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Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

WOAH!

A highly regarded physician-scientist recommended by NIH Director to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running. Instead, RFK Jr. favors a researcher who studies treating mental illness with diet—an approach advocated by some in MAHA. www.science.org/content/arti...

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

“Brainworm wants to know if lady brainworm?”

"Some women have health. Others, not so much. This is due to the varying fluoride levels in tap water." buff.ly/ycFDqJW

A great example of rapid, forceful pushback against unethical insanity from this administration. Not in our name! @standupforscience.net

If you know any qualified men let me know!!!

The thing I never get about this: American science is already heavily supported by the private sector, (just less so at universities). There are literally tax incentives for businesses, which leads to over-reporting. What is the actual argument, here, other than cutting govt funding?

New White House women's health initiative: A 🧵 Women's health is an important topic which, historically, has been understudied and that remains true for some aspects today. President Trump released a new Executive Order today: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/11

Some light Friday afternoon reading for you by the brilliant @irenesufs.bsky.social sciencefightclub.substack.com/p/how-will-t...

At @standupforscience.net we aren’t just talking about a better future…we are forging it.  OUT NOW from the SUFS Foundation Policy & Research Team: @irenesufs.bsky.social @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social @wondersofnature23.bsky.social www.standupforscience.foundation/how-we-got-h...

UPDATE: Turns out this study was rushed for approval because of the fiscal year ending. Congress designated the $1.6M for global health security, so instead of combating Ebola, it's being wasted on this. Denmark continues to stand by the study, despite what WHO or the Helsinki declaration says.

New email to Director Bhattacharya about the unethical hepatitis B study. 1/3

This is some spineless garbage from @apapsychiatric.bsky.social. The APA isn’t achieving neutrality with their censorship, they are aligning themselves with the Trump admin. I’ve put them on the running list of compromised institutions.

Trump and RFK jr. want to use your tax dollars to let children die from preventable diseases in Guinea-Bissau. Stand Up For Science says: NOT ON OUR WATCH!

In this moment, in the run-up to these midterm elections, it’s clear our country is poised on an even more perilous political moment. Our Virtual & Accessible GOTV Rally is where and when we join up to launch our brave sprint to win at the finish line on November 3rd. 🧵

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

The Center for Disease Control is quickly turning into the Center for Disgusting Corruption. There is absolutely no reason we should be withholding a vaccine, that has been proven to be safe and effective for decades, from children. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

My quote of the day A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mahatma Gandhi

The 1st installment of Thiel's Nashville Antichrist lecture mirrored his previous lectures. But he launched aggressive attacks on Pope Leo, AI critics, & the Effective Altruist movement (that he funded). From 2025: What's up with Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession? newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Lol. 😂

My quote of the day There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Elie Wiesel

The Trump administration blocked the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium from reapplying for funding, terminating at least 2 clinical trials for children's brain cancer treatment.

I’m not going to give any spoilers about what @standupforscience.net has cooking for this coming Wednesday (9/30) at 7 pm ET—but I will give homework! hdl.handle.net/1951/89089

Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.

It’s time to fund & support pro-science politicians ourselves if we want evidence-based decision making & truth, over blind loyalty to a party. The Science Victory Fund is exactly that. Send us some support today, and make a stand against the same old bullshit. 🧪🧬✊ buff.ly/78Cyu2F

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

Association heads are so desperate to find a “reasonable” actor in this administration (hi, AAAS) so they can legitimize a year and a half of capitulation and spineless advocacy.

I’m proud to be endorsed by Stand up for Science. An educated population is an empowered public. We must protect our scientific education, stand up to restrictions on scientific inquiry and academic freedom, and combat misinformation and anti-science attacks.

Today's installment in the NIH institute director shitshow... A new director for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). www.nih.gov/news-events/... As far as I can tell, he has three publications and has never received NIH funding. 1/2

Developing a plan that captures the best aspects of what NSF and NIH were while addressing some long-standing issues is what the effort at the @standupforscience.net policy shop is developing.

Public Confidence in Fauci Declines Since Spring, But Still Exceeds RFK Jr. - @appc.upenn.edu www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/public-confi... "...confidence in their individual healthcare providers remains high, as compared with declining confidence in the major U.S. healthcare agencies..."

According to Colin Wright someone leaked the HHS paper ahead of time and they were planning to submit the paper to an “unnamed journal” and thats why they published early. HHS should find a better liar. 🤥 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Prioritizing erectile dysfunction research over addressing infant mortality, cancer screenings, and suicide prevention tells you basically everything you need to know about this administration's health priorities.

More MAHA quackery www.notus.org/health-scien...

Someone finally wrote a bad review of my book! Its argument: The tech bros are not fascists and we need not worry about them. Its author: a fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI). FAI's ideological godfather and treasured idol: Peter Thiel. 🫠

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

If this were happening somewhere else, we would call them what they are: Internally Displaced People.

"There is no basis under federal law to get the post office involved in monitoring the security, or monitoring who is casting ballots. ...

🚨 DILLEY 2,938 signed. 62 away from 3,000. Sixty-two people. 👇 tinyurl.com/w9zj48j6

My quote of the day It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

Excited to see these traces of the history of important therapeutics. Today's is the first of 12. It is about ras and ras inhibitors. By coincidence/karma, the first ras inhibitor for pancreatic cancer was approved by the FDA yesterday. Reactions and comments welcome! @standupforscience.net