CDC Leader Drops Bombshell RFK Jr. Admission

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CDC Leader Drops Bombshell RFK Jr. Admission
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Catherine Bouris
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Jack Silvers
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Updated Aug. 29 2025 7:28AM EDT


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has never actually been briefed by CDC experts before making major public health decisions, according to a departing top official at the agency.

The bombshell claim from Dr. Demetre Daskalakis came in a Thursday night CNN interview after the ousting of the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control left the agency in chaos. He gave further details in an interview with the Daily Beast.

Daskalakis resigned from his position as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases on Wednesday in response to the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was appointed to the role by President Donald Trump. He is one of four top officials to quit in protest.


In his resignation letter, posted to social media, Daskalakis specifically named Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and said that he was “unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”

“I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people,” Daskalakis added.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cdc-leader-drops-bombshell-rfk-jr-admission/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Dunning Kruger Effect strikes again.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I think RFK Jr. is beyond Dunning Kruger - he doesn't just vastly overestimate his ability and knowledge

he actively works to stop those who do have them from using them. Many others in the Cabinet - Hegseth, Noem etc. - are classic Dunning Kruger case studies, but RFK is malicious to the very concept of his department.

[GiqueCee]

7. I have come to believe...

... that Kennedy does not deserve the appellation, "Jr." , or even RFK. It defiles the memory of his father, who was truly a great man whose life, I believe, was cut short by the malevolent machinations of the truly evil J. Edgar Hoover. To me, he's just Kennedy, or, if I have to differentiate him from that mush-mouthed jerk from Louisiana, Turncoat Kennedy.
But I totally agree with everything you say, as is usually the case.
Have a nice weekend, Muriel!

[JHB]

41. At some point earlier in the summer, when referencing RFK (Sr.), I described him as...

..."the real one, not the demented nepo-baby Bizzaro version we have to deal with these days."

[Hekate]

54. I've tried variations myself. BobK for one, in conversation. Better for writing is NotRFK...

I just want to make it clear that for those of us who loved his father Bobby Kennedy and remember him well — this corrupt and dangerous offshoot has no claim to the name.

He’s NotRFK.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

66. That is why so many of us refer to him as Brainworm Bobby...

... eom.

[Escurumbele]

8. They are all malicious. Although they are all incompetent, they do understand their actions create chaos.

They willingly took the jobs they have to help destroy the country, it is treason throughout. These are not stupid people, they are incompetent to do a good job that benefits the country, but it doesn't take a great brain to destroy.

The Twin Towers took years to build, it only took a couple of days to destroy, that is the analogy that fits the destruction that has taken and is taking place since trump assumed a role he is unfit for, but then again, he and republicans are unfit to govern, not unfit to destroy.

It amazes me how someone can show up to accept a role they know they are unfit to hold if in fact their intention was to make things better, but they know they were not chosen to do that, they are chosen to pledge loyalty to a buffoon, to follow orders and to destroy, no big brain is needed to do that.

I believe that one of the best traits a human can have is to recognize their weaknesses, their defects to work on improving in those areas, and to recognize when they should back out of a situation where those character flaws hinder, and there can not provide positive contributions, but to be able to do that one must have solid principles, dignity, be honest, which are character traits republicans don't have.

[GiqueCee]

48. In my mind...

... what is truly amazing is that none of these people – whether they're idiots or not – appear to have given a moment's thought to what will happen to them when they lose this game of chicken. And they WILL lose; that's not open to question.
For decades I have firmly believed that conservatism is a mental disorder on the dark end of the sociopathy spectrum. I despise those who have tried to give such a diseased "philosophy" a thin veneer of respectability. It deserves nothing of the sort; it "conserves" nothing, it helps no one but the filthy rich – and I do mean FILTHY – and, like every other parasitic believe system, it ultimately destroys its host. No? Look around you, for Christ's sake! Not just at the wreckage of America, but at the entire planet! People, it's the only one we've got, or ever will have!* And conservatives tell us that their profits are more important than the lives of their OWN children, never mind ours! So they enact laws that insulate themselves from accountability for the devastation they cause, and call us the bad guys for exposing their evil greed.
So, back to the total lack of foresight that typifies those lying through their teeth to please the Gangrenous Boil on the Ass of Humanity: Do you simple-minded skidmarks really believe you're gonna get away with such monstrously evil destruction? Guess again. You are doomed and there is NO escape for you. None. Your fate is sealed.
So get your affairs in order. The leopards are hungry, and your faces are on the menu.

