration of its new meat- and milk-centric dietary guidelines was held in an auditorium decorated with colorful posters of “Real Food” and a crowd of MAHA luminaries.

Bobby Mukkamala was [there]. As president of the American Medical Association, few would expect Mukkamala to show up for a photo op with Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again acolytes.

Some medical advocacy groups have decided the risk MAHA poses to public health is too great. Those groups have sued the Trump administration over its efforts to dismantle the childhood vaccine schedule and started pointed campaigns to counter misinformation coming out of the federal government.

The [American Medical Association] has taken a different approach.

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“It’s just like anything, there’s going to be things we disagree on,” Mukkamala told NOTUS earlier this year. “With Secretary Kennedy, I mentioned to him, actually, the first time we met, ‘You know what? On the vaccine issue, I know we see things differently. I’m totally fine with putting that on the shelf and working on this together.’”

The reality is that medical organizations are divided on how to interface with the new HHS leadership.

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