RFK Jr’s Wearables Push Is Raising Serious Concerns

Written by Need To Know Publications on July 17, 2025. Posted in Current News

I supported him through the Childrens’ Health Defense years, I supported RFK Jr’s run for Presidency, I supported him joining Trump’s team in order to achieve his goals. I supported his recent moves against the FDA, CDC stay-behind pharma captured personnel who had driven and supported the Covid-19 response in the US

But this article by Jeremy Hammond has given me pause for thought about his motives and how he may have had his priorities changed for him.

He is too smart and knowledgeable not to understand the implications of every US citizen having a wi-fi enabled, wearable device, monitoring and recording everything about their physical being.

• I urge you to go and read the original article here: https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2025/07/07/why-rfk-jrs-wearables-push-is-raising-alarm-among-health-freedom-and-privacy-advocates/
• The first section only is posted here plus the table of contents which links directly to the original article

In a recent budget hearing, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, “We’re about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables.”

Kennedy described wearables as “a key to the MAHA agenda” and said, “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.”

As noted by Robert McGreevy in a Daily Caller article for which I was asked to provide comments, titled “Idea Proposed By RFK Has Some In MAHA Scratching Their Heads,” Kennedy’s remarks have “rankled medical freedom and privacy advocates”.

Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official under the George H.W. Bush administration, told the Daily Caller“:

If RFK is promoting this it is because those are his political orders. He knows better.”

Indeed, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which Kennedy helped found and presided over until stepping down to take on the job of HHS Secretary, denounced the stated plan to use taxpayers’ money to promote electronic devices emitting electromagnetic frequency (EMF) radiation with the aim of “every American” using them.

There are also privacy concerns about biometric data harvesting.

Additionally, some are concerned about conflicts of interest affecting policy decisions within the leadership of the “Make America Healthy Again” or “MAHA” movement, a political campaign that was launched when Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race to join forces with Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” or “MAGA” movement.

After Catherine Austin Fitts, the Daily Caller article quotes me as follows:

“I share the concerns of many that the health freedom movement was effectively hijacked and is now being misdirected,” Jeremy R. Hammond, an independent journalist and fellow at The Libertarian Institute, told the Caller.

I can understand certain individuals wishing to use wearables, but the idea that every American should be is lunacy and completely counter to the goals of the grassroots health freedom movement, which is not to be confused with ‘MAHA,’” Hammond said.

To put my comments into context, it is important to understand how the MAHA campaign arose and to otherwise expound on the details of this “wearables” controversy to put it into greater perspective.

The Health Freedom Movement’s Vaccine Focus

Many members of the grassroots health freedom movement voted for Donald Trump with the hope of getting RFK, Jr. into a position to help stop the systematic violation of the right to informed consent resulting from public vaccine policies.

While members of the movement share concerns about a wide variety of environmental assaults on children’s health, as reflected by CHD’s mission of “ending childhood health epidemics by eliminating toxic exposure,” the primary focus has been the long-term effects of vaccines on overall health—an area that is poorly studied.

As stated by Dr. Peter Aaby, a top researcher into what are called “non-specific effects” of vaccines, “I guess most of you think that we know what all our vaccines are doing. We don’t.”

An example of a detrimental non-specific effect is the diphtheria, tetanus, and whole cell pertussis (DTP) vaccine’s association with an increased rate of childhood mortality. As Aaby and coauthors observed in a 2017 study in the Lancet journal eBioMedicine,

It should be of concern that the effect of routine vaccinations on all-cause mortality was not tested in randomized trials.

All currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis.

Though a vaccine protects children against the target disease it may simultaneously increase susceptibility to unrelated infections.

Members of the health freedom movement, often dismissed with the derogatory label “anti-vaxxers” for advocating the right to informed consent, have long expressed concerns that the aggressive vaccination schedule recommended by the CDC is contributing to the alarming rates of chronic diseases and disorders—including neurodevelopmental disorders—in the US childhood population.

