The CDC is about one of the only agencies I will defend. They have stayed neutral about guns (in fact, have produced some of the data we pro-gunners use during arguments!) and is one of the only groups I have ever seen that actually CARES about their charter. I contract for them and I routinely see PhD’s and Masters-level people staying late into the wee hours actually working on the science of health.
I don’t doubt that Laz, but Obama just assigned them with a gun violence study that will consume their budget. My point was the Zero is turning them into a political arm like NASA with Muslim outreach, The State Dept. always known as “Foggy Bottom”. And let’s be honest, Julie Gerberding (?) got them some pretty nice HQ’s. I am pissed off regarding Lyme’s, Babesiosis, borrelia diseases that they choose to ignore. I truly believe that especially after the East Anglia University/hockey stick Global Warming b/s, Andrew Wakefield etc.
that most science is bought and paid for.
The whole thing makes me ill. I do not doubt for a moment that there are fabulously talented , hardworking people there, the top folks change with each Administration and they always come with a ton of Political/Pharmaceutical connections.
Michael Taylor from Monsanto at the FDA? Yikes!
Republicans back in the 90's prohibited any Federal grant to the CDC from being used for research into gun control because they'd gotten so politicized.
Thanks for the info on the CDC stats Laz. I track unfudged economic numbers out of the St Louis Fed for the same reason. I was just about to begin adding demographic data and I wondered about the CDC numbers.
What hasn’t been brought out yet is the connection between the AIDs, homosexual and illegal immigrant populations in spreading disease. Being intolerant out of spite is not my purpose, but the stats paint a compelling picture of what is going on.
I won't. They really blew it with HIV. They should have quarantined the first cases and instead went all PC about the bathhouses and gays donating into the blood supply. A lot of innocent people died, particularly hemophiliacs.
CDC won't cut the crap with these dubious flu vaccines either. They rarely have the right strain and the adjuvant systems are a real threat to immunological health (particularly squalene). Then they mandated HPV and hepatitis vaccines for small children when the only people who need them are the promiscuous or IV drug users.