Alexander Mazziotti

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Hints at an Unexpected, Simple Treatment Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's disease.

#Parkinson’s www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-l...

#Trump “ I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.” Friedman- NY Times

Once a Death Sentence, This Heart Condition Is Finally Treatable

#Amyloidosis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/w...

#University “Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can say and teach ..” Rashid Khalidi Professor

US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis’ As official health guidance changes, scientific groups are stepping in with evidence-based recommendations

#Vaccines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | The Christian Backlash Taking Hold

#Religion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

#Weather www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

#Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

Gov. Josh Stein vetoes DEI bans, saying they ‘whitewash history’ and ‘ban books’ The Democratic governor said the legislature “wants to distract us by stoking culture wars that further divide us.”

Some good news out of North Carolina: www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Opinion | You Don’t Have to Be a Doctor to Understand This

#WHO www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

#Floods “That office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees, according to a person with knowledge of his departure.” NY Times - DOGE and flood warning system in Texas

#Medicaid “As Trump rammed through his horrible bill, a humongous wealth transfer, he scoffed at those who suggested there was no virtue in hurting the most vulnerable to make the obscenely rich richer. He keeps insisting that no one will lose Medicaid benefits..”Maureen Dowd- NYTimes

Trump is waging war against the media – and winning As the president’s attacks are met with a distinct lack of resistance, critics warn that freedom of the press is eroding in plain sight

#Media www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Opinion | I’m a Pediatrician. I’m Afraid of Diseases I Thought I’d Never See.

#Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Opinion | We Both Served as Treasury Secretary. We Know This Bill Is Dangerous.

#budget www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...

#Congress Senator Murray’s message read:
“GOP’s BIG UGLY BILL KICKS PEOPLE OFF HEALTH CARE AND FOOD ASSISTANCE. HOSPITALS WILL CLOSE. KIDS WITH DISABILITIES WILL LOSE CAREGIVERS! BIG WINNERS? BILLIONAIRES. TOTAL FRAUD! IT POLLS LIKE GARBAGE, BECAUSE IT IS. GOP SHOULD DROP IT!!”
Huff Post

New Data Shows Just How Powerful the Next Weight-Loss Drugs May Be

#weightloss www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w...

Marijuana’s Links to Heart Attack and Stroke Are Becoming Clearer

#Marijuana www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

The Sea Traveler’s Companion, by Mark Robert Mazziotti | Atmosphere Press When the young and beautiful Lydia, daughter of the feared pirate Blackbeard, is captured by a band of pirates and forced to join their crew, her determined and resourceful fiancé, Ben, is willing to ...

#Books #Pirates atmospherepress.com/books/the-se...

RFK Jr. Keeps Telling A Flat-Out Lie About Childhood Vaccines — And Doctors Are Sick Of It The health and human services secretary has repeatedly claimed children need dozens more vaccines than they actually do.

#baccines www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Sotomayor Writes the Court ‘Abandons’ Transgender Children to ‘Political Whims’

#Court #Transgender %https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/sotomayor-transgender-care-dissent-scotus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Health #Vaccines Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
The U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children. NY Times - Science should rule not political medical quackery.

Opinion | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption

#Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

#Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently revealed on a health influencer podcast that he received unproven stem cells at a clinic in Antigua for his throat condition, spasmodic dysphonia. He ..wants to give the public much broader access to such unproven therapies, which would be extremely risky.StatN

#Tenure “If you want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must keep clearly before us what is at stake….Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur and no Lister.” Albert Einstein 1933. NYT

#Musk “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!
Musk went on to say:
Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.”

Battle of Musk - Trump, round one just a jab!

Opinion | Selfishness Is Not a Virtue

#Religion www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

Millions Would Lose Their Obamacare Coverage Under Trump’s Bill

#Health www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

#NIH The USSR for political reasons in 1930’s advanced Lysenkoism: an idea with no scientific merit. Protesting scientists were executed. As a result famine led with millions starving. It’s a road that the USA has begun to follow by replacing science with quack ideas and firing actual scientists.

#NSF #NIH “We are embarking on a major experiment in restructuring the innovative engine in America, and China is the control,” said Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and the president of the National Academy of Sciences,…. “China is not going to cut its research budget in half.” NY Times. Yikes!