John Quain
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Bioethicist, journalist, tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signal: bioethics.68
#Trump
is scamming those who serve in the armed forces. Despicable.
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as âwarrior dividendâ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now itâs being used for $1,776 checks.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOyiypleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3z3EaT9FLr2l1vL8XVms5VtLdUYW8vnzhIOSiCVP2l3lHQBIr9kRo3hnVok_aem_TyUfIPvxkL03LFH46hJ5eA
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#CDC
abandons evidence unfortunately. But you should not make the same mistake.
#HepB
vaccination is essential for all newborns to prevent future cancers.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US CDC ends guidance that all newborns should get hepatitis B vaccine, in major policy shift
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultati...
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-accepts-advisers-recommendations-hepatitis-b-vaccine-major-policy-shift-2025-12-16/
2 days ago
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Hello,
#ElonMusk
. Guess you might first on
#Trump's
list:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/trump-immigration-citizenship-denaturalization.html
3 days ago
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3 days ago
I assume Trump plans to declare war against Venezuela tonight. All this to hide from the Epstein Files, and to expand his business interests in another country to gain access to oil. It's not about the drug cartels.
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Bottom line: Testifying
#FCC
chair
#BrendanCarr
confesses he's just another Trump henchman. Laws, rules, independence, Congress? Fuggetaboutit.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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FCC chair grilled on Kimmel, Trump's comments on Reiner
FCC Chair Brendan Carr appeared before a Senate oversight committee on Dec. 17.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/17/rob-reiner-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-chair-brendan-carr-first-amendment/87811477007/
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Two glaring, let's call them, errors in this article: She doesn't mention the central "our" issue and misidentifies "toque." What the heck, eh.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
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Canadian Linguists Rise Up Against the Letter âSâ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/world/canada/carney-british-spelling.html
3 days ago
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Chris Murphy
5 days ago
13 years since that unspeakable day in Sandy Hook. 13 years of growing a movement to make sure kids feel safe everywhere. 13 years of heroes living with pain and grief yet still speaking truth to power.
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Cover-up of
#MurderInc
continues as
#Hegseth
chickens out after bragging about killing people:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hegseth Briefs Congress on Boat Attacks but Withholds Video of Survivorsâ Deaths
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/16/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.mE8D.z8HySAL5sZgh&smid=url-share
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Ron Filipkowski
5 days ago
Hegseth murdered more people today but still refuses to release the second strike video from September.
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Soundbars are fine for bringing some oomph to soundtracks, but they are terrible at playing music. The
#Devialet
Dione overcomes the limitations of the format and brings true musicality to your TV.
www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/...
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Devialet Brings Musicality to the Soundbar
Soundbars are fine for bringing some oomph to soundtracks, but they are terrible at playing music. The Devialet Dione overcomes the limitations of the format and brings true musicality to your TV. Sou...
https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/devialet-brings-musicality-to-the-soundbar
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#RFKjr's
ignorance knows no bounds. Or is it just unmitigated lying, you decide.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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'Gaslighting of Lyme patients is over': RFK Jr. promises renewed focus
Kennedy once promoted a conspiracy theory that Lyme disease is a militarily engineered bioweapon.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/15/rfk-jr-lyme-disease-diagnostic-efforts/87783418007/?tbref=hp
5 days ago
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Pioneering robotics firm
#iRobot
now going from an American innovator to a Chinese company, thanks in part to
#Trump
tariffs giving it an extra little nudge over the edge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
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Roomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/business/roomba-irobot-bankruptcy.html
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Using lies and deception, Trump cuts programs for kids in need.
#ThisWeekinBioethics
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
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Born Deaf and Blind, Sheâs Caught in Trumpâs Anti-Diversity Crusade
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
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Is getting close to shipping deadlines for holiday gifts. Some options, from fantastic outerwear to flashlights and cookware:
www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/...
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide: the Best 14 Products of the Year
We test hundreds of products over the course of a year, from audiophile sound equipment for The Absolute Sound to cars for AARP. Here are our favorites--from less than $10 to almost $400--that will ho...
https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/2025-holiday-gift-guide-the-best-14-products-of-the-year
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#RFKjr
moves to make HHS regulatory decisions secret. Why? Follow the money.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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RFK Jr.'s bad day features impeachment threat and a GOP rebuke
Congress gave Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. two reasons on Dec. 10 to be in a bad mood.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr-impeachment-articles-filed/87706207007/?tbref=hp
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Looking for a sound bar that's also able to faithfully play music? The
#KEF
Xio from The Absolute Sound:
youtu.be/vvXJ-pMXJt4?...
