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Casey Means, our next Wiccan Surgeon General

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How many of you know of Casey Means, Trump's pick to be the next American surgeon general? I'm guessing not many. Let me introduce you to her.

Casey Means is not a doctor, though she did go to medical school. Let me share with you her expertise as stated in her own words. She "worked with a spiritual medium who helped try to connect with spirit guides for support and guidance.” She also “did full moon ceremonies with grounded, powerful women where [they] called in abundance and let go of what wasn’t serving [them]." "Perhaps the body is simply the material ‘radio receiver’ through which we can ‘tune in’ to the divine. We will get instructions (through human inspiration and reason) for what we need to do to raise the vibration of humanity and create a sustainable future… The future of medicine will be about light. I don’t exactly know how yet." "Humans are out of alignment with the Earth and depleting its life force...and human bodies are now exhibiting signs of blocking the flow of energy through them. This is insulin resistance. We are the Earth."

She has also practiced the "Silva Method," a self-help meditation program. It claims to develop psychic abilities such as clairvoyance. Wikipedia notes that "It has been variously classified as a self-religion, a new religious movement, and a cult, and has been criticised as pseudoscience." She's also dabbled in psychedelic drugs.

Why is this idiot being proposed for such an office?

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  • Hoyacon@Hoyacon

    From the New York Times lead four paragraphs.

    President Trump said on Wednesday that he would nominate Casey Means, a Stanford-educated doctor turned critic of corporate influence on medicine and health, as surgeon general.

    Dr. Means, an ally of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described becoming disillusioned by establishment medicine. She rose to prominence last year after she and her brother, Calley Means, a White House health adviser and former food industry lobbyist, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show.

    What is her field of medicine?

    Dr. Means, who trained as an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon, left surgery behind without finishing her training to practice so-called functional medicine, which focuses on addressing the root causes of disease. She published a diet and self-help book last year titled “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.” Before that, she had been best known for founding Levels, a company that offers subscribers wearable glucose monitors to track their health.

    She has focused on the prevalence of chronic diseases in the United States and has taken aim at obesity, diabetes and infertility, problems she has attributed to the use of chemicals and medications and Americans’ sedentary lifestyles

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