Something tells me she ain’t someone like C Everett Koop. Dr Koop was a pediatric surgeon, who worked with infants and started the first neonatal intensive care unit in the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. He was against abortion, and was outspoken in his opposition against abortion. When he became the Surgeon General, his tenure focused on AIDS, Tobacco and Disability. He said that his job was to uphold the law, and he did. Today’s nominees will say anything they can to hide what they would do and lie if necessary. She will probably be confirmed, do what RFK Jr says about whatever claptrap he believes in tomorrow, and fit right in. That these Republicans will do this to the American people and think they should not be sanctioned for this is amazing. They should be voted out of office!
Considering she is an Instagram influencer, that alone tells me she is to be avoided as I do all influencers who earn their money hawking junk cause it’s highly profitable for them, not so for the people who buy the products. Sides, it’s lazy. Being an actual doctor, in the specialty she was studying requires hard work, years of dedication, required further education and competency testing, doing research, publishing papers and more. I have respect for the doctors who are credentialed in their specialties and actually care for patients. Even more, I respect doctors who innovate, make breakthroughs which benefit us all.
I am so done with all the people nominated or appointed for any position in this government. There is not one who has a single damn thing to offer in their sorry lives except loyalty to the most corrupt government ever.
It isn’t a real government when it doesn’t give a flying f**k about the country they ‘govern’.
Cassidy is not just a “Louisiana physician.” He specializes in hepatitis and was revered in Louisiana for his successful implementation of infant Hepatitis vaccination! We have to hold him to the highest standard on his area of expertise.
While what you say is true and remarkable, he will not be remembered for his accomplishments. He will go down in history as voting for the liar, RFKJr and unleashing untold misery on the weak and defenseless.
What never comes out in these kinds of hearings is the subject of education and dissemination of scientific information. Students should be required to study health and biology. In this (formerly) advanced country, we might strive to educate the population in the grim history of infectious disease, and about how vaccines work and how they can prevent suffering and save lives. In 1926, a popular book, Microbe Hunters, told about Pasteur's work on smallpox, and other adventures of bacteriologists. And yet 100 years later, we're going backward in public health.
If you ever need proof that Trump does not give a flying fuck about the public good in America, just look at his nominations and appointments for cabinet posts.
Anyone who would appoint a non-doctor - some who did not meet even the lowest bar for practicing medicine, which is completing residency and becoming licensed - to a high medical position in public medicine, does not give a flying fuck about the public’s health and well-being. Same goes for the appointment of quack-in-chief RFK Jr., singlehandedly responsible for making measles ‘great’ again.
To the list of preventable risk factors for public health in America has to be added:
Donald Trump and his health agency appointments.
Remember, voters: the above are PREVENTABLE risk factors!
As an ex PHS officer who was a IHS physician on an Apache reservation, I will make a few comments. Casey Means is not a “wellness influencer “, she is a quack who realized she could make more money peddling snake oil than practicing medicine. Call her a “quack “.
As far as the flu vaccine, at a hospital I was at, they were discussing not requiring flu vaccine of physicians. After 2 minutes of listening to nonsense, I said that flu causes mortality among the elderly and immunocompromised. I said any physician who would be willing to infect their patients, or any other physicians’ patients, had no business being on staff of the hospital. I requested an immediate vote on requiring flu vaccination for all physicians and it passed unanimously.
I recommend senators grow a pair and address her by her proper specialty, Dr. Casey Means, Quack. The Senate has become nothing but a joke.
It does not take much effort to find any number of detractors who think that Casey Means is not qualified. Here is one.
“Casey Means is more influencer than medical practitioner,” says Michigan State University’s Mariah Wellman, who studies influencer credibility in the wellness industry. Means is a “prime example” of an online entrepreneur using a medical degree to establish credibility while speaking outside the boundaries of their training, she adds.
"Pseudoscientific hooey" seems to be the forte of this HHS, from Casey Means to Dr. Oz to RFK Jr. himself. Pretty much everywhere you turn, right wing influencers are promoting supplements and protocols for which there is no evidence. It boggles the mind that the MAHA folks refuse to accept peer-reviewed studies and FDA-scrutinized drugs, yet will follow loony tunes like Dr. Stella Immanuel who posits much of our illness is a result of demon sex. These doctors have replaced their Hippocratic oath with Gordon Gekko's: "Greed is good."
And I am all for emphasizing the importance of diet and exercise, but these are the same people who mocked Michelle Obama when she made it her project. The incoherence is astounding.
I find it odd that there's a huge overlap between the group that castigates modern medicine for being focused on treatment rather than prevention, and the group that refuses vaccines which are probably the single most effective way of _preventing_ infectious disease. Of course, it's perhaps too much to expect science-deniers to understand the illogic of their position.
