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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Since 1999, the average US family health insurance premium has skyrocketed 365%, moving from $6k to $27k). That's an increase of 6.1% per year, more than double the overall inflation rate during that time (2.6%/year).

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw

Last week:

-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"

We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

Davids: I’ve heard some of my Republican colleagues encourage Donald Trump to be transparent about this idea of importing beef from Argentina. I’ll just say this — we don’t need transparency to know this policy is garbage. We need to be supporting American ranchers, farmers, and this ain’t it.

Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.

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Very encouraging to see CIDRAP's central role in this. They have been active in contradicting the anti-PPE and other COVID-related misinformation that has sometimes emanated from "establishment" public health sources, which provides a level of confidence that medical power games will be kept out.

PMI faculty Drs. Paul Duprex and @vscooper.micropopbio.org spoke at a ceremony honoring the University of Pittsburgh’s legacy in the development of the polio vaccine.

Factcheck: True.

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

More than 350 anti-science bills attacking public health have been introduced to statehouses.

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UnitedHealth paid AARP $9 billion to sell branded health coverage The disclosure sheds more light on a partnership dating to the 1990s.

Why I never joined AARP.

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A picture is worth 1000 words:

At what I think was one of the most extreme, kooky, anti-science press conferences in history, you see Trump & RFK Jr’s henchmen—3 medically trained men doing their anti-vaxx bidding, Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, & Oz

The damage these MDs are doing is incalculable

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#medsky

Baby brown bear climbing a pine tree

This is the only way to shoot wildlife.

(Photo courtesy of photojournalist Trevor Hughes)

Martin Kulldorff is a real crank. Just a fringe guy all around.

Fell from Harvard Medical School to the anti-vax, conspiracy-promoting Brownstone Institute.

And now he’s the chair of our CDC’s vital vaccine advisory group.

Shame for our country. Embarrassing, frankly.

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YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken HHS Ignores Science

Dr Glaucomflecken as HHS Secretary, RFK Jr

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Exclusive: U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says The administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the Trump administration wants a cut of revenue generated by patents that universities developed with federal funds.

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People ought to start noticing that MAHA ignores three major killers ...

Alcohol, cigarettes, and guns

Why?

It's fine to have a goal to make people healthy, but shouldn't we emphasize what is really killing them?

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Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.

Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake The data on high protein diets, bars, supplements, and powders will surprise you

How much protein should you consume?
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Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH?

Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe.

Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.

He needs to be prosecuted and locked up.

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

I really do not understand it. There are few Democratic leaders who have risen to this moment. There is no serious opposition party in the US right now. It's frigthening.

mRNA Vaccines Can't Be Trusted, Says Known mRNA Vaccine Prevaricator No matter how elegant the lies, an NIH Director who lacks credibility among the public he serves cannot fulfill his public health mission

I wrote about how the NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya can assuage his concerns about public trust in mRNA vaccine technology by not lying about them anymore.
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once again, New Yorker cartoon hits the mark.