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Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcare

The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.

The decision comes as Kennedy abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of the science-based policymaking at HHS is likely far from over.

“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.

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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm sure they won't need to raise it much higher before the GOP finally sees the error of their ways

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Oh no. They raise the alarm. What is RFK Jr going to do about this?

Grow some balls and either revolt or leave the country. People thinking that publicly criticizing is enough are part of the problem.

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

'How to build a dytsopia'

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 10 hours ago

Meanwhile... Cancer vaccine!...not to prevent but to cure the sonobabich.

Here the government is fighting the scientists and their discoveries plus they're trying to take away access to the discoveries and re routing our tax money to their own pockets plus to pay for weapons to murder children in other countries.

Its like country enshitification. They figured how to mix the DMV with AI and Nazis.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

Would be a great time for the bigger states to start vacuuming up federal agency workers and reduplicating their work inside the state university system.

Not that California, New York, Illinois, or Pennsylvania would actually do this. But it might be nice of they considered it.