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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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April 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Gonna nerd: "This is not a moment, it's a movement." The article shows the widespread care & concern about our nation's public data. Much will be lost unless we preserve the data AND speak about its importance. This isn't an issue for academia. It is for all of us.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gonna nerd: "This is not a moment, it's a movement." The article shows the widespread care & concern about our nation's public data. Much will be lost unless we preserve the data AND speak about its importance. This isn't an issue for academia. It is for all of us.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Just a reminder that there are still flowers in dark places.
January 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just a reminder that there are still flowers in dark places.
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Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies.
January 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies.
Interesting thread
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
January 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Interesting thread
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The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:18 AM
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Their deaths were caused by the ban. Rather than admit these bans are harmful, and respond to the preventable deaths with a plan to avoid such tragedy in the future, they dismiss the entire maternal mortality review committee for leaking the information.
Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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November 24, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Their deaths were caused by the ban. Rather than admit these bans are harmful, and respond to the preventable deaths with a plan to avoid such tragedy in the future, they dismiss the entire maternal mortality review committee for leaking the information.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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