No better example of the long term Republican War on Science and its catastrophic damage to America’s stature in the world, and the health of future generations.
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reeled from the ousting of its director, three senior leaders who resigned in protest told The Washington Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
The officials spoke shortly before security officials escorted them off the CDC’s Atlanta campus Thursday morning. Staff and leaders of the agency are openly revolting against the Trump administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime CDC critic and anti-vaccine activist, after months of tension over vaccine policy and staffing cuts. The White House selected Jim O’Neill, Kennedy’s top deputy at HHS, to also serve as the acting CDC director, according to two people familiar with the decision who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel decisions.
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