Yesterday the MAHA Report released an article called “The Open Letter to MAHA – Is This the Real Psyop?” In this letter the author made several pseudo-allegations against Dr. Mary Talley Bowden and those who participated with her in orchestrating the open letter to Secretary Kennedy and distributing it. Much of the article was difficult to read. It was written in a style that may be conceived of as incoherent or even juvenile. Every new paragraph was comprised of one sentence, making the entire read clunky and reductionist. It was written in LinkedIn prose.
The author broke the article down into 10 points. He made it clear in the beginning that his aim in this thought experiment was to show how easily a movement within the MAHA coalition could, by the power of Big Pharma, Big Food, and Big Ag, break down the coalition and end Kennedy’s reign as HHS Secretary. To be fair to Mr. Bell (the author), he made an effort to assure his readers that the 10-point psyop plan was only an exercise in conspiratorial thinking and logic and must not be confused with what actually happened in real life — he did not want to give the impression that Mary or anyone else involved in the letter was an agent of chaos.
Of course, as the article goes on, you may see that Bell blurs the lines between reality and his fantastical psyop thought experiment, causing what some might describe as dissension and confusion.
It’s important to note here that Bell seems to think that people cannot be sincerely convicted and consistent in their requests of the government that they put in power.
The 10 points can be summarized as follows. First, the pharmaceutical companies, due to their fear of Kennedy and the MAHA movement, construct a plan to destroy MAHA from within. They recruit Mary (supposedly) and her co-conspirators to articulate their frustrations with MAHA and Kennedy in an open letter. They choose a “fault line,” or a fundamental area of concern, to build their letter around — in this case, the mRNA platform. Then they make that one point the dogmatic center of the letter and the movement going forward, thus creating a litmus test for true adherence and obedience to their movement: if you’re not against mRNA vaccines, you’re not really MAHA. Once the dogma is set in stone, they invite big names to sign the letter. They distribute the letter, and then they destroy the MAHA movement and Secretary Kennedy.
Bell sees this 10-point plan as 1) a legitimate and realistic (but apparently not true) way in which a group could be co-opted by Big Pharma in the modern political landscape and 2) a probable (but also not probable — because it’s only a thought experiment) answer to why people within the larger MAHA movement are demanding Secretary Kennedy pull the mRNA platform from the market.
It’s important to note here that Bell seems to think that people cannot be sincerely convicted and consistent in their requests of the government that they put in power. The only model that Bell can think through is one in which people are controlled by power and money — not by conviction and integrity. It’s no surprise this is the message coming from a government affiliated organization. But it’s noteworthy to articulate this paradigm of thinking and its corrosive effect on politics in the modern age.
As you might imagine, Bell’s logic and thought experiment has some major holes. Some of them are simply logical. Some are factual. But Bell does do a good job of painting a low-resolution picture of the broader Health Freedom movement. At a low-resolution glance, it seems that the letter is a result of nefarious, gossipy, uncharitable, narcissistic dissenters who have alternate motives and are bought and paid for by the companies they claim to hate.
If you look at the ties between public enemies, you might find unlikely friends.
As is the case with most accusers, what they accuse is often only a confession. In this case, Bell makes unsubstantiated claims about potential ties between the signatories of this letter and the Big Pharma companies they publicly disparage. Bell asserts that it is possible that the writers of this letter were coerced by Big Pharma to write this in order to cause chaos before the midterms and undermine Kennedy and the MAHA movement. This most certainly could be true. But there isn’t any evidence that would lead one to that conclusion.
On the other hand, if you read between the lines, you’ll notice a real confession made by Bell and the MAHA Report here. In their accusation they invite us to investigate the ties between movements and their supposed enemies. He wants us to look in the least likely places to find the most damning evidence. Don’t tempt me with a good time. In June of 2026, The Hill reported that the CDC, under the control of HHS, signed a $1.24 billion deal with Pfizer for COVID vaccines through 2027. Over $700 million of that went to pediatric doses.
Bell is right. If you look at the ties between public enemies, you might find unlikely friends.
Another confession can be found in his accusation that the letter writers and signers are reductionist in their approach to holistic health freedom. In his article, Bell says that the co-opted letter-writing cohort within MAHA uses the dogmatic tactic of creating a hierarchy of issues to focus on solving and aiming at eliminating the biggest problems as quickly as possible. In this case the mRNA platform remains at the top of its hierarchy of issues because it’s the one that has brought this movement together and the one that has caused the most damage in the past six years.
Bell thinks that this strategy of ranking issues and focusing on issues that the majority of people would agree on solving is unhelpful and only causes infighting and fractures the dynamic motion of a large movement. Fair enough. His logic makes sense. Not everyone within any given movement has the exact same goals and mission, and because of this, you have to place your focus in a multitude of places at different times to assure each faction of the whole that their preferred issue is being worked on.
So the next question is simple: is this what the MAHA movement is doing? Are they focusing on different issues and allocating spending and effort in different places to solve the most pressing issues related to health freedom in America? Unfortunately, the answer is no. They aren’t.
Mr. Bell makes a damning confession: that the MAHA movement is a one-issue organization that reduces all other issues into one main point. That point just so happens to be clout and status.
Recently, Politico released a report on the financial capacity and spending of the MAHA coalition — what MAHA PAC has chosen to spend its money on. It turns out that MAHA PAC has been much more interested in media presence and elitist rooftop parties than in promoting and financially supporting politicians who align with their (ever-changing) goals. The report claimed,
“Some of MAHA PAC’s top expenses include X, formerly known as Twitter. The PAC paid the platform $810,000 this election cycle, according to filings. Merit Street Media, a media company founded by television host Phil McGraw, known by his stage name Dr. Phil, received more than $500,000. The private Ned’s Club in Washington was another top expense, with the PAC spending more than $155,000 on the venue in this election cycle.”
Again, in his accusation, Mr. Bell makes a damning confession: that the MAHA movement is a one-issue organization that reduces all other issues into one main point. That point just so happens to be clout and status. Not American health. So while Bell could potentially make an argument against the “one issue” letter sent to Kennedy and Trump, he would be hypocritical in doing so, and therefore the argument he makes seems to fall flat.
The whole point of the letter to Kennedy is simple: pull the mRNA platform from the market. It’s been proven on countless occasions that the vaccines are dangerous and that they have been associated with the deaths of millions of people worldwide.
If asking our government to do something they promised us would be done is somehow a psyop or a secret conspiracy, so be it. If that’s the justification the MAHA coalition needs to tell itself to feel vindicated in their continual abdication of responsibility, they’re entitled to that position. But the blowback will be fierce and clear come election time in a month.
And for what it’s worth, the people who worked on writing this letter and who signed this letter all do have one thing in common: integrity and conviction. And those two words are likely the most damning of all to the MAHA coalition and the Trump Administration as a whole. Sometimes the psyop is the psyop and the truth is the truth. You can try to blur the lines, but most people can see through it.