*For those drooling imbeciles that think we can all move to Mars, or an exo-planet circling another star, sit down and shut up. You're too stupid to be bothered talking to.

[Dock_Yard]

67. Oh, this manifesto is BRILLIANT!!

[Johonny]

12. He is part of the whole "health" influencer

Industry. They are motivated by self interest to steer people into buying their BS products. Given the quacks he has put in place it would not surprise me at all if he was receiving kick backs from these companies.

[sop]

18. Profit is RFK Jr.'s driving force.

There's money to be made from all the crazy ideas he's pushing.

[Arazi]

22. Don't discount eugenics

I firmly believe a lot of people in this administration (including Rubio) believe in the survival of the fittest and if we lose millions, then they should die.

Eugenics are explicitly the philosophy of a few techbros like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin who are advising JD Vance

[YodaMom2]

39. RFK Jr. most certainly believes in eugenics.

He speaks of illness as if it’s a personal failing - the ill person must have done something to cause the illness. And since it’s their own fault, they deserve what they get. Even (perhaps especially) if that includes death.

This armchair psychiatrist thinks RFK Jr. is a psychopath. He is completely devoid of conscience and empathy. If people die as a result of his policies, then they die. No skin off his nose.

[Hekate]

57. Sociopathy is Psychopathy with manners, dressed in an expensive suit & tie. I also think NotRFK is a psycho...

He’s a man that picks up a roadkill bear cub and leaves it in Central Park for a lark, for gods’ sake, after deciding it’s been in his trunk for too long. Who finds a dead whale on the beach and carries its stinking head around on the car roof to show his kids.

NotRFK has also stated publicly that his beliefs about humanity and its needs are diametrically opposed to those of his late father, his late uncles, and pretty much the public stance of his whole family. He despises us. He was put in place by Trump in order to destroy and sow chaos.

[paleotn]

21. Precisely. It's all about the money

People bitch and moan about big pharma, yet snake oil mostly gets a pass. It’s all natural! Yeah, kind of like brawndo “has electrolytes “.

[LiberalArkie]

46. Yea, Drink this arsenic drink. It is all 100% natural. This hydrogen sulfide inhaler will clean out your lungs, natural

[ProfessorGAC]

60. Lead & Mercury Are Natural, Too

Wonder when he starts recommending cures with high concentrations of those.

[markodochartaigh]

33. Dunning-Kruger and

Stunning-Cuckoo

[Hekate]

52. You are correct. When the intent of the mission is to destroy & sow chaos, and the result is that very thing...

…people can’t say the appointee is “failing” at his job. The very definition of “the job” itself must be re-examined.

[allegorical oracle]

15. That describes this entire administration. nt

[70sEraVet]

25. I was just about to post the same sentimate

"malicious to the very concept of his department" describes most cabinet appointees.

[ShazzieB]

47. Starting with the guy on top!

Schlump thinks he knows everything about everything and will never be convinced otherwise because he's too stupid to be able to comprehend how stupid he is!

[surfered]

2. RFK, Jr

[Ray Bruns]

4. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[MayReasonRule]

37. His Brain Is A Birdie Buffet!

[Passages]

5. He must be removed from his position.

[orangecrush]

14. For that to happen

The GOP congress would have to have a shred of moral integrity.

I am not hopeful.

[Passages]

20. I understand that, yet we must, and I do mean all scientists/physicians & the Democrats must work together

to never stop trying. It must be the story each and every day until Trump can't stand the noise.

It is about public safety versus the whim of a complete and total fraud, RFK Jr.

[FakeNoose]

42. I'm thinking Chump will fire him

... because Chump can't stand it when his employee gets as much media coverage as he does. If Bob Kennedy doesn't get fired (soon) it will be because he figured out a way to get grift money into Chump's pocket.

