Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say The report, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was intended to address the reasons for the decline in Americans’ life expectancy.

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use -- we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead links

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wearing a suit and tie, is sitting at a table. A headline reads: "White House Health Report Included Fake Citations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times.

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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Received my new passport today after applying online just six days ago. A simple and efficient process. No doubt Musk will find a way to screw it up.

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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Newborns can be so tiny that it’s easy to forget just how fast they’re actually growing.

Starting from a single cell, the newborn brain alone contains an estimated 100 billion neural cells.

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Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is"

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5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

On that note, a great piece by Merrill Markoe ☺️
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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta got a big win. They have the House GOP to thank. The billionaire and his company needed Speaker Mike Johnson's help to stop legislation that would have regulated social media for the first time.

While Zuckerberg and Meta got a win from House GOP leaders by blocking KOSA and COPPA, think about who lost. www.politico.com/news/2024/12...