Indeed, as I detailed in my book The War on Informed Consent, which features a Foreword by RFK, Jr., while the CDC refuses to do the type of vaccinated versus unvaccinated study that parents have long been demanding, data from independent researchers strongly indicate that completely unvaccinated children are healthier.

A positive outcome of the medical tyranny endured under the lockdown madness and its coerced mass vaccination endgame was a greater awakening of the public to the complete untrustworthiness of so-called “public health” officials.

The COVID‑19 vaccines, recall, were sold to the public based on lies about their safety and effectiveness. Among other major concerns is the finding of DNA contamination in the mRNA shots, which the Food and Drug Administration, responsible for the emergency use authorizations and full approvals under which the products are distributed, has completely ignored.

Within the movement in the runup to the 2024 presidential election, there was a virtual consensus that most urgent priority was to ensure the removal of COVID‑19 vaccines from the CDC’s childhood schedule and removal of the CDC’s recommendation for pregnant women to get the shot.

Many are now under the impression that this key goal has been achieved. As I elucidate below, it hasn’t—and the disinformation to the contrary is a cause for heightened concern about the direction that “MAHA” is taking the movement.

While long considered a respected leader in the fight against medical tyranny, Kennedy’s focus on the vaccine issue shifted immediately upon quitting his own presidential run to join forces with Trump and launch the MAHA campaign.

During a speech announcing the suspension of his own campaign on August 23, 2024, Kennedy focused on the role of food and mitochondrial dysfunction while saying nothing about vaccines.

Puzzlingly to long-time health freedom advocates who’d never heard of him, Kennedy singled out for praise a man named Calley Means, calling him “arguably the leading advocate” for “ending the chronic disease epidemic”.

Kennedy himself later confessed that he “had not heard of” Calley Means until seeing him promote a new book on the Tucker Carlson Show only six months before.

The Means Siblings and the Rise of MAHA™

It was Calley Means who reportedly orchestrated the Trump-Kennedy alliance despite being a self-described former “Never Trumper”. A former consultant for the food and pharmaceutical industries, Means has told the peculiar story of sitting in a sweat tent with Kennedy and having a vision of him standing next to Trump.

That led to Means coordinating a phone call between Trump and Kennedy that led to the two joining forces.

A video recording of Kennedy on the call with Trump was published to social media by his son, Bobby Kennedy III, who is married to Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former CIA officer who had taken over as campaign manager for RFK, Jr., after the departure of Dennis Kucinich in October 2023.

Kennedy afterward disavowed the video’s publication and apologized to Trump for the video going public, while withholding criticism of his son and instead taking blame for not telling the camera person stop recording.

Calley Means also used to work for Mercury Public Affairs, the same PR consulting firm where Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, used to work.

As reported by The Kennedy Beacon while Kennedy was still in the race, Mercury’s clients have included Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Pfizer; and Gilead Sciences. After Kennedy dropped out of the race and allied with Trump, however, that article was scrubbed from the pro-Kennedy publication—an instructive example of politically motivated self-censorship.

Additionally, Calley Means owns a company called TrueMed, which provides physicians’ letters of “medical necessity” to enable people to use funds from health savings accounts (HSAs) to purchase goods like exercise equipment, gym memberships, supplements, saunas, cold plunges, red light therapy devices, and mattresses.

As the Associated Press reported on June 10,

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would further expand HSA purchases, making gym memberships and other fitness expenses eligible for tax-free spending. That provision alone is expected to cost the government $10 billion in revenue.

“These are really just tax breaks in the guise of health policy that overwhelmingly benefit people with high incomes,” said Gideon Lukens, a former White House budget official during the Obama and Trump administrations, now with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Expanding HSA eligibility was listed as a goal for a coalition of MAHA entrepreneurs and Truemed partners, founded by Means, which lobbied Congress last year, according to the group’s website.

Trump signed the bill into law on July 4 after it narrowly passed in the Senate.

