Claim: Quotes Sen. Lindsey Graham as saying President Trump “probably knows more about medicine and specifically viruses than any of the so-called scientists at the NIH and CDC.”
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: C. J. Peters
text: in 2008 at the University of Texas Medical Branch to allow scientists there to work safely with any pathologic agent. Peters expects to transition some projects to higher hazard viral hemorrhagic fevers and to develop projects on other viruses such as tick-borne flaviviruses, highly virulent avian influenza strains, and Nipah virus, a new, highly virulent paramyxovirus. C. J. Peters Clarence James Peters, Jr, M.D. (born September 23, 1940, Midland, Texas), known as C. J. Peters, is a physician, field virologist and former U.S. Army colonel. He is noted for his efforts in trying to stem epidemics of exotic infectious diseases

title: William R. Steiger
text: panel discussion at the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center in January 2017, Steiger discusses ways the Trump administration can contribute to pandemic preparedness, global health security, and domestic readiness and resilience. On the topic of data sharing, Steiger credits Indonesia’s government for their instructive negotiations in 2007 after Indonesia stop sharing flu viruses while offering legitimate points why the WHO flu network was not set up for the benefit of developing countries in terms of capacity building around research and vaccine development. In the webcast, Steiger goes on to say "the private sector

title: Francis Collins
text: York Times": "I have made it clear that I have no religious agenda for the N.I.H., and I think the vast majority of scientists have been reassured by that and have moved on." On October 1, 2009, in the second of his four appearances on "The Colbert Report", Collins discussed his leadership at the NIH and other topics such as personalized medicine and stem cell research. And, in November 2011, Collins was included on "The New Republic's" list of Washington's most powerful, least famous people. Collins appeared on the series finale of "The Colbert Report", participating in a chorus with

title: Jim Talent
text: Commission on the Prevention of WMD proliferation and terrorism, which has concluded that, unless action is taken, a biological attack within the United States is increasingly likely and will become a probability by 2013. Together with former Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of the Commission, he has criticized the federal government's readiness to deal with major public health crisis'. On January 4, 2010, the two Senators published an op-ed in the "Washington Post", arguing that an unsatisfactory response to the 2009 flu pandemic shows the need for better medical emergency plans. Jim Talent James Matthes Talent (born October 18, 1956) is

title: Michael Osterholm
text: reviewer for 24 additional journals, including the "New England Journal of Medicine," the "Journal of the American Medical Association," and "Science". Osterholm was the Principal Investigator and Director of the NIH-supported Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (2007-2014) and chaired the Executive Committee of the Centers of Excellence Influenza Research and Surveillance network. He is past president of the CSTE and has served on the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors from 1992 to 1997. Osterholm served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Microbial Threats from 1994 through 2011. He has

title: Statistical murder
text: Public Health and director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. This phrase appears in the Congressional Record in February, 1995 where he is quoted thus "John Graham, a Harvard professor, who said, 'Sound science means saving the most lives and achieving the most ecological protection with our scarce budgets. Without sound science, we are engaging in a form of "statistical murder," where we squander our resources on phantom risks when our families continue to be endangered by real risks." In 2001 he was appointed the head of the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of

title: Siti Fadilah
text: influenza division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) communicated in a press release that following Indonesia's announcement, it too made genomic data on bird flu viruses publicly accessible. The following day a correspondence letter appeared in "Nature" shedding light on what had triggered the sudden shift in Supari's stance and that of the CDC. The scientific community had just been introduced to Peter Bogner, the new driving force in the virus sharing debate. Supari would later describe in her book an affinity for Peter Bogner, his plea to her government to share its bird flu virus

title: Political positions of Donald Trump
text: that it's up to Rick Scott." On August 11, 2016, Trump said that he was in favor of Congress setting aside money to combat the Zika virus. Trump believed that childhood vaccinations were related to autism, a hypothesis which has been repeatedly debunked. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Autism Speaks patient-advocacy group have "decried Trump's remarks as false and potentially dangerous." In 2010, the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $10,000 to Generation Rescue, Jenny McCarthy's nonprofit organization that advocates the incorrect view that autism and related disorders are primarily caused by vaccines. Illegal immigration was a signature issue

title: Lindsey Graham
text: member of the board of directors of the International Republican Institute. On an episode of "Fox and Friends", Graham joked that it would be "terrible" if a DNA test showed he had Iranian ancestry. A co-host of the show, reacted by saying, "Well, they have great people, just bad leaders," which Graham confirmed. He later clarified that the comment was directed toward "the Ayatollah", not the people. In a statement, Jamal Abdi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, described Graham's remark as "disgusting". The remark sparked reactions from high-profile Iranian-Americans, including Omid Kordestani (chairman of Twitter), Ali Partovi

title: Mike Galsworthy
text: "Der Standard", Galsworthy "persistently seeks clarification and sees it as a central science mission in the era of fake news." Galsworthy opposes what he sees as the debasement of knowledge in populist politics. He has described President of the United States Donald Trump as "a dictator in American caricature form". Mike Galsworthy Mike Galsworthy is the co-founder of "Scientists for EU" and "Healthier IN" and a media commentator about the effects of Brexit on the scientific community in the United Kingdom. He is currently a visiting researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and was previously

