Junk Science by Politicized CDC

The problem is not advocacy research that is merely "careless."  It's that behavioral research at the CDC long ago became an agenda-driven joke. This article concerns only one example of that. For another, CDC's "research" on gun violence has long been a travesty, a virtual tutorial on how to do research deliberately designed to mislead in the service of a political/social agenda.

The CDC has no business floundering around in these areas where it has no claim to competence in the first place. That's nothing but self-aggrandizing mission creep of the worst kind.  CDC needs to stop doing junk behavioral research aimed at putting itself in the vanguard of our National Nanny Brigade, and instead keep its focus on STDs, epidemic diseases, food safety, and the other biological aspects of its proper mission.  If that's not enough to keep everybody busy, then downsize the whole operation and send the money back to the taxpayers.

Byron