@sherylnyt.bsky.social
Covering health policy & politics for @nytimes. Former Congressional & White House Correspondent (Bush & Obama). Peloton aficionado, amateur painter, mom of 2 awesome young adults. Tips: stolberg@nytimes.com
Heartbreaking. A young mother is facing a terminal cancer diagnosis with bravery and grace.
"Adding to her fears were the actions of her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, who she calls “an embarrassment” to her family."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
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22.11.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve been a journalist for more than 40 years. I’m comfortable with the language I used and the structure of the story, which made perfectly clear what the science shows.
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22.11.2025 01:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please read the whole story In context. As you know, journalists are humans. We make carefully considered judgments. We reconcile competing beliefs and fact check them. We do it on deadline. We do work that is unseen & interview experts who never get quoted. All in 24 hours. This is not BS.
22.11.2025 01:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0My original story used the words "scientific orthodoxy." Upon reconsideration, I have changed it to "scientific consensus." It is more precise and reflects my intent.
21.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1Upon reconsideration, I have changed the word to "consensus." It is more precise and reflects my intent.
21.11.2025 21:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Upon reconsideration, I am changing the word to "consensus." It is more precise and reflects my intent.
21.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Upon reconsideration, I am changing the word to consensus, which is more precise and reflects my intent.
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PROMISES MADE, PROMISES BROKEN.
"Nine months later, some of the most consequential promises that Mr. Cassidy said he had secured from Mr. Kennedy appear to have been breached or broken altogether."
@anniekarni.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
HOT OFF THE PRESSES: RFK Jr. told me he personally instructed CDC to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines don't cause autism. He acknowledged that large-scale studies of MMR vaccine and thimerosal show no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
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NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
And for a twofer, please read this report from the great @laurenweberhp.bsky.social
"The mission has gone from the “fringe into the forefront,” Children’s Health Defense advocacy and outreach manager Stephanie Locricchio said.
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"God is an anti-vaxxer and he needs you to speak up."
1,000 supporters of RFK Jr. gathered in Austin this weekend to chart the future of their movement. With a special guest appearance by Cheryl Hines. This is what it looked like: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dick Cheney's death, Monday at age 84, took me back to my days as a White House correspondent. As vice president, I wrote in 2008, he "stretched the limits of the job in ways his predecessors could not have imagined."
“I don’t run anything," Cheney insisted.
www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/w...
At the end of his life, Dick Cheney, an ardent Republican, voted for a Democrat: “We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” he said.
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
In which the health secretary spoofs drug ads: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZz...
03.11.2025 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Evidence that at the least, RFK Jr has changed the conversation around food. At @apha.org meeting, “regulating ultra processed foods” appears to win the straw poll as the policy most likely to improve nutrition.
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NEW: FDA Drug Unit Chief Is Placed on Leave, and Cites a ‘Toxic’ Environment. Says politics was interfering with science in the race to approve new drugs. @by-cjewett.bsky.social has the scoop. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...
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HAPPENING NOW: 12,000 public health professionals meeting in DC. They’ll rally on the National Mall Wednesday
The president of @apha.org walked onto the stage to the tune of “Mission Impossible.” Their opening video referred to the RFK and the Trump administration as “The Syndicate.”
NEW: Steven Hatfill, the biosecurity expert and opponent of mNRA research, tells me he was fired by RFK Jr.'s chief of staff as part of "a coup to overthrow Mr. Kennedy." HHS says he misrepresented himself & didn't play well in the sandbox.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Trump took a wrecking ball to the White House. There has got to be a metaphor in here somewhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/a...
22.10.2025 13:10 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
RFK Jr. to TRUMP, on the White House plan to expand access to fertility drugs:
"You made peace in the Middle East which is beyond anybody's imagination. Now you're giving millions of Americans a chance to have babies and you're doing this while the government is locked down by the Democrats."
BIRTH CONTROL OFFICE DECIMATED: Trump and RFK Jr. laid off nearly the entire HHS Office of Population Affairs, which oversees programs that help millions of American women prevent unwanted pregnancies, which in turn prevents abortion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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UPDATE : Two HHS officials told me Saturday evening that some RIF’d CDC employees—including disease, detectives, measles response team and MMWR staff —were fired in error and are being brought back. Story w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Thank you! I didn’t know about that setting.
12.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Whoops! You’re not RIF’d after all .
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