Mary Holland
Corruption in Public Health Agencies
Robert Redfield, MD, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2018 to 2021, has recently called for the end of public health agency corruption and the end of the childhood chronic disease epidemic. Where? In a recent Newsweek op-ed.
Redfield writes: “Pesticides are proven risk factors for neurodevelopmental outcomes in kids, causing maladies like ADHD…. A large portion of the FDA‘s budget is provided by pharmaceutical companies. NIH is cozy with biomedical and pharmaceutical companies and its scientists are allowed to collect royalties on drugs NIH licenses to pharma. And as the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I know the agency can be influenced by special interest groups… But it doesn’t stop in the health agencies: the U.S. Department of Agriculture is a captive of industry, too. Created to help the family farmer and to ensure a wholesome food supply, today the agency often favors large corporations over the interests of small farmers and the public’s health.”
Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, (top photo) comments, “It’s remarkable to see mainstream media run an article laden with scathing criticism of our public health institutions and their utter failure to protect our kids.”
Robert Redfield, MD
In about 800 words in the Newsweek op-ed, Redfield highlights the corruption. He calls out the poisoning of our food with pesticides. The royalties NIH scientists collect from Big Pharma. The cozy relationships between industries and the agencies that are supposed to regulate them.
He reminds readers that our public health agencies are supposed to “focus on public good, not corporate interests or personal profit.”
Redfield tells readers: “If we do not discover the depth of our corporate capture problem and fix it, we cannot truly address chronic disease in this country.”
The fact that a former CDC director would utter such harsh words about institutions he once worked in, and the fact that a mainstream news outlet would publish those words, are clear signs that a movement of those forwarding full transparency and change is winning a decades-long battle.
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The above information was extracted from an email sent out by Mary Holland, CEO of CHD on September 26, 2024 as well as the op-ed article from Newsweek published Sep 24, 2024. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-has-plan-make-americas-children-healthy-again-its-good-one-opinion-1957026. Any political commentary infused in the article and email which leans towards a specific presidential nominee is the opinion of the authors and not IMHU.
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