# When Politics Distorts Science

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/when-politics-distorts-science/
- Published: 2020-09-21T09:15:49-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo: Michael Caputo. Credit: Mark Wilson – Getty Images. Article by Claudia Wallis. Shocking levels of interference at the CDC and HHS threaten public faith in our most reliable public health institutions I knew things had changed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early 2018 when my routine request to interview a CDC scientist was held up for days on end. I’d been interviewing researchers there for decades and had never […] Click here to view original web page at www.scientificamerican.com