NY POST: ONCE AGAIN, CDC Places Politics Above Science (and It's Killing Americans)
This piece is remarkable given how it almost reads "business a usual" at CDC. Plan B will allow us to shutter CDC and NIH once and for all.
CDC is a partisan agency embedded in the US Government.
Let me say that again: CDC is a partisan (Democratic party, in particular) - agency embedded in the US Government.
CDC’s reputation as a bastion of reliable information is done, and the damage it has inflicted on itself is irreparable.
Take, for instance, this jaw-dropping description in the NY Post:
“Researcher: CDC Puts Politics Above Science
‘For the second year in a row,’ grumbles Jon R. Lott in RealClearPolitics, ‘the Centers for Disease Control has been caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies.’ In 2021, despite data ‘showing that masks harm children’s development, the CDC supported masking students after being pressured by the National Education Association.’ This year, ‘gun control activists got the CDC to remove research from its website.’ The agency scrubbed ‘a 2013 National Academies of Sciences report showing that the annual number of defensive gun uses ranged from about 64,000 to 3 million.’ In caving to gun-control activists angry that the NAS data is cited against their agenda, the CDC is again ‘making decisions based on politics, not science.’
Lott’s article in RealClearPolitics also cites how CDC continued to support masking children after studies showed that this practice harms their development.
You may recall my speech in Harrisburg condemning anyone who dare politicize science.
I have proposed a plan to replace CDC and the NIH entirely. These bloated organizations are giant holes into which billions of dollars are dumped. We have little progress in “showcase” areas of biomedicine, but truly nothing to show for it. We remain among the sickest population among developed nations.
Under Plan B, we can put an end to industry lobbying determining public health policies and end outright agency capture. Under Plan B, we create parallelized research organizations and to outlaw conflicts of interest under mortal threat to the organizations.
We still use government funding, we still have government oversight, but we put each organization on a firing line. If they break the rules, that particular node is terminated, and another on is created elsewhere. The goal - the only goal - is to learn what’s making Americans sick, and what is killing Americans.
Defensive gun use is not killing Americans.
Lack of objective, science-backed treatment of COVID-19 is killing Americans.
Iatrogenic disease is killing Americans.
Conflicts of interest are killing Americans.
Regulatory capture is killing Americans.
Disinformation campaigns that keep us ignorant are killing Americans.
Censorship (early warning) is killing Americans.
We need to put an end to rule by partisan regulatory decree.
Here are some links to Plan B:
https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/19
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Kudos for your diagnosis of the utter corruption and failure of the government regulatory-pharma complex. However, replacing our current health regulatory agencies with new agencies funded and overseen by the government will inevitably be captured by industry again. Corruption will arise whenever agencies have direct coercive power over consumers (eg vaxx mandates) or indirectly through government control of health purchase funding (eg regulation and tax policy for health insurance/benefits market). There is no solution short of complete separation of economy and state.
The truth is, as Charleton Heston wrote, “Modern media fills the cultural airwaves with a mist of anesthesia, so that principles and values are slowly desensitized to the coming onslaught. The new culture arrives on the heels of this propaganda. It simply moves in and takes over, like slipping a fine new glove over a numbed hand. The outcome of the war is just as devastating, but without bombs bursting, twisted bodies to bury, or rubble to rebuild. A new class, a different culture, simply takes over.”
