Stephen Douglas Mumford Quotes
WHO has become so corrupted, mismanaged and irrelevant that many public health leaders around the world are calling for it to be shut down
WHO is the World Health Organization which is a part of the United Nations. It’s major goal is to provide public health assistance to third world nations. It came under fire for a range of abuses including arrogance, waste of money for flying first class and opulent offices, trying to control the Internet health domain, allowing political considerations to influence public health policies and practices, nepotism and cronyism producing second rate staff “experts,” mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse, and others. It does some excellent heath work, but like other units of the United Nations is am administrative mess.
Stephen Douglas Mumford, President, Center for Research on Population and Security, Letter to the U. S. Food & Drug Administration, November 4, 1998
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He had just finished making a documentary on Angola, one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, with a thriving oil industry, a very wealthy upper class, and one of the worst health care systems in the world.
WHO is the World Health Organization which is a part of the United Nations. It’s major goal is to provide public health assistance to third world nations. It came under fire for a range of abuses including arrogance, waste of money for flying first class and opulent offices, trying to control the Internet health domain, allowing political considerations to influence public health policies and practices, nepotism and cronyism producing second rate staff “experts,” mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse, and others.
This quotation illustrates a political phenomenon that used to be common in American politics—the spoils system where government activities, positions, contracts and grants were awarded to the supporters of the winning party and not to the opponents. In modern times government contracts were supposed to have been awarded on the basis of qualifications and price and not conditioned on political support. In this rare quotation, the secretary admitted to violating his own Department’s regulations and using politics as a criteria where existing laws prohibited that.
The George W. Bush administration was a throwback to an earlier era where such a spoils system was operational. Reforms had almost eliminated this type of contractor political favoritism but a culture of political corruption had developed in Congress and the Executive branch in the early 21st century that was more reminiscent of a more than a hundred years earlier. See {589738} for one of the examples that triggered the editorial.
Stephen Douglas Mumford (born 1942) is an American expert on fertility and population growth.
