Viewpoint: Ways that HHS Secretary Kennedy lied when he pledged his commitment to ‘gold standard science’

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Under the reign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., … thousands of people have lost their jobs, the organization’s policies have been hijacked by allies of the anti-vaccination movement, and workers there have endured a deadly shooting committed by a man whose motives were likely influenced by misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines.

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Gizmodo: How has the CDC been doing since your resignation, in your opinion?

[Former director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Demetre] Daskalakis: It’s just getting worse, and they still don’t have any scientific leadership. 

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Gizmodo: Given how dire the CDC’s situation is right now, what’s to be done, in your opinion?

Daskalakis: Right now, looking at CDC, it is pretty irreparably damaged. 

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[My] simple answer is that federal public health has now been compromised—it has been taken over by ideology, it’s been weaponized. If you look at the CDC website, the “About” webpage is literally propaganda around extremely partisan views. My advice to the world is that we should practice detachment from the organizations and focus on the mission.

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