[Passages]

58. I hope so and I believe we must make it an issue that never goes away from the headlines.

[johnnyfins]

6. This really is a cabinet of ghouls

Gabbard, Noem, Kennedy. They seriously look like the undead...

[3825-87867]

9. If we think these are bad...

imagine what is waiting in trump's sewers to replace these floating turds!

[yorkster]

26. With Stephen Miller as Head Undertaker.

[orangecrush]

29. He sure looks the part

[johnnyfins]

36. yup. cant believe I left that punk out

[Botany]

55. And don't forget the unrepentant Nazi who doesn't believe the holocaust was real Sebastian Gorka

… is now back in the White House too. I feel the cruelty and deaths are planned.

[Dave Bowman]

10. That insane quack is extremely dangerous, millions are in danger because of him.

[orangecrush]

11. Wasn't even briefed

The conspiracy theories were all the briefing he wanted.

[Dave Bowman]

16. +1

[FakeNoose]

44. Yes, Kennedy does his own "research" on 4chan

[Brainfodder]

13. 1 too many brainworms that we know about for me.

That was enough for me.

[Tetrachloride]

17. he didn't write plainly

[Mysterian]

19. Truly unbelievable that such malfeasance can occur in a modern nation

I never thought the USA could sink so low.

[orangecrush]

28. You and I both

[Norbert]

23. I just hope we don't have another Eboli outbreak

If this happens, the only business that will be thriving is the freezer truck picking up dead bodies.

Idiot has to get much better just to be the black sheep of the Kennedy Family.

[BoRaGard]

24. G.O.P. arrogant a-holery is a pox upon the nation

[orangecrush]

30. We're going to get a pox alright

And measles, COVID, etc.

[Norbert]

27. Most kids this age could say the same.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

— CCscott (@ccscott.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T10:38:24.939Z

[patphil]

31. RFK Jr. is without a doubt a racist who used his BS scientific beliefs to put forth ideas that support eugenics.

The NIH site below has definitions of Eugenics and Scientific Racism that you should read.

https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism

[orangecrush]

34. Thanks

Did read this.

Unsettling, to put it mildly, and it sounds exactly like what this regime is aiming for.

[viva la]

32. What it must be like for these professionals to have to sit in meetings with anti-science loons

RFK jr actually believes he knows everything and these people with all that training are lying.

I cannot believe this is where we are.

[orangecrush]

35. Surreal

[MLWR]

38. RFK Jr. is like his boss: he knows everything better than all the doctors.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

40. Yeah, a real "bombshell"

So shocking and bomb like. Who could have guessed this.

[Skittles]

61. that word is WAY overused

[1WorldHope]

43. Merca is soooo screwed.

When I was in my 20's I explored radical holistic health. After letting my chiropractor treat my hypothyroidism for 5 years. I had a terrible sinus infection and had to go to a western med doctor and I found taking one tiny pill everyday changed how I was feeling, I realized that maybe I didn't know everything there is to know. I even held off immunizations for my only child until there was a measles out break. I learned a life lesson from those experiences, that apparently RFK Jr. has not.

[orangecrush]

45. Or perhaps he does know

And he is intentionally causing as much damage as possible for whatever reason is rolling around in his worm eaten brain.

[milestogo]

49. Bombshell RFK Jr. Admission: I don't know my head from my ass.

[BidenRocks]

64. A Classic Case Of

Cranial Rectumitis!

[dlk]

50. When someone already knows it all

They can’t waste their precious time by something as silly as being briefed.

[orangecrush]

51. Especially by experts on the subject.

[Martin68]

56. It's not a bombshell. It has been obvious from the beginning that the only person RFK consults about health policy

is himself.

[RobinA]

59. In Their Eyes

why would he need briefing? He doesn't have the education to do that job and he got confirmed. Briefing? Who cares? I thought the standard was - will he/she push Trump's agenda? He's a shill, not a professional.

[Bread and Circuses]

62. RFK Jr doesn't need to consult with medical or science experts ...He listens to the Worm in his Brain.

[Initech]

63. That he's a fucking dangerously unqualified shit for brains maniac?

[Blue Owl]

65. Rotten Fucking Kook

Better hope nothing goes haywire or we're in some deep, deep shit with this motherfucker 'in charge' of national public health...