Pulling out the administrative state, universities and experience is similar to something from the cultural revolution.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy -Young House on April 2, 2025.
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So far have been Countless stories It is written about the cessation of grants at the National Institute of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dismissal of thousands of employees among these and other agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as a wide disconnection of programs and gaps by HHS. The volume and scale of these attacks are unprecedented. They sent institutes that made sure that from state and local health departments to colleges and universities, adjusted front -line work on the protection of public health and interruption of progress in new achievements in the treatment and prevention of infectious and chronic diseases.
I tried to overcome my head with the only question: why? Why do they do that? Some tried to create these cuts as responding to Again make America a healthy agendaOr attempt to cut the government that went wild – everything you need to try to update these actions into some standard, political logic. But I think something much more obvious can be at work, though it may be difficult to accept what is happening here in the US, or for most media to call it what it is.
What we see is a cleaning – the administrative state of the universities, knew – corresponding to events such as the cultural revolution in China in the 1960s and 70s, or the dismantling of the Tsaritsky State Service after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Only because this moment is not associated with intense political circulation that does not make this comparison. One way or another, the goal is to get rid of a whole set of people and institutions in the service of radical ideology.
And what increases in its place also learns from history. From Covid Contraians working National Institute of Health and Administration of nutrition and medicine To the anti-Vaxxer Lizenkas It is not supported by the force of their ideas, but by their political patrons in the White House.
While the short -term consequences of the administration policy were well stated, long -term, just as cool. In less than 100 days, President Trump has created a solid heritage: we have lost a whole generation of knowledge created to care for our nation and provide our collective future in terms of scientific achievements.
These resources will not only bring back when Trump is gone. Older figures are looking for other opportunities. Students and trainees now lack the chance to take on the chosen profession; They will not all wait for the political wind to change. The rest of the human, administrative and physical infrastructure for science, public health and health care is also beginning to be planted. The government, besides mass layoffs, we have people such as Peter Marx – focused on drug development and regulation for years –Going off the FDA with disgust and protest. If you needed more evidence of the central punitive nature of these purges, some agency officials have report They can work in remote rural places in Alaska or Montana and stay in the federal service. At least they do not get bullets when they are sent to the countryside. But they really face some exile.
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Although the courts pushed away from some executive actions and decisions of the agencies that are not quite clear that anyone in the administration is listening to or cares about what the judges should say. Those who have to fight, including universities such as Colombia, just picked up a knife and plunged it to his heartsDestroying the authority once large institutions and little in terms of respite from the White House.
Meanwhile, Pseudoscience is growing, and like Lisenko, it will have mortal consequences. RFK -Younger presidents over flowering measles epidemic In the US, when the charlat was brought out, they are healed with a real danger to children. Despite the pretentious protests of Senator Bill Cassidi, the secretary of the HHS conducts a full form ahead of his agenda anti-Vaxx, including appointing an anti-Vax-Vaccar, which was banned from doing medicine as a head of the study in the absence of communication between vaccines and autism. According to The Wall Street JournalKennedy’s services are also looking for brain edema and deaths from the measles vaccine that does not exist because there are no such cases in the United States.
In addition, Covid Contraians in Nih and FDA desperately refuse to be held accountable over the last five years of pandemic, banning research on COVID (because you don’t know it has never been so much business) and the development of the mRNA vaccine in other diseases and conditions. They even create their own magazines in the first place Journal of the Academy of Public HealthWith your colleagues to wash your scientific nonsense – because when the standard expert review of your research does not work, it’s time to make your own peers work out this.
These people have been aching about treatment in the hands of biomedical studies for five years and called for greater openness to new ideas and risk in science. But their sloping from several heads of the NIH Institute and thousands of NIH staff tells you that it is about retaliation, not new freedom of intellectual investigation. And in one of the most bizarre and sad events, these people are concerned about intellectuals such as princely political scientists and authors On the footstepsWhich is a love letter to Covid Contrasty, which has been subjected to the main media seeking to rewrite the history of this half decade. Hey can’t be a revolution without PopulusComrades are travel.
We are in deep trouble. Elections in the intervals in 2028, when they change the balance of power in Congress or who is in the White House, everything comes too late. The patient bleeds in the waiting room. American science, public health and health will be damaged for generation and more.
Why? Because that’s what they want. Regardless of their psychology and philosophies, they matter at this point. We are going through the times that are now focused on destruction as a central goal that causes millions of millions now and to the future, long after they have gone.
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