Madison Area Lyme Support Group

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

When the MAHA movement launched, many of us hoped the first year would bring decisive action—accountability, safety recalibration, and an honest reckoning with the failures of pandemic-era public health. While important conversations have begun, particularly around food quality and chronic disease, the core biomedical and regulatory crises that resulted in millions of deaths, injuries, and disabilities remain largely untouched.  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

The McCullough Foundation is pushing for the following:

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None of these reforms require new science. They require regulatory courage, ethical clarity, and accountability—qualities that have too often been subordinated to institutional self-protection and corporate influence. Public health cannot be restored while the policies that enabled mass injury, excess death, and systemic coercion remain intact.

If MAHA avoids the most difficult reforms—those that confront pharmaceutical power, biosecurity threats, and pandemic-era misconduct—it becomes cosmetic rather than corrective. Food and environmental reform matter, but they are insufficient on their own. Real reform requires addressing the structural failures that allowed preventable harm on a historic scale.