Katherine Eban

4 days ago | contrarian.substack.com | Katherine Eban

Calley Means is a top adviser to RFK Jr. and an outspoken proponent of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. Katherine Eban joins Jen to discuss her latest piece in Vanity Fair investigating Means’ rise to power, his nonexistent background in medicine and healthcare, and the general erosion of the Department of Health and Human ServicesRead Katherine’s piece The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man in Vanity Fairhere.

1 week ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

“It Sounds Very Woo Woo”Last March, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. crowded into a sweat lodge near Austin, Texas, with about 40 other people including a regenerative farming advocate and a nutritional supplement entrepreneur. “We were front to back, side to side, you couldn’t move,” Chase Iron Eyes, a Lakota legal activist, later recalled on a podcast. “I was like, man, I want to get out. I got to take a break. And then I was thinking, I’m the only Lakota in here….

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

When Dr. Casey Means was just months away from finishing her grueling residency in head and neck surgery at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, she did something that stunned her fellow residents in the tight-knit, high-octane program: She quit. In the years since that 2018 career swerve, Means has leveraged the decision into a platform as a critic in chief of the medical establishment, a medical entrepreneur, and a New York Times best-selling author.

2 months ago | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

If you’ve ever used eye drops that didn’t blind you, thank Dr. Timothy J. Pohlhaus. As of yesterday, he’s gone. And if you’ve ever been injected with a sterile drug that helped heal you instead of killing you, you have relied on the services of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Manufacturing Quality, where Pohlhaus worked for 15 years and was a senior policy advisor. Pohlhaus was one of the FDA’s few leading experts on sterile manufacturing for drugs.

Feb 27, 2025 | vanityfair.com | Katherine Eban

In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, a bitter international debate has raged among scientists, politicians, and journalists over the virus’s origin and who is to blame for the more than 7 million deaths it’s caused worldwide. It’s a debate in which legitimate scientific arguments vie for attention with partisan attacks and wild conspiracy theories.