Dylan Scott

I hadn’t watched it in years, I just appreciate its minimalism (basically non stop pace, 1 hr and 46 mins) when you consider what the Craig series had become by Spectre and No Time to Die (almost 3 hours!!)

quantum of solace is underrated

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

I talked to the authors of the disputed brain study and this comment stuck out to me: “We’re living longer than ever. Let’s not panic.”

Just maybe avoid microwaving food in a plastic container and live your life:

www.vox.com/health/47530...

We have to find a better equilibrium for thinking about plastic.‬

‪It has enabled wonderful things we enjoy as modern humans. It also presents health risks worth taking seriously. ‬

‪Both things can be true!‬

‪https://www.vox.com/health/475307/plastic-microplastics-waste-human-effects-guardian‬

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

Here is, I think, a more productive mindset for most of us:

- Plastics do harm human health
- Take "low pain" steps to mitigate risk without upending your life
- Don't overreact, in either direction, to new research or new media fixations

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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

I spoke with co-authors on the brain study critiqued in the Guardian article.

“Nobody’s getting it perfect. But when you start combining the best practices, all of a sudden, I think in a year, maybe two, we’re going to have this unassailable approach."

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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

Lost in the public squabbling about microplastics research is this reality: This is a young field and new research should be critiqued for its methods. That's how the research will improve. This is how science is supposed to work:

www.vox.com/health/47530...

‪The science on microplastics is hard to do and it is multifaceted. This week’s bombshell was about a specific kind of study. ‬

‪We need a better framework for absorbing new developments:‬

‪https://www.vox.com/health/475307/plastic-microplastics-waste-human-effects-guardian‬

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.

We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study

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Grateful Dead Founding Member Bob Weir Dead at 78 Bob Weir -- the guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

I am so sad

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oh my god. More details are surfacing about the catastrophic incompetence that led to the dietary guidelines' inaccurate claims about a litany of nutrient gaps in plant-based diets

Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true. RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.

It’s one particularly wonky example of how politicians warp reality to bend it to what they want people to believe — not what actually happened.

And at the end of the day, even if they misled people, they won the fight. That’s politics, I guess:

www.vox.com/health/47472...

It’s a subtle thing. But the industry and Congress clearly felt they had a stronger argument if they portrayed the Biden admin alcohol study as coming after the industry-preferred study — and they have consistently twisted these facts to advance that story.

But this is false — and contradicted BY THE HOUSE REPORT ITSELF.

Look at this page. They say the Biden admin authorized their alcohol study in APRIL 2022 —*after* Congress already authorized theirs.

But follow the footnote. They cite a spending bill passed in DECEMEBER 2022

A key talking point was this was a crusade and one that began AFTER Congress had
authorized what would become the more pro-alcohol study.

House Oversight published their final report on the controversy and they repeat this talking point throughout:

oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

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.

There was a coordinated effort between the alcohol industry and Congress to discredit both the findings of the study that found negative effects at low levels of drinking and the researchers themselves. Again read all about it here:

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.

You can read the whole saga, but in short, two different studies analyzing alcohol and health were produced ahead of the dietary guidelines. One study found negligible negative effects, while the other found a serious mortality risk at low drinking levels

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

There’s an interesting lesson in DC spin and misinformation when it comes to the new dietary guidelines and alcohol and the studies produced to justify these new changes.

A short thread —>

Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true. RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.

I gotta say, it was pretty rich hearing Dr. Oz claim there is no evidence for a more specific limit on drinking alcohol:

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The problem with blaming everything on inflammation What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.

In the near feature, you could get your inflammation checked at your annual check-up along with your blood sugar and cholesterol.

“I can envision a future where inflammation is a pre-symptomatic warning sign — something you notice before you feel sick."

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The problem with blaming everything on inflammation What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.

Inflammation is on everybody's minds these days.

But the social media remedies miss the complex biology underneath. I tried to get a picture of what the real, evidence-based future of managing inflammation looks like. Here's what I found:

www.vox.com/health/47438...

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The year measles came back Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”

“We’re going through a cycle, and there will be casualties. There will be needless deaths and illnesses,” a Texas pediatrican told me. “I think that the only generation that is going to learn from this will be maybe the next one.”

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The year measles came back Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”

“It only takes one generation to forget the progress we’ve made on certain things," one Arizona family doctor told me. "Twenty-five years ago, we were a measles-free nation. Now we’re back one generation later because we forgot how terrible it was.”

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The year measles came back Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”

Measles came back because, paradoxically, our public health efforts worked so well. People lost their fear of a dangerous virus.

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Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.

The ACA tax credit catastrophe revealed that after a decade-plus of the ACA, Republicans are no closer to having a serious, coherent plan for fixing the US health system and lowering costs:

www.vox.com/health/47196...