But let’s look at specifics. Going all the way back to NY Slimes Pulitzer Prize winner Walter " I don't see no stinkin' starving kulaks in Stalin's Ukraine" Duranty (perhaps around 5 – 6 million were starved to death by Stalin in his Holodomor) to Lincoln "I have seen the future in Stalin's USSR, and it works" Steffens to fake Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, accidentally outed by another leftist, to another NY Slimes wunderkind, fiction writer Jayson Blair, who resigned in 2003 after he was outed for stories—some front page—that were fabricated or plagiarized, to Dan "I found a memo!" Rather, to Brian "I was shot down in a helicopter in Iraq in 2003" Williams, and the list goes on and on and on... such as Walter Cronkite telling us (regardless of how you felt about its rightness) that the Viet Nam war was being lost during the Tet offensive, while at the same time North Viet General Giap admitted later on in his memoirs that all was lost unless the American public was lied to and told they were losing, to Mikey Isikoff /Newsweek’s infamous May 9, 2005 issue that cited some “unnamed source” saying the Qu’ran was trashed at Guantanamo – and was later proven false, but not after many were killed in the rioting that ensued overseas (“no matter if people die… as long as their political ends are met, right?). And speaking of 9/11, don’t forget the famous – and utterly idiotic – tweet from the NYT that said “Airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.” This tweet was so intellectually vapid it deleted it shortly after. (Reminiscent of “guns kill people” articles… as if guns grow legs and fingers, and run around shooting people with no human operators.
And don’t forget Vietnam reporter Peter Arnett and his famed supposed quote from a US officer that I grew up on, “We had to destroy the village to save it” – except that this was later proven to be – wait for it! – another media fake, and when pressed he never could provide evidence of who, exactly, said it. Or perhaps you prefer Charles Jaco of CNN “reporting live from Saudi Arabia” in the 1990” Iraq war…. or should I say, in front of a fake green screen. If you need a refresher, from a linked clip is a video of the broadcast (which I saw myself) or see here as well. The fake news doesn’t care if you see this now (which is why it is allowed on co-opted Youtube), as this has already gone down the Orwellian memory hole of the general public so they don’t care. Only I suggest you should care, as they continue to do this stuff today, only even more. Think 2022, where “fact checker” USA Today was forced to delete 23 articles over fabricated sources. USA Today’s breaking news reporter Gabriela Miranda fabricated sources and misappropriated quotes for stories, the news outlet confirmed on Thursday, after being forced to conduct an internal audit after getting an ‘external correction request’ on one of its published stories,” reports Breitbart. The 23 articles which were removed for not meeting the paper’s “editorial standards” included pieces on the Texas abortion ban, anti-vaxxer content and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Activist Post wrote: “The audit revealed that some individuals quoted were not affiliated with the organizations claimed and appeared to be fabricated. The existence of other individuals quoted could not be independently verified. In addition, some stories included quotes that should have been credited to others.” Activist also cited more gems from the toilet paper of record: “The newspaper was also lambasted by critics after it “fact checked” as “true” claims that an official Trump 2020 t-shirt features a “Nazi symbol”. In February last year, the news outlet published an op-ed which denounced Tom Brady for refusing to walk back his previous support for Donald Trump and for being “white.” The newspaper also had to fire their “race and inclusion” editor Hemal Jhaveri after she falsely blamed the Boulder supermarket shooting on white people.” Need something more recent? After the Soros violent Maidan revolution overthrew a democratically elected government in Ukraine, and installed their puppet Poroshenko, later succeeded by Zelensky, who had so embarrassing whoppers as the Ghost of Khiev, who shot down you-name-the-number of Russian jets alone in the early part of the Ukraine war, or the Heroes of Snake Island, who cursed the Russian navy and fought to their deaths… only the truth is that that meekly surrendered, then later were exchanged for Russian prisoners. But no matter! The Deep State will fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian, as Sen. Rand Paul said. And in 2022, Twittergate blew up, showing the government utterly suppressed the truth on Twitter using Twitter staff, bots, etc., about Covid policy, as Strive Asset Management founder Vivek Ramaswamy noted.
Then there was the 2022 Ukraine war, where 4 star general Barry R. McCaffrey/all star doofus on MSNBC posted a video game as “footage” from the war -which he since deleted. In the original tweet, McCaffrey wrote: “Russian aircraft getting nailed by UKR missile defense. Russians are losing large numbers of attack aircraft. UKR air defense becoming formidable.” In fact, the footage is reportedly from a video game called Arma 3, which is an “open-world” military game created in 2013. Even worse for McCaffrey, the game’s title can be clearly seen in the video’s description.