Dr. David Weldon has withdrawn his bid to become director of the CDC. He believes, as do many, that Big Pharma has influenced Senators so that it is unlikely that he would have garnered sufficient votes to confirm his appointment.
Why does Big Pharma not want Dr. Weldon in the CDC? Because of the stance he took 25 years ago on the lack of safety of childhood vaccines.
Dr. David Weldon is an American politician and physician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida’s 15th congressional district. In November 2024, Donald Trump nominated Weldon as the next director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) but Trump withdrew the nomination in March 2025 due to concerns about Dr. Weldon’s anti-vaccine views and lack of support in the Senate.
Earlier today, Brownstone Institute published a statement from Dr. Weldon which explains why he withdrew his nomination. Dr. Weldon believes that it is likely Big Pharma exerted pressure on Senators to withdraw support for his nomination based on events that happened decades earlier. “My big sin was that as a congressman 25 years ago I had the temerity to take on the CDC and big Pharma on two critical childhood vaccine safety issues,” he said.
One of the safety issues related to a neurotoxic preservative called thimerosal, a mercury-containing organic compound, in childhood vaccines that was causing autism. The second was the safety of the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, or MMR vaccine.
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