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New York TImes: "We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health"

New York Times (9/1/25 ([link removed]) )

This week on CounterSpin: Multiple previous heads of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention wrote ([link removed]) for the New York Times that “what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has done to the CDC and to our nation’s public health system over the past several months—culminating in his decision to fire Susan Monarez as CDC director days ago—is unlike anything we had ever seen at the agency and unlike anything our country had ever experienced.” Kennedy, they wrote,

fired thousands of federal health workers, and severely weakened ([link removed]) 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 ([link removed]) unproven treatments while downplaying vaccines. He canceled ([link removed]) investments in promising medical research that will leave us ill prepared for future health emergencies. He replaced ([link removed]) experts on federal health advisory committees with unqualified individuals who share his dangerous and unscientific views. He announced the end of US support for global vaccination programs that protect millions of children and keep Americans safe, citing
([link removed]) flawed research and making inaccurate statements. And he championed ([link removed]) federal legislation that will cause millions of people with health insurance through Medicaid to lose ([link removed]) their coverage.

Sounds like speaking truth to power, facing fascist fantasy with fact, like…journalism. Except that the country’s so-called paper of record labeled it “opinion.” It’s only an opinion, the Times says, that it’s wrong that the leadership of our federal health agency is a guy without a medical degree who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport. For a lot of folks, that’s A-OK! And they deserve to be heard!

Corporate journalism is failing us at every turn, and the only upside is that every day they make it more obvious, and re-direct us to other sources. On RFK Jr., one of those sources is the group Defend Public Health ([link removed]) . We’ll hear from a founding member, Elizabeth Jacobs ([link removed]) , on this week's show.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of genocide ([link removed]) and starvation ([link removed]) .

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