Calley’s sister is Casey Means, Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General.

The Means siblings were virtually unknown within the health freedom movement until their sudden rise to stardom coinciding with the marketing of their book Good Energy, which was published in May 2024 and is about the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in the epidemic of chronic illnesses.

Their rise was helped by an appearance by Calley Means on the Tucker Carlson Show in February 2024, in which he announced their forthcoming book, and a two-hour interview on the show with both siblings in August 2024.

Casey Means also helped found a company called Levels, which sells a subscription-based app that connects to wearable glucose monitors.

Casey’s co-founder Sam Corcos bragged in an interview how the company made a conscious decision to turn Means into an influencer. “Eventually, she just became absolutely exceptional at it,” Corcos said, “and so we put more resourcing into it, building up her personal brand, building in that distribution, and it worked really well.”

As Toby Rogers, Ph.D., a fellow at the Brownstone Institute, pointed out to the Daily Caller:

“Casey Means, Calley Means, and Susan Monarez all have deep ties to the wearables industry. I think their conflicts of interest are disqualifying.”

Monarez is Trump’s nominee for CDC director and previously worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which the Caller noted has “invested in a wide range of wearable and biometric technologies.”

Rogers further stated,

The data will be used to sell you all sorts of things and discriminate against those with underlying health conditions.

Wearables (other than glucose monitors for diabetics and a few other devices) have everything to do with commerce and almost nothing to do with health.

Chronic illness is being monetized, and this is deeply troubling.

Indeed, although not reported in the article, in my comments to the Daily Caller, I noted that Kennedy applied for a trademark for “MAHA” that was then transferred to Del Bigtree, host of The Highwire, founder of the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), and former communications director for Kennedy’s presidential campaign.

During his Senate confirmation process, Kennedy disclosed to the Office of Government Ethics that he’d made $100,000 from a licensing agreement with filmmaker Jeff Hays to use MAHA brand marks, which Hays used to launch “MAHA Films” and the documentary “MAHA™ Toxic Nation”.

As listed on the application, among the goods and services someone aims to profit from using the MAHA trademark are mobile apps for monitoring medical conditions, online marketplace services for HSAs, and—most alarmingly—vaccines.

Kennedy Walks Back His ‘Every American’ Comment

In comments to the Daily Caller, Kennedy appeared to walk back his description of universal wearables use as “a key to the MAHA agenda” while echoing the message of the Means’ book:

Let me be clear: the Take Back Your Health campaign is not about wearables. It’s about inspiring Americans to stop eating ultra-processed foods and reclaim control of their health.

Ultra-processed foods are a driving force behind the chronic disease epidemic. Replacing them with real, whole foods is one of the most powerful ways to Make America Healthy Again.

Wearables are one option for learning about the impact of your diet on your health, but we understand they are not for everyone because of concerns like cost and personal privacy.

Kennedy told Charles Eisenstein, an advisor and chief speechwriter for Kennedy during his presidential campaign, that of course he didn’t want to mandate wearables, and the data “should be private” and “subject to health privacy laws” when collected by device providers.

Asked about the risks from EMF radiation, Kennedy said he was “personally” concerned about it but that “HHS doesn’t have a policy.”

Again walking back his statement that “every American” should use wearables, Kennedy added, “We are going to initiate research on the topic, though, so that Americans can make an informed decision about whether the risks of these devices outweigh the benefits.”

Of course, there is a clear conflict of interest for HHS to fund research into the risks and benefits of wearables while having a predetermined policy of encouraging Americans to use them.

The research should at least come before the policy goal—and the government shouldn’t be involved in our health care decisions to begin with, which has only resulted in a government-enforced medical cartel masquerading as a “health care” system.

As everyone in the health freedom movement is all too well aware, science is perverted when the government redistributes taxpayers’ money toward researchers who will dutifully produce the desired results to support the predetermined policy goals of the so-called “public health” establishment.

This is taken from a long document. See the rest here substack.com

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