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RFK SPREADS DISINFORMATION AGAIN ABOUT VACCINES AND FOOD ALLERGIES
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Spreads Disinformation Again about Vaccines and Food Allergies | Defend Public Health
In 2024, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) concluded that over 70% of peanut allergies could be prevented through early consumption of peanut allergens by infants and c...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Just published Whopper #15: No, RFK, antidepressants don't cause mass shootings
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Whopper of the Week: No, RFK, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings | Defend Public Health
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) has repeatedly said that antidepressant medications may be linked to mass shootings. Ignoring the considerable evidence that there are no links between antidepre...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Fariba Kamalabadi was arrested in 2022, and sentenced to 10 years in prison following a one-hour trial on charges of “forming and leading groups to act against national security.”

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December 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Vaccine Panel Attacks Children’s Health | Defend Public Health
Today’s decision by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to end the recommendation for a universal birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine and its attempts to cast doubt on the whole child...
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December 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Wants You to Fortify Your Immune System So He Can Deprive You of Modern Medicine | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. believes that with a healthy diet, exercise, and the avoidance of environmental toxins and stresses alone, an individual can prevent disease. While these are good health practices, they are no...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Wants You to Fortify Your Immune System So He Can Deprive You of Modern Medicine | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. believes that with a healthy diet, exercise, and the avoidance of environmental toxins and stresses alone, an individual can prevent disease. While these are good health practices, they are no...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. MAKES UP SPOOKY STORIES ABOUT OLD MEN BEING MORE VIRILE THAN TEENS

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Makes Up Spooky Stories about Old Men Being More Virile than Teens | Defend Public Health
American fertility rates, like those of most countries, have been dropping since about 1960 for many reasons related to broad social, economic, technological and demographic changes. At a White House ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New Yorkers: this is our moment to speak up - call on the state to safeguard vaccine access for everyone
in NY.

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#HealthEquity #VaccineJustice #NewYorkStrong #DefendPublicHealth #SignThePetition
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Tell Governor Hochul: Act Now to Protect Vaccine Access for All New Yorkers
Governor Hochul has taken an important step by extending Executive Order 52 for another 30 days, allowing pharmacists to keep administering COVID-19 vaccines until November 5. But that 30-day extensio...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Tell Governor Hochul: Act Now to Protect Vaccine Access for All New Yorkers
Governor Hochul has taken an important step by extending Executive Order 52 for another 30 days, allowing pharmacists to keep administering COVID-19 vaccines until November 5. But that 30-day extensio...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s Claims of “Immune Overload” is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Sanctuary for Health Justice information | Institute of Development Studies
Apply now for the new Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative! Launched today by IDS, the initiative is open to US-based researchers facing threats to their work on health equities. It offers the o...
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October 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Frightens Parents with False Claims about COVID Vaccine Dangers | Defend Public Health
COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children. But Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the vaccines are deadly and should not be given to kids because of their “profound risks”. Kennedy wildly exa...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.
bradheath.bsky.social Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Oct 9
President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

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October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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• Whopper #1:  Kennedy Claims that COVID19 Vaccines are Accessible to All Who Want Them. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to all who want them | Defend Public Health
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October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Whopper #2: Kennedy Claims that Vaccines Cause Autism. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that vaccines cause autism | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health's Whopper of the Week: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims that vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Whopper #2: Kennedy Claims that Vaccines Cause Autism. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that vaccines cause autism | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health's Whopper of the Week: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims that vaccines cause autism spectrum disorder.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
• Whopper #1:  Kennedy Claims that COVID19 Vaccines are Accessible to All Who Want Them. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy claims that COVID19 vaccines are accessible to all who want them | Defend Public Health
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October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I and others are talking a lot these days about evil things we can/should never forget. But I will also and should also never forget how @interruptcrim.bsky.social has consistently met the horrors of fascism with real, doable invitations to antifascist action. What a gift.
dreanyc123.bsky.social Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Jul 29
The latest issue @interruptcrim.bsky.social This Month in Criminalization newsletter is out & chock full of actions you can take in the face of the firehose of horrible flooding your timeline. Just pick 1 thing you can do on Palestine & 1 on another issue you care about

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This Month in Criminalization: July 29, 2025 — Ways to Plug In & Take Action Now
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July 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I just listened to the first episode of the new Women Beyond Walls season with guest Teresa Njoroge, such a powerful start to the series. It tells a story that challenges how we think about prisons and ‘justice’.

Highly recommend giving it a listen: lnk.to/women-beyond... 🎧
When Does Poverty Become a Crime? with Teresa Njoroge
Today, Teresa Njoroge asks us to look beyond poverty and see the potential in  women caught up in the criminal legal system. Teresa is a former banker in Kenya who was imprisoned with her 3-month-old...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#BoycottAmazon
July 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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the dose makes the poison or the cure.
interview w/ dentist Katrina Co, DMD as part of our fluoride campaign w/ @defendpublichealth.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Make America Toothless Again?
Interview w/ dentist Katrina Co as part of our fluoride campaign w/ @defendpublichealth.bsky.social 👇
June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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RFK is committing #PublicHealthMalpractice.
May 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom struggle to get HIV medication : Goats and Soda

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Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills
HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.
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May 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM