'Wake up, that is a red flag': CDC official who resigned levels new accusation at RFK Jr.
The former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease raised a “red flag” on Saturday morning, accusing Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoting eugenics.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest over the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, hammered at RFK Jr’s purge of scientists at the CDC, which has plunged the department into chaos.
Toward the end of the segment, co-host Jackie Alemany noted something that Daskalakis wrote in his resignation letter that was made public.
“There was a line in your resignation letter that really stood out to me,” she prompted her guest by reading, “’Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.’. Can you spell out for our viewers what exactly you mean by that?”
“I’ll start by saying this is sort of in my in my sort of personal experience,” he began. “You know, my grandfather was in Greece; he died because he stood up against sort of fascist regimes in his country. And when I see the secretary [RFK Jr] go on television and, you know, talk about the first time I was like, ‘Oh, no,’ when he was talking about the H5N1bird flu and chickens, and he said in an interview, all of the chickens should get bird flu. and the ones that survive are genetically superior and they should reproduce and they should reestablish the flock. “
“So fast forward to West Texas and measles, where he says, you know, getting the infection is fine, really, because only the strong will survive. You know, like it makes your immune system stronger, which is false,” he added. “It actually makes your immune system weaker.”
“So I really hear the echoes of the words ‘superior genetics,’” he elaborated. “He referred to very high members of this administration and their improving health status and said, well, that person has superior genetics. That is eugenics. Wake up, that is a red flag.”
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