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Changing the vaccination schedule without evidence will cost lives and is unethical. Future generations will have higher rates of liver disease and liver cancer because of this opinion based change that Jr is pushing.
“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly:
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
www.aap.org/en/news-room...
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Changing the vaccination schedule without evidence will cost lives and is unethical. Future generations will have higher rates of liver disease and liver cancer because of this opinion based change that Jr is pushing.
Trailblazing work, indeed!
This trial involved a very small group of Type I diabetic patients - just 12. The trial showed 10 of the 12 no longer needed insulin with the other 2 requiring much lower insulin usage to maintain proper levels.
This trial involved a very small group of Type I diabetic patients - just 12. The trial showed 10 of the 12 no longer needed insulin with the other 2 requiring much lower insulin usage to maintain proper levels.
People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Trailblazing work, indeed!
This trial involved a very small group of Type I diabetic patients - just 12. The trial showed 10 of the 12 no longer needed insulin with the other 2 requiring much lower insulin usage to maintain proper levels.
This trial involved a very small group of Type I diabetic patients - just 12. The trial showed 10 of the 12 no longer needed insulin with the other 2 requiring much lower insulin usage to maintain proper levels.
Not making America healthy again
Trump Budget Cuts Funding for CDC
Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Not making America healthy again
His order to do placebo testing for "new" vaccines is just another attempt to eliminate vaccines. His definition of "new" would apply to annual adjustments to viral pathogens whose predominant strains change over time. They're not new vaccines, just modified to bind to the different antigens.
Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters
The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
His order to do placebo testing for "new" vaccines is just another attempt to eliminate vaccines. His definition of "new" would apply to annual adjustments to viral pathogens whose predominant strains change over time. They're not new vaccines, just modified to bind to the different antigens.
An abuse of power
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An abuse of power
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The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction.
Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.
Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.
March 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction.
Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.
Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.
It's what Trump wants. Chaos
Ouster of FDA’s Peter Marks alarms a biopharma industry that saw him as an ally
Will Peter Marks' ouster from the FDA change how pharma industry engages with the Trump administration?
www.statnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's what Trump wants. Chaos
Rubio claiming that USAID has strayed from its mission. That there haven't been enough gains for the money spent.
Loss of funding this year alone will result in 3,000,000 people dead from HIV/AIDS.
What amount of dead is worth it Mr. Rubio?
Loss of funding this year alone will result in 3,000,000 people dead from HIV/AIDS.
What amount of dead is worth it Mr. Rubio?
March 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Rubio claiming that USAID has strayed from its mission. That there haven't been enough gains for the money spent.
Loss of funding this year alone will result in 3,000,000 people dead from HIV/AIDS.
What amount of dead is worth it Mr. Rubio?
Loss of funding this year alone will result in 3,000,000 people dead from HIV/AIDS.
What amount of dead is worth it Mr. Rubio?
The ongoing assaults on every science, health, and public health agency by Trump will have huge negative impacts for generations.
The latest? Firing 10,000 HHS full-time employees
The latest? Firing 10,000 HHS full-time employees
March 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The ongoing assaults on every science, health, and public health agency by Trump will have huge negative impacts for generations.
The latest? Firing 10,000 HHS full-time employees
The latest? Firing 10,000 HHS full-time employees
It's a presidential mafia shakedown...
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number.
A quarter century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
It's a presidential mafia shakedown...
HIV is virus that has one of THE most highest rates of mutation. Eliminating HIV funding will only help this killer gain an upper hand, again.
Trump Administration Dialing Back Support for H.I.V. Research
The move follows cuts to prevention and treatment efforts worldwide with the shuttering of U.S.A.I.D.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
HIV is virus that has one of THE most highest rates of mutation. Eliminating HIV funding will only help this killer gain an upper hand, again.
RIP Jesse Colin.
The Youngbloods - Get Together (Audio)
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March 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
RIP Jesse Colin.
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Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
March 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Trump walks to Marine One to head to Mar-a-Lago to play golf on the taxpayers dime.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
This trip will cost us $3.1 million, which could be used by USAID to feed 710 starving children for a full year.
Life is complex. We humans don't like complexity, so the tendency is to oversimplify.
How is sex determined? Scientists say it's complicated : Short Wave
Biological sex is all over the news lately. Whether it's via President Trump's executive order affecting passport policy, moving trans inmates between prisons or shifting the requirements for women in...
www.npr.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Life is complex. We humans don't like complexity, so the tendency is to oversimplify.
Researchers discovered a mechanism to turn skin cells into neuronal induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).
Not as fate unlimited as ESC, but iPSCs will still be useful.
Still, neuronal iPSCs give hope for developing stem cells therapies to treat neuronal diseases, trauma, etc.
Not as fate unlimited as ESC, but iPSCs will still be useful.
Still, neuronal iPSCs give hope for developing stem cells therapies to treat neuronal diseases, trauma, etc.
Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then differentiated ...
phys.org
March 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Researchers discovered a mechanism to turn skin cells into neuronal induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).
Not as fate unlimited as ESC, but iPSCs will still be useful.
Still, neuronal iPSCs give hope for developing stem cells therapies to treat neuronal diseases, trauma, etc.
Not as fate unlimited as ESC, but iPSCs will still be useful.
Still, neuronal iPSCs give hope for developing stem cells therapies to treat neuronal diseases, trauma, etc.
This isn't about making America great again, it's about creating maximum chaos
How Trump could potentially claw back CHIPS funding
Chipmakers fear Trump may rescind CHIPS Act funding, report says.
arstechnica.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This isn't about making America great again, it's about creating maximum chaos
What an ass.
Ask yourself, what is the motivation behind espousing unscientific lies? Because it's not about making America healthy again.
Ask yourself, what is the motivation behind espousing unscientific lies? Because it's not about making America healthy again.
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What an ass.
Ask yourself, what is the motivation behind espousing unscientific lies? Because it's not about making America healthy again.
Ask yourself, what is the motivation behind espousing unscientific lies? Because it's not about making America healthy again.
Seeing posts from folks complaining about the Democrats not standing during the portion of Trump's speech, where Trump acknowledges a young cancer survivor. Calling Democrats deplorable, etc. If that's what you want to think, fine. But here's the thing...
March 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Seeing posts from folks complaining about the Democrats not standing during the portion of Trump's speech, where Trump acknowledges a young cancer survivor. Calling Democrats deplorable, etc. If that's what you want to think, fine. But here's the thing...
Utterly gobsmacked. Appeasement has been shown not to work.
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia
The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Utterly gobsmacked. Appeasement has been shown not to work.
But his supporters will believe the lie.
The Trump administration keeps reciting the statistic that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices.
That’s astoundingly low — and completely untrue.
Here’s how an online survey was taken out of context to perpetuate a myth:
That’s astoundingly low — and completely untrue.
Here’s how an online survey was taken out of context to perpetuate a myth:
The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do…
propub.li
March 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
But his supporters will believe the lie.
Great example of why leaving old trees with cavities is crucial
March 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Great example of why leaving old trees with cavities is crucial
