Dylan Scott

The disaster at the CDC, explained by its former boss The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now?

I talked with @drtomfrieden.bsky.social about what's happening at the CDC:

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

“The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” Mike Marshall, CEO of the Alcohol Policy Alliance, who was not involved, told me:

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

It was fascinating to see how effectively the alcohol industry and its allies commandeered the narrative about these alcohol health studies. People were really treating the one that actually got commissioned first as if it were duplicative and suspect:

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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

The saga of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study reveals a lot about how public health and science collide with politics and corporate interests in Washington, DC:

www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

www.vox.com/health/46008...

icing my knees and feet after coaching two youth soccer games today, I have never felt closer to 40

Is “moderate” drinking really that bad for you? The confusing guidance about alcohol, simplified.

We took on the eternal question:

Is "moderate" drinking really that bad for you?

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The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot? The battle over artificial intelligence is just beginning.

the new Vox pod on AI is gonna be so good

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Republicans’ new Medicaid arguments: They’re only cutting waste, fraud, and abuse A conservative group's study claims there's a high level of improper payments in Medicaid, amid efforts to cut spending.

This is an important quote from Trump's outside health care czar:

“I think you can be pretty expansive about what’s considered waste, fraud, and abuse."

He's referring to the ACA's Medicaid expansion match:

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yep I saw my mom and sisters (and even me and my friends) in that dynamic

So good. My mom is one of three sisters and my grandpa died in a similar way, so it really hit home.

top 10 movies of 2024 for Oscar Day:

1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2. Civil War
3. Red Rooms
4. Dune: Part II
5. Nickel Boys
6. Longlegs
7. Conclave
8. Anora
9. Flow
10. Rebel Ridge

HM: The Substance, The Wild Robot, Hit Man, His Three Daughters, Nosferatu

today my sick kindergartener kept asking me “what’s wrong with your gavel until I realized he meant the wrinkles when I arch my eyebrows

I am deceased now and tweeting from the afterlife

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What RFK Jr. has said about the ongoing measles outbreak The new Health and Human Services secretary is facing one of his first public health crises. Will he blow up the typical protocol?

Texas health officials just confirmed the first death in the measles outbreak spreading at the TX-New Mexico border: That of an unvaccinated, school-aged child.

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I means do they *want* people to think it’s rigged?

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding Elvis Costello & The Attractions · Armed Forces (Remastered 2020) · Song · 2020

You could do a lot worse as far as anthems go these days

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ooh my gosh I just passed right over “redo” lol

I apologize

there was the new Friedkin take too

this is exciting, My Guys doing My Kind Of Thing

never caught that Bogie, always meant to

I was thinking how it’s such a Movie and that’s exactly what it needs to be

every american should be required to watch juror #2 i am not even joking

love to write

and frankly it makes me so mad

It’s basically this tweet. US Christians today spend way more time engaging with 6th century thinkers (and much more recent ones) than they do thinking about how Jesus Christ’s teachings might apply in a modern context:

I am a kid who found “The Gospel of Christian Atheism” on my Paw Paw’s bookshelf when I was 12 or so, so I have THOUGHTS about all of this

I (grandson of a Protestant minister to be clear) feel I just had an epiphany about why American Christianity has lost its way, might have to write something on this

he stayed sober (enough) to record Its Too Late To Stop Now live and that is enough for me lol