www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... Entire departments studying chronic diseases and environmental problems were cut.—isn’t chronic disease what RFK said he wanted to address?

Nearly all of the more than 350 drugs approved between 2010 and 2019 can trace their development to federal funding. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

the country’s new health leadership team is committing that cardinal American error: seeing individuals as autonomous & inviolable units & defining everything outside individual control as either irrelevant or a violation of bodily autonomy. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...

www.cleveland.com/medical/2025... proud of my Newmark J school alum Zack Smith

Supporting small produce farmers who provide food to low income people is "nonessential"? So, tell us, what is essential? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/b...

Famed novelist Roald Dahl's daughter, Olivia, died from measles encephalitis at the age of seven, in 1962, before the measles vaccine was widely available. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. claims that healthy well nourished people don't die of measles. That is not true. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s... @tpm.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social

So disturbing — Over the past five years, more than 1,200 people died after they got close to the top & were skipped, The Times found. It is possible that their doctors would have decided the organ wasn’t a good fit for them, but they were denied a chance to find out. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Government agencies are of the people by the people for the people. It’s a beautiful thing to use our pooled tax dollars to solve communal problems. Destroying that vision and those programs is a violent amputation www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

The harms are incalculable—apparently that’s the point: Destruction: “We have bald eagles around today because there were endangered species biologists all those decades ago who figured out, ‘This is how we save bald eagles,’” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

“It seems to me that the motivating factor here is punishment,” he said. “It’s a form of assertive action designed to bring a set of institutions ideologically to heel.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

“No data, no problem. No problem, no solution — and no funding,” Willoughby said. “When the data doesn’t exist, you don’t have to acknowledge the problem.” @rebeccaklar.bsky.social @bloomberg.com @jeffgreen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

And so it begins....MAHA here we come @sherylnyt.bsky.social @by-cjewett.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

So much for "radical transparency" @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

This is straight out of project 2025

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

Nicole Cantello, president of federation’s Local 704, which represents employees in the Midwest, said the result was that “polluters would have a holiday.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/c...

This is geeky stuff but the devil is in the details. The US will stop calculating the social cost of carbon, which means we have no way to justify regs to slow climate change Thanks Abrahm Lustgarten @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...?

Great story by Newmark J school alum Owen Racer in @theguardian.com about a coffee growers family in Ecuador www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

"The NSF, which just fired 10% of its workforce, did not respond to questions over whether climate is on the banned list. Regardless, grants supporting an array of scientific work have been frozen amid this zealous mission to install a newspeak among scientists." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cutting Medicaid, if that's what the Republicans in Congress decide to do, to pay for tax reductions for the rich, is immoral. Healthcare is a human right. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

www.propublica.org/article/doge...?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u... this is utterly heartless and it’s also a terrible foreign policy decision. This life sustaining aid creates support for the US around the world. It leverages our wealth and power like Trump is doing but through generosity not bullying

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02... these jobs were funded by industry!! This is not about cost cutting —

The high price of eggs is caused by bird flu! Farmers are 'culling' millions of infected chickens. If everyone is so concerned about the price of eggs, why tolerate this administration's cuts to public health agencies that protect us from epidemics? @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/18/t...

“I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,” Mr. Jones said. Then came the Trump Administration’s “disdain for the very people” expressed through the layoffs www.food-safety.com/articles/101....

Ironic that this administration is hacking away at our food safety personnel since RFK Jr has made investigating food additives one of his rallying cries www.food-safety.com/articles/101....

So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence

www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t....

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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