#re-regulation

Important Context ‘Experts’ Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with The Wellness Company. Walker Bragman Aug 17, 2025 The 181-page document, “COVID-19 mRNA ‘vaccine’ harms research collection,” which is hosted on an open website, is a bibliography of misrepresented studies—the overwhelming majority of which have nothing to do with the vaccines. It originally appeared in an independently published 2024 anti-vax book “Toxic Shot: Facing the Dangers of the COVID ‘Vaccines,’” according to its opening page. Co-authored by Canadian immunologist Bryan Bridle, a professor at a veterinary college in Ontario and one of the authors on the bibliography, the book featured a foreword from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Naomi Wolff—both of whom have promoted conspiracy theories about the mRNA vaccines.

Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.

Supplements need regulation! Defeat the right-wing step 2 according to It Could Happen Here podcast… Chloe Humbert Sep 18, 2024 Even if this doesn’t defeat the right-wing, it’s the right thing to do, because for pity’s sake I am so exhausted by overpriced products that have no standards, and might be adulterated or counterfeit. And especially the sheer volume of pseudoscience quackery involved in selling all and sundry products. It’s bonkers level, and I’m not even listening to the right-wing shows that really hammer people with ads for this stuff…

My letter to reps:

Supplements need to be regulated. It’s ridiculous that the supplements and rogue alternative medical products industry is billions and even more than prescription pharmaceuticals. And there’s no guarantees you even know what you’re getting, if it’s counterfeit or if it’s adulterated or if it’s harmful, or whether it’s useful at all.

Colorado edition.

The Lever - Aug 19, 2025 The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws. Helen Santoro Under pressure from tech giants after their legislative loss in Washington, Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has called an emergency session of his state’s legislature to take up legislation that would weaken state AI regulations passed last year. One of the bills slated to be introduced in the session is framed as establishing that AI systems must comply with state consumer protection laws — something that some experts say is already required. But the bill would also strip individuals of their right to sue AI businesses that potentially violate the Colorado Consumer Protection Act — a law meant to guard consumers against deceptive and unfair business practices. Instead, only the state’s Attorney General would be permitted to bring such cases under the law.

My letter to reps: 

More and stronger regulations are needed to protect the public from automated "AI" technology. The spectacularly rich tech companies should not be given a pass to harm people. 

When there’s “deregulation” of industry, that means less experts will be inspecting or requiring standards from goods and services sold to everybody, and less oversight and little prevention of false claims. It leaves it up to individuals to figure out if products, including foods and medicines, including prescription drugs, or things like cars, are in fact safe or effective, or possibly harmful or deadly. And that could mean finding out the hard way.

I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.

LIVE: Investigative Journalist gives URGENT WARNING on Trump Transition | The Weekend Show MeidasTouch Streamed live on Dec 29, 2024 David Cay Johnston” “I want to get you to not use that word deregulation there is no such thing as deregulation there is only re-regulation and the history of America going back to Jimmy Carter is the re-regulation takes away from consumers takes away from customers and from investors and from workers and imbues power and authority and the freedom to be abusive to those people who own the companies those people who run run the institutions so everything is regulated one of the things I I’ve always taught my students is you know everything is regulated say this university like every other university in America regulates dating and it takes them a while even the third-year law students it takes them a while and they go oh sexual harassment that’s oh that is kind of regulating dating isn’t it we regulate baseball regulate how many stitches are on the ball the color of the yarn and the material that the yarn is made with everything is regulated in some way so when people say deregulation they’re trying to get you to not see what’s happening which is reducing your rights and privileges and expanding those of the people who have more power and political influence than you do”

None of this really makes sense in the context of a civilization. The benefits of organizing a community with various people and institutions specializing in different things is that everyone doesn’t have to be an expert in everything – because that’s impossible. Civilizations free people up to be efficient and thrive. Humans have been doing this better and better over thousands of years, why would we go backwards? So there’s really no rational argument against regulations unless someone is saying they actually want an extremely inefficient failing society. That simply doesn’t make sense.

I can’t be an expert in everything. I shouldn’t be threatened by dubious products or dangerous services. I want the government to regulate things so I don’t have to spend so much time trying to figure out what’s safe, effective, or even for real.

Tim Wu (2011) - The Master Switch pg. 122.