Max Kozlov

This thread and article is really quite something.

"Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians." 👀

$80 for 6 bags of potato chips. What’s this, MAHA or “HAHA”? Like laughing. I’m available to explain further if need be

no collidial silver? how can i get the full RFK experience without the funni smurf serum

Americans need to eat fewer ultra-processed foods and more dubious powders

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

This is achingly beautiful and almost too painful to read in places (but you still should). The cruelty of cancer, the longing to be with your children — and the twist of fate, being RFK Jr’s cousin as he unwinds U.S. health research.

RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, The Food Babe, Dana White, Russell Brand, Bryan Johnson, and a slew of influencers.

Oh, and attendees got a bag of chips made with beef tallow!

I was highly debating wearing a mask (I don't even want to know what the coverage rate was for routine vaccines in the room that day) but I have a strong feeling that I wouldn't have made it past the door with it

Thank you for your kind words. The full article should be accessible if you register for a free account.

This is some stand-out, exclusive reporting about a MAHA conference held in DC that was nearly absent of scientists (and reporters.)

Worth your time to read.

Bravo, @maxkozlov.bsky.social 👏🏻

Wow...this is really embarrassing. Reads like an @theonion.com article.

that's literally a MAHA starter pack

My favorite part was they had the standard shitty conference coffee. But they labelled as "organic coffee"

This self-described 'MAHA mom' took issue with the tortilla chips they served
www.themahareport.com/p/inside-the...

I mean, it's one bag of tallow chips, Michael. What could it cost? 13 dollars?

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

Read my full story here!

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And yes, the swag bags. Attendees received MAHA-branded tote bags with:

- Packets of creatine
- Beef tallow potato chips ($79 for a 6-pack!!)
- Mouth tape
- RFK Jr's biography
- Beef protein bars

As I was leaving I saw out of the corner of my eye former CDC director Robert Redfield out of the corner of my eye.

I figured I had to go see if he's speak with me. And he did:

“We didn’t have anything like this” during Trump 1.0, he told me. “Bobby has gotten industry to sit down with him.”

The summit was something of a coming-of-age moment for MAHA: It began as a loose network of RFK Jr supporters around the country.

But now it has the ear of top Trump/MAGA officials, Big Business, and influencers. They're thinking about cementing MAHA's legacy beyond RFK, attendees told me.

Even some MAHA supporters were frustrated by the lack of scientists.

One woman argued that you need the scientific establishment to enact change from within.

“But they’re seen as all corrupt by Kennedy and his inner circle,” she told me, who “want to punish them for their role in COVID”.

The summit also exposed rifts in MAHA world. Some hailed treatments like psychedelics & new obesity drugs.

But that's against the anti-pharma ethos that permeates MAHA.

“I don’t like taking medications,” Vance said, pointing to ibuprofen. “I don’t like taking anything unless I absolutely have to.”

Bryan Johnson also encouraged attendees to have more sex. Lower your resting heart rate before bed, he told attendees, other than for sex.

“Sex is such a great thing for health… you have to take the opportunity when it presents itself, even if it raises your heart rate.”

And then there was Bryan Johnson, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire known for his extreme anti-ageing ‘biohacks’, like receiving plasma from his teenage son.

Johnson, on a quest to live forever, wants “competing for the best biomarkers of anybody in the world” to be something of a new sport.

JD Vance said the quiet part out loud, alluding to COVID-19:

“As we found out the hard way over the last few years,” very often that people outside the scientific mainstream “were right and all the experts were wrong”, he said, to loud cheers from the audience.

The NIH director told attendees the NIH doesn't do enough innovative research.

“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”

A strange mishmash of influencers, anti-ageing entrepreneurs, Big Business leaders (Walmart, Google) and top govt officials gathered at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria in DC.

Notably absent were any academic researchers or clinicians. Instead, panelists criticized the medical establishment all day long.

A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health

www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...

Sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer & much more

A dive into the list of NIH's 383 shelved clinical trials, obtained by Scientific American

life IS lived forward

unless you die really prematurely and needlessly because of preventable diseases

The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.

Now that’s a lede.

Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.

Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Plus, who else at HHS, other than in HR, would have granular knowledge of a personnel matter at an HHS subsidiary?

If this is the case, I would argue it's incumbent on journos to say this quote came from comms — and not to print it otherwise.

A note about this quote attributed to an anonymous HHS official.

I have not asked HHS for comment on Jenna's leave status, but I'd be willing to bet good money this came from their comms office.

They have a habit of telling reporters — without any mutual agreement — things on background