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Letters to the editor David Weldon I received the Dec. 2/9 issue of C&EN the day after Christmas. I was particularly interested in the article on Donald J. Trump’s health-care cabinet picks on page 20. For the first two nominees, comments were from an unnamed “biotechnology executive and investor, who requested anonymity in order to preserve relationships with regulators.” C&EN claimed that David Weldon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nominee, has an “anti-vaccine sentiment.” Weldon has been my personal care physician the last dozen years. Each year in the fall he asks whether I would like a flu shot. Has the mystery commenter ever met Weldon? I have as our congressman as well as my doctor. Weldon has a BS (biochemistry) from Stony Brook University and an MD from the University at Buffalo. He served as a major in the US Army Medical Corps (1981–87) and in the