The Mammography Deception: Why RFK Jr. is Right for the Wrong Reasons

June 4, 2026

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/the-mammography-deception-why-rfk?

The Mammography Deception: Why RFK Jr. Is Right for the Wrong Reasons

How a screening tool became a political battleground — and why the real crisis in breast cancer care has nothing to do with who sits on a government task force

Sayer Ji

May 23, 2026

In May 2026, RFK Jr. fired two vice chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) — the body whose letter grades legally determine what preventive care your insurance must cover — and the medical establishment and its media apparatus erupted in performative outrage. The concern was presented to the public in the following terms: that political operatives would replace evidence-based scientists, that mammograms and colonoscopies would go the way of vaccine recommendations. But in the ensuing media storm, almost no one stopped to ask a harder question. What if the evidence base for mammography screening was already contested, complicated, and in some dimensions, quietly devastating — long before any politician arrived to interfere?

“Doctors are furious that RFK Jr. touched mammography.

But the Cochrane Collaboration — medicine’s gold standard — found that for every woman mammography saves, 10 are unnecessarily treated.

The outrage is real. It’s just aimed in exactly the wrong direction.” Sayer Ji Source

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

1.3 MILLION women are over-diagnosed by mammography screening over a 30 year period and treated for cancers that would never have caused symptoms or death according to a 2012 analysis.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Ji points out that ‘finding is not the same thing as saving,’ and that for a majority of women their body’s immune system is managing this cluster of abnormal cells which would never cause symptoms, spread, or kill them. But today a ‘breast cancer’ diagnosis results in the institutional logic of oncology which demands biopsy, surgery, radiation, and often years of hormone suppression. Similarly to weather modifying geoengineering creating a self-fulfilling prophecy and then turning around and blaming ‘climate change’ for what it actually caused, these diagnosed women with ”breast cancer’ are told mammograms saved them and the system counts her a success despite never addressing the abnormal cell population.

Lastly, the fourth most common breast cancer in women is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) which is abnormal cells within the milk duct – not invasive cancer. It is merely a finding of a tissue-level change yet standard care for it has been lumpectomy or mastectomy, followed by radiation, and often years of tamoxifen. RCTs are showing the majority of low and intermediate-grade DCIS do not progress to invasive cancer.

Never forget: mammography delivers ionizing radiation to breast tissue.

This accumulates with each mammogram.

Also, the entire breast cancer awareness month was co-founded by Imperial Chemical Industries – a manufacturer of carcinogens! who profits from every mammogram! See: “Stop Pinkwashing: The Truth Breast Cancer Charities Bury,” and “The Cancer Deception: How Modern Medicine’s Fundamental Misunderstanding of Cancer’s True Causes Created a $43 BILLION Overdiagnosis Industry.”

Ji points out the drivers of breast cancer which include diet and endocrine disrupting chemicals. (See top link for article)

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