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RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

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Re: RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

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I don’t think it’s entirely ideological. I suspect this is a form of government capture.

Do you want the government to do anything, good, bad whatever?

You gotta pay your bribe and the folks doing it will likely be cronies.

Re: RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

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I sincerely believe RFK's viewpoint is just straightforward old fashioned eugenics. He believes in "making america healthy" in that sense that if you die of something that's proof you weren't healthy.

Re: RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

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Interestingly China just recently called out Fort Detrick and it's research goals specifically in their COVID-19 origins response white paper over this previous incident:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...

Now from this article:

> In an emailed statement provided to WIRED, Bradley Moss, communication director for the office of research services at NIH, confirmed the halt in research activity. “NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick. This decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture, prompting this research pause. During the stand-down, no research will be conducted, and access will be limited to essential personnel only, to safeguard the facility and its resources.

So it's not clear that this is the result of HHS ordering NIH to do anything specific or that it will be permanent or related to planned job cuts in the future. This article seems to conflate two separate stories into one confused narrative.

Re: RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

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>What the hell are they thinking?

Maybe you're not from the US, or maybe you are haven't been paying attention, but during the entire election the party that won told us this is exactly what they were going to do.

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