How Is RFK Jr. Bad for Your Health? Let Us Count the Ways.

"People will die because of this. ... We’re going to be sicker as a country. ... And for what? I don’t understand."

Sep 05, 2025

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The Centers for Disease Control shitshow is a microcosm of the mismanagement of the Trump era. It also demonstrated some extraordinary courage among principled public servants, who were willing to lose their jobs to draw attention to damage being done to public health.

What is happening at CDC is not a one-off. I have studied the federal bureaucracy for …

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A guest post by

Don Moynihan

Professor of Public Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. Immigrant. Researches and teaches about government, administrative burdens, and politicization.