Calling out the CDC for using studies that will jeopardize the public's trust in them in a time when public trust in the CDC, assuming they are correctly using

Calling out the CDC for using studies that will jeopardize the public's trust in them in a time when public trust in the CDC, assuming they are correctly using that trust to help thwart the global pandemic, is of critical importance is pretty much the opposite of what a "political rag" would do. It was both _technically_ correct and also correct on its face. I will say that the article is a bit of a rehash of the quoted The Atlantic article, but that should be even more reason that its fact-checked removal is dubious. They even have very similar titles, so it's not like Reason's title is particularly inflammatory. Is The Atlantic also a political rag?