Reasons not to trust the CDC and FDA

[redbird]

On the Science-Based Medicine blog, David Gorski asks whether we can still trust the CDC and FDA and concludes "I don't know."

For me, this is more evidence that no, we can't: Gorski (aka Orac) has been a voice for "trust the science, don't listen to anecdata" and pointing at CDC recommendations for things like vaccination for a long time. But that was before Trump, when we could trust the CDC to look at the science, not edit the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report to make the president look better.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Ugggh that's depressing.

[dewline]

Rage-inducing.

Seriously. And we've already run through all of the reasons why. Repeatedly. You and me.

[dewline]

What Stephen Harper was trying to do by stealth and gaslighting and saying "we can't afford evidence-based government, it's too expensive" over and over and over, Trump's doing with fascistic bluster and his cronies talking about insurrections plotted by truth-telling scientist scum and...and...and DAMMIT!

[minoanmiss]

Yeah. :(

[joseph_teller]

I know that I certainly don't trust them for statistics. If I want data I got to John Hopkins Resource Center.