#ScienceBasedMedicine can be read via scheduled downloads for #CalibreEBook :-)
The latest YouGov/Economist survey, conducted between January 16-19,🚨shows that 71% think the US is “out of control” under Trump, while only 18% think the country is “under control.”
The poll found that the sense of the country being🚨“OUT OF CONTROL” spanned nearly every demographic.
The damning poll comes after HC subsidies under #ACA provisions expired. Debate over prospective extensions to the support schemes, #RFKJr's #MAHA, esp re #vaccines...
#Healthcare #USPol
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scathing-poll-reveals-huge-majority-think-america-spiralling-out-of-control-under-trump/
#Elsevier finally (after 25 years) retracted the primary study concluding that #glyphosate is safe for humans. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the #Roundup herbicide, manufactured by #Monsanto.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
h/t @civodul.
https://fediscience.org/@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr/115661046263238211
Among the grounds for the retraction:
* "The article's conclusions…are solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto."
* "Employees of Monsanto may have contributed to the writing of the article without proper acknowledgment as co-authors."
* "The authors may have received [undisclosed] financial compensation from Monsanto for their work on this article."
Remember that in 2020, the #Trump #EPA "relied almost entirely on #Monsanto studies" to conclude that Roundup was safe.
https://x.com/petersuber/status/1224039859272212480
In 2016, Monsanto made a show of sharing its research on glyphosate with the public. But instead of making it #OpenAccess, it put print copies in a room in Brussels, required registration to use the room, and then closed the room after two months.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190119214350/https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber/posts/ioy1fVqaLy1
Two questions for follow up studies:
1. Why did Elsevier's 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 need 25 years to retract this piece of Monsanto advertising?
2. What harm did the article cause during the last 25 years?
Update. Watch this division within the #Trump admin. (1) The Trump #EPA still considers #glyphosate to be safe for humans. "An EPA spokesman…said the agency was aware of the article’s #retraction [and] said the EPA’s assessment of glyphosate’s risks had not relied solely on the study." (2) But the Make America Healthy Again [#MAHA] movement led by #RFKJr wants to ban glyphosate. RFKJr "once served as co-counsel in a lawsuit against #Monsanto over exposure to #Roundup."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/glyphosate-roundup-retracted-study.html
"What began in 2025 as a year of hope -- that the federal administration would take bold action on #UltraprocessedFoods -- is ending with the sobering reality that no such action will come." And the one potentially good thing that might have come from #MAHA dies a quiet death.
Alex Akselrod
boosted
Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
boosted
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/cdc-data-confirms-us-is-2-months-away-from-losing-measles-elimination-status/ not so much #maha as mwa-ha-ha...
CDC data confirms US is 2 months away from losing measles elimination status - https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/cdc-data-confirms-us-is-2-months-away-from-losing-measles-elimination-status/ not so much #maha as mwa-ha-ha...
bhaugen
boosted
'The “Make America Healthy Again” (#MAHA) agenda isn’t just unserious. It’s unsafe.' Two nurses bring the receipts:
'The “Make America Healthy Again” (#MAHA) agenda isn’t just unserious. It’s unsafe.' Two nurses bring the receipts:
Alex Akselrod
and 1 other
boosted
Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared
Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism
He encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain
He praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines
These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community.
My latest looks at the threat to our lives, as well as how we can support one another.
We must not give up hope, but we need our non disabled allies to fight with us.
Refuse to see us as expendable and help us demand better:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and
#uspol #autism #eugenics #disability #fascism #maha #rfkjr #tylenol
#vaccines #ableism
Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared
Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism
He encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain
He praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines
These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community.
My latest looks at the threat to our lives, as well as how we can support one another.
We must not give up hope, but we need our non disabled allies to fight with us.
Refuse to see us as expendable and help us demand better:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and
#uspol #autism #eugenics #disability #fascism #maha #rfkjr #tylenol
#vaccines #ableism
Tim Chambers
boosted
Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”
https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff
Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”
https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff
Tim Chambers
boosted
How Cheryl Hines went from liberal Hollywood actress to Mrs. MAHA.
From @WSJ: "She used to be Larry David’s TV wife. Now she’s a political spouse to one of the most polarizing Trump officials of them all."
Gift link: https://flip.it/6GUX2d
#CherylHines#Hollywood#LarryDavid#MAHA#RFKJr#USPolitics#Trump
How Cheryl Hines went from liberal Hollywood actress to Mrs. MAHA.
From @WSJ: "She used to be Larry David’s TV wife. Now she’s a political spouse to one of the most polarizing Trump officials of them all."
Gift link: https://flip.it/6GUX2d
#CherylHines#Hollywood#LarryDavid#MAHA#RFKJr#USPolitics#Trump
"If you’re a big food corporation, it seems like all it takes to get free advertising from Trump, the White House, and RFK Jr. is to make a superficial promise and set a long deadline to accomplish it. Doesn’t this just give major food corporations, which still heavily process their food and engineer it to have addictive properties, more of a platform and more sales?" -Emma Janssen
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-24-cane-sugar-in-coke-will-not-save-us/
Tim Chambers
boosted
Make America Measled Again...
#maha #maga #kids #death#faithbased #measles #rfkjrisnoteventheshempofthekennedeys