I’m losing a good ninety minutes this morning watching what I put on for a minute before reading: a Senate confirmation hearing on C-SPAN 3 for Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee to head the Food and Drug administration. She dodges question after question: Was the current occupant wrong when he said that acetaminophen causes autism? Was he wrong when he said that the MMR vaccine is lethal? Can he ever be wrong about something? (All real questions.)
She dodges and dodges, and dodges some more, and follows up every dodge with a thin smile.
I vote no.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
The Heidi Overton window
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You know a king by his courtiers
ReplyDeleteShe’s playing the part, though without the aggressiveness of others.
ReplyDeleteNow that the hearing is no longer streaming, I replaced the C-SPAN link with a link to the archived video.