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DPH member Mary Canales, PhD, RN, has just published an *excellent* piece on the need for nurses to speak to truth to power in this moment.
I know there are a ton of nurses doing exactly that, and I thank you for that, but hey we can always use more!
You can read her paper here:
I know there are a ton of nurses doing exactly that, and I thank you for that, but hey we can always use more!
You can read her paper here:
Revisiting Speaking Truth to Power: A Return to Its Roots | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health member Mary Canales, PhD, RN shares her thoughts on the attacks on public health, and why it is time for medical professionals to speak truth to power.
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
DPH member Mary Canales, PhD, RN, has just published an *excellent* piece on the need for nurses to speak to truth to power in this moment.
I know there are a ton of nurses doing exactly that, and I thank you for that, but hey we can always use more!
You can read her paper here:
I know there are a ton of nurses doing exactly that, and I thank you for that, but hey we can always use more!
You can read her paper here:
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Crank and crackpot RFK JR and his cabal of clowns are turning the CDC Website into anti-vax propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Crank and crackpot RFK JR and his cabal of clowns are turning the CDC Website into anti-vax propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
Crank and crackpot RFK JR and his cabal of clowns are turning the CDC Website into anti-vax propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Crank and crackpot RFK JR and his cabal of clowns are turning the CDC Website into anti-vax propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
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For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement.
You can read it below.
You can read it below.
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement.
You can read it below.
You can read it below.
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“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
"The reality is that federal agencies under this current administration are brandishing this 'gold standard science' as a cudgel, to make data, people, and problems disappear."
Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal “Gold Standard Science” | Health Affairs Forefront
The real gold standard for science, and academic freedom, requires upholding scientific work that investigates who and what is responsible for creating conditions in which only a select few, rather th...
www.healthaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
"The reality is that federal agencies under this current administration are brandishing this 'gold standard science' as a cudgel, to make data, people, and problems disappear."
Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal “Gold Standard Science” | Health Affairs Forefront
The real gold standard for science, and academic freedom, requires upholding scientific work that investigates who and what is responsible for creating conditions in which only a select few, rather th...
www.healthaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
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I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
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New free Coronavirus/ID and liberal politics Tidbits newsletter is up, drjudystone.com/coronavirus-... w bits abt #BirdFlu, #Marburg, #PandemicPreparedness (or lack thereof), #ACIP, political shenanigans Special thx to Mike Coston, @cohenjon.bsky.social, @madhupai.bsky.social @joffirphd.bsky.social
Coronavirus Tidbits # 371, November 16, 2025 - Dr. Judy Stone
Quick links News Diagnostics Drugs Devices Epidemiology/Infection control Tips Politics Feel good du jour Comic relief Perspective/Poem Bits of beauty Announcement...
drjudystone.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New free Coronavirus/ID and liberal politics Tidbits newsletter is up, drjudystone.com/coronavirus-... w bits abt #BirdFlu, #Marburg, #PandemicPreparedness (or lack thereof), #ACIP, political shenanigans Special thx to Mike Coston, @cohenjon.bsky.social, @madhupai.bsky.social @joffirphd.bsky.social
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Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
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CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
Other agenda items for December meeting include the childhood immunization schedule
www.medpagetoday.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
Other agenda items for December meeting include the childhood immunization schedule
www.medpagetoday.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
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Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
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Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
So, I LOVE Zohran, and sure hope he's our next Mayor.
I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
So, I LOVE Zohran, and sure hope he's our next Mayor.