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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
@rmcarpiano.medsky.social

Professor, University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Faculty Director, Science to Policy (S2P). Public health scientist & sociologist keen on population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news, often for troubling topics. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 .. more

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Welcome new followers! About me beyond my profile: I post on a range of public health, sociological, & policy topics in my expertise areas (e.g., vaccinations, misinformation, health disparities) & other stuff I find important, intriguing, or fun/funny. Journalists: happy to chat (part of my job).

Ozempic Alzheimer's study trial failed.

Dashes hopes for Novo Nordisk "that Alzheimer's could open a major new market for GLP-1 medicines such as semaglutide, as it faces rising competition to its blockbuster drugs in its core treatment areas of obesity and diabetes."

🛟🧪 Medsky sociology 😷
www.reuters.com

Sad to hear. Was hoping to check it out in hope it would be closer in quality to the original book, which I remember as being really good (and eerily prescient of reality tv), than the Arnold version.

Oh, that's awful. Yeah, the ads for injury attorneys in my neck of the woods are nonstop and annoying, but bring a non-service dog/animal any place they aren't supposed to be and they cause injury? Tort away!

My recent incidents seem to be ppl treating their dogs like children. That's never good.

Sadly, I now await the already-launched Trump admin attacks on the Nat'l Academies to amp up. Setting the record straight means RFK Jr.'s bunk claims get elevated/legitimated. No choice--public responsibility to correct the record--but I expect to see RFK Jr./HHS respond w/ smearing & other tactics.
NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org

100%. Annoys me as an adult, but I'm more concerned about kids. Dogs can be unpredictable--especially in unusual settings. Legit service animals a totally different thing.

Any other rock fan/guitar player getting Rick Beato fatigue from all his stuff in my YT feed. He's knowledgeable, interviews ask real deal musician's q's--but I guess a good example of how you can get overexposed on YouTube just like tv/film/music.

TIL no paperwork req'd. Googled this and went down a rabbit hole in interest. Lots in terms of why/how policies were/weren't made (access, cost, privacy, certification); animals posing risk to others & thus liability, but classified as med. device so no ID bc med. privacy. Yet ID req'd for parking.
This is concerning.

NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).

1/2

Yeah. I get it. And what staff wants to endure the grief if these idiots get huffy when called out? No vests on these fidos (though I know not req'd) & one was a miniature breed, but even the most gambling-averse wld easily take the odds that it wasn't even an emotional support dog to this person.

SMH. Like dogs as much as anyone, but my gestalt is many of these [expetive deleted] are attn addicts per their faces when ppl fawn over their dogs. Pathetic. In check-out: guy blocking my way as he takes a pic of this other guy's avg-looking dog. Wanted to say, "Dude--you've never seen a dog bf?"

Is there some protest effort afoot to bring non-service dogs into coffee shops & grocery stores as if no big deal?

Seen 3 cases in 24 hrs. (2 w/in 5 mins.). Mgr when I asked if it's legal: "No, but they do it anyway." Sec. guard was next to him. Worse when lines hold up as customers/staff fawn.
NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
appears to be an isolated case from a backyard flock exposure. risk to the public is low.

i know CDC can’t be trusted anymore, but “low” is the right assessment here. as usual, the state is leading the investigation and remains a reliable source of information

I agree. I can think of quite a few. Among the acts on the top of my list are his former band and Metallica.

Hat tip to David Coverdale as he calls it a career.

His US debut as Deep Purple's new singer to >400k at 1974's Cal Jam is a prime example I think of when I hear the Rush lyric "Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal" & imagine the experience. See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4fD...
Whitesnake’s David Coverdale Waves a Poignant, Emotional Goodbye in Band’s Final Video For String-Laden Remix of ‘Forevermore’
Whitesnake's David Coverdale waves a poignant goodbye to music in band's final video for a string-laden remix of their 2011 song 'Forevermore'; watch.
www.billboard.com
“They’re massaging the data, and the outcome is going to be, ‘We will show you that vaccines do cause autism.'”

