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FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
"Data manipulation by the US Government, particularly when hidden, is a crisis—it makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Data manipulation by the US Government, particularly when hidden, is a crisis—it makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Please do not look away from this crisis. With enough attention and shared humanity, it is eminently -- and imminently -- solvable. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
In pictures: Starvation in Gaza
Food markets are empty. Human waste is piling up. Illness is spreading. And people in Gaza are “collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration,” humanitarian organizations warn.
www.cnn.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Please do not look away from this crisis. With enough attention and shared humanity, it is eminently -- and imminently -- solvable. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
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Vaccines give you super powers pass it on
March 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Vaccines give you super powers pass it on
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NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
www.wired.com/story/pentag...
www.wired.com/story/pentag...
Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
www.wired.com/story/pentag...
www.wired.com/story/pentag...
Sciencey person here who generally + genuinely cares about other humans 🙋🏻♂️
About 1.7% people on Earth are intersex, or about 1 in 50 folks you meet. Statistically, someone in your extended family is intersex.
Denying their existence is grossly incorrect. And cruel. www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-or...
About 1.7% people on Earth are intersex, or about 1 in 50 folks you meet. Statistically, someone in your extended family is intersex.
Denying their existence is grossly incorrect. And cruel. www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-or...
Intersex people
Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female ...
www.ohchr.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sciencey person here who generally + genuinely cares about other humans 🙋🏻♂️
About 1.7% people on Earth are intersex, or about 1 in 50 folks you meet. Statistically, someone in your extended family is intersex.
Denying their existence is grossly incorrect. And cruel. www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-or...
About 1.7% people on Earth are intersex, or about 1 in 50 folks you meet. Statistically, someone in your extended family is intersex.
Denying their existence is grossly incorrect. And cruel. www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-or...
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New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department
The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter.
www.bloomberg.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
New: The Energy Department is seeking to bring back nuclear energy specialists after abruptly telling hundreds of workers that their jobs were eliminated, according to two people familiar with the matter
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"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
February 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Many of my good friends have their funding withdrawn or frozen based on the DEIA wording such as 'diverse microbes'" a scientist reliant on federal research grants told me, adding NSF proposals with terms including 'disabilities' and 'female' have been put on hold
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NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
NIH has cut billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...