Let’s End Public Health Agency Corruption

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.” Mary Holland, CEO of Children’s Health Defense, 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.”