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Hopefully people wake up to how insanely political, inept, and unscientific the CDC actually is, despite them somewhat trying to do a good job this time. They, in a way, cause epidemics - for example, Lyme disease, which is now clouded by denial-ism within medicine despite hundreds of studies showing contrary evidence to the few the CDC cites. As a scientist myself (bioinformatics), who does some epidemiology work, I cannot for the life of me understand their terrible scientific review process. Another egregious example was their guidelines toward reopening school.. which they whipped up overnight after Trump Jr. / Trump basically forced them to do that... an article with 39 citations was posted... meanwhile, other disease states have <4 citations for their entire guidelines (Lyme, again), based on studies from the 1980's/1990's, and 99% of doctors believe this is the reality, calling doctors who actually read studies "quacks". Then this new guideline on testing which was created while Fauci was in the hospital... I'd love to hear your thoughts on that separate issue, of them being a group of inept scientists/doctors in general and being so strongly political.

The pathway from the influence of politics or money/insurance companies --> groups like the CDC --> medicine is too insane for some people to accept when you know it exists, especially doctors themselves who would then have to admit they were wrong. I hope we can fix this issue in light of covid-19 highlighting it

Throughout this entire pandemic, I've been ahead of the CDC in lots of predictions, never made the insane mistakes they made in saying things like "masks don't work" at one point, and generally I've been able to see trends/patterns well before they've announced similar findings (like a month before in some cases). I'm sure you've seen the same thing, calling things they would only recognize way down the line... making recommendations they didn't make. Why do you think that is? Do you also believe they are massively influenced by politics? I personally think they are inept too, and hire weak scientists/doctors for low pay, but its a little confusing since they claim to have 10,000+ employees.

I don't get how everyone at the CDC isn't constantly screaming out to shut down the country properly for a few months as we approach flu season. They're compromising their values and everything they know to be true, medically/scientifically, to appease politicians. If I was 1 of those 10,000+ people, I'd resign after using my platform to speak the truth... ya know, to control disease.

people who have Lyme disease and doctors/scientists like myself who have studied the CDC (I was paid as an intern to study their preparedness for a bioterrorism event, in 2009, and found that 31/31 hospitals surveyed didn't even know the National Stockpile existed... and it didn't have a useful website until I reported this to them.. but they never changed their procedures for the stockpile or trained any governments/hospitals or put out basic instructions even)... we knew how inept/corrupt they were many years ago. They are the reason for a few epidemics, one being "chronic Lyme" which has become so messed up that MDs literally think its quackery when there are easily 300 studies on the topic that prove it exists. Crazy, right? Now, I think COVID is revealing their ineptitude to everyone, and how easily influenced by outside groups they are, whether it be politicians, insurance companies, or even the public

oh god its one of those scams. holy shit this shouldn't be legal.

its actually insane. anyone who would do this is a moron. there are free resources to learn this stuff online, giving away 20% of your salary to a "university" run by a high school grad, for 5 years, is a special kind of stupid