Should You Trust the CDC Anymore?

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   My Esotericposted 3 days ago

   During COVID, Donald Trump went into full attack mode on the CDC in his first term, repeatedly challenging its warnings, intervening in health communications, and elevating political messaging over public-health guidance.
   
   Now, less than a year into his second term, critics argue the damage has deepened: the CDC’s independence and trustworthiness has been weakened, and its public messaging increasingly looks filtered through political priorities rather than medical caution and science-based evidence. Whether you agree or not, the practical result is that more Americans are asking a question that should never have to be asked in a functioning public-health system: Can you trust the CDC anymore?
   
   Anecdotally, I have listened to multiple doctors say flat out things like "find other sources for your healthcare information, you can no longer trust the CDC to provide science-based evidence".
   
   That question lands even harder because the CDC is operating inside a national healthcare landscape that has been struggling for decades. Long before Trump, the U.S. was already a global outlier — spending more than other advanced nations while often delivering worse outcomes and shakier access. The Affordable Care Act improved coverage and helped stabilize parts of the system, but even after those gains, America still ranked poorly on many international measures of cost, equity, and population health.
   
   So the CDC’s credibility isn’t a niche bureaucratic issue — it’s one of the few remaining pillars of clarity in a country that already has too many structural weaknesses in healthcare. They haven’t declared the CDC untrustworthy in every domain — but when the country’s top medical groups are publicly pleading with CDC leadership to reject its own advisory shifts, the credibility crisis is no longer theoretical. Because when the CDC becomes a political instrument, people don’t just lose trust — they lose time, clarity, and sometimes their lives.

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   My Esotericposted 3 days ago

   To add fuel to the fire, the FDA no longer works in America's interest - only Trump's. There have been an exodus of top scientists such as this -
   
   "FDA in turmoil after exit of veteran cancer researcher"
   
   They are being replaced by ideologues who know nothing about protecting America.
   
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/politics … leadership

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      wildernessposted 3 days agoin reply to this

      Do you mean ideologues like Biden and Harris, like Pelosi and Clinton, like OAC and Mamdani?
      
      Or ideologues like the idiot judges setting criminals loose because they don't like Trump?  Perhaps those that impeached a President because he failed to collude with Putin over his election? 
      
      Ideologues like mayors and other politicians that actively aid criminals to evade the law or that participate in violent protests that tear down fences and trespass on private ground?
      
      What ideologues know nothing about protecting America if not those?  The ones that defunded police in favor of ideology?  Or perhaps those that promote the overt racism of DEI?  The ones that fight for open borders and bring in illegal aliens from Mexico?

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         My Esotericposted 2 days agoin reply to this

         OAC and Mamdani are the only two what I consider ideologues on your list  - the remainder there are from personal bias not considered research. Also, I seriously doubt, because there is no evidence they would, that they would put ideological bootlickers in to replace qualified scientists as Trump has throughout the gov't.
         
         The rest of your post appears driven by fantasy, hyperbole, and exaggeration rather then truth.

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   My Esotericposted 3 days ago

   Here is what one doctor, one hand-picked to go along with RFK Jr's anti-vax program said as he (and two other somewhat more ethical doctors) voted no on vaccinating newborns against hepatitis B.
   
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/health/v … rns-digvid

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   wildernessposted 3 days ago

   Depends.  If a matter of a politically charged question like vaccines, no.  Not with Kennedy running any part of it.
   
   If you swallowed shampoo and want to know what to do, yes.

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      My Esotericposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      When did vaccines become politically charged? Better yet, why did vaccines become politically charged? It certainly wasn't from not working and saving countless millions of lives.

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