Epidemiologist, Professor GW School of Public Health; Longest serving OSHA head (2009-17); former Asst Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, & Health; Author: Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception. http://drdavidmichaels.com
David Michaels
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It was depressing seeing the AMA aid & abet MAHA/MAGA; its outgoing president felt being "restrained" & "aligning" with Trump was the way forward!
For @bmj.com, I coauthored an editorial arguing powerful MDs should resist RFK Jr & Trump's destruction of public health: www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
Trump's apparatchiks proclaim "gold standard science" as they destroy public health and environmental protections without pretending to even look at the science.
Just published: my @bmj.com editorial with @scilight.bsky.social's Jacob Carter & @progressivereform.bsky.social's Wendy Wagner.
www.bmj.com
David Michaels
Prof Gavin Yamey
The Companies That Made Marlboro Made Your Food
A special issue of the American Journal of Public Health traces ultra-processed foods to tobacco engineering, links them to dementia, and finds 80% of Americans want action.
Read & subscribe (for free!) www.celinegounder.com/p/marlboro-m...
Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup
The 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.
www.celinegounder.com/p/grant-wahl...
There WILL be a world post-Trump, post-Bhattacharya, post-RFK Jr, post-Vought
We WILL rebuild the public health, vaccination, & scientific research systems that they gleefully dismantled, guided by the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 blueprint
It WILL NOT be quick & easy (their damage is huge)
A special issue of the American Journal of Public Health traces ultra-processed foods to tobacco engineering, links them to dementia, and finds 80% of Americans want action.
Showing no interest in stopping the silicosis epidemic, yesterday the House Judiciary Cmte voted to block lawsuits against manufacturers of a product that has sickened 100s of workers.
This bill's passage will undoubtedly result in more workers disabled by deadly dust.
@faridajhabvala.bsky.social
The 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.
Since issuing a "gold standard science" exec order, the administration has "invoked that phrase not as a neutral standard for scientific rigour but as a rationale for political control over scientific judgment" - Jacob Carter, @drdavidmichaels.bsky.social & Wendy Wagner
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
OSHA Penalty Increases are tied to inflation. But the White House has canceled the 2026 increases. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
Amazon requires its contract drivers be “neat and clean", including “prevention of unpleasant breath or body odor, modest perfume/cologne, & clean teeth, face/ears, fingernails & hair.” It says each driver "represents Amazon to our customers," records show www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I'm not rejoining the AMA yet, but I am closely watching to see what kind of work they do under the new leadership
