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CDC Funding Decisions Based Largely on Politics, Not Science
RealClear Politics ^ | 21 Dec, 2022 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 12/21/2022 5:28:29 AM PST by MtnClimber

For the second year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control has been caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies.

In 2021, the American Pediatric Academy and the Children’s Hospital Association tracked COVID-19 statistics in children and the data show no relationship between mask mandates and the rate at which children caught the disease. In the face of this evidence – and other data showing that masks harm children’s development, the CDC supported masking students after being pressured by the National Education Association (the nation’s largest teachers’ union).

Now comes word that CDC is again allowing partisan politics to influence its policies. This time, gun control activists got the CDC to remove research from its website. Yet, the CDC is trusted to impartially dole out millions of dollars for public health research on firearms: From 2020 to 2022, the CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) each spent about $50 million on such research.

Until May of this year, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report showing that the annual number of defensive gun uses ranged from about 64,000 to 3 million. The CDC website listed the upper figure at 2.5 million. But now, the CDC has removed from its website all of those numbers and even the link to the NAS report.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: banglist; cdc; corruption; lott; partisan; policies; politics

1 posted on 12/21/2022 5:28:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why would the CDC lie about guns? What could their goal be?


2 posted on 12/21/2022 5:28:38 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The entire federal gov’t is aligned with the left.

It does not matter if we elect a GOP POTUS, House and Senate. They DNC runs the nation.

Anyone who speaks out gets silenced, terminated or destroyed.


3 posted on 12/21/2022 5:31:29 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: MtnClimber; PROCON

As memory serves, the CDC has been driven by politics on the topic of firearms since the Clinton years almost 30 years ago.


4 posted on 12/21/2022 5:31:42 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: MtnClimber
Not just the CDC. Every university in this country.

Scientific research is kaput because grants are tied to specific conclusions, not discovery.

5 posted on 12/21/2022 5:53:46 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


6 posted on 12/21/2022 5:54:42 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: Joe Brower

Clinton changed the way all science was funded. As usual the American public was asleep while this massive propaganda arm was put into place.


7 posted on 12/21/2022 6:00:45 AM PST by Varda
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To: MtnClimber

I can see why the anti-2A forces might want to hide or abuse the CDC info, but what I’ve never understood is why the teachers’ union so desperately wants to keep kids in masks or even keep them out of school altogether.

Why? Just to show their power? Just because they can? Because there’s no downside for the union? Their members seem to keep collecting their paychecks and pensions anyway, whether they teach or not.

But I really didn’t understand it.


8 posted on 12/21/2022 6:11:02 AM PST by livius
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To: MtnClimber

Every decision made in Mordor On The Potomac is based on politics.

Every political decision made in Mordor On The Potomac is based on the looting of America.

It’s really that simple.


9 posted on 12/21/2022 6:22:16 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: MtnClimber

$$$!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDlHprql-g

Listen at 29 min

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( hat tip to logi_cal869 )

For those who don’t like videos, the money quote in textual format:

https://totalityofevidence.com/timeline/peter-daszaks-prophetic-statement-to-nas-workshop/

“…until an infectious disease crisis is very real, present, and at an emergency threshold, it is often largely ignored. To sustain the funding base beyond the crisis… we need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine.

A key driver is the media,

and the economics follow the hype.

We need to use that hype

to our advantage

to get to

the real issues.

Investors will respond if they see

profit

at the end of process…”

and

Peter Daszak in 2015 actually stated that “this entire exercise was a campaign of domestic TERROR to get the public to accept the universal vaccine platform using a know biological weapon.”

Bill Gates was in on it too.

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This RICO rabbit hole is decades deep.


10 posted on 12/21/2022 6:40:00 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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11 posted on 12/21/2022 7:16:37 AM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: MtnClimber

The CDC is just another federal extension of the dimrat party.


12 posted on 12/21/2022 7:24:03 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Y'think?

13 posted on 12/21/2022 7:34:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MtnClimber; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
More information - Some examples of the CDC ruled by ideology and politics, rather than Science

"For the second year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control has been caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies.
In 2021, the American Pediatric Academy and the Children’s Hospital Association tracked COVID-19 statistics in children
and the data show no relationship between mask mandates and the rate at which children caught the disease.
In the face of this evidence – and other data showing that masks harm children’s development, the CDC supported masking students after being pressured by the National Education Association (the nation’s largest teachers’ union)."

"Until May of this year, the CDC cited a 2013 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report showing that the annual number of defensive gun uses ranged from about 64,000 to 3 million.
The CDC website listed the upper figure at 2.5 million.
But now, the CDC has removed from its website all of those numbers and even the link to the NAS report. "

14 posted on 12/21/2022 9:18:09 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: MtnClimber

15 posted on 12/21/2022 1:03:26 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: MtnClimber

The CDC serves Deep State.

Nuff said.


16 posted on 12/21/2022 1:04:56 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sad, this has been so obvious, it is not even news-worthy :(


17 posted on 12/21/2022 1:11:52 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: PROCON

NJ Gov signs “carry killer” legislation

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/12/22/nj-gov-signs-carry-killer-legislation-n65556


18 posted on 12/22/2022 11:53:21 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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