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Hannah Harris Green

@greennoise.bsky.social

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Investigative health journalist for @theguardian.com and more. MS Epidemiology student at Northwestern University. ex-marketplace, ex-spotify. chicago now 🌭 missing LA 🍵 #ADHD

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 28d

Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rinse and repeat: US vaccine hearing on unpublished study debates same myths

Research comparing chronic illness in vaccinated and non-vaccinated kids had never been peer-reviewed, nor is any of its data available

www.theguardian.com

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Rebecca Kling @rebeccakling.bsky.social · 7h

Literally had this conversation ("when do we leave?") with my girlfriend last night. Or should I say "continued to have this conversation," since we've been talking on and off about it since November 2024?

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 8h

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KarenK @karensk.bsky.social · 2d

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Toronto ER costs, visits by frequent patients reduced with new housing model | CBC News

The Dunn House, a long-term housing project with easy access to healthcare, is helping 48 of Toronto's most-frequent visitors to the ER. The program has greatly reduced the number of hospital visits a...

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 5d

“Once you actually start reading the studies, more of the statements in the press release start to fall apart, the experts said.”

Great reporting by @greennoise.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 6d

According to Dr. Jeffrey Singer, it's likely that this announcement.. and the overemphasis on a few inconclusive studies.. came from RFK Jr.'s self-inflected pressure to announce the "cause of autism" by September.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 6d

If you look at the White House press release with studies they use to back up the Tylenol/Autism claim, you don’t have to he a scientist to see the spin. For example, they link the same studies multiple times as though they were different studies to make it seem like they have more evidence.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 6d

Experts in reviewing medical research weigh in on how to fact check the Trump administration's scientific claims—specifically those about Tylenol and autism, although this advice can be applied widely! Thx @jakescottmd.bsky.social & Jeffrey Singer of @cato.org

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How the White House spun ‘weak’ and ‘inconclusive’ studies to tie Tylenol to autism

Experts say White House presented ‘association as causation’ and based conclusions on ‘poor quality studies’

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 12d

But in the case of fentanyl addiction, a failed treatment can mean a fatal overdose, Fishman added.. “That’s hardly an appropriate criteria.”

Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 12d

Even for those teens who do receive OUD treatment, few get the most effective treatments—medication assisted therapies like methadone, buprenorphine and Suboxone.. Addiction psychiatrist Marc Fishman says many doctors will wait until other treatments have failed to prescribe MATs to teens.

Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 12d

10 yrs ago, most illicit fentanyl users were adults with a history if opioid use, said Manuel Cano, lead author of the study showing fewer than < 1/3 of teens w OUD are in treatment. Teens experimenting are now more likely to encounter fentanyl as pressed pills..they can buy them on snapchat.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 12d

For US teens with opioid use disorder, finding treatment can be can be close to impossible.

Meanwhile, opioid overdose deaths among adolescents nearly tripled between 2018 and 2023, while among adults they went up by 65% .

My latest.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Teen opioid addictions often untreated as youth overdose deaths rapidly rise in US – study

Drug overdoses are now a leading causes of death among US teens as fentanyl possibly drives surge, researchers warn

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 13d

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 14d

Others saw it as a way of continuing to encourage his followers to accept his word rather than that of anyone else. Hitler Mussolini and Franco each systematically sowed distrust in the scientific consensus of their day to instead forward politically motivated theories of racial purity and eugenics.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 14d

Others thought it was part of Project 2025’s larger agenda of exerting more control over women’s bodies, which also includes classification of common contraceptives as “abortifacients”, meaning they end rather than prevent pregnancies, directly contradicting the science of how these methods work.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 14d

Autistic readers and their loved ones found the whole conversation distressing, as it frames neurodivergence as some kind of terrible plague. “All this railing against autism and all these conspiracy theories.. At what point does it sound like a call to eugenics?” said one autistic reader.

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Pregnant readers who responded pointed out that their options for pain relief through the discomfort of their condition are already extremely limited. It's "blithely ignorant of pregnancy healthcare options. Why am I not surprised by that from Trump?” wrote one reader.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 14d

Many readers suspect it's a ploy to distract voters from issues that Trump wants removed from the discourse.

“Tylenol can ease the pain of Epstein?” wondered one reader.

"Trump is like a criminal fleeing the scene, pulling down the furniture to create obstacles for his pursuers.” wrote another.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 14d

On Tuesday, @theguardian.com posted a call for readers to share their reactions to Trump's announcement re: Tylenol, pregnancy and autism. Within hours, 100s of you had responded, and you were not happy. My latest.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s Tylenol announcement incurs furious backlash: ‘This is yet more utter rubbish’

Medical professionals, pregnant people and those caring for people with autism note guidance’s disconnect from reality

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

Tuesday’s congressional hearing on vaccine safety included a moment when audience members applauded the idea that vaccines are a crime against humanity comparable to the Holocaust.

Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 28d

Rinse and repeat: US vaccine hearing on unpublished study debates same myths

Research comparing chronic illness in vaccinated and non-vaccinated kids had never been peer-reviewed, nor is any of its data available

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

Other highlights include Siri saying he is glad he isn’t a doctor because he doesn’t have to “rely on titles”’and Scott being speechless when Johnson asked if he believed when Fauci said the covid vaccine would stay in the arm. (Fauci never said this.)

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

During the hearing, Ron Johnson played a trailer for a documentary about the unpublished study by the anti-vax group Informed Consent Action Network. The trailer implied vaccines caused autism… even though everyone at the hearing agreed even the unpublished study found no link.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

The spokesperson also shared many reason the study was never published, including the fact 75% of unvaccinated children were only observed until age 3, too early for most of the conditions studied to be diagnosed.

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

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Hannah Harris Green @greennoise.bsky.social · 27d

Recent update from a @henryfordhealth.bsky.social spokesperson: “Henry Ford Health was unaware this long-rejected and unvalidated draft was being talked about or had somehow been shared, and we were not given the opportunity by Congress to weigh in or testify.”

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