Stanford should drop her from alumni roles. As a physician myself, I find it shameful and a violation of the Hippocratic oath when physicians use there credentials for political positions then give false information to the public (this also applies to Rand Paul, Oz, Cassidy and others).
I am amazed at the level of ignorance that this post exudes. First of all, to believe the academia is the source of scientific wisdom is ludicrous. John Ioannidis a Stanford Physician scientist has determined that up to 75% of scientific studies are fatally flawed and even when performed by the original researcher the data cannot be replicated. Take the studies on Alzheimer's which were not only flawed, but fraudulent. Leading to more than a decade of pharmaceuticals aimed at the wrong etiology. Marty Makary's book Blind Spots is full of examples where medical orthodoxy is not supported by science. Rockefeller's coopting of the medical industry in 1913 facilitated the closing of traditional medical schools and only financed those schools that would teach petrochemical based pharmaceuticals and would not allow the teaching of nutrition and would ostracize and even jail dissenters to his Pharma paradigm. I have to think that Jonathon is a shill of the Imperial elite and is being compensated for his biased and ignorant perspectives. Casey may not have the credentials that the ignorant might require, but to us who have a functioning synapse in our skulls, she represents a breeze of fresh air in a stagnant and corrupt system. Means will bring fresh perspectives and a questioning spirit to a system of rampant orthodoxy and unvalidated standards of care.
Or this could be "Dr Sam Bailey." Seems to be a chimera. Who knows? Whoever this is has now lost credibility by having a username that links to a different person.
And putting your degree in your username is the height of douchiness. Plus his grammar sucks.
Also, in discussing John Loannides’ 2005 study, the good doctor leaves out two other studies where he gives suggestions to remedy the weaknesses in his 2005 examples of poor research.
Something tells me she ain’t someone like C Everett Koop. Dr Koop was a pediatric surgeon, who worked with infants and started the first neonatal intensive care unit in the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. He was against abortion, and was outspoken in his opposition against abortion. When he became the Surgeon General, his tenure focused on AIDS, Tobacco and Disability. He said that his job was to uphold the law, and he did. Today’s nominees will say anything they can to hide what they would do and lie if necessary. She will probably be confirmed, do what RFK Jr says about whatever claptrap he believes in tomorrow, and fit right in. That these Republicans will do this to the American people and think they should not be sanctioned for this is amazing. They should be voted out of office!
Considering she is an Instagram influencer, that alone tells me she is to be avoided as I do all influencers who earn their money hawking junk cause it’s highly profitable for them, not so for the people who buy the products. Sides, it’s lazy. Being an actual doctor, in the specialty she was studying requires hard work, years of dedication, required further education and competency testing, doing research, publishing papers and more. I have respect for the doctors who are credentialed in their specialties and actually care for patients. Even more, I respect doctors who innovate, make breakthroughs which benefit us all.
I am so done with all the people nominated or appointed for any position in this government. There is not one who has a single damn thing to offer in their sorry lives except loyalty to the most corrupt government ever.
It isn’t a real government when it doesn’t give a flying f**k about the country they ‘govern’.
Cassidy is not just a “Louisiana physician.” He specializes in hepatitis and was revered in Louisiana for his successful implementation of infant Hepatitis vaccination! We have to hold him to the highest standard on his area of expertise.
While what you say is true and remarkable, he will not be remembered for his accomplishments. He will go down in history as voting for the liar, RFKJr and unleashing untold misery on the weak and defenseless.
What never comes out in these kinds of hearings is the subject of education and dissemination of scientific information. Students should be required to study health and biology. In this (formerly) advanced country, we might strive to educate the population in the grim history of infectious disease, and about how vaccines work and how they can prevent suffering and save lives. In 1926, a popular book, Microbe Hunters, told about Pasteur's work on smallpox, and other adventures of bacteriologists. And yet 100 years later, we're going backward in public health.
And a chin.
I'm not sorry. She's an idiot who deserves to be mocked because she doesn't have a chin. Or morals.
Thank you - as always: clear, informative, provocative. Thanks for my education on health policy - I appreciate your reporting!
If you ever need proof that Trump does not give a flying fuck about the public good in America, just look at his nominations and appointments for cabinet posts.
Anyone who would appoint a non-doctor - some who did not meet even the lowest bar for practicing medicine, which is completing residency and becoming licensed - to a high medical position in public medicine, does not give a flying fuck about the public’s health and well-being. Same goes for the appointment of quack-in-chief RFK Jr., singlehandedly responsible for making measles ‘great’ again.
