RFK Jr. is out of revenge

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Finally he achieves his desire to gossip federal health agencies. This week, Kennedy started the process of shooting about 10,000 employees working under the umbrella of health and human services. Even before he took office, Kennedy warned the health officials that they had to pack and, on Tuesday, defended the cuts: “ What we have been doing does not work, ” Kennedy published in X. He is focused on “ HHS with his main mission: to stop the chronic illness epidemic and to make America again healthy. ” But instead of improving the functioning of the federal health bureaucracy, RFK Jr. He is throwing his agencies to chaos.

The Trump administration has not published details on which offices were specifically, but the cuts seem to be so deep and indiscriminate that go to the declared priorities of Kennedy. Kennedy has made it clear that he has focused on reducing chronic disease rates in America, but the Secretary of Health has submitted officials to the CDC office commissioned with the same goal. Although cigarette smoking is still the main cause of chronic diseases, the FDA’s highest official in charge of regulating tobacco is now administrative permission and everyone who works at the CDC office who oversees the use of tobacco has skyrocketed, according to former CDC director Tom Frieden. Despite Kennedy’s promises of establishing a culture of “radical transparency” at federal agencies, it also seems to have fired employees whom journalists and the general public trust to provide essential updates on government actions. (In a statement, a HHS spokesman said that staff cuts focused on “redundant or unnecessary administrative positions”.

Kennedy, an anti-supration defender, seems to lead more than the most pro-vocational voices in the government. During his confirmation audiences, Kennedy said that he would “empower scientists” as Secretary of Health, but here are some of the MDs and PH.DS that were noted yesterday: the head of the FDA FDAs Office Office and Analytics outbreaks, the director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, For nursing and director of the National Institute of Health and Health and Health Trines.

There is no plan – no Maha’s agenda, nor efficiency, nothing, does not realistically explain cuts like these. In contrast, mass traits do not seem to be a means of ending the way to review North -American Health. They are an end in themselves.

The months, if not years, will take long to appreciate the effect of the cuts on the scientific company of America. Decimation at the FDA is particularly unpleasant. Some of the leaders of the agency in charge of reviewing and approving new innovative treatments have been published on the departure. This is likely to lead to a slower development of advances in biomedical sciences; Although the FDA does not fund biomedical research, its leaders play a crucial role in the advice of pharmaceutical companies on how to carry out research and, finally, to approve their advances. America was just beginning to get the benefits of these efforts. There are now gene therapies that can treat genetic blindness. Toddlers who would have been sentenced to certain deaths at the hands of a rare disease, such as severe spinal muscular atrophy, now have a chance of life. The Government invested in MRNA technology for decades before it was used to create vaccines that saved us from a pandemic once in the century.

One of the particular outings in dismissal is Peter Marks, the FDA leader of the FDA’s Evaluation and Biological Research Center. I guess, unlike me, you did not spend the first scientific meetings that are seen in pandemic where the vaccine policy was discussed. Marks was impossible to lose: a man with a force who spoke of a basement as a bunker, a painting of a polar bear served behind him. It obtains a large part of the credit for Trump Speed’s operation, the effort for the development of Covid vaccines, and presented the moniker. Its center also regulates gene therapies, stem cells and the blood supply of the United States.

According to reports, Marks resigned from the pressure of Kennedy, just before the massive shots arrived at the FDA. The two men – one, the highest regulator of the America’s vaccine and the other, their conspiracy theorist against the vaccine, have a long history. By 2021, when the defense of the health of the children, the anti-vacuna organization formerly presided over by Kennedy, asked the FDA to revoke the authorization of Covid Trets, Marks was the one who signed the letter that denied the application. It is reasonable to assume that Kennedy and the brands were not going to see their eyes on the vaccines. But Marks publicly insisted that he wanted to keep in his role and that he was willing to work with Kennedy. In a letter of resignation, Marks wrote that Kennedy did not demand anything from “a livelihood confirmation of his misinformation and lies.” (Marks refused to comment on this story.)

Of course, not all 10,000 fired people had this kind of story with their new boss. But the cuts, in many ways, seem to be rooted in a similar antagonism. In his welcome address to HHS staff in February, Kennedy offered security that he did not go in with biases and said that people should give him a chance. “Let’s start a relationship by letting go of the preconception concepts you can have about me and start from Square One,” Kennedy told the crowd. “We are going to establish a mutual intention to work on what we all care about, the health of the North -American people.” Firing a huge strip of his staff, Kennedy has made clear what he believes: anyone with a HHS badge is an accomplice in the current system, or not to do with the country’s health problems. As Calley means, said a Kennedy Maximum Counselor during a Political Health-Care Summit Today, scientists who were fired “have, demonstrated, a history of failure.”

Kennedy can argue everything that wants the focus of federal health agencies to move more towards chronic illness. Maha’s media and other acolytes are right that America has managed to get less healthy, and federal bureaucrats have not done enough to solve the problem. But all the health bureaucracy in this country is not demonstrating its point. Kennedy does not seem to be setting agencies in a new productive course. It seems to have just taken revenge.

Katherine J. Wu contributed to the reports.