> Lancet lost all credibility long ago.

Whether or not they're credible to you, they're still the #2 ranked general medicine journal in the world, second only to the NEJM.

> USAID isn’t an aid organization, it’s a front for CIA efforts internationally

This is a conspiracy theory that can be trivially refuted by simply following the money. You can do this because their budget is public, unlike the budget of the CIA. The stuff you're citing from a half century ago isn't relevant to the work they've been doing when Musk said "Time for it to die."

What USAID actually was was a vital tool of US soft power and influence globally, and if you believe that it's important to wipe out the last remaining vestiges of the United States' perception as 'the good guys' then by all means it was very important to stop their work immediately.

> Whether or not they're credible to you, they're still the #2 ranked general medicine journal in the world, second only to the NEJM.

Their ranking is based on how often papers are referenced in total, not the validity of any one paper. As I said, they been criticized for serious lapses in publishing fraudulent papers.

> The stuff you're citing from a half century ago isn't relevant to the work they've been doing when Musk said "Time for it to die."

I'm sorry what? It's the same organization? The fact that USAID was funding paramilitary organizations during war tells you USAID has nothing to do with aid.

> USAID actually was was a vital tool of US soft power and influence globally....if you believe that it's important to wipe out the last remaining vestiges of the United States' perception as 'the good guys' then by all means it was very important to stop their work immediately.

So you're saying unless the US can project soft power and influence (which is ALWAYS to the US' benefit, it absolutely is not altruistic) it won't be viewed as the "good guys"?

Wut?

That makes no sense.