MedPage Today March 4, 2025
Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS, and Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS

— The administration’s deregulatory approach poses a threat to health and safety

Shortly after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed to be secretary of HHS, thousands of government scientistsopens in a new tab or window, technical advisors, and staffopens in a new tab or window across federal public health agencies were dismissed. This was not without warning. Before being confirmed, Kennedy had ominously tweeted that FDA employees should “pack [their] bagsopens in a new tab or window” and voiced his intention to terminateopens in a new tab or window 600 current NIH staff. When asked during the confirmation process if he would fire career staff who disagreed with him or the president on scientific decision-making, he responded that he lookedopens...

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