title: Ilaria Capua
text: Ilaria Capua Ilaria Capua (Rome, April 21, 1966) is a virologist and former Italian politician, best known for her research on influenza viruses, particularly avian influenza, and her efforts promoting open access to genetic information on emerging viruses as part of pre-pandemic preparedness efforts. Dr. Capua is currently a full professor with Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS), and has a joint appointment with the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, U.S. She was recruited as a pre-eminent professor to direct and lead the

title: Stephen S. Morse
text: attended the Bronx High School of Science, and received a BS degree from City College of New York (1971) and MS (1974) and PhD (1977) degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Morse was formerly an assistant professor of virology at The Rockefeller University in New York and remains an adjunct faculty member there. He was chair and principal organizer of the 1989 NIAID/NIH Conference on Emerging Viruses, for which he originated the concept of “emerging viruses”/ “emerging infections.” He served as a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health (and

title: Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
text: virologist who, along with Fombonne, published some research which failed to replicate the Unigenetics lab's results, and Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist. Those who testified on behalf of the plaintiffs were H. Vasken Aposhian, a toxicologist at the University of Arizona, Arthur Krigsman, a gastroenterologist at the Johnson Center for Child Health and Development, Karin Hepner, a molecular biologist at Wake Forest University, Vera Byers, a retired immunologist, Ronald C. Kennedy, a virus immunologist at Texas Tech University and Marcel Kinsbourne, a retired pediatric neurologist. On June 11, 2007, the plaintiffs presented their first argument, in which they contended that

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a "$1 trillion government department". HHS includes National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Price, who is a vocal opponent of the Affordable Care Act, will oversee its repeal and replacement. He has published articles in the "small, conservative medical association", the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, to which he belongs, that opposes mandatory vaccination and continue to argue that the vaccines causes autism, a "discredited conspiracy theory that Trump has long espoused". In response to questions from Senators at

title: Jonna Mazet
text: the newly formed UC Davis One Health Institute, which is home to programs and projects that do work around the world, including the Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, PREDICT Project, Gorilla Doctors, SeaDoc Society, EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics and the California Raptor Center. Mazet is currently the Principal Investigator and Global Director of USAID’s PREDICT Project, which works in more than 30 countries to build capacity to develop surveillance systems and complete the necessary research to halt the next pandemic, like influenza, SARS, Ebola, and HIV. With these projects and others as a research foundation, she has served as

title: Bill Maher
text: "less credible" and would still be considered just "great entertainment" if they weren't joined by the former Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Bernadine Healy and influential pediatrician, Dr. Robert Sears. Oncologist David Gorski criticized Maher's claims about vaccines several times in ScienceBlogs, and when Maher received the Richard Dawkins Award in 2009, Gorski wrote it was inappropriate. Skeptics, including mathematician and science writer Martin Gardner, neurologist Steven Novella, and magician Jamy Ian Swiss have also strongly rebuked Maher, characterizing him as anti-science, uninformed and potentially endangering the health of fans who take his "non-medical" advice. Maher responded

title: David Graham (epidemiologist)
text: regardless of whether the drugs are safe or needed" In 2010, Graham and one of his FDA colleagues, Kate Gelperin, have called for the popular diabetes drug Avandia to be pulled from the market. Their study of the drug found possible evidence of an increased incidence of mortality; however, they found no indication of an increased risk of heart attack, contrary to other published studies. David Graham (epidemiologist) David J. Graham is an American epidemiologist who is the Associate Director of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)Office of Drug Safety. Graham has spent his career at the FDA studying the

title: Controversies in autism
text: Toni Braxton, Jim Carrey, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy in particular published the book "Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury--A Known Neurotoxin--From Vaccines." McCarthy, one of the most outspoken celebrities on the topic, has said her son Evan's autism diagnosis was a result of the MMR vaccine. She authored "Louder than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism" and co-authored "Healing and Preventing Autism." She also founded an organization called Generation Rescue, which provides resources for families affected by autism. In a September 2015 CNN Presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed to know

title: Harold E. Varmus
text: outstanding scientists to serve as Institute Directors; for excellent relationships with members of Congress and the Administration; for leadership on clinical and AIDS research; for policy statements about stem cell research, cloning of organisms, gene therapy, and patenting; for promoting global health research, especially on malaria; and for construction of new facilities, including a new Clinical Center and a Vaccine Research Center at the NIH. Varmus supported the presidential candidacies of Al Gore (2000) and John Kerry (2004). During the George W. Bush presidency, he gave lectures critical of the Administration's science policies. But he has also written a laudatory

title: Donald J. Trump Foundation
text: Graham credits then-Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren for soliciting the $25,000 donation from Trump. Van Susteren and her TV crew had accompanied Graham on Samaritan's Purse trips to Haiti and North Korea. The "Charlotte Observer" quoted Graham saying "[Trump] was on her show, and [Van Susteren] said, 'I was just in Haiti and Samaritan's Purse is doing this down there, and Donald, you need to help.' He sent a check out." In 2016, several media outlets alleged that Van Susteren had been producing overtly pro-Trump reports on her Fox News show "On the Record". In 2014 the Trump Foundation