On the CDC officially going anti-vax, by @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
What To Know About the CDC’s Baseless New Guidance on Autism - KFF Health News
A reshaped CDC website suggesting that vaccines cause autism has appalled the medical community.
kffhealthnews.org

In the middle of this are intriguing claims abt what how vax messages poll. I want to believe what EyesOver's CEO claims here, but unclear what data its based on (no link/can't find it online)? Really dislike when private firms make claims not linked to easy-to-obtain source/cited by journalists. 🛟
Axios Future of Health Care - Talking numbers
www.axios.com

Or you tell the story so often, you start to believe it is true? 🤷 Can't help but also think of Charles Van Doren's quiz show scandal role.

And the list gets longer...
Swalwell: I am running to be California’s next governor.

Flamin' Hot BS it seems.

The "inventor's" book & biopic movie were sold after bidding wars...

"There’s just one problem: Montañez didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, according to interviews w/ more than a dozen fmr Frito-Lay employees, the archival record & Frito-Lay itself."
The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
Richard Montañez has for years told a story of how he dreamed up Flamin’ Hot Cheetos while working as a Frito-Lay janitor. The archival record, former employees and Frito-Lay itself say otherwise.
www.latimes.com

"Latino support of Proposition 50 'is a rebuke & a repudiation of Trump & the Republicans, not an affirmation of the Democrats who they rebuked and repudiated just last year in the same historic fashion.'

As a result, 'there’s no q the Inland Empire will become more of a battleground region'"
"Latinos...a slight majority of (IE) residents... a voting bloc that swung toward Trump last yr, but looks to have backed Prop. 50 in CA..."

“What we’re seeing here is... a de-alignment, which is Latinos are becoming less & less partisan-anchored every election cycle” -Mike Madrid
Donald Trump won the Inland Empire. So why did it back Prop. 50?
The president opposed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure, which passed in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
www.pressenterprise.com

"Latinos...a slight majority of (IE) residents... a voting bloc that swung toward Trump last yr, but looks to have backed Prop. 50 in CA..."

“What we’re seeing here is... a de-alignment, which is Latinos are becoming less & less partisan-anchored every election cycle” -Mike Madrid
Donald Trump won the Inland Empire. So why did it back Prop. 50?
The president opposed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure, which passed in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
www.pressenterprise.com
Swalwell: I am running to be California’s next governor.

Mike Johnson earned a JD (1998) from LSU. I seriously doubt he never encountered the Eichmann/Nuremberg defense of following superior orders.
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death


Imagine if Hannah Arendt was still alive--and had a Bluesky account...
Trump says Democratic lawmakers' video is 'seditious behavior, punishable by death'
The Democratic lawmakers said that members of the military can and must refuse illegal orders by their superiors.
www.npr.org
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.

Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
“The bigger issue is that we will never be able to do a study that shows that vaccines do not cause autism, because you cannot do that kind of study...You cannot show that something does not cause something else.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...
Opinion | Our Depressing Vaccine Future Laid Bare on the C.D.C. Website
www.nytimes.com
"Public health guidance must be built on accumulating evidence, not on the philosophical impossibility of ever proving a negative."
scilight.substack.com/p/cdc-wont-s...
CDC Won’t Say "Vaccines Don't Cause Autism" Anymore
This is their “gold standard” now.
scilight.substack.com
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
Trump is absolutely cratering on economy in new Marquette poll:

Overall econ approval: 36-64
On tariffs: 37-63
On inflation/cost of living: 28-72 (!!!)

"We’re looking at a really grim downward spiral for Trump," says @timothynoah.bsky.social. All on the pod:

newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Anger over Prices Goes Nuclear as Fresh Polls Show Him Tanking
As Trump’s inflation rants grow more unhinged amid brutal new polls for him, an economics writer explains why Trump is ill-suited for the crisis that might be coming—and why the bottom might be about ...
newrepublic.com