Casey Means and the Empty Guardrails Around “America’s Doctor”
Disease is not partisan. The office that speaks for science should not be either. The Means nomination is a stress test of what happens when that line breaks.
On February 25, in a wood-paneled Senate hearing room, a Republican doctor tried to get a straight answer to a simple question. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a gastroenterologist by training and the ranking Republican on the Senate health committee, asked Donald Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General whether she would recommend that children receive the …
