Jamie Sheard

Mike Johnson bemoans able-bodied men collecting healthcare benefits from the government while not working--exactly what Mike Johnson is currently doing.

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

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That’s 20% of our pre-tax income and a nearly 100% increase. We’re probably going to take the risk of going without.

Just previewed mine for 2026:
2025: $880 for a bronze plan using subsidies
2026: $1696 for the same plan

Sign the Petition RFK Jr. Must Be Removed—Before More Damage is Done, Before More Lives are Lost

www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.

In 1965:

-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.

-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.

-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl EXPOSING the Trump GRIFT!

I’m just gonna keep repeating this...
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Privatizing the National Weather Service and risking the lives of all Americans who depend on breaking severe weather forecasts to help billionaires make more money is very on-brand for the Trump administration.

op: jesscraven101 (via IG)

This is so disappointing - I wanted more!

This is absolutely frightening and devastating - so much more could have been done with that money.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl This Is Not Normal

Stop saying you’re fine….none of this is fine.
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YouTube video by PoliticsGirl This Needs To Be Shut down

This doesn’t stop until we stop it.
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What is beep baseball? Boston team of blind athletes plays America's favorite pastime The Boston Renegades plays beep baseball, an adaptive version designed specifically for blind and visually-impaired athletes.

This is amazing and a fantastic example of DEI in action:
www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

How is this the man in charge of our public health? I knew we were fucked from the moment he was confirmed, but this is just insane.

Measles has hit Chicago

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

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Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Stockholm3: A Breakthrough in Prostate Cancer Screening Dsicover a recent study that compared Stockholm3 with other established biomarkers for prostate cancer screening. Learn more.

Link to the article: www.emjreviews.com/urology/news...

Despite the advancements in prostate cancer screening, disparities persist in cancer incidence, screening rates, and mortality among different racial and ethnic groups. Many underrepresented groups, such as Black, Hispanic, and Asian populations, have been excluded from most screening trials. To address this, the SEPTA trial was designed to evaluate the performance of Stockholm3 across diverse racial and ethnic groups, including Asian, Black, Hispanic, and White patients. The trial, conducted between 2019 and 2023, found that Stockholm3’s sensitivity for detecting csPCa was comparable to PSA, with nearly three times higher specificity. It also demonstrated a reduction in unnecessary biopsies by up to 52% across various racial and ethnic subgroups.

A better prostate cancer screening method for all people who can potentially be affected is an exciting medical development! This is a great example of how ensuring representation in research can improve health outcomes.

Vitamin, basil, and controversy are also on my list.

Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries Live on the steps of the Capitol YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

This is a moral moment in America. Sitting on the Capitol steps with Leader Hakeem Jeffries this morning to discuss what’s at stake with Trump’s budget and affirm the need for collective action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

That is gorgeous!

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

“…broad consensus…that social constructs of descent-based identity, such as race and ethnicity, do not align with genetic groupings…diversity matters for sound science and effective policy…these two concepts have strengthened science and increased benefits to health.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

WISCONSIN: The chair of the elections commission, a lawyer, breaks down what actually happened using the actual complaint.

Arresting judges like this is a wild fast-forwarding of our plunge into authoritarianism.

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: The Public’s Views on Measles Outbreaks and Misinformation | KFF This poll looks at awareness and concern over the outbreak of measles in the U.S. and finds that a growing share of adults is encountering false claims about the measles vaccines, but many are uncerta...

RFK Jr has a lot to answer for. For measles: >50% of adults are uncertain about whether MMR vaccines have been proven to cause autism, vitamin A can prevent measles infections, or getting the measles vaccine is more dangerous than becoming infected with measles
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Vaccine Critic Who Used Chemical Castration Drug to Treat Autism Tapped to Lead Federal Immunization Study | National Review Mark Geier had his medical license suspended after the Maryland State Board of Physicians found that his research ‘endangers autistic children.’

This is who the federal government is putting in charge of determining the cause of autism and creating a registry of autistic people.
www.nationalreview.com/news/vaccine...

Key FDA drug data goes missing amid DOGE cuts Health professionals have been left flying blind on basic questions like where a drug was made.

FDA records are missing information needed to safely prescribe drugs because they don’t have the staff to update them

www.axios.com/2025/04/24/f...

What is it with this administration and their need to seriously harm people?!?