The CDC Is Officially Done For. Welcome to the Era of Woo-Woo Science.

In today’s episode of This Week in Chaos, the Centers for Disease Control is coming apart at every nail, as the Blog’s favourite living Canadian put it. From NBC News:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership was in stunning disarray Wednesday evening after the Trump administration fired the agency’s director hours after she refused to resign under pressure. The director, Susan Monarez, said she was resisting being ousted by the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for political reasons after about a month in office.

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted,” said her lawyers, Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell. “Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign,” added the attorneys, who did not reply to a request for comment.

All of this drama was preceded by an open revolt by CDC staffers against the Dauphin Prince of Woo-Woo who’s running public health in America. From NPR:

Her departure coincided with the resignations this week of at least four top CDC officials. The list includes Dr. Debra Houry, the agency’s deputy director; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, head of the agency’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, head of its National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology.

Daskalakis worked closely with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Kennedy remade the committee by firing everyone and replacing them with a group that included several vaccine skeptics—one of whom was put in charge of a COVID-19 vaccines workgroup. In his resignation letter, Daskalakis lamented that the changes put “people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor in charge of recommending vaccine policy.” He described Monarez as “hamstrung and sidelined by an authoritarian leader.” He added: “Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults.” He also wrote: “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality.”

That’s some cold-blooded stuff from a government doctor. Meanwhile, on Thursday, down in Atlanta, . Guards are escorting people out of the building and everything has come to the notice of the people who worked so hard to put Dauphin Prince Woo-Woo in charge of the nation’s public health.

The chairman of the Senate health committee, Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and physician who voted for Mr. Kennedy after publicly agonizing over it, said on social media late Wednesday that the “high profile departures will require oversight” by his panel. He did not elaborate and his spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Good. Shut up on this topic. Forever. You sold out to the woo-woo. Let it be on your head. Unfortunately, it will be on the heads of children whom you will never know.