CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigns

CNN ^ | January 31, 2018 | Debra Goldschmidt and Ben Tinker

[Steve_Seattle]

"Want to be it was a mutual fund? she probably did not have the details of the funds position in the tobacco industry. I have several mutual funds, I don’t know the individual holdings. just the overall sector and performance history."

Good point. It would probably be unethical for a broker to publicly release the details of an individual's portfolio. If she had to declare her mutual fund investments as part of her vetting process, a journalist could then probe into the fund itself.

[truth_seeker]

“...searching my pocket constitution, but can’t find this. Last I checked, tobacco was legal in this country. Why should our government ‘crusade’ against it?”

Alas they have had crusades against alcohol, marijuana, long before tobacco.

[cgbg]

The stocks should be put into a blind trust while she is in office with iron-clad legal language, signed off by the ethics officer of her agency, that make it impossible for her to have a conflict.

If she failed to do that she is brain dead—totally brain dead.

[AppyPappy]

That would depend on whether she bought it or her broker bought it.

[Maskot]

Rats and snakes share the swamp with each other cautiously. No different for the two legged swamp creatures.

[DarthVader]

Precisely that is likely why Gowdy is leaving too.

[Nifster]

Precisely

[Axenolith]

Because it drives up the cost (according to them) of the health care they’re constitutionally (/s) required to provide... ARF!

[publius911]

I have several mutual funds, I don’t know the individual holdings. just the overall sector and performance history.

Neither do the dirt checkers.
Assuming they have a genuine job and can afford mutual funds...

[publius911]

...searching my pocket constitution, but can’t find this. Last I checked, tobacco was legal in this country. Why should our government ‘crusade’ against it?

More to the point, why don't the "holier than though" hypocrits don't simply make tobacco products illegal?"

Hint: it's for the chil'run...

[publius911]

One of my funniest research decisions, back when the most thorough enormous and long lasting smoking studies by the WHO, of the UN was permanently hidden from the public eye because it concluded that smoking contributed little, if at all to longevity

I found that 9 out of 10 of the documented longest lived humans of record all smoked until age 100, and a significant nuber until 105?

Skeptical?
Do your own damned research, assuming you are blessed with superior reading comprehension.

[Wuli]

I grew up in a house where my parents both always smoked, but all the “second hand smoke” “scientific” claims cannot explain why none of my seven siblings and I - all adults born in the 40s or 50s - have any kind of systemic lung issue nor lung cancer. Things were so bad in my teens I painted the main living areas of the house to cover the nicotine stained walls.

Yes, skeptical, because too much “science” is not produced by empirical tests, just statistics, and fails to honor the maxim that correlation is not causation.