Dear #RFK and emotion/values-based doubters about #vaccines safety. Real evidence (the kind you stubbornly deny) is required by law. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Can anyone in the Trump cult be so devoid of independent thought that are not embarrassed by this? We're talking denial of high school-level science.https://apnews.com/article/epa-climate-change-censorship-fossil-fuels-1c83071f9eea81e8e31ebad0c4444775?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share

THIS JUST IN! The news media do not report on the causes of death in proportion to what actually kills us! ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

THIS is the way risk SHOULD be reported. Bravo Debby Koenig www.webmd.com/diet/news/20...

Dear Right Wing extremists (that's you, White House) Understandable you're upset by left-wing violence, but (from the Economist

Spot-on insight, and a challenge to The 1619 Project thinking. CLASS divisions are at the core of what is tearing us all apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...

Sen/Dr Bill Cassidy, R.LA, OKing RFK Jr for HHS Sec. "I practiced medicine for 30 years...After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases...witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization...simply, vaccines save lives. The deaths to come now are on YOU, Doctor.

Simply saying people are tribal isn't enough. Being true to our tribe is biologically tied to our survival instinct. Any challenge to your tribe, or disloyalty to your tribe, sets off a Fight or Flight response. It's autonomic, WAY more powerful than reason www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

@hern.bsky.social Re: Is AI making us dumber. May be interesting to know that the ease of AI appeals directly to the brain's instinct to work no harder than necessary, evolved since the brain uses more calories than any other organ and back in the day food was no sure thing. @eaterofsun.bsky.social

As the mindless paranoid witch hunt against the slightest taint of possible disloyalty to a Dictator continues, it patently makes Americans, including those who voted for him and remain loyal, less safe. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Word now offers AI options. For kicks I asked for an essay on the psychology of risk perception, about which I've written a ton, including a book. INFURIATINGLY, many of the AI passages are only thinly different from my own language in the book. How is this not outright copyright theft?

Bravo Seth Borenstein. Phenomenal environmental reporting on the prospective death toll from Trump's rollback of enviro regs to please the fossil fuel industry apnews.com/article/epa-...

@carlzimmer.com thought you might enjoy knowing that I jus saw Airborne for sale in a bookstore in Bucharest!

GO Fish Hippies. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium capacity of more than 62,000 could host more than Bodo's entire population of roughly 50,000.

Important caution about a viral risk warning...but missing a HUGE additional caveat. The "RadRat" calculator assumes mutations that lead to cancer from tiny tiny doses, and a growing number of radiation biologists believe at the lowest doses ionizing radiation is NOT carcinogenic at all.

THIS is the blind bigoted hate of "others" that runs deep in the blood of Donald Trump and Steven Miller and all the despicable people foaming at the mouth, and disregarding basic human decency as well as due process of law, in their lustful targeting of "immigrants. kfor.com/news/local/w...

What alarmist horseshit! And the Times knows it, since they reported that the basis for the "harm" claim came from a study that held the test utensils in boiling oil for 15 MINUTES. Classic example of environmentalists masquerading as scientists to find a new chemical bogeyman.

The Trump administration is quite transparently using anti-semitism as a pretext for authoritarian crackdowns on speech & association, and some Jews are saying "no thanks."

The Environmental Working Group is, sadly, among the leading naive proponents of the 'naturalistic fallacy', a Back to the Garden of Eden form of environmentalism that blames pretty much all our ills on human civilization in one way or another. Such absolutism does great great harm.

Fearing that government information about vaccines & vaccination policy may be corrupted under an anti-vax health secretary, some public health leaders are exploring how to safeguard the enterprise of vaccinations in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/v...

It's a safe bet that Putin has somne really embarassing compromat on Trump. He fu-king OWNS him. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...

Dear Supreme Court. Fu-k You, Part One. Despite a court order, the White House bars the AP from Oval Office event apnews.com/live/donald-... apnews.com/live/donald-...

The right wing attack on DEI has reached into the NFL. Wrong last name. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

One small step for the rule of law AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists apnews.com/article/trum...

Are you supporting yourself as an independent worker in the arts or culture, or know someone who is. There is a community of folks like you that share ideas and camaraderie...CARE (confession...my daughter's creation) rachelropeik.com/care

apnews.com/article/cana...  How can you not like Canadians. They have a whole category of crime they call "mischief" Canada trucker protest organizers found guilty of mischief

The ever fabulous Our World in Data.

Millions die prematurely from air pollution every year. Where does this pollution come from? In our new article, @pablorosado.com and I look at the breakdown, pollutant-by-pollutant. ourworldindata.org/air-pollutio...

Read the letter itself. Chilling.

worse than disgusting. FRIGHTENING, that such sophomoric people have power over U.S. government, and celebrate in such a high school way cuts that will cost thousands of lives and cause enormous suffering. Terrify8ing that they worship the man who would be Dictator

Is there any doubt that this madman wants to be a Dictator King, the precise thing the American Revolution itself was fought to free us from. And is there any doubt that people who voted for this madman should be held complicit. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Melinda Moyer has provided a marvelous piece of risk reporting, specifically because it notes the importance of 'dose', which countless other risk stories, especially about suspected environmental toxins, utterly fail to do. A persistent failure of this section of science journalism.

But Trump says it was only a glitch. Can you just imagine the STINK and OUTRAGE were the political roles reversed

You cannot understand the Signal story if you don't remember that Trump had a call on the proper USG channels and an intelligence analyst reviewed it and realized he needed to report a crime. That got Trump impeached. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

Deep Cancerphobia does great harm. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... Cancer’s legacy as a fearsome disease, and public perception of what it means to be diagnosed with cancer, dominated some participants’ ability to accept novel information about overdiagnosis incongruent with those perceptions.

Bravo Don McNeil.... just another way Trump madness is hurting people, including his own supporters

Our voters are pissed with US? AVOID THEM! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

Trump defies a court order and directly states the courts have no jurisdiction over him...and then posts that Biden's pardons are null because he used an autopen to sign the documents, which Presidents do all the time. Is there ANY question that this is a madman out to be America's first Dictator?

And yet cancer remains our most feared disease, driving choices that in many cases do more harm than the disease itself (surgeries for overdiagnosed disease kill hundreds, injure tens of thousands, cost U.S. health care system $37B/yr) all thoroughly documented in www.amazon.com/Curing-Cance...

WOW! Painful

The madness of Donald Trump's lust for power is literally putting our health at risk, including the health of those whose tribal loyalty blinded them into ignoring the threat Trump poses. Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

Beware the Brown Shirts. They ARE here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

As truly terrifying as anything I've read. This is a total right wing/conspiratorialist revenge tour on 60 years of social progress in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

What kompromat does Putin have on Trump? He OWNS him

Don't use Tik Tok as your Doc. We analysed almost 1,000 social media posts about 5 popular medical tests. Most were utterly misleading theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

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i thought this was from The Onion apnews.com/article/trum...