A prominent voice in the Make America Healthy Again movement is urging health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make the subject of chemtrail conspiracy theories a federal priority, according to a report from KFF News.
KFF received a memo in July, written by MAHA influencer Gray Delany, presenting the topic to Calley Means, a White House health adviser. The memo contains a series of unsubstantiated and far-fetched claims that academic researchers and federal agencies are secretly spreading toxins from airplanes, poisoning Americans and fueling large-scale weather events such as the devastating floods in Texas last summer.
“It is unconscionable that anyone should be allowed to spray known neurotoxins and environmental toxins on our nation's citizens, their lands, food and water supplies,” Delany wrote in the memo.
Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told KFF that the memo makes claims that are false and, in some cases, physically impossible. “That's a pretty shocking memo,” he said. “More aluminum foil is not possible. They really believe that toxins are being sprayed.”
Delany ends the memo with recommendations for federal agencies: form a joint task force to address this alleged geoengineering, host a roundtable discussion on the topic, include the topic in the MAHA committee report, and publicly discuss the health and environmental harms.
It remains unclear whether Kennedy, Means or federal agencies will follow Delany's suggestions. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hilliard told KFF that “HHS does not comment on future or potential policy decisions and task forces.”
However, one opportunity has already been missed: the MAHA committee released its “Make Our Children Healthy Again” report on September 9, along with a strategy document. Neither document mentions the topics raised in Delany's memo.
