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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD
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Hi! Law prof in Utah (@SJQuinney). Public health, legal systems, corporate power, FDA. đŸłïžâ€đŸŒˆ He, him.

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Daniel Aaron was an American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America.

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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · Jan 16
States are justifying their bans of transgender health care on a 388-page report called the Cass Review. Supreme Court justices have invoked it.

Today, in @nejm.org, Craig Konnoth and I conclude the report is unsound because it departs from standards in medical law, policy, and practice. đŸ§”(1/12)

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 19d
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac- tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application. Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government’s choice to display biological sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585 U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted). Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de- clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex- pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, Daniel S. Goldberg

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Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 23d
"We crave simple solutions to complex problems. When data disappoint, we substitute belief. . . . Regulators see public demand and think, why stand in the way? The phrase 'worth a try' becomes federal policy."

www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway
“This is not just about one device. It’s about what happens when institutions grow comfortable living in their own ambiguity and hiding behind opacity.”
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 25d
"staffers are terrified of pushing back on Prasad, lest they face retaliation. The fear has been fueled by Prasad pushing at least seven senior leaders out of their positions, employees told STAT, and offering no public explanations...The center has lost hundreds of employees"
rachelsachs.bsky.social Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 25d
"CBER employees are concerned that the exodus of employees and the worsening morale problems will affect the functioning of the center, which ensures the safety and efficacy of vaccines and helps speed potentially lifesaving therapies to rare disease patients."
lizzylawrence.bsky.social Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 25d
EXCLUSIVE: A slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad and his staff at the FDA is threatening the future of the center that regulates the nation’s vaccines, biological products, and blood supply. Read more here:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...

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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 25d
"CBER employees are concerned that the exodus of employees and the worsening morale problems will affect the functioning of the center, which ensures the safety and efficacy of vaccines and helps speed potentially lifesaving therapies to rare disease patients."
lizzylawrence.bsky.social Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 25d
EXCLUSIVE: A slow-boiling feud between Vinay Prasad and his staff at the FDA is threatening the future of the center that regulates the nation’s vaccines, biological products, and blood supply. Read more here:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...
Under Vinay Prasad, employees at a key FDA center fear speaking out, look for the exits
Exclusive: Vinay Prasad has rattled FDA staff by expanding his power and pushing out senior leaders.
www.statnews.com

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Northeastern Law @nusl.bsky.social · 25d
Watch video: In an interview with Medical Economics, Professor David Simon @davidasimon.bsky.social explores the emerging liability questions that will shape healthcare‘s AI future. @medicaleconomics.bsky.social
www.medicaleconomics.com/view/definin...
Defining AI liability: A conversation with David A. Simon, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. | Medical Economics
How will artificial intelligence reshape the rules of medical malpractice? Northeastern University’s David Simon unpacks the legal, ethical and practical dilemmas now confronting physicians, hospitals...
www.medicaleconomics.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 27d
75% of U.S. researchers (who participated in a poll conducted by Nature) are considering leaving the country.
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 27d
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, Julia Lynch, RaĂșl Pacheco-Vega , and 1 more

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 28d
It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law.

This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!—

#PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

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Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“TASSEL”): Findings from an intrastate legal mapping study
Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, i

www.sciencedirect.com

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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law @sjquinney.bsky.social · 28d
Register for our 40th annual Fordham Debate, held Nov. 20 from 12-1:30 p.m. Earn CLE and hear @jameeljaffer.bsky.social and Professor Nadine Strossen debate merits, drawbacks + dimensions of institutional neutrality and related academic freedom issues.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Oct 26
Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...
Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history
“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.
www.nbcnews.com

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · Oct 24
NEW: I talked with the nine companies that won FDA priority review vouchers and asked them how they did it: www.statnews.com/2025/10/24/h...
How the first nine drug companies won priority review vouchers from Marty Makary’s FDA
The winners include a gene therapy for a rare form of deafness, a drug for vaping addiction, and a generic antibiotic.
www.statnews.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Oct 24
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, David R. Miller

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · Oct 22
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, James Goodwin

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Christine Kexel Chabot @kexelchabot.bsky.social · Oct 22
Rejecting the Unitary Executive is out in the Utah Law Review! TY @blakeprof.bsky.social @thisyank.bsky.social @jgienapp.bsky.social @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social
@narosenblum.bsky.social
& many others not on here

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Rejecting the Unitary Executive
Critics have dismissed originalism as an empty methodology. They claim it is incapable of resolving our most important constitutional disputes, including the debate over the unitary executive. While u...
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · Oct 21
Abstract below. @bulaw.bsky.social

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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · Oct 21
Reviewing cases like Talevski, Medina, and Moyle, a new article by Nicole Huberfeld examines the wave of challenges to the federal power to condition spending on state participation. She concludes that federal and state programs are at risk.

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Spending Programs and the New Roberts Court
<p>The Supreme Court is poised to place new limits on Congress’s spending power at the urging of states vying for regulatory dominance, particularly in health c
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Oct 20
This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!
By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. 32m

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Rachel K @xrkulik.bsky.social · Oct 19
I've been thinking about this article for *days* and still can't quite put my finger on what's bugging me about it

ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Oct 19
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · Oct 17
ICYMI: FDA announces first nine recipients of priority drug review vouchers

www.statnews.com/2025/10/16/f...
FDA announces first nine recipients of priority drug review vouchers
FDA announced the first nine recipients of priority review vouchers, which offers expedited drug review to products aligned with national health priorities.
www.statnews.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Oct 16
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran ‱ Created with Datawrapper

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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · Oct 16
New paper from Tammi Walker @uarizonalaw.bsky.social @ucdavislaw.bsky.social explores impact of the ongoing closure of the Dept of Education combined w/ courts striking down Title IX regs & ending Chevron. Who will enforce nondiscrimimation in education?

lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Oct 15
“I am concerned that the compact by its nature and by various provisions would restrict academic freedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission,” the university’s president, Christina H. Paxson, told Trump administration officials”
Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
www.nytimes.com

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · Oct 15
www.queeragenda.com/p/lgbtq-clin...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Oct 15
Preach, @jessicaclarke.bsky.social : "contrary to the claims of its proponents, formalism in equality law fails to ensure predictable results, does not meaningfully constrain judicial decisionmaking, and detracts from judicial accountability."

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Skrmetti's Shell Game
<p>In its landmark 2020 decision in <i>Bostock v. Clayton County</i>, the Supreme Court held that discrimination against transgender employees constitutes discr
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · Oct 14
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (đŸ§”)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org

Reposted by Daniel Aaron, Robert C. Richards, Clark Gray

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STAT @statnews.com · Oct 14
Protecting the nation’s public health demands data, whether it be new measles cases, a surge in ER visits, or shifting patterns in obesity. The most recent job cuts at the CDC threaten the mostly unseen foundation of that research enterprise.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com

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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · Oct 14
Exclusive: How political pressure is shaping the work of the FDA, from searching for autism treatments to heavily focusing on Covid-19 vaccine adverse events. Read for more details on how the leucovorin decision came about, in particular:
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
www.statnews.com

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Oct 14
Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function.

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ 
That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
www.statnews.com