Multiple campaigns, each costing taxpayers $10-20M, to promote evidence-baseless consumer products like continuous glucose monitors for non-diabetics and private pay lab testing, which Surgeon General nominee Casey Means sells and was previously promoted by other grifting hacks like Elizabeth Holmes
Idk. Just finished Good Energy and — with the disastrous/cynical list of appointments by this admin — this one sounds like a gem. Seriously.
“Health wearables as cool”?? Are these the same people who feared tracker chips in lifesaving vaccines—but now are completely “cool” with voluntarily wearing one expressly designed to track everything you do, yet offers you no benefit?
People should be concerned about what is in their food, from both a manufacturing safety and nutritional stand point, but monitoring glucose in non diabetics is nuts! We DO need to tackle healthy food deserts, but not with whoo.
FFS. Grifty companies have already caused CGM shortages for those of us who rely on them to stay alive (on top of mfg fuckups like Dexcom's recent FDA trouble). It can't help you with fitness. At best, a CGM will indicate undiagnosed diabetes but there are cheaper and more accurate tests for that.
They’re literally just stealing our money. Why can’t her company pay for its own advertising? You don’t even have to know or care about the science (illiteracy in this case); is nobody else seeing the obvious fraud that everyone in HHS is committing to literally line their pockets at our expense?
Means and the whole founder class are super bought into making up ways to measure themselves so they can be optimized. They believe in it. And yes it’s also grift.
Dexcom 7 is a prescription device. Am I misunderstanding this is for sale w/out a prescription? www.levels.com#cgm
Honey, that’s the M.O. of this entire regime of kleptocrats.