Several former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directors who lambasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have connections to special interests targeted by the Make America Healthy Again movement, according to a review of their biographies and lobbying records by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The former directors described Kennedy as “dangerous” in a Sept. 2 New York Times editorial and in cable news appearances. While the paper noted the group included officials in both parties — exploiting fractures in the Republican caucus on Kennedy’s leadership — it failed to mention they have financial or professional ties to the industries and nonprofits facing diminished influence under Kennedy.

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