Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcare
The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.
The decision comes as Kennedy abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of the science-based policymaking at HHS is likely far from over.
“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.
These guys are doing a lot of damage. If the US can shake these assholes out of power, it will likely take years to even understand the extent of the damage they have done, never mind undoing all the damage.
I would not be surprised to see EU and China leapfrog us by a country mile thanks to the assfucks the stupidest people in this country voted for…I mean, cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease - these guys are cutting NIH funding.
And a lot of it is driven by a whole lot of stupid people wanting Taco to get “revenge” on some group of people over mostly-made-up cultural bullshit. It takes well-adjusted adults to build a working system. Any dysfunctional dumbass or even a child can tear things apart…