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.https://fortune.com/2025/08/29/who-is-jim-oneill-acting-head-cdc-peter-thiel-robert-kennedy/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.”O’Neill takes over as acting director of an agency that has been rocked by firings, resignations and efforts by Kennedy to reshape the nation’s vaccine policies to match his long-standing suspicions about the safety and effectiveness of long-established shots.An HHS spokesperson said Friday that O’Neill would continue to serve as deputy of the department but did not provide details on his new role.
A former associate of billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, O’Neill previously helped run one of Thiel’s investment funds and later managed several of his other projects. Those included a nonprofit working to develop manmade islands that would float outside U.S. territory, allowing them to experiment with new forms of government.He has no training in medicine or health care and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in humanities.A Washington insider on a team of outsidersO’Neill has kept a markedly lower profile than Trump’s other top health officials, who all joined the administration as Washington outsiders. He’s also the only one with experience working at HHS, where he served for six years under President George W. Bush.
O’Neill has long-standing ties to the libertarian wing of the Republican Party, including Thiel, one of Trump’s leading supporters from Silicon Valley. Like Thiel, O’Neill has expressed disdain for many parts of the federal bureaucracy, saying it hinders advances in medicine, technology and other areas.During Trump’s first term, O’Neill was vetted as a possible choice to lead the FDA, although his past statements about the agency raised alarms among pharmaceutical and medical technology executives.In particular, O’Neill proposed doing away with FDA’s 60-year-old mandate of assuring new drugs are both safe and effective in treating disease. In a 2014 speech, O’Neill suggested drug effectiveness could be established after they hit the market.
In CM Kornbluth's 1951 short story, "the marching morons". There is a secret cadre of 6M intelligent people left on the planet who do all the behind the scenes planning and work and they have a front of morons. In the 2006 movie, Idiocracy, there is a similar cadre of people.ashkeNAZI Herr Stephen Miller is one of these people in control and the present administration in the White House. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth
Still more qualified than the trannies they had in there before
esl shill brought up his fetish for no reason again
Medical expertise? A degree in science? That's fucking cringe bro. Trusting the experts is for fucking losers.A liberal arts major that used to be one of Peter Thiel's butt buddies? Now that's the kind of guy that I want to get my medical advice from! And the fact that liberals are going to get mad at this is so fucking BASED! That's what really matters in the end.
