Josh Dawsey
How the agriculture and food industries challenged MAHA heavyweights and reshaped RFK, Jr.’s ‘reform’ agenda
In meeting after meeting at the White House this summer, administration officials held talks with scores of leaders from the ...
Disrupt the global food supply? Trump officials dubious about RFK, Jr.—MAHA plan to ban crop chemicals
A bid by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to label pesticides as a potential cause of U.S. health woes ...
Science checking Trump’s touted convalescent plasma COVID treatment
President Trump announced [August 23] that he had helped break through a regulatory “logjam” to grant emergency authorization of convalescent ...
Trump administration pushing FDA to re-authorize hydroxychloroquine based on recent questionable study
[Trade advisor Peter Navarro is pushing for] a second emergency authorization for the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19, the ...
‘Anecdote and feeling over science and fact’: Exploring President Trump’s embrace of controversial anti-malarial drug
As he stares down a pandemic, economic collapse and a political crisis of his own, President Trump thinks he may ...