Greg Britton

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Fascism is here. 🇺🇸
CBS is dead. ☠️

More people will now see this interview Trump tried to bury than ever would have otherwise. 👀

What if we took the money healthcare is spending on AI, and used it to buy poor people medicines?

The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump’s 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What’s Its Plan for 2026? Accreditation is in the crosshairs. Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow and author of a new Heritage policy blueprint, explains why.

Project 2025, the influential policy blueprint published by the Heritage Foundation, set a clear agenda for the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to reform higher education in its first year in office. What comes next? https://chroni.cl/4aAnW6h

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
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Wow.

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Amazing!!

Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at 84.

No social media post could do justice to such a large and consequential life.

His 1988 speech to the Democratic National Convention is easily one of the most remarkable — and personal — political addresses you’ll ever hear.

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Are we great again yet?

LAVA melts ICE

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The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump’s 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What’s Its Plan for 2026? Accreditation is in the crosshairs. Adam Kissel, a visiting fellow and author of a new Heritage policy blueprint, explains why.

Don't miss this interview by @rseltzer.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Love, Actually (and Scientifically, and Otherwise) From the Kinsey Institute to “Wuthering Heights” to hand-painted Valentines

Love, Actually (and Scientifically, and Otherwise)
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Today in 1633, Galileo arrives in Rome to defend his evidence of a heliocentric universe. He is forced to recant to those who denied the science. At his sentencing he allegedly muttered, Eppur si muove—"And yet it moves.” @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Watch this to see how it’s done

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

This one’s on me, friends. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

In a recent episode of the HigherEdJobs Podcast, AAC&U’s José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning, including faculty anxiety, experimentation, and deeper questions about knowledge and creativity. https://bit.ly/4a9t5SR

Maybe we could explore the idea of selfhood in the immigrant population first and then move on to the World's Biggest Animatronic Parrot

Public Humanities Aren’t Extra. They’re How We Practice Democracy. When I tell people I’m an English major, the follow-up is almost always the same: “So… what are you going to do with that?”

"We keep saying we want young people to lead, newcomers to feel at home, neighbors to trust each other across differences. Public humanities are how we make those promises real...they are, concretely, part of the operating system of self-government." bit.ly/4ksHaiN

Schadenfreude alert!

The Only Thing Stronger Than Hate Is Love: Minneapolis version.

What a great line--

thoughts and prayers.

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. substack.com/@roncharles/... Never miss @roncharles.bsky.social

Posting again.

Nice job with the assist, @princetonupress.bsky.social! @aupresses.bsky.social