Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter.bsky.social
🔬Health & science reporter: New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, NBC News, The Guardian, NY Sun, The Nation, NY Post. http://www.benryan.net 🔹 https://benryan.substack.com 🔹Columbia grad🔹
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The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Central Park at sunset.
December 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Central Park at sunset.
Calvin’s big hope for 2026 is literacy. “Read more!” he says.
December 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Calvin’s big hope for 2026 is literacy. “Read more!” he says.
This is a stunning must-read on what became of the LGBTQ activist movement in recent years. open.substack.com/pub/american...
Memory-Hole Archive: Sex and (Trans)Gender Wars
Part VIII of the Memory-Hole Archive
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December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is a stunning must-read on what became of the LGBTQ activist movement in recent years. open.substack.com/pub/american...
The latest home-furnishing-accessory craze is lounging Siamese cats.
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The latest home-furnishing-accessory craze is lounging Siamese cats.
This admission from Michael Hobbes is remarkable given how ardently he and Aubrey Gordon have cast doubt on GLP-1s on their wildly successful podcast Maintenance Phase. They have claimed that Ozempic and other drugs are just the opening act to another yo-yo dieting phenomenon.
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This admission from Michael Hobbes is remarkable given how ardently he and Aubrey Gordon have cast doubt on GLP-1s on their wildly successful podcast Maintenance Phase. They have claimed that Ozempic and other drugs are just the opening act to another yo-yo dieting phenomenon.
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
Hospitals Giving Gender Treatments to Kids Would Lose Federal Funding Under New Rule
The Trump admin announced new federal regulations that would bar Medicare or Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-transition interventions or surgeries to minors.
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The Trump admin announced new federal regulations that would bar Medicare or Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-transition interventions or surgeries to minors.
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Hospitals Giving Gender Treatments to Kids Would Lose Federal Funding Under New HHS Rule
The Trump administration today announced new federal regulations that would bar Medicare or Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-transition interventions or surgeries to minors.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Hospitals Giving Gender Treatments to Kids Would Lose Federal Funding Under New Rule
The Trump admin announced new federal regulations that would bar Medicare or Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-transition interventions or surgeries to minors.
benryan.substack.com/p/hospitals-...
The Trump admin announced new federal regulations that would bar Medicare or Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-transition interventions or surgeries to minors.
benryan.substack.com/p/hospitals-...
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Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults
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December 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Evidence for a detrimental causal effect of social isolation on cognitive function in older adults
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academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
Newsweek Peddles 'Elite Misinformation' About Gender Treatments for Kids
The outlet ran an editorial by Biden admin. LGBTQ policy advocates that sought to correct the record about this medical field by spreading false claims about the HHS report on the subject.
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The outlet ran an editorial by Biden admin. LGBTQ policy advocates that sought to correct the record about this medical field by spreading false claims about the HHS report on the subject.
benryan.substack.com/p/newsweek-p...
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Newsweek Peddles 'Elite Misinformation' About Gender Treatments for Kids
The outlet ran an editorial by Biden admin. LGBTQ policy advocates that sought to correct the record about this medical field by spreading false claims about the HHS report on the subject.
benryan.substack.com/p/newsweek-p...
The outlet ran an editorial by Biden admin. LGBTQ policy advocates that sought to correct the record about this medical field by spreading false claims about the HHS report on the subject.
benryan.substack.com/p/newsweek-p...
NEWS: Scandal has ended Olivia Nuzzi's brief employment at Vanity Fair
WSJ reports: Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi joined the magazine as an editor earlier this year.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
WSJ reports: Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi joined the magazine as an editor earlier this year.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways
Nuzzi and the magazine will let her contract expire at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
NEWS: Scandal has ended Olivia Nuzzi's brief employment at Vanity Fair
WSJ reports: Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi joined the magazine as an editor earlier this year.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
WSJ reports: Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi joined the magazine as an editor earlier this year.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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I was thrilled to be part of this reporting by @benjaminamazing.bsky.social about the amazing good news of the #HPVvaccine!!!
