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“a state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country”
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🚨BAD NEWS: EPA’s admin Lee Zeldin announced last week that the agency is not moving forward with new guidelines for wastewater treatment in meat and poultry processing.
Zeldin: EPA won’t stiffen water standards for meat industry
On a tour of the Midwest last week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that his agency will not move forward with proposed Effluent Limitation Guidelines for wastewater...
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September 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Tough on crime never means white-collar crime. It never refers to fraud or tax evasion.
May 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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1. As many people learned this morning, the National Park Service prohibits swimming and wading in the water in Rock Creek due to oil, heavy metals, pesticides, pet waste, and raw sewage in the water.
May 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Excellent, excellent science writing.
“The natural world — indeed, even just our gardens — is more diverse than the human societies within it, endlessly conceiving new models of sex, gender, family & ways to be.”

—Leah Zani

#gardens #gender #biodiversity
The Sex Lives Of Common Vegetables | NOEMA
Nature is full of species for which sex and gender are more fluid than the heterosexual gender binary that is commonly accepted in Western societies.
www.noemamag.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“But he has some good ideas.” No, no he really doesn’t have any ideas.
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Reversing one public health achievement after another and another.
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
April 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reversing one public health achievement after another.
April 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
April 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM