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As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.
The Many Ways Kennedy Is Already Undermining Vaccines
The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.
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April 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agencies he leads have taken far-reaching steps to undermine confidence in vaccine efficacy and safety.
Reposted by Al Petrosky
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize
Percival Everett has won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for James, his acclaimed reimagining of…
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November 21, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn
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Sweating RFK Jr. Performs Self-Surgery To Extract Big Mac From Stomach
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November 18, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Sweating RFK Jr. Performs Self-Surgery To Extract Big Mac From Stomach
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Racist assholes have stopped me on the street, all my life, to tell me to “go back where I came from.” Every Asian I know has experienced this. Now racists will feel even more empowered to go after ANY Asian, with the government’s blessing.
Be careful out there, folks.
Be careful out there, folks.
“Undocumented immigrants from China who are deemed to be of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration, sources close to the campaign previously told NBC News, citing the potential risk to national security.”
As sources say Trump could deport undocumented Chinese first, Asian American groups rush to prep
Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Racist assholes have stopped me on the street, all my life, to tell me to “go back where I came from.” Every Asian I know has experienced this. Now racists will feel even more empowered to go after ANY Asian, with the government’s blessing.
Be careful out there, folks.
Be careful out there, folks.
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An emerging autism treatment that uses magnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of the brain has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
It is the latest hopeful but unproven treatment parents of increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism have turned to for help.
It is the latest hopeful but unproven treatment parents of increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism have turned to for help.
Does this emerging autism treatment work? One family took the risk to find out
MeRT therapy has emerged as an alluring new treatment intended to help people with autism. There's one clinic in the Bay Area offering it. Does it work?
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November 19, 2024 at 5:23 PM
An emerging autism treatment that uses magnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of the brain has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
It is the latest hopeful but unproven treatment parents of increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism have turned to for help.
It is the latest hopeful but unproven treatment parents of increasing numbers of children diagnosed with autism have turned to for help.