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![This argument can only be countenanced if one completely abandons the idea of objective fact, a nihilist endeavor this Court does not find appropriately read into Congress’s public health statutes. An exchange during oral argument sums it up well:
THE COURT: . . . let’s say that instead of revising the vaccine schedule, the CDC said, actually, we think measles is good for you; you should go have lunch with someone with measles, and we are sponsoring measles lunches in every city, come have some measles lunch, that would seem to — that would seem to go right up against the goal of preventing communicable diseases. Would such a policy by the CDC be judicially reviewable?
[DEFENSE COUNSEL:] I think that would still be committed to agency discretion by law.
THE COURT: So even if what the agency was saying is we like communicable diseases and we think you should get more of them, that’s not judicially reviewable.
[DEFENSE COUNSEL:] No.
Dkt. 260 at 132:3–15.³⁵ Suffice it to say that the Court disagrees and would be unlikely to find much difficulty, for example, in assessing whether the Secretary’s theoretical endorsement of getting a communicable disease like measles could reasonably be calculated to advance “the prevention and suppression of communicable diseases.” See 42 U.S.C. § 243(a). This common-sense reading is further reinforced by neighboring statutes that, for example, direct the Secretary to fund “a national, evidence-based campaign to increase awareness and knowledge of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for the prevention and control of diseases, combat](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xtrzqicesfwterpbweugpl4u/bafkreiczw3elaf6l7lcacvtkkvxbqlkpphxo5m6pt54lolozzg5p6d4pu4)
