Brian H Mathison

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Who gets to have nuclear weapons and why? | Start Here

Who gets to have nuclear weapons and why? | Start Here | Sandra Gathmann youtu.be/liIMZaRWdY4?...

No Lamentations A prespective on Vinay Prasad's Depature from CBER

No Lamentations
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Cringing at 'Food as Medicine' Likenesses, Similars, and Throwbacks: The Persistence of Pre-Scientific Thinking

Visual Pareidolia, Law of Similars, Food as Medicine
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YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Why do India and Pakistan fight over Kashmir? | Start Here

India / Pakistan / Kashmir | Sandra Gathmann | Start Here
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U.S. dietary guidelines on a collision course with MAHA It's an opportunity for Kennedy to exert more leverage over food and beverage companies and what they make.

This was an interesting read

"There are myriad problems with an approach that oversimplifies nutrition science "

The bottom line: The dietary guidelines are inherently a political document and both Kennedy and Rollins aren't legally obligated to follow expert advice.
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RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed “This is really one of the solutions for making our country healthy again,” Kennedy said in the video, posted to his official health secretary account, after he toured the company's Oklahoma facility ...

RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed. share.google/ey8Xv62YeOIw...

Bayer says U.S. Supreme Court asks solicitor general for opinion in glyphosate case Bayer said on Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court had asked the solicitor general for an opinion in the Durnell case, as the German company seeks clarity from the top U.S. court in litigation related to its weedkiller glyphosate.

The glyphosate saga deepens for Bayer. Former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged denial of certiorari, citing a 'new administration' and 'no circuit split'—yet the issue returns, highlighting legal & scientific issues with regulations & risks.
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Former leader of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. to present at first meeting of new CDC vaccine advisers | CNN A former leader of the anti-vaccine group Children’s Health Defense will present this week on thimerosal in flu vaccines at a meeting of the newly appointed vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Dise...

Lyn Redwood was a leader at two groups—Children’s Health Defense and the World Mercury Project—that are known for spreading messages against vaccines and the use of mercury in medicine.
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YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Israel’s planned to attack Iran for years, so why now? | Start Here

Israel’s planned to attack Iran for years, so why now? | Start Here | Sandra Gathmann youtu.be/dFv2uXZFmeo

Announcement of opinions for Friday, June 20 On Friday, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.

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Sandra Gathmann | Start Here
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Ryan McCormick, M.D. on Substack A big, beautiful welcome to the new members of the Anti-vaccination Committee on Immunization Practices (new ACIP)! Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently dismissed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee o...

More concerned with science and law. RFK Jr at HHS is concerning.
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RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

Factcheck?
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Child and Infant Mortality Child mortality remains one of the world’s largest problems and is a painful reminder of work yet to be done. With global data on where, when, and how child deaths occur, we can accelerate efforts to ...

Incredible progress and more to come.
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Science & Lessons from a Graveyard What an outbreak of diphtheria can teach MAHA moms today about nature

Science & Lessons from a Graveyard, what an outbreak of diphtheria can teach MAHA moms today about nature. open.substack.com/pub/brianhma...

Albert D. Grantges v. Monsanto Company
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How protein-slayer drugs could beat some of the cruellest cancers Momentum is building for PROTAC treatments that eliminate disease-causing proteins, including those responsible for difficult-to-treat childhood cancers.

Nature reports on the momentum that is building for PROTAC treatments, which eliminate disease-causing proteins, including those responsible for difficult-to-treat childhood cancers. 🧪

I've decided on my picks for Surgeon General, HHS, FDA, CDC, and CMS leadership. It's all the same person: William E. Flanary, MD. He already plays everyone in the healthcare system—might as well make it official !

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English What’s going on between India and Pakistan? | Start Here

What’s going on between India and Pakistan? | Start Here | Sandra Gathmann youtu.be/MEcf9_SmaBE?...

Brian H Mathison PhD on Substack Blank Space Nice to meet you, where you been? … But I’ve got a blank space, baby, and I’ll write your name. — apropos —- This morning, I revisited some of the commentary surrounding the current nom...

Blank Space
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UPDATED TIME: Senate HELP Committee to Hold Hearing with Secretary Kennedy on HHS Budget | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 14, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)...

Kennedy 14May2025
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I’ve been describing for decades how germ theory denial and eugenicist attitudes are baked into antivax beliefs. None of this is a surprise. After all, if you can convince yourself that germs don’t cause disease, then it’s easy to believe that vaccines don’t work and are therefore unnecessary.

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Corn-based sanitary pads could cut 220,000 tons of plastic waste Sanitary pads made with cornstarch are 17 times more environmentally friendly compared to plastic equivalents, significantly reducing waste.

🌽Corn-based sanitary pads could cut 220,000 tons of plastic waste from oceans every year.💡
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Rated not helpful — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH New CCDH research shows that X's Community Notes are failing to counter misleading claims about the US election, despite Musk calling it the "best source of truth on the internet.”

Community Notes fall short in the fight against misinfo.

We analyzed a sample of accurate Community Notes on X & found that 74% aren't being shown to users.

Now, more social media giants are copying this flawed experiment.

Read our report 👇
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Trump signs executive order to block funding to National Public Radio Trump alleged that both organisations have produced "biased and partisan news coverage".

Demonstrating bias is actually pretty complicated and fraught with subjective descriptors. Evidence? www.bbc.com/news/article...

People who always clean up after themselves at restaurants usually display these 7 unique behaviors, says psychology For a long time, I was baffled by people who cleaned up after themselves at restaurants. You know the type: those individuals who, despite being customers, take it upon themselves to tidy up their tab...

Always, but thought this was just being helpful, but I'll take it 😁

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In PubMed >4000 since the 2015 monograph, EFSA reapproval based on ~2400. The most comprehensive and transparent assessment of a pesticide that EFSA and the EU Member States have ever carried out. Yet, there are some gaps.
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Girl Scout Cookies: ALARA, Heavy Metals, and How We Talk About Risk Beyond the Headlines: Unpacking the Girl Scout Cookie Lawsuit and What It Means for Science Communication

Catching up and dusting off an old draft—finally getting it out there. This one might not win points with influencers on either extreme, but here goes. open.substack.com/pub/brianhma...

How bugs and beet juice could play roles in the race to replace artificial dyes in food U.S. health officials are pushing to get artificial colors out of the nation's food supply. Sensient Technologies Corp. is one of the world's largest dyemakers.

A naturalistic fallacy is a logical fallacy that incorrectly assumes something is good or right simply because it is natural. (e.g., GRAS, exempt from safety testing, sources, processed adding other assumptions) apnews.com/article/arti...