The new acting head of CDC faces an incredibly tough job. Agency leadership has been decimated, morale is low, and employees no longer believe that the administration respects their mission of protecting public health. So who did RFK Jr. turn to? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Drug safety expert here, had to look up his full statements on FDA approval. The full context is that he wants FDA to approve drugs based on safety only and no longer require proof of efficacy. He wants the drug market to be like the supplement market.
He has less authority over FDA as head of CDC than in his current role as deputy HHS head. Changing this would also require Congress to overturn the Kefauver amendment passed in the 1960s. I also expect that a market-based approach to drug efficacy would be very unpopular.
Overall, hes a libertarian and they should never be in charge of a government agency. Fully free-market approaches to healthcare are ignorant and dangerous.
RFK’s job wasn’t to change the CDC, it was to destroy it.
The push for not having to prove efficacy has been a steady drum beat for a while supported by public's ignorant demand of more fast track approvals, while being oblivious to the medications that gave false hope to ALS pts only to find out they don't do shit.
Another Peter Thiel trained sociopath. Because his oligarch objective is to kill us. bsky.app/profile/donm...
So, umm, no. We can’t just redefine what a vaccine is, and the cruelty in saying people should just take new drugs at their own risk is off the charts. I went to school with thalidomide babies with fingers coming out of their elbows and missing forearms. The idea that we should casually repeat that…
Uh oh, hide your kidneys!
Does anyone here really think he cares about doing a good job?
Senator Cassidy has promised hearings. But Congress will not be able to finger-wag RFK Jr. back to sanity. Radical conspiracy theorists have real convictions, even if those convictions mean kneecapping American state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Congress does, of course, have levers to apply against RFK Jr’s actions beyond finger-wagging, but in 2025 they have been extremely loath to use them.
"Cassidy has promised hearings"