You had to go through a metal detector to get to the Children’s Health Defense conference, held in Austin, Texas, on November 7–9, and conversation on the first morning buzzed about it. At the Make America Healthy Again symposium that convened the next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vice President JD Vance played footsie with officials from Walmart, Google, and a slew of biotechnology firms. But in Austin, there were no administration heavyweights on the