HHS
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HHS is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 08, 2023 and April 14, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “public comment changing HHS/DEA’s mind”; “now he’s taking the #2 spot at HHS under RFK”; “anti-vaxxer in HHS and half the country thinking insulin is a globohomo conspiracy”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Astralcodexten Com, Trump.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: May 08, 2023
- Last seen: April 14, 2025
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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I want to make note of this, particularly as Scott seemed really pessimistic about public comment changing HHS/DEA's mind. I admit I disagreed with this - in my experience, Departments/Agencies take public comment very seriously, and they acknowledged the issues here and started the process for correcting them. I do not disagree that government does a ton wrong (and I know people will still grumble this mess shouldn't have happened in the first place, which I understand, although many in the previous thread made some great points why there probably should be at least some safeguards for remote prescribing), but this looks like a case where public comment did its job.
My personal favorite as the only Trump administration official to have commented on this blog (JD Vance only lurks – sad!) O’Neill, previously a Peter Thiel lieutenant, has worked in causes from seasteading to anti-aging; now he’s taking the #2 spot at HHS under RFK. He famously proposed that the FDA consider only safety (and not efficacy) when approving drugs. Given that he hasn’t been chosen for FDA, that’s probably not on the cards, but here are some things we hope O’Neill considers:
We wanted people to question p-hacked psychology studies and TED talk experts telling them the Nine Ways That Science Proves Merit Is Fake. So we punctured some windbag experts, then woke up one day with an anti-vaxxer in HHS and half the country thinking insulin is a globohomo conspiracy - or whatever it is they’re saying on X now [...]