Jeanne Erdmann

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.

Trump’s Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insure...

NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.

I'd buy a plane ticket 🤣

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An open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines Read an open letter to the general public from the AMA and medical societies reaffirming support for vaccination to protect against flu, COVID-19, and RSV.

This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

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The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.

The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.

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A social media post from FactPost (@factpostnews ) with a verified blue checkmark reads: "RFK Jr. has announced a new 'disease registry' that will track Americans with autism." The post includes two images: a photo of a person speaking at a microphone (left) and the logo of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, featuring a blue eagle and the text "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES • USA" (right).

Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.

Thanks @gregggonsalves.bsky.social - these conditions cover so many of us or our loved ones...and migraines, don't forget about migraines

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border President Donald Trump issued a memorandum Friday giving the U.S. military jurisdiction over federal lands at the southern border.

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important:

He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

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Yes, this! Thank you for posting @scott-delaney.bsky.social

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What Jeannie says. Just do what Jeannie says. I always do. If you want a reason, then science writers' job is to figure out what's BS and what's real science before they write the story.

My friend who taught me how to cross stitch also told me to soak/wash my finished pictures. I never have. I just try to make certain my hands are super clean. I'll probably regret it - then again I'll probably be dead by the time it catches up to me 😀

It's gorgeous! Post the full pix when you're finished.

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There’s a new Health Alert Network (HAN) notification out for Dengue virus, which is most commonly spread through the bites of infected mosquitos of the Aedes species in warmer climates, including the southern US and Puerto Rico.

www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han...

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Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

Yeah make America great again. What a fucking joke. It took close to a century to build up biomedical research in this country, which made it the envy of the world. And it's been destroyed in an instant. #Trump #Musk #Vance #Vought are modern day Visigoths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Sigh, to name a few

Why do we even bother voting. Didn't we go through this with the puppy mill legislation a few years back?

Wow

I'm trying to be optimistic but it ain't easy