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KEF XIO High-End Atmos Soundbar Review
YouTube video by THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
https://youtu.be/vvXJ-pMXJt4?si=cSntUaA9Xqk9Bqwm
11 days ago
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Forty-five years ago I was watching the game and heard the terrible news. John Lennon is still missed, but he was right: He's not the only one.
youtu.be/VOgFZfRVaww?...
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Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band (w The Flux Fiddlers) (Ultimate Mix 2018) - 4K REMASTER
YouTube video by johnlennon
https://youtu.be/VOgFZfRVaww?si=DSco-UqAdhoz0JWZ
12 days ago
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Chris Murphy
15 days ago
What we are watching - as U.S. citizens are dragged out of cars and illegal war is waged in the Caribbean - is the corruption of the most sacred power we give the President - the power of violence. We are no longer a democracy if the regime can use violence without restraint.
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Some of the greatest guitar work of all time. RIP Steve Cropper:
youtu.be/iFQEsUjI0U8?...
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(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
YouTube video by LeeEstradaMusic
https://youtu.be/iFQEsUjI0U8?si=q0eK-8e85FQoNUEN
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There was always something musical about his designs.
#Gehry
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/a...
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Frank Gehryâs Buildings Sound as Marvelous as They Look
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/arts/music/frank-gehry-concert-halls-classical-music.html
14 days ago
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Chris Murphy
15 days ago
This is totalitarianism. Not rule of law democracy. And everyone who excused thus is potentially signing this nationâs death warrant.
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#RFKjr
finally kills the
#CDC
with his anti-vax board encouraging the spread of liver cancer. A sad day for American children and families.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/health/kennedy-vaccine-committee-vote-hepatitisb.html
15 days ago
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Missourians are being threatened by
#Trump
but they can fight back by....voting!
peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org
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People Not Politicians
https://peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org/
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Or should this be added to my tour?
#metmuseum
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Should this be added to my tour...
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#ME
(a.k.a.
#ChonicFatigue
) is still an under-researched illness that affects millions:
www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
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Chronic fatigue syndrome drains millions of people, and still defies easy answers
Hereâs what chronic fatigue syndrome is, why it happens and how people diagnosed with it can find relief.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/12/02/what-is-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/87403813007/?tbref=hp
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#ThisWeekinBioethics
my discussion with Shriya Bhat on genetic engineering and AI:
youtu.be/vs7TAv36duE?...
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The Truth About Germline Editing Babies -- with Bioethicist John Quain
YouTube video by BioAcc Podcast
https://youtu.be/vs7TAv36duE?si=YNKiZmftYBEzT4om
18 days ago
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Is the
#CDC
poised to bring back hep-B caused cancer?
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/opinion/hepatitis-b-vaccine.html
19 days ago
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It's been pointed out to me that several of these items have
#CyberMonday
sales, so I'm posting a reminder: The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/...
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2025 Holiday Gift Guide: the Best 14 Products of the Year
We test hundreds of products over the course of a year, from audiophile sound equipment for The Absolute Sound to cars for AARP. Here are our favorites--from less than $10 to almost $400--that will ho...
https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/2025-holiday-gift-guide-the-best-14-products-of-the-year
19 days ago
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19 days ago
In 1945, a German U-boat captain was executed for ordering his men to open fire on shipwrecked survivors. Eighty years later, a four-star SEAL admiral faces questions for doing the same.
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'Kill Everybody': Hegseth's Reported Order Echoes WWII War Crime
In 1945, a German U-boat captain was executed for ordering his men to open fire on shipwrecked survivors. Eighty years later, a four-star SEAL admiral faces questions for doing the same.
https://theiceman.substack.com/p/the-peleus-war-crimes-trial-and-seal
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Are you really getting a deal? Probably....not, thanks to surveillance pricing (euphemistically known as
#algorithmicpricing
). Some legislators are trying to get out in front of it:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulationâs Next âBig Battlegroundâ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/personalized-surveillance-pricing-ai-new-york.html
21 days ago
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Helen Czerski
22 days ago
Imagine showing a petrol engine to someone who had only known electric vehicles, and trying to convince them to switch to petrol. No-one would choose the dirty, noisy, less efficient, more expensive vehicle. This isn't 1910, hostage to gender insecurity. We can just choose the better tech.
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The annual Holiday Gift Guide and best products from
OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com
#reolink
#Stio
#Paramo
#ProctorSilex
#GreenPan
It's all here
www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/...
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OntheRoadtoAutonomy self-driving cars, New York
John Quain is the editor-in-chief of OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com covering self-driving cars, autonomous vehicles, and related issues and technology. Follow us for car reviews and travel tech.
https://OntheRoadtoAutonomy.com
22 days ago
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More like Germany 1933 everyday:
abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice...
