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SPIDER Bites CDC
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Huffington Post
Posted: November 7th, 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/spider-bites-cdc-...
Concerns about the inner workings of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been mounting in recent months amid disclosures of cozy corporate alliances. Now a group of more than a dozen senior scientists have reportedly lodged an ethics complaint alleging the federal agency is being influenced by corporate and political interests in ways that short-change taxpayers. A group calling itself CDC Scientists Preserving Integrity, Diligence and Ethics in Research, or CDC SPIDER, put a list of complaints in writing in a letter to the CDC Chief of Staff and provided a copy of the letter to [a] public watchdog organization. The members of the group have elected to file the complaint anonymously for fear of retribution. It appears that our mission is being influenced and shaped by outside parties and rogue interests... and Congressional intent for our agency is being circumvented by some of our leaders. What concerns us most, is that it is becoming the norm and not the rare exception, the letter states. The complaint cites among other things a cover up of the poor performance of a womens health program called ... WISEWOMAN. The complaint alleges there was a coordinated effort within the CDC to misrepresent data given to Congress. Definitions were changed and data cooked to make the results look better than they were, the complaint states. And the complaint cites as troubling the ties between soft drink giant Coca-Cola Co. ... and two high-ranking CDC officials.
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