President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth in Atlanta and suburban Maryland. Why? Because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are headquartered in those places. As HHS secretary, RFK Jr. would be able to shape the priorities of these agencies.
In fact, the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH have long needed drastic reform. But is putting RFK Jr. in charge of HHS the right way to fix these dysfunctional public health agencies?
RFK is a nutjob who has zero understanding of how science works. He believes popular fantasies about vaccines and other things, with no basis in reality. All he does is repeat what other (also unqualified) people say around him
ReplyDeleteHe will be a train wreck.
Public health needs fixin', yes, but people like RFK , morons with nothing but fear, no understanding, are not the kind of people to fix things. They'll end up causing more problems.
Did you know the Amish have zero incidence of autism in their population? I couldn't care less about public health - I only care about my own health.
DeleteRFKjr is a unrepentant authoritarian who wanted to jail anyone who was skeptical of his beliefs.
ReplyDeletehe wanted to jail "climate deniers". that's us. he wanted to throw all of us in jail for not following his orthodoxy.
do not give that man power over anything. we will regret it.
I doubt it. When untold billions are at stake in the Deep State political realm RFK, jr ain't got a chance.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to reform a government agency is to tear it down and start over. I wish RFK jr. good luck on his enterprise. Now who will tear down the FBI, CIA, Department of Education and the post office. (I think it is time to totally privatize the Post Office, and empower FedEx an UPS to deliver mail in direct competition the Post Office.)
ReplyDeleteI don't even know where to begin with the errors in the article. First there is the excuses made for the problems at each department. Timid bureaucrats at the FDA? How about bribed bureaucrats at the FDA. The NIH being too risk-averse? How does the writer explain the gain of function research that the NIH has been funding? The CDC failed with Covid because it was too busy fighting abesity, smoking, and violence? LOL, good one, pull my other finger.
ReplyDeleteThe death rate for cancer has been dropping since 2016 to today. Is the writer's calendar stuck on early 2020? What about the reports of cancer being on the rise, especially in young people, since the covid shots were introduced?
Ummm…..
ReplyDeleteLet RFKjr tear it down…..
Then build it back with our interests at heart.
Ed357
Somewhere somehow he will make this a climate issue and start making regulations. The camel just wanted his nose in the tent.
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