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ICE arrests woman with family connection to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt
U.S. immigration authorities have detained a woman who is the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, according to a source.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ice-arrests-woman-family-connection-white-house-press/story?id=127885764
24 days ago
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Chris Murphy
24 days ago
This is the scandal. Trump isnât targeting dangerous people. Heâs targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Worth fighting for: Your family's health this Thanksgiving, from
#ThisWeekinBioethics
thisweekinbioethics.com/f/this-week-...
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This Week in Bioethics: Is the CDC Dead (Yet)?
In the United States, we appear to be at the tipping point where federal government health organizations can no longer be trusted and the Trump administration is cranking up false information campaign...
https://thisweekinbioethics.com/f/this-week-in-bioethics-is-the-cdc-dead-yet
25 days ago
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An important reminder from those who have served:
youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community...
YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin
https://youtube.com/shorts/Fk9Gh3qwW4I?si=dMrJ81uW9JQlZhni
26 days ago
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This is what art is all about, Charlie Brown.
#Vogel
#Herb&Dorothy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/a...
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Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/arts/dorothy-vogel-dead.html
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Why a lot of us do what we do is to encourage all the scientists, researchers, and clinicians working on treatments like this:
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29 days ago
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29 days ago
A gene therapy co-developed by UCLA's Donald Kohn has restored immune function in 59 children born without the ability to make immune cells, a disease that typically gives them only a few short years of life. With the therapy, they qre now living normal lives. đ§Ș
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Gene therapy helps Virginia 12-year-old battle rare âbubble boy' disease
A rare disease that has cut off children from the outside world now potentially has a cure. News4âs Erika Gonzalez spoke to a Virginia family about how gene therapy changed their daughterâs life.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/video/news/health/gene-therapy-helps-virginia-12-year-old-battle-rare-bubble-boy-disease/4017272/
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Standing up for law and democracy:
youtube.com/shorts/JGhXn...
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Democrats to Troops: Donât Follow Unlawful Orders #shorts
YouTube video by New York Post
https://youtube.com/shorts/JGhXnOo3yuw?si=ru7onJxLW0PJEs1u
about 1 month ago
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Kudos and thanks to
#MaryBruce
for doing what other journalists have failed to do. May your excellent professionalism be an example for us all.
about 1 month ago
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The need to move forward--responsibly--on treating devastating monogenic diseases.
#bioethics
#germline
www.linkedin.com/posts/manhat...
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Quain John, Kuang Da, Tie Cathy & Hysolli Eriona, The Case for Lifting Prohibitions Against Germline Editing - PhilArchive | Manhattan Genomics
Weâre pleased to share our new pre-print: a comprehensive ethical case for lifting prohibition of human germline gene correction in specific, under-met medical need contexts. Read it here: https://lnk...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/manhattangenomics_quain-john-kuang-da-tie-cathy-hysolli-activity-7396242312244383744-CjCR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAA8OFJkB2rW-gT6XzqXtb9ZLcgyMho-ZcDE
about 1 month ago
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Tired of Disney and
#YouTubeTV
squabbling? Just get an antenna to watch
#ABC
for free. Here's one of the best I've tested:
www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/...
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How to Get ABC Without YouTubeTV: Get an Antenna
Are you a YouTubeTV subscriber and missing your ABC feed? Ignore the corporate PR squabbling and just plug in an inexpensive TV antenna to get your local affiliateâfor free.One of the best models I've...
https://www.ontheroadtoautonomy.com/single-post/how-to-get-abc-without-youtubetv-get-an-antenna
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americansâ face never ceases to stun me. Heâs illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits⊠âŠwhile he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
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Reason 453 on why you need
#lidar
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about 2 months ago
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If another company names its app "Smart-blank," I am going to scream.
#ReviewersProblems
about 2 months ago
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Working up to Halloween
about 2 months ago
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Rob Pegoraro
about 2 months ago
Also enjoyed seeing Ontario's anti-tariff ad, quoting Reagan, aired in the middle of the 7th.
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On
#WorldPolioDay
, here's what we should be concerned about:
thisweekinbioethics.com/f/this-week-...
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This Week in Bioethics: Polio Day & RFKjr Tries to Kill Vaccines
October 24 is officially WHO Polio Day, intended to raise awareness that the devastating disease still existsâbut could be eradicated with proper support of vaccine efforts. So it's important to remem...
https://thisweekinbioethics.com/f/this-week-in-bioethics-polio-day-rfkjr-tries-to-kill-vaccines
about 2 months ago
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