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I was thrilled to be part of this reporting by @benjaminamazing.bsky.social about the amazing good news of the #HPVvaccine!!!
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and they are proud of it.
www.thefp.com/p/were-all-j...
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and they are proud of it.
www.thefp.com/p/were-all-j...
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
‘We’re all just winging it.' In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and the...
www.thefp.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and they are proud of it.
www.thefp.com/p/were-all-j...
In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and they are proud of it.
www.thefp.com/p/were-all-j...
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The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @benryanwriter.bsky.social
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, large reviews find www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @benryanwriter.bsky.social
One would hope that before issuing this sort of whataboutism assault on The Atlantic, a professor would have first researched to see if the publication had run the sort of articles he claimed they have not.
They have:
They have:
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
One would hope that before issuing this sort of whataboutism assault on The Atlantic, a professor would have first researched to see if the publication had run the sort of articles he claimed they have not.
They have:
They have:
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
I report for @nbcnews.com: Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A Smartphone Before Age 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study Says
Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
A Smartphone Before Age 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study Says
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A Smartphone Before Age 12 Could Carry Health Risks, Study Says
Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
Researchers found higher rates of depression, poor sleep and obesity among tweens who had early access to a cellphone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mark Kelly on the Trump/Hegseth boat strikes: "If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them."
Michael Scherer publishes a trenchant, thorough, nuanced and frankly damning profile of RFK Jr. But because the headline isn’t “THIS MAN IS BAD,” the Bluesky crowd has lost their minds with rage. A viral post has them all condemning Scherer and The Atlantic for “platforming” Kennedy and such.
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Michael Scherer publishes a trenchant, thorough, nuanced and frankly damning profile of RFK Jr. But because the headline isn’t “THIS MAN IS BAD,” the Bluesky crowd has lost their minds with rage. A viral post has them all condemning Scherer and The Atlantic for “platforming” Kennedy and such.
Every Caturday, without fail, Calvin tries to murder me by gnawing off my feet.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Every Caturday, without fail, Calvin tries to murder me by gnawing off my feet.
Astrophysicist Katie Mack reposted on Bluesky a Substack article by Erin Reed about a new study with the proclamation that “Gender-affirming care saves lives.”
And yet it is not possible that this study, given it was observational, could have identified such a causal link. 1/
And yet it is not possible that this study, given it was observational, could have identified such a causal link. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Astrophysicist Katie Mack reposted on Bluesky a Substack article by Erin Reed about a new study with the proclamation that “Gender-affirming care saves lives.”
And yet it is not possible that this study, given it was observational, could have identified such a causal link. 1/
And yet it is not possible that this study, given it was observational, could have identified such a causal link. 1/
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Another day, another threat from Trump to prosecute and imprison a former president.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Another day, another threat from Trump to prosecute and imprison a former president.
Taylor Lorenz insists that smartphones do not pose any threat to children and that any effort to keep phones from young people is in service of a conspiracy to censor information from reaching them—in particular, she has said, progressive concerns such as LGBTQ rights.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Taylor Lorenz insists that smartphones do not pose any threat to children and that any effort to keep phones from young people is in service of a conspiracy to censor information from reaching them—in particular, she has said, progressive concerns such as LGBTQ rights.
Alejandra Caraballo: “We need to hold people to account, we need to hold systems to account, but try to be kinder to people.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Alejandra Caraballo: “We need to hold people to account, we need to hold systems to account, but try to be kinder to people.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
Also Caraballo:
On a NYT reporter’s work: “absolutely disgusting.”
On me: “He seriously needs help.”
On Simon Bazelon, Deciding to Win author: “legacy student nepo baby.”
“They’re overplaying their hand,” Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo says of the Trump administration’s actions toward trans people, in a lengthy interview on PBS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rhy...
PBS News Hour full episode, Nov. 24, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“They’re overplaying their hand,” Harvard Law School clinical instructor and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo says of the Trump administration’s actions toward trans people, in a lengthy interview on PBS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rhy...