re: PoliBoard Healthcare Professionals: Do you trust the CDC?

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CDC is rarely, if ever, involved with drug trials or approvals.

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Thanks. Do you trust CDC for its core mission?

Absolutely not.

Crazy4lsu has CDC tattooed on one butt cheek and AMA on the other.

Thanks again. Hard to trust any reporting on the topic. It's good to hear from people who aren't trying to spin a narrative one way or the other.

Rarely if ever do I deal with the CDC, occasionally we will get someone with a highly communicable disease that we will have to report but that is extremely rare. During Covid they would request updates pretty often but that is pretty much nonexistent now

To be fair, the CDC is so entrenched in corruption that unless everyone affiliated with it was fired, I don't see how meaningful change is possible.

CDC structures and systems have to change, also.

I asked google the ways in which CDC structures foster corruption:

The CDC relies on "partnerships" with pharmaceutical companies and private contractors for research, distribution, and public health initiatives. This opens the door to regulatory capture, where policies are shaped more by corporate lobbying and financial interests than by the public good. For example, vaccine distribution contracts and pandemic response funds have been criticized for favoring certain corporations with political connections. Such arrangements blur the line between public health priorities and profit motives, fostering environments where corruption can thrive.

The CDC does not provide sufficient transparency around how funds are allocated, how advisory board members are selected, and what influences policy changes. When data behind major public health recommendations is not fully disclosed, and/or when advisory committees include members with financial ties to industry, the perception (and sometimes the reality) of corruption grows. This lack of transparency undermines trust and creates opportunities for conflicts of interest to shape health guidance.

Because the CDC is a federal agency, its policies are vulnerable to political pressure from administrations, legislators, and lobbyists. For instance, during crises such as COVID-19, reports emerged that political appointees attempted to edit scientific reports, delay data releases, or pressure the CDC to adopt messaging that aligned with political goals rather than evidence. This susceptibility to interference compromises scientific integrity and opens pathways for corruption by prioritizing political or financial interests over public health.

Much of the CDC’s work is carried out through grants to states, universities, and nonprofits. While this can expand capacity, it also creates opaque funding networks where billions of dollars are distributed with limited oversight. Contractors and grantees with insider connections may receive preferential treatment, while oversight mechanisms remain weak. Such conditions foster opportunities for mismanagement, waste, or outright fraud under the banner of public health.

Public health emergencies, from swine flu to COVID-19, often come with massive federal funding infusions. Rapid funding without strict accountability creates a “crisis exploitation” dynamic where contractors, lobbyists, and even agency insiders can leverage urgency to push through lucrative deals with minimal scrutiny. This cyclical pattern fosters a culture where corruption is not just possible but normalized during moments of crisis.

I trust NONE of it.

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I worked as an IT contractor inside CDC for a dozen years. The agency is probably 85/15 liberal to conservative and that may be on the low side.

The director is mostly a figurehead. Yes they can set priorities but the long term employees in the office of the director and the heads of the individual centers, institutes, and offices are the real power in the agency. They have final say over what gets published, who is nominated to/appointed to advisory committees, etc.

During the Obama years and first Trump term it wasn't horrible. Yes you knew there was a liberal slant and you kept conservative opinions to yourself, but it felt like the science and the verbiage was consistent with what everyone would consider normal.

Starting in 2021 you started to see more of an alignment with critical race theory and anti-racism. You started seeing employees using pronouns in email signatures and on Zoom calls. This is when "pregnant persons" and Black vs. white started showing up on websites and in publications.

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My sister in law worked for the CDC for man years...until she was laid off earlier this year.

What you posted tracks with my second hand experience through her as well. The only thing I would have changed had I been asked about it without reading your post first is that I had the impression that the uber-wokeness started well before 2021.

My SIL was one of the Original Sky Screamers of 2016. I just assumed she was a fish in water over there at the CDC all the way back then.

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PoliBoard Healthcare Professionals: Do you trust the CDC?

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No!

The CDC has been a political Rat's Nest for twenty years.
I still maintain their Feb 2020 CV19 test kit catastrophe was so basic and so awful, it may well have been deliberate. TTBOMK, no one was even reprimanded for that.