How deep will the anti-science MAHA invasion penetrate into Mississippi? Can beleaguered state health officer Dr. Daniel Edney convince legislators to stay the course on vaccinations, fluoridation, pasteurization and other science-based health policies?
Such policies face challenges by advocates of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda. “More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law,” states an Association Press investigation published last week. The news organization aligns Kennedy’s “health freedom” effort with profiteers. “Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law,” wrote AP. Other reports cite doctors’ reports of deaths and hospitalizations of patients who refuse vaccinations, abuse drugs like ivermectin, and take medical advice from podcasts and social media. The AP report listed Mississippi as one of the states where bills were introduced in the legislature to hinder vaccinations, water fluoridation, and milk pasteurization.
For example, Sen. Angela Hill and Rep. Dan Eubanks introduced bills to prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse certain medical interventions and to allow the sale of unpasteurized raw milk to consumers. Hill also introduced legislation to prohibit the health department from requiring water systems to fluoridate water. Rep. Randy Boyd introduced a bill to prohibit administration of Covid-19 mRNA vaccinations. Rep. Carolyn Crawford introduced one to prohibit health insurers from denying claims because the insured did not get a health department recommended vaccine. AP reported many such bills garner support from four national groups connected to Kennedy: MAHA Action, Stand for Health Freedom, the National Vaccine Information Center and the Weston A. Price Foundation. AP noted these groups “send out alerts, organize phone campaigns, flood lawmakers’ inboxes and social media, hold Zoom calls with activists nationwide, and send members to testify in statehouses.” None of the above Mississippi bills passed. But bills forthcoming for the next session may fare better given the MAHA push. These could include bills to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates, criminalize administration of vaccines, and designate mRNA as a “bioweapon” and prohibit its use. Dr. Edney says he will stick with science-based health policies as long as he can. He told the Magnolia Tribune, “The Mississippi State Department of Health and the State Board of Health have a responsibility to give the best guidance and advice to protect our communities from disease through science-based strategies, including vaccination.” Will our legislators stick with him? “But evil people and imposters will proceed from bad to worse” – 2 Timothy 3:13. Crawford is an author and syndicated columnist from Jackson.
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Oh man these are the same scientists who told us that hydrogenated oil based margarine is better for you than animal fat. And that eating fat, not sugar, makes you fat. Also, the same group who says artificial sweeteners are safe. And also fluoride which is literally poison and destroys your brain and calcifies your veins. Man, the list is long but it’s a waste of time because “proven science” says this shit is fine and perfect normal and healthy because you know… we got new autism, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s drugs to patent and sell as a solution to the problems they created!
Science shmience. I’m currently sitting on the toilet doing all the research I need to keep my family healthy. Pure blood no vax, horse paste, raw milk, and ozempic. We’re good to go!
Well, this is the kind of dumb shit y’all voted for. It’s funny how this is posted here yet any time anyone says anything that’s anti-Trump you take it down.
When all yall MAHAtards get cancer and mRNA technology has created a cure, I'm curious as what yall are going to do? Die like God intended in His plan for you, or take the jab?
Hey Billy remember double masking, 6 feet apart, Covid came from a wombat’s butt, Ivermectin doesn’t work, Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work, get 13 boosters? I member, the so called science experts lied to our faces and the main stream media swore to it. I was on the front line taking care of patients and I can’t tell you a good portion of what they told us was politically motivated. The democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is. I’m more worried about your terminal case TDS, you really need to get that looked at.
They're just trying to get some of that MAGA money that a handful of billionaires are pouring out to buy the the government.
I don't understand how some people are so skeptical of experts, but have no problem taking unregulated "supplements" pushed on Infowars and Fox News.
And I wonder at people who refuse vaccines that may save their lives, but have no problem injecting themselves with a diabetes drug, which has less of a long-term track record, for weight loss.
Funny how the science changes depending on if there is a R or a D by your name…
BC needs a good dose of Faucitis, and then another to cure the first.
I buy suppliments from Alex Jones not because i consume them, I just want to support the cause and help him fight the globalist demon worshipping vampire media machine. Same reason I bought his 9/11 Truth DVDs back in the early 2000s.
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