Laura Vandenberg
@elleenvy.bsky.social
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, trained as a developmental biologist and endocrinologist. Research focused on endocrine disruptors, breast health, and risk assessment.
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in science. It does matter if you don’t fund it.
Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.
#sciencematters
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in science. It does matter if you don’t fund it.
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If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst
The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.
www.umass.edu
October 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
Outdated???? Miasma theory was all the hype back in... 400 BC.
I mean, "protoplasm" is outdated. Miasma theory is magical thinking.
PLEASE CONSULT REAL SCIENTISTS @npr.org
I mean, "protoplasm" is outdated. Miasma theory is magical thinking.
PLEASE CONSULT REAL SCIENTISTS @npr.org
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Outdated???? Miasma theory was all the hype back in... 400 BC.
I mean, "protoplasm" is outdated. Miasma theory is magical thinking.
PLEASE CONSULT REAL SCIENTISTS @npr.org
I mean, "protoplasm" is outdated. Miasma theory is magical thinking.
PLEASE CONSULT REAL SCIENTISTS @npr.org
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From Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities: “NIH slashing the reimbursement of research costs will slow and limit medical breakthroughs that cure cancer and address chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.”
www.aplu.org/news-and-med...
www.aplu.org/news-and-med...
APLU Statement on Cuts to Reimbursement of NIH Facilities & Administrative Costs - APLU
Washington, DC – APLU President Mark Becker released the following statement on the National Institutes of Health’s announcement it will cut reimbursement of research facilities and administrative cos...
www.aplu.org
February 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
From Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities: “NIH slashing the reimbursement of research costs will slow and limit medical breakthroughs that cure cancer and address chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.”
www.aplu.org/news-and-med...
www.aplu.org/news-and-med...
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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