Before I got my start in print, I worked part-time for CBS Radio (100.3 Jack FM to be exact) on the street team. The way iconic journalism brands are being destroyed within just a year of this administration is mindboggling.

This is a recurrent fiasco. Health care companies that know the serious risk of their device or drug but keep selling it and do not acknowledge the hazard. Until so many people are harmed. Today's front page @nytimes.com Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

THE shot

If you've had a kidney stone, you've been advised that the most important thing to prevent another bout is to increase hydration. Now a randomized trial of hydration in over 1600 participants showed no benefit, despite evidence of increase during volume. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Note the intervention group was financially incentivized and had coaching to achieve maximal hydration. That’s way more than the typical person who has had a kidney stone. Doesn’t prove lots and lots of hydration doesn’t help prevent but it’s the best RCT we have to test the hypothesis (and dogma)

Breaking: A federal judge blocked major parts of RFK Jr.’s vaccine policy overhaul. As a physician and mom, I believe public health decisions must be rooted in evidence, transparency, and trust. When vaccine policy becomes politicized, public confidence suffers. www.statnews.com/2026/03/16/k...

19% more deaths from Covid in the US than counted thru 2021 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mild covid and pregnancy in the experimental model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What we should be doing, but we're not: "Arming the immune system for the next zoonotic coronavirus spillover" A nasal dendritic-cell targeting vaccine that prevents viral transmission vs pan-sarbecovirus clades (i.e. all coronaviruses, irrespective of variants) www.jci.org/articles/vie...

seeing the light

Why do women account for nearly 2/3rd of all cases of Alzheimer's disease? A new, thorough review, open-access, on its origins in midlife. @jci.org www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Judge Strikes Down Kennedy’s Vaccine Policies www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

I made an archive of articles on our political crises. Special sections for Epstein and AI! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/weathering...

Where it belongs!

Solidarity with @kschake.bsky.social. The US military gains nothing from this systematic banning of scholars. It snacks of fear of facts- another sign that there is a design of ideological indoctrination.

The job *was* to wreck and purge, just like Musk and DOGE. All revolutions need these people.

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

Front page @latimes.com today Thousands in LA County, Millions in the US @corinnepurtill.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

More MAHA

The reactivation of herpes simplex virus (HSV-1, not only herpes zoster) may be tied to accelerated aging and dementia, and account in part for the mechanism of Shingrix vaccine''s protection www.wired.com/story/shingl...

How do you say "lol, welp" in Afrikaans ?

Reposting this for all the people who thought "woke" and "DEI" were only going to come for Black people. Watch this cretin try to explain why a grant to examine Jewish women during the Holocaust was flagged.

Cancer vaccines are showing marked efficacy vs refractory cancers and are going to be part of the future Rx armamentarium. Beyond that, ultimately, for prevention in high-risk individuals. A new stellar review @naturemedicine.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

Human touch www.alphaomegaalpha.org/wp-content/u...

RFK Jr is trying to get 14 peptides licensed without data on safety or efficacy. His favorite is BPC-157. "Only three small human studies of BPC-157 exist, the largest of which is a telephone survey of 16 people who received an injection of the drug for knee pain" www.economist.com/science-and-...

Meanwhile back on X

The special issue of BMJ Global on reparations featuring articles by members of the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission on Reparations is scheduled to drop on March 23rd.

Meanwhile, men are literally creating white AI muscled white women, making AI muscle mommy content-- racking up huge numbers on social media accounts. Women who lift/appear strong really mess with people's heads. And Black women who lift-- well, we don't count as women.

So I spent the last few years intentionally lifting heavy and putting on muscle. It doesn't stop right-wing numbskulls from saying I embody a "primitive form of manhood, and that I was "man of the year", heh. freebeacon.com/men-of-the-y...

I have so many thoughts about lifting / strength training / putting on muscle as a Black woman-- especially because I *WANTED* to get bigger. I always hated being skinny and being read as "weak". (1/2)

"One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

A single course of antibiotics can have lasting effects on your gut microbiome, with changes that last well beyond 4 years. Three types of antibiotics stood out for their long term disruptive impact (3 at left, Figure) nature.com/articles/s41...

A causal link between severe Covid or flu and lung cancer risk by impairing immunity and promoting inflammation, as shown in multiple murine models www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Predicting Alzheimer's disease up to 25 years in advance of any symptoms with the p-tau217 biomarker blood test, among 2,766 women mean age 70 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

On Epstein, video, and AI, from an interview I did last month: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

New interview! On the Iran War and the prospect of Trump reinstituting the draft: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9RR...

Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.

As someone pointed out-- it's the same reason why people watch fictionalized television and scripted dramas--- *and* can watch real-life news/documentaries. Or read fiction and non-fiction. We are hardwired for stories-- for entertainment, distraction, connection, and to make sense of the world.

5 million deaths a year globally are attributed to lack of physical activity. Many countries have set policies to promote physical activity but never implemented them. No improvement in >20 years! 3 new papers nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s44... nature.com/articles/s44...

Hear me out-- as a 90's wrestling fan: It's the storylines. It's the characters. Heroes and villains. The athleticism on display. It's basically live stunt choreography. Performance martial arts.

Adult children who have written your parents' obituaries-- I'd love to hear your experiences. First timer here.

The most important writing deadline I have coming up is-- my own father's obituary. I knew this day would come. I've had practice writing about great men close to me who have passed away suddenly. I thought it would feel heavy, but it feels like an honor to do this for Daddy, and a catharsis.

As an ex-vangelical, I remember purity culture in Texas and "purity ball" ceremonies in which young girls basically pledged that their fathers (or older adult men in the family) would safeguard their virginity. Basically, girls would ceremonially marry their dads. And all because of sex.

Appropriate critique of Utah going with AI for prescriptions based on a Doctronic preprint written by the company, by @josephsakran.bsky.social gift link wapo.st/46O8TFh

Alright! We are now officially enrolling for the @resistanceschool.bsky.social course "World Cup and The Politics of Football 101"! We already have 100+ pre-enrolled, and we will cap enrollment at 300. Don't miss out! Vamos! substack.com/home/post/p-...

As I have said since Feb 2025, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems. How else are you going to ensure that Putin's failed state becomes prosperous? it is already having to be propped up by China.

Coup tactics

Lev Parnas told Donald Trump he was the messiah. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...