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Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking To Amend the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule NMFS is considering possible deregulatory action to modify and modernize the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Speed Rule. The goal of this initiative is to reduce unnecessary regulatory and economic ...

The Trump administration is taking its first step towards bringing about the extinction of Right Whales to save businesses a bit of money www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Autism researchers rebuke Kennedy, form independent advisory group A group of autism researchers and advocates are forming an independent advisory body to develop a scientific agenda for the autism community.

nice move to counter pseudoscience
www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/a...

14 measles cases reported at El Paso ICE tent camp The latest outbreak comes after a spate of COVID-19 and tuberculosis cases were reported at Camp East Montana, which holds more than 3,000 immigrants.

New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday.

Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.

Your Nurse Will See You Now (Just Kidding, It’s a Chatbot) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

STAT News is reporting that FDA just granted “breakthrough device” designation to an AI chatbot from “RecovryAI“

Would you want to be prescribed an AI chatbot for post-op follow-up contacts, instead of talking to an RN?

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Oh nice. The guy whose study got shut down by FDA for endangering children.

Keep your eyes peeled for quacks in study sections. Case in point Richard Frye in the newish SEP that reviews autism grants I do know it is one person among many legit scientists, but I am concerned this is the start of a bad trend...

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). ...

The topic to be discussed was nested in the federal registrar.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

It sounds like they are going to focus on Covid vaccine injuries, and possibly try to redefine what long covid is during this meeting.

Definitely one to write in for.

This is the dude that tried involving me in the Methuselah Foundation many years ago..., like 2006/2007 and gave me the creeps. Guess who was backing that foundation? Go ahead... guess...

The dude who is one of the least empathetic people on planet Earth, Peter Theil.

Report from Russian navy escort?

YouTube video by H I Sutton Russian LNG tanker Artic Metagaz ATTACKED in Mediterranean

New video - hot take on Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz burning, presumed sunk/destroyed, in Mediterranean today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgL...

comic by political cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting a man hearing about Greece sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians while turning his calendar and discovering the year is 499 BCE.

6 key dilemmas as human embryo models get ever closer to the real thing 6 core challenges that researchers must consider as the race to create models that are ever closer to real human embryos heats up.

6 key dilemmas as human embryo models get ever closer to the real thing. Research is proceeding without enough attention on ethical issues www.statnews.com/2026/03/03/h... My latest @statnews.com column #stemcells #IVF

No warranty, eh?
Big props if you trash picked it and got it running.

YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping? US Flagged Tanker Stena Imperative Hit in Bahrain | One Dead and Two Injured | Crew Evacuated

US Flagged Tanker Stena Imperative Hit in Bahrain | One Dead and Two Injured | Crew Evacuated

Video: youtu.be/1g7lSBUjSfI

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$24M verdict against Seattle Stem Cell Center clinic in man's death - The Niche Biologist discusses $24M verdict in case of man with ALS who died after going to Seattle Stem Cell Center and background.

Historic verdict. $24M decision against unproven stem cell clinic in Seattle in man’s death ipscell.com/2026/03/24m-... #stemcells #stemcell

ACIP will be taking up the issue of COVID-19 vaccine injuries at the upcoming meeting March 18-19. Meanwhile, the vice chair of ACIP, Robert Malone, continues to publicly spread misinformation about vaccine injuries. 🧵 1/9

Would like to know how these docs. determined "girls" were of age to consent to treatment.

All of the doctors involved with Jeffrey Epstein should be prosecuted to the fullest and lose their medical licenses, we as a profession must insist on this

Leading researchers blast ‘unethical’ vaccine trial proposals Leading vaccine researchers say that the proposed vaccine trials could lead to unreliable conclusions on already-approved vaccines.

OMG!

"...the administration repeatedly referenced a paper authored last year by a Danish researcher affiliated with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, Christine Stabell Benn, and Kulldorff, titled “Proposals for Post-Market Randomized Childhood Vaccine Trials with Ethical Designs."

photo of a big eyed tabby licking a churu tube

Not Knowing What Else To Do, Man Fosters Another Cat on Caturday

Capybara looking upwards while sitting in water with floating lemons

Keep your chin up

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

"ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation...we don’t know how [it] was trained...what is embedded into its models" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Details of the agreement, which was finalized in federal court in Maryland this month, aren’t public…[this] ends litigation between Novartis, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, & the estate of Lacks, a mother who died of cervical cancer at age 31 & was buried in an unmarked grave”

Everyone Else Is Wrong: The Dr. Amen Story When a psychiatrist diagnoses you with anxiety, depression, an eating disorder or a learning disability—or even a serious pathology like schizophrenia—they don’t typically look at your brain. Dr. Dani...

You've seen on PBS. You're seen him on book covers. And he sells SPECT scans for your brain.

Dr. Daniel Amen wants to lead a psychiatric revolution, but rigorous science might ruin it.

My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social

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We "celebrated" the increase in the federal research budget. But the $ isn't flowing. The NIH has so far not received approval to spend any of the research $$.

Everyone should know that Russel Vought, the architect of Project 2025 is behind this.

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Casey Means also made big bucks from purveyors of predatory lab testing: Genova Diagnostics, Rupa (acquired by supplement seller FullScript), and Mark Hyman's Function Health.

Predatory testing is often used by functional/integrative/naturopathic quacks to sell fraudulent diagnoses and treatments.

Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten Americans’ lives Building a diverse medical workforce is a crucial step to improving population health outcomes, write Gavin Yamey and Michael D Green The Trump administration and its allies have recently taken seve...

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There are many studies showing that support for DEI, in this case for medical education & residency training, is linked with improved health outcomes

I find it so repulsive that Bhattacharya praises himself for "curing" the NIH of DEI; how vile

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Anti-vaxx propaganda from 1898. Nothing's changed.

The declassified CIA PROJECT ARTICHOKE memo describes experiments on an unwitting subject to see if he could he induced — involuntarily, under drugs — to attempt an assassination.

It concluded the subject would be “involuntary and unwitting” and raises security concerns if exposed.