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Trump’s new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food

JL;DR SUMMARY Casey Means, President Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, has controversially linked modern pesticide use to Nazi Germany, stating that chemicals developed during Hitler's regime have tainted American agriculture. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationNazi GermanyVaccine SkepticismTucker CarlsonAlternative MedicineCasey MeansPesticidesOrganophosphatesEnvironmental HealthPeter Thompson

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East Lansing, Michigan, United States
"There is some connection there, according to Peter Thompson, an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University and author of the book The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany: Vision of Chemical Modernity."
Burlington, Vermont, United States
"Hannah Feuer joined the Forward as a general assignment reporter in May 2025 after two years as a culture reporter at Seven Days, an independent weekly in Burlington, Vermont."

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