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Daniel S. Goldberg

@profgoldberg.bsky.social

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Professor. Attorney, historian, public health ethicist. Always all ways public health. Jiujitsu🟤, Star Wars, Batman, Coffee. #LegalEpi #Stigma #PHLaw #PHEthx #Disability #HistPubHealth (all opinions mine) H/h/h. ✡️

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · Oct 22

Altho it's been out in the world, today is the official publication day for my book!!! The title indicates it's a book about concussion and American tackle football, which is true, but really this is a book about regulated industries' use of the #ManufactureOfDoubt in ways that harm public health.

Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries

A timely look at the ethical, legal, and policy issues surrounding brain injury and collision sports.American tackle football is an industry like any other. And like many industries, it sells a produc...

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 1h

for at least ten years fretting about other people's media consumption has been a liberal monocause, displacing more meaningful forms of political engagement. the project has very little to show for it.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately it’s really hard to make time in my current position for archival work. But it will be so great to finish it and write it up - the court records are actually the final component.

Thanks for your interest!!!

a man in a suit and tie is saying yeah well that makes two of us

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying yeah well that makes two of us

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h

The court records component relates to the criminal trials brought against the ringleaders of the riot. The records exist and have been analyzed by at least one historian but not to examine whether the TF outbreak surfaced at trial. We plan to scrutinize for the latter ...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h

This was the previous paper that relied on court records, which had amazing stuff I never expected

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Current project is looking at typhoid fever outbreak in Denver of 1879-80 and putting in context of anti-Chinese race riot of 1880 (chronology is close).

The Transformative Power of X-Rays in U.S. Scientific & Medical Litigation: Mechanical Objectivity in Smith v. Grant (1896).

Abstract. The paper locates the struggle to mobilize and regulate the immense social and cultural power inherent in X-rays' capacity to remotely anatomize the living body power within the discursive s...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting! I ask b/c I've done some legal history work in 19th c. contexts and am doing some more as a small part of an existing project and it's always so hit-or-miss whether any documents actually survive in a docket record ... When you find some they can be spectacular, IME.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 6h

I think they’ve overachieved taking two from the Brewers, TBH.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 6h

"Senior officials at the EPA directed a team of scientists over the summer to assess whether the government could develop methods for detecting traces of abortion pills in wastewater." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

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CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities @cobioethics.bsky.social · 6h

🎙️ Catch @mattwynia at GVSU’s DeVos Medical Ethics Colloquy on Oct. 13! He joins Dr. Erika Blacksher to explore ethics in public health—vaccines, trust & life expectancy. Free & open to all! 🔗 gvsu.edu/colloquy #PublicHealth #Bioethics #Vaccines #MedicalEthics #GVSU #HealthEquity

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11h

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 21h

Yesssss Sleepy Tuck let’s goooooo Cubsssssssss #EamusCatulli

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 22h

Yes. The only people who have difficulty understanding this are people who know nothing about the Jewish world.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

So cool! What categories of documents are most prevalent in these bundles?

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

👊👊👊

a close up of a woman 's face with the word obvi written on it .

Alt: Publizity Liz saying “obvi”

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

You should get all the things!!!

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

If one person refused, it was far easier to find someone willing to commit the act than engage in the work needed to threaten or browbeat the unwilling.

Thinking about that today, for no particular reason.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

The best evidence suggests that duress was actually relatively rare as a phenomenon. Why? The architects of the Holocaust never really had much of a need to extort or harm people to enforce complicity. Why?

Because they could pretty much always find someone willing to do the deed.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

I teach a seminar on the "Legacy of the Holocaust for Health Professionals" and one of the points that students report is most resonant is the duress defense, or the notion that people in the Third Reich felt compelled to commit atrocities b/c of what would happen if they didn't.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

i've literally encountered almost no one ever in my entire life who doesn't massively respect Johnny Cash regardless of whether they personally like his music (I love it)

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

May his memory be a blessing. 💔

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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @weparmet.bsky.social and me in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social on last Supreme Ct term & impact on health. TLDR: Major concerns about the Court's politicizing health agencies, dashing protections for marginalized groups, and eroding access to justice.

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AJPH

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

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R.J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH @rjpetteway.bsky.social · 1d

New paper 📘🔥 & call to action📢✊🏽🫶🏽🛠 in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social w/ co-conspirators in the struggle towards health justice #HPOP. On power, community, & the future of academic public health. If this resonates, reach out to the author team & pull up.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

the setting is almost as impressive as the speaker. And the host. 🙂

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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 1d

NEW-ish: Louisiana is suing FDA over its 2023 REMS change for mifepristone, which removed the in-person dispensing requirement. That change allowed mail or pharmacy dispensing of mife after significant data showed it was safe and effective. A few things to note about this new lawsuit.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

That regular thing in the United States that happens when there is a snafu with your monthly prescription that keeps you out of the hospital and allows you to work everyday.

A text message exchange: oh no hopefully it’ll get straightened out. How much is it without insurance? $890. Shit.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!!!

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Gabriela Arguedas @gabyarguedas.bsky.social · 1d

My brief essay on bioethics and global health in this anti-democratic global context. Thanks to the editors of the JME blog.
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Global Bioethics and Global Health in the Context of a New Antidemocratic Era - Journal of Medical Ethics blog

by Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez Five years ago, I wrote an editorial arguing that authoritarian and right-wing populism were a threat to global health and bioethics. Early this year, with colleagues from...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely never ever doing this again.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Picking the Kid up from a concert @ Red Rocks and it’s literally impossible to exit the parking lot. Cars are just static.

Doesn’t the City of Denver put on shows here like every night? How can they be so bad at this?

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah good point

Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Dodgers fans I know Kershaw has had a HOF career but I don’t think trotting him out there in high pressure situations is such a great idea anymore

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