To the list of preventable risk factors for public health in America has to be added:
Donald Trump and his health agency appointments.
Remember, voters: the above are PREVENTABLE risk factors!
Amen
As an ex PHS officer who was a IHS physician on an Apache reservation, I will make a few comments. Casey Means is not a “wellness influencer “, she is a quack who realized she could make more money peddling snake oil than practicing medicine. Call her a “quack “.
As far as the flu vaccine, at a hospital I was at, they were discussing not requiring flu vaccine of physicians. After 2 minutes of listening to nonsense, I said that flu causes mortality among the elderly and immunocompromised. I said any physician who would be willing to infect their patients, or any other physicians’ patients, had no business being on staff of the hospital. I requested an immediate vote on requiring flu vaccination for all physicians and it passed unanimously.
I recommend senators grow a pair and address her by her proper specialty, Dr. Casey Means, Quack. The Senate has become nothing but a joke.
“Wellness influencer” is a polite phrase for probable crank or quack. It’s a popular line these days.
It does not take much effort to find any number of detractors who think that Casey Means is not qualified. Here is one.
“Casey Means is more influencer than medical practitioner,” says Michigan State University’s Mariah Wellman, who studies influencer credibility in the wellness industry. Means is a “prime example” of an online entrepreneur using a medical degree to establish credibility while speaking outside the boundaries of their training, she adds.
"Pseudoscientific hooey" seems to be the forte of this HHS, from Casey Means to Dr. Oz to RFK Jr. himself. Pretty much everywhere you turn, right wing influencers are promoting supplements and protocols for which there is no evidence. It boggles the mind that the MAHA folks refuse to accept peer-reviewed studies and FDA-scrutinized drugs, yet will follow loony tunes like Dr. Stella Immanuel who posits much of our illness is a result of demon sex. These doctors have replaced their Hippocratic oath with Gordon Gekko's: "Greed is good."
And I am all for emphasizing the importance of diet and exercise, but these are the same people who mocked Michelle Obama when she made it her project. The incoherence is astounding.
Read about the career of Stella Emmanuel, fervent Trump supporter! Maybe he’ll pick her next.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Immanuel
an active medical license might give some evidence of actual practice and the opportunity of real life empiricism
Not sure, does medical honorific apply to someone who didn’t finish residency & has no active medical license? …if erring it’s on side of caution:
Perhaps Dr. Oz can help mentor Ms. Means? Some sort of internship, might we say? Could be a first for her
I find it odd that there's a huge overlap between the group that castigates modern medicine for being focused on treatment rather than prevention, and the group that refuses vaccines which are probably the single most effective way of _preventing_ infectious disease. Of course, it's perhaps too much to expect science-deniers to understand the illogic of their position.
Very bizarre indeed!
Stanford should drop her from alumni roles. As a physician myself, I find it shameful and a violation of the Hippocratic oath when physicians use there credentials for political positions then give false information to the public (this also applies to Rand Paul, Oz, Cassidy and others).
I am amazed at the level of ignorance that this post exudes. First of all, to believe the academia is the source of scientific wisdom is ludicrous. John Ioannidis a Stanford Physician scientist has determined that up to 75% of scientific studies are fatally flawed and even when performed by the original researcher the data cannot be replicated. Take the studies on Alzheimer's which were not only flawed, but fraudulent. Leading to more than a decade of pharmaceuticals aimed at the wrong etiology. Marty Makary's book Blind Spots is full of examples where medical orthodoxy is not supported by science. Rockefeller's coopting of the medical industry in 1913 facilitated the closing of traditional medical schools and only financed those schools that would teach petrochemical based pharmaceuticals and would not allow the teaching of nutrition and would ostracize and even jail dissenters to his Pharma paradigm. I have to think that Jonathon is a shill of the Imperial elite and is being compensated for his biased and ignorant perspectives. Casey may not have the credentials that the ignorant might require, but to us who have a functioning synapse in our skulls, she represents a breeze of fresh air in a stagnant and corrupt system. Means will bring fresh perspectives and a questioning spirit to a system of rampant orthodoxy and unvalidated standards of care.
I believe you just passed your first audition for the job of assistant to surgeon general in Trump or future Trump Jr. administrations.
By all means (pun intended), avoid all vaccines.
As a nutrition based chiropractor are you well versed in all of medicine?
Or this could be "Dr Sam Bailey." Seems to be a chimera. Who knows? Whoever this is has now lost credibility by having a username that links to a different person.
And putting your degree in your username is the height of douchiness. Plus his grammar sucks.
Also, in discussing John Loannides’ 2005 study, the good doctor leaves out two other studies where he gives suggestions to remedy the weaknesses in his 2005 examples of poor research.
Wow