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Scott L Greer
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Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471 .. more

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · May 19
I’ve been writing about the politics and impact of Donald Trump on the US and world, with special attention to Europe and the University of Michigan, and most of it is free to read. This thread, in order, brings it all together. I hope it’s useful as a resource on the different issues.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 55m
A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America
Anti Italian cartoon Anti Italian cartoon A WOP A pound of spaghetti and a red-a bandan' stilet' Add and garlic a corduroy sult; wat make for him. stronga da mus' And talent for black-a da boot! Anti Italian cartoon Anti Italian cartoon

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 2h
Transcribing interview with a great Parkinson’s scientist - love his advice to young researchers:
“Pick your area, stick with it, and accept that at some point in your life it will be flavour of the month, and at some point in your career, it will be ’I can't believe you're still working on that’”

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10h
State Medicaid Expansions and Mortality, Revisited:

Medicaid expansions led to declines in all-cause mortality of 6%; HIV-related mortality accounted for 20 percent of the effect.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
State Medicaid Expansions and Mortality, Revisited: A Cost-Benefit Analysis | American Journal of Health Economics: Vol 3, No 3
Previous research found that Medicaid expansions in New York, Arizona, and Maine in the early 2000s reduced mortality. I revisit this question with improved data and methods, exploring distinct causes...
www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10h
Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US
This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
jamanetwork.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Conway Waddington, Simon Lester

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 19h
First-ever US airstrikes in Nigeria put the second Trump admin’s 2025 combat actions at:

—Nigeria—tonight’s strikes
—Yemen—1,000+ strikes (Mar-Apr)
—Somalia—120 strikes, 1 ground raid
—Syria—78+ strikes, 3 ground raids
—Caribbean—11 strikes
—Eastern Pacific—20 strikes
—Iran—3 strikes
—Iraq—1 strike

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22h
Background source
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means ...
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22h
“Who’s gonna stop you for that” is Trump’s key political insight
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h
Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/Yk7Lyb5

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h
Newly discovered recordings show how far Donald Trump went to attempt overturning the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

Trump told the Speaker he could call the session “for transparency, and to uncover fraud,” adding, “Who’s gonna stop you for that?” trib.al/Yk7Lyb5

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 1d
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 2d
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!
A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 2d
Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n
I think that the term "shared clinical decision making" is not acceptable. The decision to accept a medical procedure must rest entirely with patient or parent. That is the fundamental bedrock of informed consent. The medical caregiver is a source of information and counseling. But the "decision" is not shared. It must be the sole right of the individual. Anything else places the State above individual and predisposes to development of utilitarian Socialism (greatest good for greatest number, ends justify the means). The supreme court case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) places the rights of the State over the rights of the individual, and must be challenged.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d
It's so frustrating. The authors are in general very serious non-right-wing people who write terrific stuff in their areas. They bought into a narrative here and wrote a book that is careless in a way they'd never accept in their actual fields. But it's been influential bc of who the authors are.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 2d
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 2d
“That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read…if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.”

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Scott L. Greer

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 2d
1/ Last week, you probably heard about RFK Jr.'s sudden plan to move the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to Denmark’s. He was supposed to have a press conference on Friday, but it was canceled for legal and political concerns. For now, that move is off the table, but this idea isn’t going away...👇

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2d
Bari was exercising “free speech” as she has always understood it when she killed a story on behalf of the administration she was hired to support www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...
Bari was exercising "free speech" as she has always understood it when she killed a story on behalf of the administration she was hired to support - Lawyers, Guns & Money
No matter how many elite pundits fell for the world’s most obvious con, you can’t claim she’s not consistent: On Sunday night Bari Weiss, the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News, abr...
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
The scale of elite support for this terrible book is interesting information about public health politics
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
I think CIDRAP is a mandatory follow if you’re even slightly interested in US public health - it used to just summarize the center’s excellent timely research, but now it’s making more pointed comments too
cidrap.bsky.social CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 3d
Political appointees in Washington want to align U.S. childhood vaccine policy with its peers. Good news! It already is.

By age 5, most industrialized countries vaccinate against at least a dozen serious diseases. The U.S. leads the pack. Denmark brings up the rear, protecting against far fewer.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 3d
Political appointees in Washington want to align U.S. childhood vaccine policy with its peers. Good news! It already is.

By age 5, most industrialized countries vaccinate against at least a dozen serious diseases. The U.S. leads the pack. Denmark brings up the rear, protecting against far fewer.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3d
Here's Where Measles Case Counts Are Highest www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
Medieval warfare as “rich guy tag” - I love it

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The Dark History of Canceling Heretics (ft. Eleanor Janega)
Podcast Episode · Cancel Me, Daddy · 12/18/2025 · 1h 4m
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
I think destroying GAO - which is full of embedded knowledge of how government works and does superb, nonpartisan research- would be an absolute priority for Trump. Best we can hope for, I guess, is that they can slow-walk the nomination of a replacement until after November 2026.
One Agency Has Been Calling Out Trump’s Illegal Impoundment. That May Soon Change.
Throughout 2025, the Trump administration has, time after time, simply refused to...
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
“Homer didn’t want the future to look like Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over slave girls forever. He wanted it to look like Odysseus being tied to the mast, returning to Penelope, and managing his household in peace and fatherly cleverness. The Bronze Age was for boys—that’s Homer’s moral.”
liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.

They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3d
“People say is racist book. Not wrong. They say is fascist book. Not wrong also.

They’ll say that the book is illiterate, but that’s where they’ll stumble. It’s not illiterate. It’s anti-literate.” www.liberalcurrents.com/reviewer-jud...
Reviewer Judge Words In Book: Bronze Age Mindset, reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
on the bright side, excessive interest in military aesthetics, just like gilding the presidential palace, is common to many dictators who did much less damage than Hitler. Most of them don't have enough resources to (pretend to) commission a ship so they fool around with uniforms or whatever

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 3d
Your tax $ at work: RFK Jr. used CDC funds to run an ethically bankrupt study in Guinea-Bissau of (well-est'd as safe & effective) child Hep B vaccination--a study rightfully being compared to Tuskegee.

Irony: antivaxxers have often invoked Tuskegee/medical racism in denigrating sound vaccine sci
Every accusation is a confession (or a statement of intent): MAHA’s new Tuskegee experiment
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s CDC just funneled a $1.6 million dollar grant to researchers to carry out an unethical and scientifically unjustified randomized clinical trial of the birth dose o
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
somehow I doubt that Bari Weiss or David Ellison have ever regarded "giving voice to the voiceless" as a worthwhile goal

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
Can we get a link to the actual report? I'd like to read and maybe cite it but all we have is this press release

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 3d
I don’t love the theoretical preamble but once you get past it, this article is a very good discussion of Becker’s sociopathic theory (in which pretty much all deaths are suicide- and thats Becker’s graning!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work
Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...
www.tandfonline.com