
dlvr.it'So much harm to the American people': RFK Jr. attacks CDC over nonexistent problemHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., already under scrutiny for attempting to fire the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is now attacking the CDC for information on its website that he wrongly claims characterizes βabortionβ as one of the ten greatest advances in medical science β while also appearing to suggest vaccines and fluoridation should not be on that list.
There are several versions of the list, one titled, βTen Great Public Health Achievements β United States, 1900-1999,β and dated April 1999 β more than a quarter century ago.
It includes: βVaccination, Motor-vehicle safety, Safer workplaces, Control of infectious diseases, Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke, Safer and healthier foods, Healthier mothers and babies, Family planning, Fluoridation of drinking water, and Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard.β
Abortion does not appear on any of the lists NCRM was able to locate.
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One portion mentions contraception, but not abortion.
Secretary Kennedy, a promoter of conspiracy theories β especially about vaccines β on Thursday refused to discuss his attempt to fire the CDC Director. He told Fox News, βIt would be inappropriate for me to comment on a personnel issue.β
βWhat I will say is, you know, there is, President Trump has very, very ambitious hopes for CDC right now. CDC has problems. We saw the misinformation coming out of COVID.β
βThey got the testing wrong, they got the social distancing, the masks, the school closures that did so much harm to the American people,β he charged.
βToday on CDCβs website right now, they list the 10 top advanced greatest advances in medical science, and one of them is abortion,β Kennedy inaccurately claimed. βThe other is fluoridation, another is vaccine.β
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STAT News reported on Thursday that βKennedyβs brief critique of the CDC ranged from incontrovertible missteps by the agency, such as its failure to handle the onslaught of Covid testing at the beginning of the pandemic, to issues such as masking, where there is still scientific debate, to issues such as fluoridation, which is broadly viewed by the medical community as beneficial. He also appeared to leave key context out of his description of the list of great medical achievements on the CDCβs website.β
Kennedy also told Fox News viewers that the CDCβs βprioritiesβ need to be examined, and denounced what he alleged was a βmalaiseβ at the nationβs top health agency.
βThis agency, the gold standard science [sic] and do what it was when we were growing up, which was the most respected health agency in the world.β
In 2024, The New York Times characterized Kennedy as a βleading vaccine skeptic and purveyor of conspiracy theories,β and someone who has βpromoted a conspiracy theory that coronavirus vaccines were developed to control people via microchips,β and βendorsed the false notion that antidepressants are linked to school shootings.β
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