6d ago

The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory

President Donald Trump has picked Jim O’Neill, a former investor and critic of health regulations serving under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to take control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out.

O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy at the Department of Health and Human Services, will supplant Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist who had been the CDC director for less than a month.

Monarez’s lawyers said she refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”

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AbidanYre @lemmy.world 6d ago
O’Neill suggested drug effectiveness could be established after they hit the market.
That's definitely never caused any problems in the past.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
- driving_crooner @lemmy.eco.br 6d ago
  Americans are going to become the world's test rats on medicine safety (they're already are on food).
  
  bigfondue @lemmy.world 4d ago
  It'll be interesting because the FDA is considered to be very strict internationally, and when a drug is approved here it a lot easier to get it approved in other countries. That is going to change very soon.
- 418_im_a_teapot @sh.itjust.works 6d ago
  Clearly we can’t allow people like Francis Kelsey to hurt the stock price of nazi-run companies like Grünenthal.
Ghyste @sh.itjust.works 6d ago
Let me see, where did I put that... Aha!
BedSharkPal @lemmy.ca 6d ago
Why would someone in the pedo party need man made islands outside of US territory...
- Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 6d ago
  
  Who's to say really?
  Richard Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and estate manager might know, but for some reason nobody really seemed to pick up on this story the Atlantic published a few weeks ago
  Parlatore told me during a brief conversation. He added that Indyke’s “experience on the legal side of the Epstein business was valuable.” For instance, Indyke knows how to structure financial arrangements and purchase aircraft, Parlatore said. “I hired him because of that.”
  Those kinds of financial skills are what the two women who sued Indyke allege were at the heart of Epstein’s criminal enterprise. In his bio, Indyke touts his experience “as general counsel to family offices, serial entrepreneurs, investors, and other ultra-high-net-worth clientele.” He doesn’t mention Epstein. Among his other capabilities: “Complex business and commercial transactions,” as well as “aviation, marine, and other exotic asset purchases, sales, and operation.”
  Last I heard democratic congressman Ro Kahnna (who is also invested in Palantir) was pushing very hard to get Richard Indyke and Epstein's other executor (his former accountant) to testify before Congress about the Epstein birthday book. I'm sure whatever testimony they provide will be very trustworthy.
  NYT also tried to bring attention to the executors of Epstein's estate earlier this summer bc of the millions of dollars they're still making from the investments Epstein made with Thiel's company.
CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 6d ago
Hahaha. I remember the 90s and how the Libertarian-inflected idea of building floating island(s) - seasteading - was all the rage with that bunch. Even as someone in the Libertarian mindset (as I was at the time), it seemed a bit out there, even for those with more money than sense.
I know the idea predated the 90s, but for some reason, it seemed to take on a different...tone...than some of the 60s utopian/futurist visions. It seemed a bit dark even back in the 90s and that was back when the (commercial) Internet still felt it had a lot of hope and promise beyond just "make shit-tons of money for the already wealthy".
- joker125 @lemmy.world 6d ago
  FordBeeblebrox @lemmy.world 5d ago
  Ryan’s intro is a great sales pitch but the real story is in the tapes left by maintenance guys complaining about leaky plumbing and shit that never gets fixed just to save a penny.
- brianary @lemmy.zip 6d ago
  Coverage of "The Principality of Sealand" and the popularity of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon probably contributed to the enthusiasm, as well as to the creation of Bitcoin.
- vaultdweller013 @sh.itjust.works 6d ago
  Best part is some of them are still trying, Adam Something did a couple videos on it and frankly speaking shit hit the fan rather quick in several cases. Inclusing at least one instance where the Thai government boarded and seized one of the prototype badly build floating houses. I refuse to call it a house boat because it being a boat would imply respectable engineering quality.
  
  bigfondue @lemmy.world 4d ago
  They have moved on to Network Cities. They are working to make a city state somewhere near Singapore right now. It's called Network School, for tech optimists and digital nomads.
- FaceDeer @fedia.io 6d ago
  I remember back then coming across a proposed "constitution" someone had posted on the Internet for one of these sea-steaded micronations. It was presented as a contract rather than a constitution, every citizen was supposed to literally sign on to it (or be treated as a non-citizen). It was zany. Hundreds of pages, with all sorts of minutiae. The main bit I remember was the rather large section that was the equivalent of the American second amendment, it had detailed rules about what kinds of landmines one was allowed to put on one's property.
  A constitutional right to place landmines, on a seastead micronation that would no doubt have rather constrained living space.
  I'm generally in favour of personal liberties and all that, I can see how libertarianism can appeal as something that seems like a reasonable idea. But it's so easy for it to just go careening wildly off the edge of reasonableness into territory like this.
  
  CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 6d ago
  Ha! That rings a bell. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I wonder if I ran across the same thing. Or I seem to remember something about a contract, and I thought there was also a component of buying into it with large amounts of money to help fund it. Sort of like a proto-GoFundMe project.
- CubitOom @infosec.pub 6d ago
  They should just live on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Behold the Network State!
  
  lividweasel @lemmy.world 6d ago
  Those 4 particles per cubic meter are gonna have to do some heavy lifting
- Frezik @lemmy.blahaj.zone 6d ago
  It's interesting to see where it's gone. There are enough techbro billionaires and multi-millionaires now that if it were feasible at scale in the long run, someone would have pulled it off.
  
  CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world 6d ago
  Yeah, I remember a lot of vague circle-jerk kind of conversations about it on USENET, and that was before a lot of billions were made by the likes of Thiel...I mean, besides the engineering aspect, I don't know what would be in it for the typical human being who is not a decamillionaire+ to join up and be part of some weird cult/Ayn Randian human experiment? Just to be "free" of current nation-states and join a new one?
  On a related note, I started reading The Sovereign Individual since it apparently inspires so much of these fucking whack-a-doodles with wayyyyy too much money than is good for the world, and .... wow. I recommend everyone check it out since it's quite the ride at least so far.
  No wonder these dipsticks like the ideas in there, since it is hitting every note that someone with way too much money and notions of grandiosity would just looooove. I'm not sure how well this stuff dovetails with the likes of what Curtis Yarvin is spewing, but I think it doesn't come in direct conflict with his "ideas", LOL.
  In a word - these people are fucking nuts. I'd love to see some way to wrest a lot of money, and therefore, power away from them, since they hold way too much sway over the rest of us.
Deflated0ne @lemmy.world 5d ago
"The Man from Purdue"

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