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Gélineau advanced the term "narcolepsy" in 1880 while de la Tourette described his eponymous syndrome in 1885. "Autism" was coined by Bleuler in 1911, with full diagnoses soon after. But what do I know? I'm not the Cabinet secretary in charge of the goddamn Department of Health and Human Services.
RFK JR: ADD, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, Narcolepsy, Autism.. All of these are injuries that I never heard of when I was a kid.
This is functionally… fine and may be at face value good. This isn’t a magic bullet- we won’t be suddenly healthier. This could also make some foods more expensive. We need upstream policy that ups access to more nutritious foods- not just banning ingredients that have debatably negligible effects
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slated to announce an intent to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic food dyes in a bid to ramp up pressure on an industry he has often derided.
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Vaccines have granted families in wealthy countries the luxury of forgetting what measles, polio, rubella, and other preventable diseases are like. We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4jqOqKn
APHA clearly coming out against RFK Jr finally
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...
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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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"It’s not clear now whether the CDC has the expertise required to even estimate the size of the [HIV] epidemic. “No more statisticians are there to support the national HIV incidence,” said one affected employee."
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anyone reading this with a pikachu face hasn’t been paying attention. dude ran into the loving arms of the redpilled right when similar stories started coming out years ago.
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Attacking science undermines the foundations of our nation's health. “This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business,” says Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the U. of Minnesota. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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(Axios) - Canadians' desire to visit the U.S. is absolutely tanking. @axios.com 🇨🇦 www.axios.com/2025/03/31/c...
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BREAKING The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned. Dr. Peter Marks wrote this in his resignation letter about Robert Kennedy Jr.: "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
America is about to deal with a brain drain that will impact us for generations.
“Asked whether she believes other professors might be encouraged to leave the United States, Shore wrote that she believes many of her colleagues will consider relocating due to the current political climate, which she deemed an ‘American descent into fascism.’”
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The annual State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...
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Trump terminates program tracking Ukrainian child abductions, a key component in investigations of suspected Russian war crimes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control
The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...
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