Children’s Health Defense (CHD): Trump’s Picks for Surgeon General and Top Posts at FDA, CDC Earn Mixed Reviews. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to lead three key federal public health agencies “would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are linchpins in public health.” By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. (11/26/24)
NPR and other outlets — both left and right-leaning — have offered mixed reviews about Trump’s public health nominees, listed below along with the introductory section titles for each nominee:
Dr. Marty Makary: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
— “Makary Calls U.S. government the ‘greatest perpetrator of misinformation’”
Dr. Dave Weldon: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
— Weldon sponsored bill to ban mercury from vaccines
Dr. Janette Nesheiwat: Surgeon General
— Nesheiwat: ‘egregious unethical & harmful’ to add COVID shots to childhood schedule
Children’s Health Defense author Michael Nevradakis provides a mostly balanced and detailed article, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each nominee along with how they’ve re-evaluated earlier positions on vaccines, pandemics, and other public health issues as they engaged in information gathering and critical thinking.
Before calling your Senators about supporting or opposing these nominees, you may wish to read this in-depth article and explore its links for insights. Also, look at the Related links below.
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WE OPPOSE NESHEIWAT FOR SURGEON GENERAL. Keep public health in the public square. By Stand for Health Freedom (11/29/24): standforhealthfreedom.c…
Stand for Health Freedom opposes Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination due to her support of Facebook’s censorship activities and other remarks she has made since that appear to support censorship. The article includes a video and a petition to ask your senator to oppose Dr. Nesheiwat’s nomination.
NOTE: Dr. Nesheiwat also supported CDC Guidelines including repeated COVID vaccinations and boosters, masks, lockdowns, school closures, social distancing, and other harmful COVID policies (see next reference).
Headlines with links to articles from “right-leaning” publications that oppose Dr. Newheiwat for Surgeon General (Click + to see headlines):
