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"Experts say there’s no clear evidence that vaccines cause depression....But for more than a year, anti-vaccine activists have argued on social media that there is a link."

This is DARVO, MAGA's favorite strategy. They want to shift focus from how a combo of mental illness & disinformation leads...
carlzimmer.com Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 17
Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting. “On X, for example, verified accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers openly claimed in recent weeks that Covid vaccines act like ‘chemical lobotomies,’ which is false.” www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting
Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation.
www.nbcnews.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker!

"RFK Jr is currently using his perch at HHS to launch an assault on vaccines...emboldening Trump allies at the state level to push to further roll back life-saving vaccine requirements."

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MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker
Donald Trump has spent the last seven months flooding our food, water, and air with all kinds of very real, very horrible pollutants, including numerous cancer-causing chemicals — the exact opposite o...
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August 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide.

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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
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March 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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🗞️🌟 Quality writing & insight from Laura Spinney, author of 'Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918’

Article: buff.ly/mBHyLid
nce, we all respectfully listened to what epidemiologists said. We queued up for vaccines, observed distancing lines and confidently asked unmasked passengers on public transport to cover their faces. A tyrannical virus ruled over us, and we did everything in our power to limit its ravages. Five years on from the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s the masked passenger who is suspect, nobody notices the scuffed distancing lines and trust in vaccines has taken a tumble. A different narrative has invaded the conversation: it wasn’t the virus that ruined our lives, but the response.
March 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky
A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM