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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century 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.

> 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – been introduced in statehouses this year, part of organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law

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Yup! Gøtzsche has been anti-vax for years now—awful man!
Started out making ridiculous claims about the HPV Vaccine:

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Ken has some stuff to cover up

"Why do you report on what other outlets are reporting? If I was you, l'd develop sources myself and out compete all of them!" — US Attorney Lindsey Halligan texting journalist Anna Bower *on the record* about an *active* case

AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals – DW – 10/22/2025 AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Copilot routinely distort the news and struggle to distinguish facts from opinion. That's according to a major new study from 22 international public broadcasters, incl...

Ouch.

AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals p.dw.com/p/528zp?maca...

"...four of the most commonly used AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time..."

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

The Largest Study of a Multi-Cancer Early Detection Blood Test Reviewing the new data and the "liquid biopsy" field

What did the largest trial of an early detection of cancer blood test show?
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In Trump’s Washington, Hate Is Not a Deal Breaker

“Downplaying or casting doubt on the provenance of antisemitic texts and other messages — claiming that there is nothing to see here, including what you are plainly seeing — is a popular strategy….”
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The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it.

Medical justification: none.
Consequences: catastrophic.
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Why the Senate's 'Most Important Vaccine Study Ever' Was Never Published The fatal flaws that made this study unpublishable

A US senate subcommittee was told this unpublished vaccine study was 'the most important ever.' Henry Ford Health now confirms why it was never published: it failed scientific standards.

Here's what's actually wrong with the study:
jakescottmd.substack.com/p/why-the-senates-most-important-vaccine

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

Sen. Ron Wyden: RFK Jr.’s narrative on children and chronic illness is ‘delusional’ Sen. Ron Wyden on the “fable that lies at the heart of Kennedy’s delusional health care narrative.”

"As I wrapped up questioning him about his troubling tenure, he made an absurd accusation that sums up his approach to health care in USA: He believes he's only person in room to ever care about — or act on — the rise of chronic illness in USA."
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CDC has been ‘censored’ and ‘politicized’ under RFK Jr., former officials plan to say Two former top CDC officials plan to deliver fiery testimony about how RFK Jr. has undermined the agency.

Former officials at the CDC plan to tell the powerful Senate health committee on Wednesday that political forces have overtaken scientific evidence at the agency, threatening Americans’ health, according to written remarks obtained by STAT.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/c...

ABSOLUTELY, on ALL counts‼️‼️

Glucose restriction: double edged sword in cancer treatment Glucose restriction generally limits tumor growth. Recently, Wu et al. reported that glucose restriction inhibits primary tumors but promotes lung metastasis by forming a macrophage-dominated, natural...

Glucose restriction: double edged sword in cancer treatment: Trends in Cancer www.cell.com/trends/cance...

As much as we like linear and simple scenarios, it is never that simple...

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

"How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer?"

EXCELLENT overview from Alexander Stockton and @derekberes.bsky.social

You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Correction: @cidrap.bsky.social

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'Dangerous time' for public health not just in U.S. but around the globe, warns doctor Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Michael Osterholm, joins Morning Joe to discuss HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s Thursday hearing and his n...

Director of @CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Michael Osterholm, joins Morning Joe to discuss HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s Thursday hearing and his new book 'The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics'.
Sept. 5, 2025

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Graham Greene, Canadian Actor Who Portrayed Indigenous Characters, Dies at 73 The First Nations actor, who appeared in "Dances With Wolves" and other Hollywood blockbusters, remained active in Canadian film, theater and television.

I hope when Kevin Costner dies his obituary identifies him as “American Actor Who Portrayed White Characters”

Trump deployment of military troops to Los Angeles was illegal, judge rules in blistering opinion A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S, military troops to Los Angeles during immigration raids earlier this year was illegal.

A federal judge has barred soldiers from aiding immigration agents in Southern California. "Why is the National Guard still around?" www.latimes.com/california/s...

Immigration crackdown could stymie efforts to fight bird flu outbreak, experts fear Farm workers facing possible arrest would likely resist getting tested for bird flu should there be a resurgence this fall, as many anticipate

It's not just the #H5N1 #birdflu cuts across the federal government, but the Trump admin's targeting of immigrants that could trigger a pandemic. They're our front-line livestock workers -- and when the birds start flying south in the fall... www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern U.S. Chagas disease is deadly, pervasive and more prevalent in the U.S. than you'd think. It's not just brought here by people from nations where the disease is endemic, but by bloodsucking kissing bugs na...

The parasite that causes Chagas disease, which kills more people in Latin America than malaria, is here in the U.S. The disease's symptoms generally don't show up for decades: heart attack, stroke, death. Have we been ignoring a potential source of #CVD ? www.latimes.com/science/stor...

What the CDC lost: a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit Here is a closer look at the top-ranking officials who resigned from the CDC this week.

What the CDC lost: a closer look at the top-ranking officials who have quit www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/p... via @statnews.com

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

View of cathedral and rainbow from New Road

That’s quite the shot from Worcestershire CCC….

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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