When Calley Means asks me to "Join the Movement"
a Means to an end of the vaccine discussion?
I’m not going to lie. I’m a little wary of the rising stars of MAHA.
I’ve written about my concerns before.
While I’m prone to gushing admiration for those who have very publicly made brave choices and great speeches, I’m lucky to work alongside “regular people” who have been quietly extraordinary day-after-day for years. And witnessing the disparity between how these groups are acknowledged and rewarded for their efforts has been revelatory. I’m now witnessing the struggles of friends who have fought tirelessly for years to preserve health freedom while newcomers rise to levels of stardom that simply never existed in this movement before.
Something doesn’t feel right.
A Means to a paradigm shift
When people who were silent during COVID show up out of nowhere with their new books and health ventures asking veterans of the Health Freedom movement to “Join the Movement,” it feels weird.
By joining this movement, you are committing to:
Reallocating your healthcare spending toward medically backed, root-cause interventions to transform your health.
Advocating for policy changes that give us greater control over our healthcare dollars, enabling investment in proactive, non-pharmaceutical solutions.
Supporting a paradigm shift that prioritizes prevention over treatment, tackling chronic conditions at their roots.
What movement is this? What does “medically backed, root-cause interventions” mean and who decides? And what root causes will this paradigm shift acknowledge?
I’m all for getting toxins out of foods, but what about injecting our food with mRNA? What about Apeel? CRISPR gene-manipulation technology in food? And beyond food, what about the ever-growing vaccine schedule and those toxic ingredients? How about the impacts of 5G and EMFs? Can we really talk about prevention, root cause and paradigm shift without discussing these things?
Paradigm shift conversations have been happening for years. Some of the “new” conversations I’m hearing sound like repurposed versions of conversations that have been happening for decades. Except they are diverting much of the attention away from vaccines. This after many parents and the vaccine-injured community fought like hell for years to bring that issue to the forefront.
It’s not that I’m not grateful for the voices of Casey and Calley Means, or of others who have more recently lent their voices to the health conversation. I am. I think they are valuable voices in a broader conversation. I just don’t think we should be handing over the podium or letting these newbies redefine and reframe the American health crisis to make way for proposed solutions that they’re already monetizing. And I certainly don’t think we should be handing over any positions in the next administration.
So why are they being so loudly considered?
From Casey Means’s brand new Wikipedia page:
In October 2024, the Washington Post reported that Means had been shortlisted by the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign to potentially lead the Food and Drug Administration.[7]
That’s an interesting thing for WaPo to report. I can’t get past that paywall, but it’s hard not to notice that there’s no negative coverage of these two. And EVERYONE is covering them. Media on all sides. The Wall Street Journal, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Washington Examiner, Stat News, The Economist and NPR are all offering favorable reports.
When does this happen for health freedom advocates and BigPharma/BigAg opponents in mainstream media?
Both Means siblings had previously been tied to the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign and have promoted Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again platform.[8][9]
Previously tied to or recently latched onto Kennedy’s campaign? I never heard their names before this year. Kennedy’s campaign started in April 2023. COVID (ostensibly) started in 2020. Where were their voices then?
The release of Good Energy led to a spot on The Tucker Carlson Show, as well as podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience, The Rubin Report, and The Doctor’s Farmacy with Mark Hyman. Casey and her brother Calley also participated in a live-stream from Washington, D.C. hosted by Senator Ron Johnson and entitled “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion.”[10]
Yup. They’re everywhere all of a sudden.
It makes me think of “flooding the zone”
It also makes me think of Noam Chomsky… pre-Covid.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
From Gizmodo:
The Wall Street Journal writes that Calley Means and his sister, Dr. Casey Means, a surgeon, are the wellness gurus from whom Kennedy has sourced much of his New Age-y health philosophy. The newspaper calls the siblings “top advisors” to Kennedy, and notes that their book, “Good Energy,” has been circulated among Trump’s inner circle.
Axios calls Calley Means a “close confidante” of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Weird. Where was he when Bobby was enduring hit piece after hit piece while opposing vaccine mandates and lockdowns during COVID?
The Washington Examiner says Calley Means “served as one of the key architects behind Kennedy and Trump’s truce” and adds “he appears to be the bridge the two men rely on to carry out common goals.”
What does that mean? And how did Calley Means show up as that bridge?
These siblings feel media made and very much like part of a larger agenda. Could this have anything to do with another political operative with Trumps ear?
Wiles and Means?
Politico calls Trump’s Chief of Staff selection, Susie Wiles, “The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America.” From the article:
She’s a savvy operator, a capable manager, a spotter and cultivator of up-and-coming talent, a maker and keeper of relationships with reporters, and a sly, subtle shaper of stories that help frame the political currents that can determine the difference between a win and a loss…
Liam Sturgess calls Susie Wiles “the connective tissue between Trump and Big Pharma.”
