The affected projects all use mRNA technology, an advance that saved millions of people from death by COVID alone. That is reality, and that’s not where Kennedy lives. The secretary of Health and Human Services said that mRNA research “poses more risk than benefits for these respiratory viruses” although it doesn’t. Within the “Make America Healthy Again” universe, the Kennedy brain worm rules. Outside it, the Earth is still round. Vaccines do not cause autism, antidepressants do not behave like heroin, and seed oils are not dangerous. Raw milk can make you sick, or even kill you, and cod-liver oil will never cure the measles. MAHA cannot undo these facts, but it can bury the truth in so many lies that reality becomes elusive. The brain worm is in power, via Kennedy, and science is on the defense. By May, the Trump administration had cut $2.3 billion in new grants from the National Institutes of Health, and it has frozen billions in research funds to public universities.
The war on science has entered a grave new era,
— Sarah JonesReplicated under Fair Use from How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science by Sarah Jones.