Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471
On April 30, the FDA closed its investigation without taking any enforcement action.
“We don’t feel bad at all,” McAfee told me. “Our sales are highest they’ve ever been, and feedback online with influencers is: If the FDA says something, do the opposite. It’s safer. They don’t trust them at all.”
Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict:
"I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
The raw milk thing is proof that you can trick conservatives into literally eating shit and liking it bsky.app/profile/prop...
Fifa faces empty seats as 180,000 World Cup tickets hit resale market ft.trib.al/7JRtmWr
What a cover
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
There really is a tweet for everything
As always my go-to recommendation if you want to get a sense of the range and seriousness of the critiques for Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything is to check @walterscheidel.bsky.social's 2022 review in Cliodynamics: escholarship.org/uc/item/9jj9...
