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(157,375 posts) Sat Jul 26, 2025, 06:45 AM Saturday

Kennedy considering firing members of preventive services task force

Source: NBC News

July 25, 2025, 6:46 PM EDT

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering removing all 16 members of a highly influential advisory committee that offers guidance about preventive health services, such as cancer screenings, HIV prevention medications or tests for osteoporosis, according to two people familiar with the plan.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force is a group of independent doctors, nurses and public health experts who volunteer to regularly review volumes of the latest scientific research about diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease and mental health, as well as mammograms for breast cancer.

Health and Human Services' spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an emailed statement Friday that “no final decision has been made on how the USPSTF can better support HHS’ mandate to Make America Healthy Again.”

Earlier this month, Kennedy caused alarm among task force members after he abruptly postponed a scheduled meeting that was set to focus on heart disease and prevention. At the time, task force members weren’t given a reason for the cancellation or whether the meeting would be rescheduled. Kennedy’s plans were first reported Friday by The Wall Street Journal.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/rfk-jr-considering-firing-task-force-cancer-screening-rcna221188

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Kennedy considering firing members of preventive services task force (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Saturday OP

How many people liberalgunwilltravel Saturday #1

He probably gets a bonus the more people he kills. And awards and accolades. Irish_Dem Saturday #2

Boy that Make America Healthy Again slogan is really feeling like Newspeak. tanyev Saturday #3

"...mandate to Make America Healthy Again." I am beyond fucking sick of Republicans using that fucking word. Karasu Saturday #4

liberalgunwilltravel

(878 posts)

1. How many people

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Jul 26, 2025, 06:50 AM

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Have to die because of this cretin’s actions before he is forcefully removed?

Irish_Dem

(72,739 posts)

2. He probably gets a bonus the more people he kills. And awards and accolades.

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Sat Jul 26, 2025, 07:14 AM

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tanyev

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3. Boy that Make America Healthy Again slogan is really feeling like Newspeak.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:49 AM

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In fact, a lot of Trumpian language feels that way.

In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking. The Newspeak language thus limits the person's ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will,[1][2] which are thoughtcrimes, acts of personal independence that contradict the ideological orthodoxy of Ingsoc collectivism.[3][4]

Karasu

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4. "...mandate to Make America Healthy Again." I am beyond fucking sick of Republicans using that fucking word.

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Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:41 PM

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Anyone who genuinely believes they have a "mandate" to do whatever the fuck they want to health policy in favor of pushing trashy fascist conspiracy theories deserves the suffering they're so desperate to inflict on all of us.

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