Wiles is also a seasoned lobbyist; her LinkedIn profile summarizes her leadership roles at multiple corporate and political lobbying firms since the mid-1980s, allowing her to sway Trump’s psyche with her conflicts of interest. Wiles became co-chair of lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs in February 2022. As highlighted by Wholistic News, Mercury’s clientele includes Pfizer; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which spearheaded vaccine funding and distribution efforts during the COVID-19 crisis – a role also played by the United Nations Foundation, another Mercury client; and Gilead Sciences, developer of the equally-rushed COVID-19 “therapeutic,” remdesivir, as critiqued in Science.
Both Wiles and Means (the pairing has the ring of a Machiavellian strategy, doesn’t it?) were lobbyists for drug companies. Both reportedly worked at Mercury.
Calley is also a member of David Rockefeller’s Council of Foreign Relations.
These details aren’t evidence of a connection between them or anything nefarious, but they are things we should learn more about before handing over any regulatory power.
Last year on X, Calley said “Over 80% of medical costs and deaths in the United States are tied to preventable metabolic conditions - not parents deciding to delay the Hep B vaccine. Most Americans support most vaccines - as they should. But the fact that a pharmaceutical product gets all the airtime while the root cause of our actual health crisis doesn't leads to suspicion.”
Is he implying that vaccines are getting too much airtime? Does he know how hard we worked to get this airtime? Does he realize that the majority of that airtime is still gaslighting?
The Means siblings have been very vocal about problems with our food and nutrition, but shouldn’t we gain some clarity on where they stand with regards to vaccines, mandates, biometric data collection and mRNA technology?
It matters partly because both have set up health companies of their own. These two have already placed their bets on the future of medicine. Calley co-founded TruMed, which offers supplements and other lifestyle products and services, and Casey co-founded Levels, a digital health company that, among other things, incorporates a wearable device that feeds continuous blood glucose monitoring data to its app to show you the metabolic impact of your diet.
Sasha Latypova, Shannon Joy and others have also been raising concerns.
I don’t know. I really don’t KNOW anything. But my screenwriter brain thinks of a scenario in which narrative ninja Susie Wiles plants “clown car” seeds that force RFK’s appointment to be attached to the inclusion of Calley/Casey Means and others who will then co-opt the chronic disease epidemic narrative and redirect it towards nutrition in a way that will still make way for more vaccines and biometric data surveillance.
Perhaps that’s not it at all. But even if it isn’t, it just doesn’t make sense to give them a role under Trump. They are new to the discussions they’re taking over. According to Calley’s TruMed bio, “Since losing his mom to pancreatic cancer in 2022, (he) has been obsessed with understanding the root cause of our metabolic disease crisis.”
I’m grateful that he’s taking this on, but it’s only been two years.
I developed a similar obsession after watching the healthcare system fail my mother, who died of stomach cancer. My then boyfriend was wrapping up medical school and starting his residency, so I, too, had simultaneous access to different perspectives. Twenty seven years later my pursuit is ongoing. I’ve been treating patients (as an acupuncturist/Chinese medicine practitioner) for well over 20 years and I’m still learning. How likely is it that Calley and Casey truly understand the American health crisis better than everyone else who has taken on this same mission?
The Means siblings are speaking some powerful truth with confidence, but that kind of confidence can be dangerous if they’re not willing to acknowledge the whole spectrum of truth. People who think they have all the answers are quick to stop learning and eager to move onto teaching. That leads to psychosclerosis and groupthink. And we’ve already seen what harm that can do.
Let’s just make sure we don’t calcify a new medical consensus, especially when it might not address all of our concerns
I think that anyone who is new to this movement and genuinely interested in advancing meaningful change in the realm of public health should make way for those whose shoulders they’ve been standing on so they can carry on the important work they’ve been doing for years. It shouldn’t be about having lofty position in an administration. Casey and Calley Means have plenty of opportunities to advocate for change alongside the rest of us.
Being part of the community they hope to serve would be a great start.
I’m a doctor, as black-pilled as they come now, unfortunately. My instinct is: “too big, too fast.” Dr Jack Kruse has written a lot about them on X.
Their names were absolutely nowhere the past five years, and their father Grady Means is apparently a big wig at the Rockefeller Foundation and Trilateral Commission. Their own connections to Sergei Brin’s sister in law, Booz Allen (where NSA “whistleblower” Snowden also worked… Snowden’s grandfather was a senior FBI guy), and just how great and cool and amazing for two unknowns to just somehow connect a Kennedy to the future President of the USA! What luck! “Hey, there’s someone I think you should meet. It just happens to be this billionaire with a heart of gold who just really, really cares.”
It’s all just a psyop. I wish I could be more blue-eyed and hopeful but I think the una-party is way, way ahead of us.
“People who think they have all the answers are quick to stop learning and eager to move onto teaching.” That stopped me dead in my tracks…