Love this: local transparency matters

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Months to Years magazine published my essay "Guilty Verdict" today. A story about what it was like to be a coroner in April 2020. "...families of the dead wanted certainty, not assumptions; science, not circumstantial evidence." Now science is on the defense again. monthstoyears.org/guilty-verdi...

Last night's crash is within the jurisdictions of large medical examiner offices, but what if it happened in rural Pennsylvania (for instance)? Will federal disaster response agencies like DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Response Team) survive under Trump? christinavandepol.com/dmort-past-p...

Censorship is shutting down health news from CDC, FDA, NIH and who knows who/what else. I downloaded recommended vaccination schedules from CDC today (in case they disappear) and am looking for alternate sources of health and safety information. Here's one: www.paho.org/en.

New here: just moved from you-know-where. I'm a writer looking for other writers, journalists, coroners/medical examiners, and fellow truth-tellers. Former coroner, still a physician.