Lance Gable
@lancegable.bsky.social
Professor at Wayne State University Law School, public health lawyer and ethicist, bass player
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I have a new paper out about Illinois's Restroom Access Act (Ally's Law), which provides emergency access to private restrooms for people with qualifying health conditions, primarily inflammatory bowel diseases.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I have a new paper out about Illinois's Restroom Access Act (Ally's Law), which provides emergency access to private restrooms for people with qualifying health conditions, primarily inflammatory bowel diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Dr. Daskalakis in a resignation letter you can read below: “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive…Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Too bad he published it on a social media cesspool. xcancel.com/dr_demetre/s...
DrDemetre (@dr_demetre)
My resignation letter from CDC.
Dear Dr. Houry,
I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Dis...
xcancel.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Dr. Daskalakis in a resignation letter you can read below: “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive…Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
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Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this:
“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.
It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.
It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
August 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this:
“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.
It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
“I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”.
It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social issued its report today:
"Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Distracting the public’: group of health professionals call for RFK Jr to be removed
Ahead of the second Maha report, grassroots Defend Public Health warns that everything HHS is doing is ‘horrifying’
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social issued its report today:
"Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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We can't provide solutions to support the health of Americans without facing the root causes like poverty and lack of access to healthcare. #IHATnotMAHA #IHAT #MAHA
Defend Public Health Releases Alternative to RFK Jr.’s Fake “MAHA” Agenda | Defend Public Health
With the public release of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “MAHA Strategy” delayed and because his May 2025 “Make America Healthy Again” report fundamentally mischaracteriz...
www.defendpublichealth.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We can't provide solutions to support the health of Americans without facing the root causes like poverty and lack of access to healthcare. #IHATnotMAHA #IHAT #MAHA
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“The world is inside us, now. What are we going to do about it?” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
Opinion | You Are Contaminated
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“The world is inside us, now. What are we going to do about it?” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon
How a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health.
www.thenation.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
My latest for @thenation.com. RFK Jr. Has Been Handed a Very Dangerous Weapon: how a bigoted doctor, an extremist judge, and the Supreme Court all combined to give the secretary a powerful new way to undermine public health. @jsalomon.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun.
The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.
(1/n)
The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.
(1/n)
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change livestream has begun.
The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.
(1/n)
The Court begins by concluding that the questions put to it are legal in nature and that it has jurisdiction to provide an Advisory Opinion.
(1/n)
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I encourage everyone, especially people who are or have been sympathetic to Israel, to read this long, powerful piece by an Israeli-American historian of genocide and Nazism. An IDF company commander in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, he’s lived in the U.S. since 1989.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
July 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I encourage everyone, especially people who are or have been sympathetic to Israel, to read this long, powerful piece by an Israeli-American historian of genocide and Nazism. An IDF company commander in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, he’s lived in the U.S. since 1989.
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
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If you're new around here: The actions taken by the Trump administration against FEMA have made it impossible for FEMA to effectively respond to any large disaster.
This is what we have been warning about for the past six months. I'll drop some links if you need to catch up.
It's alot.
This is what we have been warning about for the past six months. I'll drop some links if you need to catch up.
It's alot.
July 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If you're new around here: The actions taken by the Trump administration against FEMA have made it impossible for FEMA to effectively respond to any large disaster.
This is what we have been warning about for the past six months. I'll drop some links if you need to catch up.
It's alot.
This is what we have been warning about for the past six months. I'll drop some links if you need to catch up.
It's alot.
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As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
June 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As someone who has been on the business end of nationwide injunctions that I thought were improper, I find the question of what rules we should adopt for them to be genuinely hard. But yesterday's decision deserves massive criticism, for at least two reasons. (Thread.)
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On the three year anniversary of Dobbs, it's important to remember that all of this is true:
- The opinion has caused terrible suffering.
- Abortion numbers are higher than they have been in years.
- The antiabortion movement is losing over and over again.
- Abortion is more popular than ever. /1
- The opinion has caused terrible suffering.
- Abortion numbers are higher than they have been in years.
- The antiabortion movement is losing over and over again.
- Abortion is more popular than ever. /1
June 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
On the three year anniversary of Dobbs, it's important to remember that all of this is true:
- The opinion has caused terrible suffering.
- Abortion numbers are higher than they have been in years.
- The antiabortion movement is losing over and over again.
- Abortion is more popular than ever. /1
- The opinion has caused terrible suffering.
- Abortion numbers are higher than they have been in years.
- The antiabortion movement is losing over and over again.
- Abortion is more popular than ever. /1
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts:
An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM
This article from the FDA compares broad U.S. recommendations on Covid vaccination with those from other countries and announces the adoption of an evidence-based approach to such recommendations.
www.nejm.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts:
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This could have big implications for state authority to regulate the practice of medicine and health insurance coverage decisions
That's the point!
The beautiful part with this bill is that given the way they define "automated decision system," you can bring your system in scope simply by adding some statistics or machine learning to it.
This is basically a bill to pre-empt all state-level regulation of tech.
The beautiful part with this bill is that given the way they define "automated decision system," you can bring your system in scope simply by adding some statistics or machine learning to it.
This is basically a bill to pre-empt all state-level regulation of tech.
This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term!
May 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This could have big implications for state authority to regulate the practice of medicine and health insurance coverage decisions
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This is a damned outrage. Workers will die because of this decision. (via the outstanding newsletter published by @jordanz.bsky.social ). open.substack.com/pub/progress...
RFK Jr. massacre paves way to Give Americans Black Lung Again
The final blow to the agency protecting workers from deadly disease
open.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is a damned outrage. Workers will die because of this decision. (via the outstanding newsletter published by @jordanz.bsky.social ). open.substack.com/pub/progress...
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1/ HHS halts data collection on critical public health issues amid cuts.
Cutting back on data collection is like telling police to fight crime without knowing when/where/how it’s happening.
It’s wasteful, reckless & ineffective.
www.cbsnews.com/video/hhs-ha...
Cutting back on data collection is like telling police to fight crime without knowing when/where/how it’s happening.
It’s wasteful, reckless & ineffective.
www.cbsnews.com/video/hhs-ha...
HHS halts data collection on critical public health issues amid cuts
Public health data collection has been halted in several key areas as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slashes funding across HHS agencies and departments. CBS News medical co...
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April 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
1/ HHS halts data collection on critical public health issues amid cuts.
Cutting back on data collection is like telling police to fight crime without knowing when/where/how it’s happening.
It’s wasteful, reckless & ineffective.
www.cbsnews.com/video/hhs-ha...
Cutting back on data collection is like telling police to fight crime without knowing when/where/how it’s happening.
It’s wasteful, reckless & ineffective.
www.cbsnews.com/video/hhs-ha...
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The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
April 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
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DON’T LOOK AWAY! The Trump administration is catapulting us into a data black hole and the consequences could be massive. Halting data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, more, by @alecmac.bsky.social
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
DON’T LOOK AWAY! The Trump administration is catapulting us into a data black hole and the consequences could be massive. Halting data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, more, by @alecmac.bsky.social
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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...