By Tom Woods
September 6, 2025
Earlier this week the New York Times published an op-ed by a number of former directors of the Centers for Disease Control called, "We Ran the CDC: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American's Health."
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Were I a former CDC director, out of shame and embarrassment I would avoid the spotlight for the rest of my life, given how sick Americans are after years and years of the leadership of people like my friends and me. I think pretty much any normal person would behave the same way.
You will not be surprised to learn, however, that former CDC directors are not normal people.
No, they're unhappy that they and their equally useless friends are in the process of being purged.
For heaven's sake what exactly would these people have to do before their firings would be justified?
In response to the article, Dr. Joseph Marine writes:
The arrogance and self-importance of these CDC bureaucrats is beyond belief. The reality is that the US would have been better off with no CDC at all during the pandemic. Their performance was a Chernobyl-level catastrophe....
They cannot credibly argue that the CDC saved a single life. And their message is still based on fearmongering. It is all that they know and all that they have. Fear of unknown infectious disease "threats." They have learned nothing at all from the pandemic. Nothing.
Dr. Kevin Bass reminded me of how former CDC director Mandy Cohen developed policy. She'd talk to her friends on the phone, they'd talk about what they were doing, and then make that a policy. She said she used to call the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts, for example:
"But you know, when she was like, are you are you going to let them have professional, um, football? And I was like, nope. And she's like, okay, neither are we, neither are we. Uh, so, um, so, uh, you know, it was like conversations like that."
She laughs as she recounts this.
Trust "the science" indeed.
Last week I shared the news of the resignation from the CDC of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. He's just so concerned with public health, you see.
Well, despite favoring the pointless shutdown of society over Covid, Daskalakis wanted you to know in 2023 that it was not necessary for homosexuals to modify their own behavior in light of the monkeypox situation.
Thus in 2023 Dr. Daskalakis defended the Biden administration on the grounds that it aimed to "support peoples' joy as opposed to calling them 'risky.'" After all, he said, "one person's idea of risk is another person's idea of a great festival or Friday night."
(That's Daskalakis on the left.)
So it's all right if we ruin YOUR life, but don't you dare disturb a fun Daskalakis Friday night!
Americans are suffering from chronic disease at an unprecedented rate, and these tone-deaf oafs, rather than accepting the tiniest bit of responsibility for any of it, want to point fingers at the guy who thinks maybe we could use some new blood around here.
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