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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 1d

The new scientific method. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 1d

nypost.com/2025/10/09/u.... Scream? Cry? Both?

Circumcision ‘highly likely’ linked to autism, RFK Jr. says in wild new Tylenol claim

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed there may be a link between circumcision and autism — due to the use of Tylenol following the procedure.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 1d

www.tallahassee.com/videos/news/...

Florida faces 81% spike in whooping cough cases in 2025 amid vaccine rollback

Florida health officials report a sharp rise in whooping cough cases with outbreaks affecting multiple counties. The DOH is urging residents to get vaccinated.

www.tallahassee.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 2d

laist.com/news/politic... COMING SOON TO A HOSPITAL NEAR YOU? @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

At a Boyle Heights hospital, ICE agents call the shots, doctors say

Doctors say administrator directives allow immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and compromise medical care.

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Wednesday so it’s time for the Whooper of the week!

RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B

Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. is Dead Wrong Babies Won't Get Hepatitis B | Defend Public Health

RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...

www.defendpublichealth.org

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 5d

Today I saved a ladybug floundering in a swimming pool. And then I cried because I wanted to be rescuing children from being zip tied by ICE or starved in Gaza or Sudan. We are failing millions of children everywhere.

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 9d

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social Anyone old enough to remember the Hatch Act

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 9d

My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Opinion | My Equity Research Is Being Censored. I Knew This Day Was Coming.

Ending DEI in public health research and practice is harmful

www.medpagetoday.com

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 10d

Grateful to my former union (I’m retired) @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social /AFT for its work on this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students

Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment

www.theguardian.com

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 11d

👏 @donnagaffney.bsky.social & @nurseteria.bsky.social

Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills: MAHA is bad for America's health

For months we issued a warning: do not hand the nation’s health to a person who treats evidence like an inconvenience, who lets ideology replace...

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 11d

Coming soon, very soon: thehill.com/opinion/heal...

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 12d

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote something
Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health
open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health

Janet Golden

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote something
Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health
open.substack.com/pub/jackiewo...

Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health

Janet Golden

open.substack.com

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 12d

Can current or military people on bluesky tell me exactly what it is taught at the military academies and what is expected as you rise through the ranks that necessitates you getting a lecture on warrior ethos?

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 14d

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 14d

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-.... Today in irony: RFK Junior cuts 40 million in autism research

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

www.propublica.org

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 14d

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-.... Today in irony: RFK Junior cuts 40 million in autism research

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

www.propublica.org

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Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH @caitlinryus.bsky.social · 15d

RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”

Let’s prove him wrong

Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
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Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health

When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d

penncapital-star.com/health/penns... A GREAT REBUKE TO RJK, JR.

Pennsylvania’s autistic lawmakers condemn Trump-Kennedy approach to the disorder • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Two state lawmakers in the commonwealth, both Democrats, are openly autistic. They have decried the administration’s approach to addressing the developmental disorder.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 17d

Well-known risk factor for autism: paternal age. Need federal warning.
“Advanced parental age and autism risk in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis” Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2017 Jan;135(1):29-41. doi: 10.1111/acps.12666. Epub 2016 Nov 14. PMID: 27858958.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 18d

The effect of this ignorant announcement will be blaming mothers, while ignoring the data on father’s toxic exposures, age, etc. Workplace exposures, environmental risks, and randomness are now off the table in maga-world.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 21d

www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...

ACIP Presentation on COVID Vaccines “Smoke and Mirrors, Designed to Cause Fear” | Defend Public Health

Defend Public Health called today’s attempt by officials under the direction of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using this week’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting to cast doubt...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21d

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine.

The chair broke the tie by voting NO.

Prescriptions will NOT be required.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 23d

PUBLIC HEALTH: IT ISN’T JUST DATABASES THAT NEED TO BE SAVED Want government accountability? Start with the archives.
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social

Want government accountability? Start with the archives.

No nation can be democratic, transparent, or accountable without trustworthy and accessible records of its past.

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 23d

Sara Carter, former Fox News journalist, defends qualifications to serve as ‘drug czar’ www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/s... I wrote a book on fetal alcohol. Am I qualified to run the NIAAA?