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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

I don’t want to dunk publicly for what was said at an academic conference. But people, there is no point analyzing the Major Questions Doctrine separate from the billionaire capture of the Supreme Court. We don’t need to take Gorsuch’s doctrinal moves seriously!!!

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

The Made-Up Questions Doctrine is a toggle switch invented by justices with billionaire patrons to advance a pro-billionaire political agenda. Anyone who ignores that and analyzes it only doctrinally is the mark. Leonard Leo and his donors were targeting you. And it worked.

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Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

And this matters for US science because scientists are also tempted to engage only on scientific issues with people like RFK and Kratzios, and that is folly. We have to discuss the junk science alongside their political agenda and the donors’ goals.

Mark Histed@markhisted.org

RFK is very clearly trying to build political support by finding any health-related issue that can mobilize people who want answers now, and are frustrated by the fundamental uncertainty that is comes with science. That’s autism, vaccines, long COVID, mental health.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Watching con law people talk about the made-up questions doctrine or Biden’s “overreach” seriously gives me bad flashes of a future where scientists discuss junk science seriously. We now know the playbook; we can’t let them run it. A lot was at stake in law and a lot is at stake in science.

Mark Histed
@markhisted.org

Case in point

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen: Bhattacharya will chat with RFK Jr’s kooky science adviser, Martin Kulldorff, the dude who got $ from suing HPV vaccine makers, about how “science is under attack”🤣 Jay, RFK & Martin killed, banned or censored science that they hate—they are the attackers!