Ross Grayson
@eco-logical.bsky.social
Public Health practitioner, Environmental Health & Safety Director, vaccination advocate, UN Foundation Shot@Life Champion, social media pest...
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
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November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
Paper pub year ago in American Economic Review concluded in certain districts, “functional extinction of vultures — efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from environ — increased human mortality by over 4% because of large negative shock to sanitation.”
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Humans killed millions of vultures. Now people are paying the price.
The near-extinction of vultures in India has had severe consequences.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Paper pub year ago in American Economic Review concluded in certain districts, “functional extinction of vultures — efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from environ — increased human mortality by over 4% because of large negative shock to sanitation.”
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New from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
MAGA's $300 million heist
Donald Trump supports immunity for cops and prosecutors. Unless they try to hold him and his allies accountable. Then we all have to pay Donald Trump.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New from me: Trump and his allies have decided that they are the real victims of the criminal justice system.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
And while restrictive immunity laws make it difficult for actual victims to get compensation, Trump plans to just skip the courts and start issuing taxpayer-funded "reparation" checks.
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let’s bring in the lawyers www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c... via @statnews.com
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let’s bring in the lawyers www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c... via @statnews.com
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One thing I’ve learned in life and science - if it seems like there is a simple answer and no one has done it yet and you have suddenly figured it out, there is probably information you don’t know or are missing. Just saying. www.propublica.org/article/meth...
How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America’s Heartland
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One thing I’ve learned in life and science - if it seems like there is a simple answer and no one has done it yet and you have suddenly figured it out, there is probably information you don’t know or are missing. Just saying. www.propublica.org/article/meth...
Jeffries: Republicans just spent trillions of dollars to provide their billionaire donors with massive tax breaks, and in that same bill, cut Medicaid by the largest amount in the history of the country.
November 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Meanwhile, explicit calls for firing RFK Jr are likely to increase as it becomes harder for politicians to sit on sidelines as their constituents face the consequences of MAHA ideas as anti-science practice: increasing the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases in children and families.
RFK Jr. has NO business being health secretary and his conspiracy theories are going to get people killed.
This cannot continue—Republicans should join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be FIRED.
This cannot continue—Republicans should join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be FIRED.
CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on rejecting vaccines-autism link
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he pledged not to remove language stating vaccines do not cause autism from the CDC website, condemne...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Meanwhile, explicit calls for firing RFK Jr are likely to increase as it becomes harder for politicians to sit on sidelines as their constituents face the consequences of MAHA ideas as anti-science practice: increasing the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases in children and families.
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NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
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That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
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Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
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October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Over the weekend, the Director of the NIH accepted an award from a RFK Jr.-allied anti-public health dark money group founded by an accused serial sexual harasser.
Throughout the speech, he repeatedly joked that his current job is “terrible.”
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Throughout the speech, he repeatedly joked that his current job is “terrible.”
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NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Dark Money Group Founded By Accused Sexual Harasser
Jay Bhattacharya reunited with his old ally Jeffrey Tucker weeks after the political operative was revealed to have faced a sexual harassment scandal.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Over the weekend, the Director of the NIH accepted an award from a RFK Jr.-allied anti-public health dark money group founded by an accused serial sexual harasser.
Throughout the speech, he repeatedly joked that his current job is “terrible.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-direct...
Throughout the speech, he repeatedly joked that his current job is “terrible.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-direct...
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Good NPR story on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.
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50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good NPR story on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior.
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If you are listening to MAHA when thinking about public health "reform" then really listen to what they want:
"I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the president of the MAHA Institute.
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"I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the president of the MAHA Institute.
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Emboldened, Kennedy Allies Embrace a Label They Once Rejected: ‘Anti-Vax’
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November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If you are listening to MAHA when thinking about public health "reform" then really listen to what they want:
"I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the president of the MAHA Institute.
🎁
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"I’ve come to this anti-vax conference with a message that we need to be more boldly anti-vax,” said Mark Gorton, the president of the MAHA Institute.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
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The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/h...
F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause
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November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
F.D.A. Will Remove Black Box Warnings From Hormone Treatments for Menopause www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/h...
Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over U.S.; doctors urge vaccination
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Wave of RSV, particularly dangerous for babies, washing over U.S.; doctors urge vaccination
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Idaho law runs against a public health hallmark: one's participation in society depends on their willingness to obey rules.
E.g., In SC, >150 unvaxxed kids quarantined amidst a measles outbreak; 5 began to show symptoms, but quarantine prevented spread
That precaution would now be illegal in ID.🛟
E.g., In SC, >150 unvaxxed kids quarantined amidst a measles outbreak; 5 began to show symptoms, but quarantine prevented spread
That precaution would now be illegal in ID.🛟
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Idaho law runs against a public health hallmark: one's participation in society depends on their willingness to obey rules.
E.g., In SC, >150 unvaxxed kids quarantined amidst a measles outbreak; 5 began to show symptoms, but quarantine prevented spread
That precaution would now be illegal in ID.🛟
E.g., In SC, >150 unvaxxed kids quarantined amidst a measles outbreak; 5 began to show symptoms, but quarantine prevented spread
That precaution would now be illegal in ID.🛟
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October 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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SCOOP via @lawfaremedia.org:
Government watchdog group American Oversight presses Trump administration officials to preserve and recover records related to a top federal prosecutor’s use of an encrypted messaging application.
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Government watchdog group American Oversight presses Trump administration officials to preserve and recover records related to a top federal prosecutor’s use of an encrypted messaging application.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
SCOOP via @lawfaremedia.org:
Government watchdog group American Oversight presses Trump administration officials to preserve and recover records related to a top federal prosecutor’s use of an encrypted messaging application.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/watc...
Government watchdog group American Oversight presses Trump administration officials to preserve and recover records related to a top federal prosecutor’s use of an encrypted messaging application.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/watc...
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Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
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In praise of e-bikes, which could save our cities
Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
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October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Everyone is crapping on e-bikes these days, but Micah Toll of Electrek says "they’re the best thing for urban life since flush toilets." I agree.
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Explore what makes polio so dangerous, what is causing the 21st century resurgence of cases, and how we can eradicate the disease.
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The real reason polio is so dangerous
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October 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Explore what makes polio so dangerous, what is causing the 21st century resurgence of cases, and how we can eradicate the disease.
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> 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – been introduced in statehouses this year, part of organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law
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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
> 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – been introduced in statehouses this year, part of organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law
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Yup! Gøtzsche has been anti-vax for years now—awful man!
Started out making ridiculous claims about the HPV Vaccine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Started out making ridiculous claims about the HPV Vaccine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yup! Gøtzsche has been anti-vax for years now—awful man!
Started out making ridiculous claims about the HPV Vaccine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Started out making ridiculous claims about the HPV Vaccine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...