🧪HHS Secretary Kennedy fires 5,000 NIH scientists while Congress protects funding

RFK Jr.'s cuts to NIH funding that produces breakthrough cancer treatments, Alzheimer's research, and infectious disease therapies cede medical innovation leadership to China and Europe. American pharmaceutical companies lose the basic research foundation that creates profitable drugs while patients worldwide lose access to life-saving discoveries that historically originated in American laboratories.

The same NIH scientists who created COVID vaccines in record time through Operation Warp Speed face termination under RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ideology. Future pandemic responses will lack the institutional knowledge and laboratory capacity that enabled rapid vaccine development, guaranteeing higher death tolls when new infectious diseases emerge.

RFK Jr.'s appointment signals that federal health research must support predetermined anti-vaccine and alternative medicine conclusions rather than following evidence-based methodology. Cancer researchers, epidemiologists, and virologists face termination if their findings contradict political positions, destroying the integrity of American medical science.

Drug safety evaluation, medical device approval, and food contamination prevention depend on career scientists who evaluate evidence without political interference. RFK Jr.'s control over regulatory agencies means pharmaceutical safety, vaccine efficacy, and public health recommendations serve political goals rather than protecting American lives through rigorous scientific review.