‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

New Survey: More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism

#Trust
#Science
#Misinformation

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Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

It does not have to be like this.

OMFG

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🗣️ @kgraneng.bsky.social explores how umbrella narratives function as sources of legitimacy in composite polities like the #EU

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State Aid and Healthcare: Between Competition and Constitutionalism The recent state aid cases of Dôvera and Casa Regina Apostolorum demonstrate how competition and healthcare remains a contentious issue, highlighting tensions between both economic and social asp...

Happy to share a new chapter on #stateaid and #healthcare! Drawing on #competition and #constitutionalism lenses to examine responses to COVID-19, and recent cases about Slovakian health insurance (Dôvera) and Italian public hospitals (Casa Regina).
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UK and US lock in pharmaceutical deal The move offers a rare moment of clarity in an increasingly fraught phase of the “special relationship.”

The government has agreed the legal text of the U.K.-U.S. pharmaceutical deal, locking in a commitment to increase the amount Britain’s National Health Service spends on new medicines in exchange for zero tariffs.

Berlin weighs ‘sin taxes’ to stabilise strained health insurance system | Euractiv Plans include new taxes and scrapping free spousal coverage to plug funding gap

Germany is considering common sense health taxes www.euractiv.com/news/berlin-...

The CDC, Once the World’s Most Important Public-Health Organization, Is Now the Church of Medical Woo-Woo Secretary Roadkill couldn’t have caused more wreckage if he’d simply carpet-bombed its campus in Atlanta.

“ Secretary Roadkill couldn’t have caused more wreckage if he’d simply carpet-bombed the CDC campus in Atlanta.”

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Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding Campaigner criticises ‘shortsighted and self-defeating’ decision and says it increases risk to the UK public The polio virus was detected in London sewage for the second time this year, days before ministers withdrew funding for global polio eradication efforts. Its detection reveals the spending cuts to be “shortsighted and self-defeating”, campaigners said. Polio is an extremely infectious viral disease, which typically affects young children under-five. It can cause paralysis by damaging nerves in the spine and base of the brain, and can be life-threatening if it affects muscles used for breathing. Continue reading...

Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding

Anger as EU gets a ‘better trade deal’ with Australia than Brexit Britain British farmers are still furious that the U.K. didn’t take a harder line in its talks with Canberra.

Anger as EU gets a ‘better trade deal’ with Australia than Brexit Britain

EU should disclose mpox vaccine contracts, advocates say | Euractiv Commission only released a redacted version amid WHO talks on global vaccine access

Via Euractiv (gated): www.euractiv.com/news/eu-shou...

Things are not okay.

The EU’s key water law is under pressure amid intensified lobbying by the mining industry. DeSmog analysis shows sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the European Commission pledged to “review and revise” the Water Framework Directive.

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The Anti-Gender Movement

Now online an excellent interview to my colleague Lynda Gilby on the weaponization of reproductive rights and health by transnational conservative and far-right movements @transnationalflows.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3PmB...

“Neutrality“ is an interesting term for an institution where the US administration choses its President and which has weighted voting rights.

Behind the chemical industry lobby blitz to undermine EU safety The European Environment Agency warns “according to some estimates, about eight percent of deaths can be attributed to hazardous chemicals. These numbers could be [an] underestimate." That’s why the E...

🇪🇺 Behind the #chemical industry #lobbying blitz to undermine #EU safety

‘it is increasingly clear that the planned — and much-needed — robust revision of EU chemicals rules is being derailed by corporate interests’

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Why rightwing inquiry into Europe’s NGOs was never about transparency

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Corporate lobbyists push for deregulation while workers pay the price

Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Hey look, yet another dangerous and blatantly un-scientific policy move from this administration!

There's an outrageous amount of evidence supporting human-driven #ClimateChange, and it's very real risks to #PublicHealth.

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Researchers warn of “de-healthification” in Palestine as infections spread in Gaza : Peoples Dispatch Health conditions in Gaza remain critical as the Israeli occupation undermines healthcare despite the so-called ceasefire and growing infection numbers.

Via People's Dispatch: peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/27/r...

UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns António Guterres says the international body could run out of money by July due to members' unpaid fees.

UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns. It comes after the UN's largest contributor, the US, refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets, and withdrew from several agencies it called a "waste of taxpayer dollars". Several other mem...

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Trump’s new aid rules risk lives, EU says Expansion of the Mexico City Policy “undermines joint efforts for human rights, global health, peace and stability,” the European Commission said.

The European Commission has warned that Donald Trump’s latest restrictions on foreign aid are dangerous and threaten global health — while saying the EU can’t fill the funding gap alone.

Latest US Restrictions On Aid 'Bully' Recipients To Accept 'Extremist Ideology' - Health Policy Watch Global health organisations have reacted with anger to the new US foreign aid policy, which prohibits all aid recipients, bar military, from performing or

🚨 Global health organisations warn the US has expanded the Global Gag Rule to all non-military foreign aid—threatening reproductive, humanitarian & LGBTQI+ health services worldwide. 🌍⚕️

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Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’

I wouldn't wish an hour-long podcast featuring Russ Douthat and Jay Bhattacharya on my worst enemy but let's simply say that Podcast Jay still appears more concerned about perceived slights for his COVID crackpottery than with protecting US biomedical science from a full-on Trump-and-RFK onslaught.

I find it *extremely* disturbing that Jay Bhattacharya—who campaigned for RFK Jr during RFK’s Presidential run—is repositioning the NIH to be the research arm of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine, anti-science MAHA movement😨

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Trump struck deals with 16 drug companies. But they're still raising prices this year All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their

The Art of the Deal.