CDC fails under political pressure

[YeshuaIsa53]

CDC Quietly Scrubbed Key Firearm Stats After Pressure From Gun Control Activists, Emails Show

he Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly removed a range of gun statistics from its website after gun control advocates complained that the statistics made gun control laws harder to pass, according to emails between CDC officials and gun control activists.

Over a three-month period, gun control advocates met with CDC officials about its estimate of defensive gun uses per year, which ranged from 60,000 to 2.5 million based on a review of various studies, according to the emails. The advocates argued that the 2.5 million statistic, found in a study by criminologist Gary Kleck, was misleading, incorrect and made it harder to pass gun control laws, spurring the CDC’s decision to remove the statistics from its website.

“[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, one of the attendees who runs the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), wrote in an email to the CDC. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”

The CDC initially stood behind the study in the “defensive gun use” section of its “fast facts” website, but opted to remove the statistics after the previously undisclosed meeting with the gun control advocates on Sept. 15, according to The Reload. “We are planning to update the fact sheet in early 2022 after the release of some new data,” Beth Reimels, Associate Director for Policy, Partnerships, and Strategic Communication at the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention, said in one email. copied The Daily Caller

 

[LVSteve]

I'm staggered that MSN would report that.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

One minute "We are the voice of science", next minute "We know nothing".

Go figure.

 

[GaryS]

No, the CDC doesn't need pressure to cook the books when it comes to gun control. It has been a political, not science operation since the Clinton days.

 

[llowry61]

SOP - eliminate access or communication of any and all data and or logic that does not benefit the goal which in all honesty is the repeal of the 2nd. The sad part is they get away with it then the media drives it home day after day after day until the lie becomes the truth.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Could that be considered as obstruction in a courtroom?

 

[Heinz]

I worked for the CDC for 25 years. The headquarters in Atlanta is populated with some of the most left leaning biased liberals you will ever meet.
They pick and choose their facts so they can put forth positions like: someone smoking outside your office building is increasing the risk of cancer to the workers inside, or wearing a surgical mask offers adequate protection to the person wearing it (because N95 masks cost more, require fit testing, and training).
We used to have a saying, if they were real doctors they would see patients, if they were real scientists, they would look at all the data, and if they were real politicians, they would have to run for office. The last decent Surgeon General was Koop (I know, that is PHS not CDC but they are intermingled) the last good CDC Director was Dr Julie Gerberding.

 

[John_M52]

The unelected administrative agencies are running the country, not the legislature. Professional organizations like the AMA are in lockstep with the CDC. Not looking forward to the pending arm brace decision.

 

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