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Bruce Lanphear's avatar

You wrote: "This move is both alarming and unprecedented. This sets a dangerous precedent, allowing an administration to dismantle an independent scientific body and replace it wholesale, undermining scientific integrity and public trust." It happened with the CDC's Lead Poisoning Prevention Advisory Committee in 2001. If we’d pushed back harder against Big Industry during the Bush years, or resisted the Koch brothers’ campaign to gut progressive taxation in the 1980s—would we have ended up with a Trump Administration? Do countries become oligarchies overnight, or do they rot slowly from within?

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Camille P's avatar

Americans are literally going to be left to rot from this regime, too poor, sick and uneducated

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Harry Messec's avatar

Evidently, we rot from ignorance within.

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