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WHO power grab dangers
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- Dr. John Campbell
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- Sep 5, 2026
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- 1284
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Summary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. US Health and Human Services Secretary US withdraws WHO Some background to decision (and more importantly to chart a future path toward global cooperation on health and health security) WHO, legacy institution Mired in Bureaucratic bloat Entrenched paradigms Conflicts of interest International power politics. United States has paid China, exerted undue influence over its operations, in ways that serve their own interests, and not particularly the interests of the global public. This all became obvious during the COVID pandemic WHO (under pressure from China), suppressed reports at critical junctures. E.g. human to human transmission WHO worked with China to promote the fiction that covid virus originated from bats or pangolins, rather than from a Chinese government sponsored research lab in Wuhan. WHO failed to maintain an organization characterized by transparency and fair governance, by and for its member states. WHO acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens, and not to transnational or corporate interests. Staff at WHO are conscientious people who sincerely believe in what they're doing. WHO has done important work in the past Too often though, WHO priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine. Too often it has allowed political agendas like pushing harmful gender ideology to hijack its core mission. And too often it has become the tool of politics and turned its back on promoting health and health security. Global cooperation on health is still critically important but it isn't working very well under the WHO as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. The WHO has not even come to terms with its failures during COVID, let alone made significant reforms. I…