“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Ms. Rachel: As the American Academy of Pediatrics says, there is no safe amount of time for a child to be in detention. The Dilley immigration detention center must be shut down. We need to end the cruel policies of family detention and family separation.
One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
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Sorry to everyone I know living in the DC area but I really do hope it’s the worst today
I coauthored a piece with my boss, Chris Beyrer, on the dismantling of vaccine systems—published in the journal Vaccine (the reviews were tough but fair!)—in which we discussed the phenomenon below
Our piece was cited in an amicus brief that helped challenge RFK Jr’s assault on vaccines 💪
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Mark E. Poasts
Catherine Frieman
Acyn
It’s very gratifying when a paper you publish in a peer-reviewed journal plays a role in influencing national policy
Here’s the paper
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40803141/
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)
Prof Gavin Yamey
The dismantling of the U.S. vaccine regulatory framework
We know that Pride Month can stir up feelings about family and community. Here are some of our favorite reads and resources on queerness, belonging, and community. Zero pressure to “do Pride” in any one way, just resources for whatever this month looks like for you: 🧵
I first met Neil Shubin 30 years ago when he was digging for fossils of our fishy ancestors in Pennsylvania road cuts. Now he's becoming president of the National Academy of Sciences. We talked about taking the helm of the 163-year-old organization at this fraught moment. Gift link: nyti.ms/4giD3FX
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
Yup. Same thing happened during the COVID pandemic, with right-wing academics who saw a quick path to right-wing favor by publishing right-wing conclusions. Some of them saw so much right-wing favor that they became dudes who joined the MAHA/MAGA administration to run & ruin the health system 😢
