CDC DOES need to be reined in - even if concerns over RFK Jr. are valid

Many medical experts are rightly alarmed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s unscientific claims — from debunked vaccine-autism links to exaggerated warnings about food dyes and ADHD.

Their outrage grew when he cut the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices from 17 members to seven, some sharing his views, and fired Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez, prompting three top CDC officials to resign.

Yet these same experts mostly stayed silent when the CDC, under pressure from teachers’ unions, kept children out of school for nearly two years — while Europe largely stayed open — or when public health authorities leaned on social-media platforms to censor medical voices that disagreed with them.

Only now, with power shifted, do they sound t