MAKE AMERICANS DIE EARLIER: the decimation of CDC under the ghoulish RFK Jr.

Dr. Susan Monarez, a microbiologist and public health specialist, was fired from her job as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after less than a month. She refused to support the catastrophic policies of her boss, antivax conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Even RFK Jr. says we should never trust him for medical advice.

 

Dr. Monarez did not voluntarily leave her post, however. In a statement, her lawyers said:

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda.  … As a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign.”

 

Several high-ranking officials quit the CDC in protest. In his resignation letter, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis stated the following:

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”

 

He called out the lies and quackery that will harm the American people, not make them healthy:

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.

The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer.  ...  Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.”

In a stunning rebuke, NINE former CDC Directors sounded the alarm in a New York Times editorial.

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health 

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What the health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has done to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months — culminating in his decision to fire Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days ago — is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.

Mr. Kennedy has fired thousands of federal health workers and severely weakened programs designed to protect Americans from cancer, heart attacks, strokes, lead poisoning, injury, violence and more. Amid the largest measles outbreak in the United States in a generation, he’s focused on unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines. He canceled investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views...

 

The CDC debacle has generated tremendous criticism from Democrats and even Republicans in Congress, who own the shambles of public health and scientific research in the US. They approved the confirmation of a deranged man who...

...walks around barefoot in airplane bathrooms...

 

...swims in a contaminated creek with his grandchildren [where swimming is banned due to high levels of bacteria]...

 

...drinks raw milk [which “can contain a variety of disease-causing pathogens,” according to the FDA]... 

 

 ...recommends beef tallow for frying [instead of much healthier seed oils]...

 ...considered Coke with cane sugar (vs. high fructose corn syrup) to be a MAHA win [8 months after he condemned Trump's McDonald's fetish as 'poison']... 

 

You may remember that Trump rewarded RFK Jr. after the latter dropped his candidacy for president.

[Trump] repeated his pledge to establish a panel — “working with Bobby” — to investigate the increase in chronic health conditions and childhood diseases, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity and infertility.

 

Interestingly, RFK's former Vice Presidential running mate, billionaire Nicole Shanahan (who believes Burning Man is demonic), suggested that he should be appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is actually what happened. Kennedy pledged to fire 600 NIH employees on Day 1. In March 2025, he revealed his plan to “downsize” HHS from 80,000 to 60,000 employees. That's 25% fewer employees at agencies that include Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, NIH, FDA, and CDC.

His utter disregard of expertise and established scientific facts is exemplified by this Orwellian statement:

“We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.”

 

The exact opposite is true!

Totalitarian regimes ban experts because they can contradict the party line with rigorous evidence. An ignorant populace is a compliant populace. This is why Trump favors grossly unqualified Fox News hosts, QAnon conspiracy theorists, Putin puppets, and puppy killers. These right-wing bureaucrats are aptly called The Brain Rot Cabinet by Mother Jones.