Author Abigail Nichols profileDuring an event challenging the idea that “scientific truth is … achieved by consensus,” Food andDrug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary laid out the agency’s goals to promote nutrition over prescription drug use and expressed concern about how politics have affected the scientific community in recent years.

Makary highlighted the FDA’s “effort to Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) through finding “more cures and meaningful treatment for the American public,” during a Wednesday Capitol Hill Lecture event. The MAHA slogan represents an initiative by the Trump administration — pioneered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to end chronic diseases and reduce health care spending. ..

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