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muriel_volestrangler

(105,897 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2026, 02:47 PM 18 hrs ago

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore

Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”

But the Trump administration curtailed other kinds of overdose work, including shutting down the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), which tracked emergency department visits — an early alert about drug-use trends. It was discontinued “as part of a broader effort to align agency activities with agency and administration priorities,” officials posted.
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Smoking has long been known as the nation's leading preventable cause of death. The federal government for decades has not only monitored what percentage of people use cigarettes and other tobacco products, but also run successful public education campaigns like the FDA’s “Real Cost” and the CDC’s “Tips from Former Smokers.”

Those campaigns were ended last year, although Nixon said the FDA campaign will return.
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.For three decades, federal health officials tracked food poisoning infections caused by eight germs. In July, the Trump administration scaled back required reporting to just two pathogens monitored by the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet.
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Meanwhile, a CDC website that compiles disclosures by past and current ACIP members has more than 200 entries of former panel members, but information on only one Kennedy appointee. Among those missing from that list are Martin Kulldorff, the initial chair of Kennedy's reconstituted committee, who had been paid to be an expert witness in legal cases against the vaccine-maker Merck. Another is current member Dr. Robert Malone, who also was paid as an expert witness in vaccine litigation.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/rfk-jr-pledged-transparency-public-anymore-130101310

By the way, that "officials posted" link to a samhsa.gov page gives me a "403 Forbidden" reply - and my attempt to get archive.ph to get a copy of it seems to be suffering the same fate. Can anyone else access it? Or has the Trump regime taken it down, now it's mentioned in an article critical of the Trump regime making sure the public is less well informed?
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RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler 18 hrs ago OP
Bizzaro tsktsk 17 hrs ago #1

tsktsk

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1. Bizzaro
Wed Feb 18, 2026, 03:47 PM
17 hrs ago

When are people going to wake up and realize that ALL republican ass kissers are liars.
Rule 1 They will do the opposite of whatever they promise.
Rule 2 There are no rules when it comes to these gutless pieces of shit.
Forget about reading the Project 2025 playbook, read Mein Kampf for the real playbook.
Seriously read it, remember Trump kept this by his bed, not the Bible.
Trump ICE = Hitler Brown Shirts
Trump Immigrints = Hitler Jews
Trump Congress = Hitler Nazi Party
Trump Fox = Hitler Joseph Goebbels

ABOVE ALL REMEMBER THIS


First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

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