Protecting Diversity and Inclusion Gains in Legal Education Against Backlash | Comments on ABA Standard 206 www.uclalawreview.org/protecting-d...

Thank you to the Globe for publishing on this critical topic. This is the first step towards effecting change. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/18/o...

Two advocacy groups are demanding the United Kingdom revoke regulations at the heart of a new trade agreement with the U.S. over concerns the deal will allow outsiders to influence official decisions about the cost-effectiveness of medicines. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

You know… The Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial normally reflects reality. The world around it. DJT is painting it blue—erasing reality. As he does with everything else.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Shut up and dribble? "Public trust is not built by quietly retiring institutional commitments in advance of pressure. It is built by standing behind them under pressure." yaledailynews.com/articles/shu...

"The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Voices of '30 former U.S.A.I.D. employees, contractors and partners in Washington, around the country and overseas [...] in the year since Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, proudly announced that he had fed the agency “into the wood chipper.”'

"Nearly half (49.6%) of responses were problematic: 30% somewhat problematic and 19.6% highly problematic." "The audited chatbots performed poorly when answering questions in misinformation-prone health and medical fields." bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4...

Citizens Bank is financing ICE detention companies. More and more account holders are saying "not with my money", including this City Council member in Cambridge Massachusetts: www.facebook.com/reel/9587020...

"When one member of a group calls out and resists wrongdoing, others who witness that moral example are themselves more likely to follow it." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/13/o...

"An internal [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] CPB investigation found failures in providing proper medical care and that medical personnel did not review documents the mother offered which described the girl’s sensitive condition." apnews.com/article/immi...

This is concerning: “they are going to get very, very detailed and granular data about everything that happens. The concern here is the more information they have, they could use it to discipline or target people who are not cooperating politically.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

To truly achieve access to essential medicines, we need to rethink public health through the lens of 'freedom to'—the active opportunity for everyone to thrive. Insightful historical perspectives on this in the podcast below. Worth listening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kqs...

FTC strikes proposed deal with CVS over charges its PBM manipulated insulin prices, impeded access www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20... via @statnews.com

There is a need for more signs like that.

Fostering foster effective communication across the political spectrum: "collectivist, action-oriented, and affirmative framing approaches were preferred by a larger proportion of respondents across all political ideologies" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“This is a great first start,” Moore said. “We shouldn’t have citizens walking around, living in fear. People should have an avenue to be able to report that.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/13/m...

"You can get another job; you can’t get another soul" We must amplify one another’s voices as we communicate with the public, and reward those who, on top of their science, do this critical work for the common good. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

Very scary: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Being an ACIP member used to mean you were at the top of your field. Now the bare minimum is "this shitty paper didn't actually get retracted but everyone can see it's awful."

Sorkin "Microsoft filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Trump administr., urging a federal court to temporarily block the Pentagon’s designation of the A.I. company as a supply chain risk. It is, by any measure, a remarkable act." www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...

No directly health related but important: "More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government." www.wired.com/story/openai...

Many academic institutions failed to protect their institutional integrity, while state boards failed to protect the public's safety. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

As controversial decisions mount, FDA shuns public advisory meetings - drugmakers and advocates want more insight into agency’s decision-making under Trump www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/f...?

As pointed out in this commentary, it is worth remembering that "patient autonomy can only be fully realised when the information available is accurate and reliable." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

One of the most powerful voices in the biopharma industry, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., has weighed in with sharp criticism of the FDA’s Vinay Prasad, M.D., and his performance as the chief of CBER [at the FDA], which regulates vaccines in the U.S. www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfize...

Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...

Paul Krugman "to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top. We know that this can be done, because it has been done. [...] FDR won that war. Progressive taxation and mass unionization." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Documenting a ‘Drastically Changing’ Scientific Landscape www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/i...

No longer is the FDA a model agency: "The result is that the FDA is soliciting advice after it has decided what to do, rather than deciding what to do after hearing and appropriately considering independent experts’ advice." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“When the U.S. government starts to engage in corporate America in a way that tastes of favoritism, I know for most CEOs that I’m friends with, they find it incredibly distasteful,” Griffin said www.wsj.com/business/ken...

The uniqueness of each patient is at the heart of this year’s #WorldCancerDay. 🎧 Louise Chappell and Na’ama Carlin, both cancer survivors, discuss the importance of personalised cancer care and its effect on their bodies and their lives. spkl.io/63328AsBGy

Today is #WorldCancerDay💔 No one should have to choose between survival and financial ruin. www.youtube.com/@A2MIndia/sh...

“Current climate of fear and polarization, which thrives when human dignity is disregarded [and] does not meet the standard set by Christ in the Gospel" www.usccb.org/news/2026/ar...

The start of 2025, the CDC maintained 82 databases that were updated at least monthly. But by the end of October, the study found, 38 had gone stale, with 34 showing no new entries at all in the previous six months. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

House and Senate appropriators endorse NIH budget increase, reject Trump’s proposed cuts www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/n... via @statnews.com

Judge Blocks Government From Reviewing Seized Washington Post Devices www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/b...

"Federal officials acknowledged that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees coordinated with a political advocacy group on a “voter data agreement” aimed at analyzing voter rolls in an effort to challenge election outcomes." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

DeGette Introduces Bill to Protect NIH From Political Interference: "... this administration has shown it's willing to sacrifice science on the altar of politics." degette.house.gov/media-center...

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

"The federal judge in the court proceeding Tuesday, Richard G. Stearns, prodded lawyers for the administration to find a way to let Lopez Belloza return to the United States and remain here legally." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/13/m...

“We are living simultaneously in the utopian age in which a baby born with a genetic death sentence is given a new lease on life thanks to the miracle of gene editing, and the dystopia in which a disease like measles is on the march in the United States,” he said. www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/n...

'An undoing of the scientific method': Flagship CEO warns of government threats to US biotech industry www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/undo...

The top US health director who stood up for science — and was fired www.nature.com/articles/d41...