HHS - Appointments steeped in Controversy. Good!

Above: Screen Shot. Fox News Bret Bair interviews HHS leaders. 08 May 2025.

I love DJT's band of cabinet and sub cabinet "disruptor" department heads, many of whom are steeped in controversy. Take Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Cabinet Secretary RFK Jr. and his team are pictured above: Dr. Mehmet Oz - Medicare; Marty Makary - Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and Jay Bhattacharya - National Institutes of Health (NIH). All have been cancelled for challenging government health care conventional wisdom. And now, amazingly, they're holding the jobs of the people that cancelled them! All are in a position to not only to put into clear focus America's health crisis, but also to do something about it. ***

And American health crisis there is. Declining sperm counts, rapidly increasing autism rates, and unbelievably high obesity levels are all indicators of a serious US health crisis.

Each member of DJT's team of outliers at HHS has a history of questioning conventional wisdom in US health practices.

During Covid, RFK, Jr. was sidelined by the corporate media for his book, "The Real Anthony Fauci," which denounced Fauci's work at The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). Now, as head of HHS, RFK, Jr. is in a position to expose Fauci's alleged role in covering up the origins of Covic 19 and his considerable errors in managing America's Covid response.

My review of RFK, Jr.'s book, "The Real Anthony Fauci," is here: "The Real Anthony Fauci" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | Stephen DeWitt Taylor

Stanford epidemiologist, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was cancelled by US government health authorities following his co-authorship of the Great Barrington Resolution, a treatise which questioned the efficacy of the government's heavy-handed approach to dealing with Covid-19. Francis Collins, head of NIH during the Covid crisis, referred to Bhattacharya as a "fringe epidemiologist" summarizing the government's response to the Great Barrington resolution. Under Trump, Collins is now discredited, and Bhattacharya runs NIH.

Marty Makary, of Johns Hopkins University, is a notorious critic of conventional US medical practice. In his book, "The Price We Pay," Makary argues that rising US health care costs undermine public trust in American medicine. Makary is Trump's new head of the FDA, in the cat bird seat to address firsthand problems in the American health apparatus.

My review of Marty Makary's book, "The Price We Pay," is here: "The Price We Pay" by Marty Makary, MD | Stephen DeWitt Taylor 

Dr. Mehmet Oz is a TV host, physician, author, and former senate candidate. A group of notable doctors called out his association with Columbia University, referring to "his lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain." Today, Dr. Oz heads up Medicare which provides him a platform to air so-called controversial issues.

Also, I loved hearing today about Casey Means' "controversial" appointment to Surgeon General. The critics cry, "she's not even an accredited medical doctor!" Casey is another non establishment outlier in America's health debate. I listened to Casey and her brother Calley on the Tucker Carlson 16 August 2024 podcast. Casey: "I was top in my class at Stanford Medical School and am sad to report that I learned nothing at Stanford about the important health issues facing America today!" On the Tucker podcast Casey and Calley Means talked about, among others, the harmful effects of micro plastics and pesticides entering our food supply.

Controversial HHS appointments? Bring them on. Like my dad, Weldon J. Taylor, Dean College of Business, Brigham Young University, 1960 - 1975, always said, "truth cannot be found in the absence of controversy." Accordingly, I look forward to RFK Jr. and his controversial firebrands stimulating important, transparent discussions about America's health care crisis with the expectation that such discussions and debates will lead to real solutions. DJT's genius is exposed by his taking this promising tack on HHS appointments.

*** I also love that the three sub-cabinet disruptor department heads discussed in this note are either immigrants or first-generation immigrants. Marty Makary, Egypt; Jay Bhattacharya, India; Mehmet Oz, Turkey. There's a message there... for another blog discussion.