For several years, I have enthusiastically subscribed to the Substack of "A Midwestern Doctor," titled "The Forgotten Side of Medicine." It is a link-rich environment for getting one's bearings on the many health care and public health issues distorted by Pharma $ and entrenched bureaucratic dogma (visit today's article for the links). I highly recommend following this Substack.  Today's issue includes a recap of the many successes of the MAHA movement spearheaded by RFK, Jr.:

• Cutting the mandatory vaccine schedule in half and making many previously required vaccines optional after a discussion with your doctor. Given that the CDC never removes vaccines from the schedule, my initial hope was that, when Trump broached removing the newborn hepatitis B vaccine from the CDC schedule, there was a small chance it would actually happen. Which resulted in a lot of people, myself included, waging a lengthy campaign to increase the chance that would happen. Despite that, I was initially very worried that it wouldn’t happen due to the resistance, and I patiently waited for a CDC announcement. However, out of nowhere, instead of just doing that, they cut the schedule in half (which was quite extraordinary).

  Note: one of the key arguments used in lawsuits opposing this vaccine schedule is that requiring doctors to discuss the merits of vaccinating before vaccinating patients is too time-consuming in practice—which is an excellent metaphor for the issues with the medical system.

• Fixing the food pyramid so that unhealthy food is no longer glorified, while healthy foods are prioritized. Ironically, this required flipping the pyramid upside down (again an excellent metaphor for the health care system), resulting in a real-life enactment of a 2014 South Park episode that Kennedy’s team then slightly altered for a viral post
• Reversing the demonization of healthy animal fats and bringing attention to the danger of seed oils.
• Getting the food industry to agree to phase out artificial food dyes (as synthetic dyes cause a variety of issues, including behavioral problems) and to create a viable pathway for companies to use natural dyes correctly.
• Begin closing the GRAS loophole, which has long been used to get a variety of unsafe and untested chemicals into the food supply.
• Announced an upcoming MAHA inquiry into baby formula safety and ingredients, focusing on potential toxins and health impacts (which as I showed in this May 2025 article, was critical to do and easy to fix by reversing a few bad regulatory policies).
• Highlighting the links between Tylenol and neurological developmental disorders (discussed further here).
• Shutting down gain-of-function bioweapons research being practiced throughout the United States, and from what I’ve heard in the near future globally as well.
• Begin drawing attention to the dangers of water fluoridation so it can be phased out (a critical topic I still have not had time to write about, other than its role in causing osteoporosis) and beginning the phase out of mercury dental fillings by announcing they would be phased out of the Indian Health Service by 2027 (which is likewise another critical health topic I have not yet had time to cover).
• Defeated the pesticide immunity provision (Section 453), something I like many others tried to oppose (e.g., see this article), but thought would likely pass due to how much influence the agrochemical sector has.
• Implement a variety of federal policies to subsidize only healthy practices and lower prices (e.g., greatly lowering drug prices, changing Medicare reimbursements to prioritize practices that promote health, and making food stamps no longer cover or subsidize junk food). Implemented major HHS restructuring, including a 20% workforce reduction and consolidation into a new chronic disease-focused agency, reducing bureaucratic influence.
• Begin rolling back television pharmaceutical advertising by reinstating the advertising restrictions Clinton eliminated.