"Two administration officials said Jim O’Neill, the second-in-command at the Department of Health and Human Services, would supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist. O’Neill, a former investment executive who also served at the federal health department under President George W. Bush, does not have a medical background. "
Jim O'Neill's lack of medical or scientific background:
"Unlike most past CDC directors, O'Neill is not a physician or scientist. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in humanities. This contrasts with the previous director, Susan Monarez, who had a PhD in microbiology.
Investment and libertarian ties: O'Neill spent much of his career in Silicon Valley investment, working with billionaire Peter Thiel. Critics point to his libertarian-leaning views and past statements about deregulation, including suggesting that drugs be approved for market based on safety alone, without effectiveness data.
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Ayup! And MAGA idiots are rushing pell mell into full blown authoritarianism leading to a sicker and more mentally ill society.
One without compassion, empathy, integrity, decency, curiosity, discipline, understanding, or peace.
You learned nothing from Covid.
Tell us -FJ... what should we have learned?
I learned that after I took the COVID vaccine and boosters that when I did get COVID, it was nothing more than a head cold: no fever, no cough, no sore throat, no aches, no pains -- just a head cold for two weeks. And I am an immune compromised patient. So I learned that science works.
And idiot narcissists like RFK,Jr., are crackpots who will be responsible for countless American deaths because of his stupidity.
If you ever had a life-threatening disease (as I have had SIX times!) I go with what the experts in that disease knows, has studied, has published papers in, and has had good outcomes.
I would never in a thousand years believe a spoiled nepo pol who fried his brain for 15 years on heroine and has the self-control of an alley cat where it comes to females. I'm a sane person who doesn't take advice from a self-absorbed idiot who has ZERO knowledge in virology, biology, medicine, and epistemology. Only abject fools would do that.
Unless -FJ has a PhD in medicine, virology, biology, and other related disciplines in infectious diseases, I'm guessing that he'll tell us what he learned on the Internet and from some obscure philosopher.
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