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In reply to the discussion: Sanjay Gupta is lying. He wasn't misinformed. He toed the line for the Surgeon General's job [View all]DirkGently
(12,151 posts)some weirdly angry people charged into the thread calling everyone liars and muttering about "agendas." I couldn't figure out where the rage was coming from until I dug around a little and was reminded of all the stuff that was discussed when they floated Gupta for SG.
Apparently he did a lot of friendly reporting on autism / vaccine links and carried water for Vioxx while it was literally killing people, all in addition to that embarrassing episode where he was caught out citing fake numbers to attack single-payer healthcare and Michael Moore. Him pretending to not understand "the science" that has been available for decades regarding MJ having some medical application and not belonging on Schedule I is just kind of the icing on his monied interest stooge cake, I guess.
I never saw it as any kind of failure for the Obama administration, but based on all the flailing attacks on the topic, apparently it's HUGE sore spot for some who are overly defensive on that score.