“America leads the world in science and intellectual inquiry of all kinds. Or it did a few months ago. It’s hard to overstate the devastation Trump has wrought… As far as science is concerned, the American century may well be over.”

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

-Anne Frank

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RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year.
That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday!

Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk.

www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

if you've got a spare minute, helps us protect our profession and the public! townhall.virginia.gov/L/comments.c....

All of the physicians in Congress should publicly demand RFK Jr & Marty Makary testify on why Peter Marks was forced out of the #FDA .
“truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies”
#science #publichealth

I'm told that Cohen no longer has access to her firm email account.

"If being on this career path demands I accept that my industry—because this is certainly not unique to Skadden—will allow an authoritarian government to ignore the courts, I refuse to take it any further," she wrote on LinkedIn.

Oh my, look at the Eatontown, NJ Tesla rally!
☀️ Go Jersey Shore! ☀️
Taking a stand for democracy on a beautiful Saturday!

An absolute tragedy in my world...

We are heartened by this call to action in Nature, one of the most respected journals in science. It urges the global scientific community to speak out on behalf of those being censored and support research as the US government shifts away from its historic leadership
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Holy shit this cartoon.

Moving defense of childhood #vaccines by Vanderbilt vaccine expert Kathy Edwards in JAMA. Stunning that so many people fear the tools that prevent children from dying and being maimed, rather than the pathogens that resurge when vaccine use declines. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

So happy to be a part of this research... #phd #chinesemedicine #chineseherbs

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not a good day...

The degradation of society as we sit and watch...

"The bottom line is every day the publication is delayed, doctors, nurses, hospitals, local health departments, and first responders are behind the information curve and less prepared to protect the health of all Americans,"

Our university has had a number of students, alumni and faculty affected by the fires. We’ve setup several relief efforts, and are providing services for our students and community.

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