My Response to the CDC Whiners

There is an ongoing revolt at the Centers for Disease Control over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s moves to clean up the agency. 

Six years ago, I would find their criticisms of Kennedy shocking and worry that the wide-scale revolt indicated that Kennedy really should be fired. When there is such wide-ranging dissent from medical professionals–especially aimed at a person who is, essentially, a medical layman–I would be persuaded that they were likely right and he likely wrong. 

Every one of them should be asked, “What is a woman?” If they can’t answer, fire them with cause. I bet 99% will hem and haw.

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 3, 2025

No longer. That was before the COVID fiasco and the ascendence of gender ideology. What I have learned over the past half-decade is that all our institutions are fundamentally corrupt and in desperate need of reform, and that reform must come in the form of a wholesale cleaning out of our institutions. 

Obviously, opposition to the current bureaucratic state and its corollary institutions outside of government does not necessarily qualify one to reform them. One can be right that they are corrupt and wrong about who should replace them. But it sure as heck means that we shouldn’t take the advice of the corrupt on how their institutions should run. 

If that CDC leader who just resigned seemed familiar, it’s because he was Joe Biden’s “Monkeypox Czar” and spent his time telling gay people to continue to have wild sex orgies instead of trying to prevent the spread of Monkeypox. https://t.co/wOJGfbw4FR

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 28, 2025

The very people who are complaining now stood outside the CDC to applaud Biden’s Satanist Monkeypox Czar, celebrating his heroic work informing gay men that they should continue having orgies during the Monkeypox outbreak. 

Degenerate. pic.twitter.com/Pkn2htYRan

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) August 28, 2025

The “experts” at the CDC literally handed over the power to close schools to Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, who apparently knew The Science™ better than the doctors. 

And, perhaps most troubling of all, these “biologists” have promoted the Mengele-like promotion of sterilizing and mutilating children based on the notion that biological sex is a myth. 

When I see all these senators trying to lecture and “gotcha” Bobby Kennedy today all I can think is:

You all support off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal “therapies” for children, mutilating our kids and enriching big pharma. You’re full of shit and everyone knows it.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 4, 2025

And that is the origin of my modest proposal: a simple test that could separate the wheat from the chaff. If not completely, then as a good start, ask every employee of the CDC to define the word “woman.” 

I bet most would refuse to do so, because their commitment to the political agenda is far more powerful than to scientific reality. Either there would be a consensus at the CDC that boys are not girls–undermining the absurd and abusive ideology that is harming our children today–or the bureaucrats would be demonstrating exactly what Kennedy et. al. are asserting: these people are unfit to serve as our nation’s guardians of health. 

CDC employees staged a mass walkout today to protest the changes RFK Jr is making.

Should RFK Jr just fire them all and rebuild the agency? The CDC has lost so much credibility after Covid that this could rebuild confidence in this govt agency.pic.twitter.com/Jmbqdz75Pe

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 29, 2025

Of course, should they answer that biological sex is real, that brings up the next question: why haven’t you been saying so and fighting back against the modern lobotomy of alphabet ideology? We all know the answer again: they submitted to the whim of the ideologists because they are spineless. 

In either case, they are unfit to serve. 

Remember: the CDC was run by this woman, about whom none of these scientists complained:

Modern science in a nutshell.

Just a bunch of so-called “experts” who throw their hands up in the air and agree on what’s what. They read the room, feel the vibe for a “consensus,” and decidedly go with that.

It’s one giant credentialed circle jerk. https://t.co/u1E5X0fAWU

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) August 31, 2025

That is The Science™ to which they are dedicated. Sorry, if they are happy to be led by a woman with the mind of a pre-teen girl, I don’t care what they think about Kennedy. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC allowed the teachers union to write the order closing our schools – which hurt working people all over the country – and then pretended it was science based. pic.twitter.com/hAC2NXwK8u

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) September 4, 2025

Let me be clear: I do not assume Kennedy is the best candidate for the job; we will have to see the results of his reforms to decide that conclusively. I also do not want the CDC to be entirely gutted and destroyed. The CDC, when properly run, provides an essential service and can contribute to the health of the nation. 

But if you can’t see that the current CDC is fatally compromised by insane left-wing ideology, I don’t know what to say. You would have to be blind not to see that an agency–particularly one so intimately tied to medicine and biology–filled with people who can’t answer the basic biological question of what distinguishes male from female is unfit for purpose. 

The CDC killed its own credibility over the past 5 or so years. Spare me their whining now. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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