Elizabeth Jacobs, PhDApr 23
“We have lost so many exceptional scientists and other employees of HHS…the just decades of institutional knowledge that we have lost is absolutely devastating”. This was my comment about RFK Jr. saying that HHS is now hiring thousands of people after firing thousands of brilliant scientists.

Combative, Defensive and Occas...
Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy Walks a Fine Line

In four days of congressional testimony, the health secretary sought to please the White House and his MAHA base at the same time.

The New York Times
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I’ve had the honor and pleasure of getting to know some of those fired HHS employees. The loss to our country is simply incalculable. These are brilliant folks who were working for the people of the US and were just cast aside by the worst people on the planet. @[email protected]
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Show threadElizabeth Jacobs, PhDApr 23
To now be hiring thousands of new people is such an incredible waste. We already had the best. This was a political purge that will cost us a thousand times more than whatever alleged monetary “savings” DOGE claims they made. We as taxpayers have been robbed of our scientific foundation.
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The cost of everything Trump is incalculable.

The economic costs almost as horrible as the human rights abuses.