For context, this article is an opinion piece co-authored by:
Jeffrey A. Singer - A senior fellow at the Cato institute, a republican think tank that receives much of its funding from large republican donors/foundations and corporate donors. I don't know how to sum up the Cato Institute in 2 sentences unfortunately, but their wikipedia says plenty [0].
Josh Bloom - The Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences The American Council on Science and Health, which is a pro industry advocacy group [1] that has received large amounts of money from the agriculture, petroleum, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries as per leaked funding documents in 2012 [2].
Cato has always been very pro recreational drugs. I’d argue there s large part of the reason marijuana use has become so normalized. And people like Scott Gottlieb are a large part of the pro-vaxx lobby as well.