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RFK Jr. Must Go. and He's Not the Only One

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>I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than improve the public’s health...

Okay, that's fine if he's the master of and exclusive license holder for "scientific reality", but I do take exception with his ability to divine malicious intent. Maybe I am missing something here. Did this person uncover a massive conspiracy? If documents were found where this malicious intent was outlined, I would like to see some citations. Perhaps it is more probable that this is a highly charged partisan issue and the statement is marred by hyperbole.

I thought Fauci was the science?

Yes, "I am The Science", was another scientismic proclamation.

In fairness, I would allow that when emotions run high, the individuals involved are not as precise as they could be. Alternatively, we might take their words as stated and simply interpret it as Scientism. Either way a pattern is emerging.

If the individual resigning truly wished to communicate the potential harm, he would have been better served by explaining it more precisely. Assuming malicious intent makes it hard to take seriously, especially in today's media landscape.

Below is the original statement by Demetre Daskalakis [0]. The complaint is that changes to recommendations issued by the CDC [1] were made without reference to the CDC itself and are not supported by scientific or medical evidence, especially as the justifications "cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors."

Several of these new recommendations can be expected to result in increased deaths compared to previous recommendations.

[0] https://xcancel.com/dr_demetre/status/1960843433473376602?s=...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html

I don't know if anything was found, but RFK Jr. has an absolute and clear conflict of interest with regards to vaccines [1], considering he gets paid money for every vaccine lawsuit. Now that he's in charge of the FDA and CDC, he can fairly easily fabricate "studies" that suggest vaccines are harmful and then he can make more money in lawsuits.

Is he doing this? I have no fucking clue, but it really doesn't matter. In cases like this, the appearance of impropriety isn't materially different than actual impropriety. Our institutions can only work if we can trust them, and we simply cannot trust anything from RFK Jr. with regards to health.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/22/nx...

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