The Hound | Sept. 30

Hi there,

It’s Wednesday. RFK Jr. — the nation's top health official — headlined a Children's Health Defense conference alongside Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced researcher who fabricated vaccine safety data and lost his medical license. The MAHA Institute's own president told attendees that the polio vaccine was "a massive medical fraud." This happened while measles deaths in 2026 have reached their highest level since 1992 — a direct consequence of the anti-vaccine movement these speakers lead.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the MAHA conference not as a culture war footnote, but as what public health experts say it is: a taxpayer-funded platform for medical disinformation that is already killing people.

When the man responsible for American public health tells anti-vaxxers "you have a strong and steadfast friend" — in the middle of a measles outbreak — that is a public health emergency, not a political story. The public deserves reporting that names the harm being done and holds the 52 Republican senators who confirmed RFK Jr. accountable for every outbreak that follows.

In addition, looking into the big business of Trump’s third-country deportations. And, an explanation of the rape allegations and lawsuit at Cornell University.

Read about these, and more, in today’s stories:

RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event (The Guardian)

Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations (The Intercept)

The Cornell rape allegations and lawsuit, explained (The 19th News)

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (The American Prospect)

Jack Smith Found Proof Beyond “Reasonable Doubt” of Trump’s Guilt (The New Republic)

Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name (Inside Climate News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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