Writing about CRISPR, synthetic bio, reprotech and neuroscience for @statnews. Ex-WIRED. Berkeley journalism alum.
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A study on alcohol's health risks that was paid for by taxpayers but never released is now out – in a scientific journal. New:
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NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm.
You may have heard of it.
RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers.
It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide.
And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick.
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New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change
“We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
It’s the Bethesda Declaration’s birthday — to mark the occasion, 73 NIHers have a report outlining ongoing concerns, which have become “more insidious and systematized, but no less harmful” as @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social put it
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I spoke to @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT about how the latest executive order further presidentializes NIH. Schedule P/C undermines the fundamental philosophy of expert-led civil servant judgment that has made US science the envy of the world for 80+ years.
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Fallout continues from the ADA's decision to forcibly expel five diabetes experts from its annual meeting in New Orleans for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal cuts to biomedical research. Liz Cooney has the latest:
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#HHS refused for weeks to confirm what was widely known: Jeffery Taubenberger had been removed as acting director of #NIAID. Today HHS confirmed that John H. Powers is now acting director.
Why this happened & why HHS refused to admit it remains undisclosed. www.statnews.com/2026/06/09/n...
"Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were escorted by police out of the convention center in New Orleans during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research."
OHRP's mission is to ensure the safety of people who donate their time, data, and bodies to biomedical research. The ethics watchdog always struggled for funding, but did what it could with its small dedicated team. Under Trump, it's become a shell. My latest:
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The Trump administration wants low-income people who have cancer, kidney failure, and other complex conditions to prove they can't work in order to keep their Medicaid coverage. www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/m...
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
In a report published on the first anniversary of the Bethesda Declaration, 71 staffers write that they feel NIH leadership “largely ignored" their concerns
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A government-commissioned study had been meant to inform new dietary guidelines, and found risks associated with even light drinking.
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With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
Thousands of HHS staff who shape policy have had their employment status changed to a designation that makes it easier for them to be fired.
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The condemnations keep coming after five diabetes experts were escorted out of an ADA meeting for handing out copies of an editorial criticizing federal research cuts.
The NIH has appointed researcher John Powers III to lead its infectious disease institute on an acting basis, after weeks of being in leadership limbo.
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Isabella Cueto
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
