Bird Flu, Baby Formula and The Bully Pulpit

America Dissected

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Abdul and Katelyn discuss the latest in the world of public health including: RFK Jr’s problematic new strategy on avian influenza A new report showing heavy metals in some US baby formulas Trump’s attack on higher education Trump’s new pick to lead the CDC A shadow CDC website, created by the non-profit founded by RFK Jr. Katelyn and Abdul’s reaction to that episode of The Daily (iykyk) How the DOGE cuts are hitting the VA. Then Abdul interviews urologist Dr. Maria Uloko about her groundbreaking work in sexual health, and the deep gender disparities that she’s working to erase. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: de Beaumont Foundation: Find new, research-tested messaging to communicate about public health, plus useful tips for the real-world situations you face, at debeaumont.org.

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0:00.0	RFK bets on bird flu biosec
0:10.8	the FDA is testing baby formula for heavy metals.
0:13.7	And there's a new nominee to lead the CDC.
0:16.1	This is America Dissected.
0:17.2	I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayette.
0:18.8	And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Jettelina.
0:21.0	And we're recording this on Tuesday, March 25th at 8 p.m. Eastern Time in the United States
0:26.4	of America, where it remains a shit show.
0:32.9	So, a lot to get to this week.
0:35.5	Let's start with bird flu, because we're learning a lot more about, we'll just say,
0:40.5	bird-brained ideas that RFK Jr. has.
0:43.1	And no surprise.
0:44.5	His strategy, well, we'll just say our science brains don't always agree.
0:50.3	So let's play you a clip.
0:51.6	And just to remind you, the Biden-era policy and frankly the policy before Biden, because this has been around since 1996, and we've had one, two, three, four presidents since then was to call flocks, which means, sadly, killing all the birds and the flock of an infected bird.
1:09.7	Let's take a listen to what RFK is proposing.
1:12.7	Most of our scientists are against the culling operation.
1:16.6	They think that we should be testing therapeutics on those flocks.
1:20.5	They should isolate them.
1:22.2	You should let the disease go through them and identify the birds that survive,
1:26.7	which are the birds that probably have a genetic
1:29.5	inclination for immunity. And those should be the birds that we breed like the wild
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