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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Sep 4

“The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” Mike Marshall, CEO of the Alcohol Policy Alliance, who was not involved, told me:

www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was fascinating to see how effectively the alcohol industry and its allies commandeered the narrative about these alcohol health studies. People were really treating the one that actually got commissioned first as if it were duplicative and suspect:

www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Sep 4

The saga of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study reveals a lot about how public health and science collide with politics and corporate interests in Washington, DC:

www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Sep 4

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

www.vox.com/health/46008...

Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.

Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · May 10

icing my knees and feet after coaching two youth soccer games today, I have never felt closer to 40

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 14

We took on the eternal question:

Is "moderate" drinking really that bad for you?

www.vox.com/health/40368...

Is “moderate” drinking really that bad for you?

The confusing guidance about alcohol, simplified.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 5

the new Vox pod on AI is gonna be so good

www.vox.com/future-perfe...

The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?

The battle over artificial intelligence is just beginning.

www.vox.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is an important quote from Trump's outside health care czar:

“I think you can be pretty expansive about what’s considered waste, fraud, and abuse."

He's referring to the ACA's Medicaid expansion match:

www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m...

Republicans’ new Medicaid arguments: They’re only cutting waste, fraud, and abuse

A conservative group's study claims there's a high level of improper payments in Medicaid, amid efforts to cut spending.

www.statnews.com

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 2

yep I saw my mom and sisters (and even me and my friends) in that dynamic

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 2

So good. My mom is one of three sisters and my grandpa died in a similar way, so it really hit home.

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Mar 2

top 10 movies of 2024 for Oscar Day:

1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2. Civil War
3. Red Rooms
4. Dune: Part II
5. Nickel Boys
6. Longlegs
7. Conclave
8. Anora
9. Flow
10. Rebel Ridge

HM: The Substance, The Wild Robot, Hit Man, His Three Daughters, Nosferatu

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Feb 26

today my sick kindergartener kept asking me “what’s wrong with your gavel until I realized he meant the wrinkles when I arch my eyebrows

I am deceased now and tweeting from the afterlife

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Feb 26

Here's another sign-up link for Vox's new newsletter, GOOD NEWS:

www.vox.com/pages/good-n...

Sign up for Good News | Vox

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · Feb 26

Hey, we're launching a new newsletter called GOOD NEWS, about, well, the good news that does not get enough attention.

Sign it up here:

www.vox.com/newsletters

Newsletters | Vox

From Today, Explained to the Vox Crossword, our newsletters bring you the best of the day right to your inbox.

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · Feb 26

Texas health officials just confirmed the first death in the measles outbreak spreading at the TX-New Mexico border: That of an unvaccinated, school-aged child.

@dylanlscott.bsky.social with the latest: www.vox.com/health/40113... @vox.com