LGBTQ Agenda: Public health advocates launch midterm initiative An organization of public health advocates has released a 10-point platform for politicians to consider endorsing ahead of the congressional midterm elections.

Our Peoples Health Platform!

Whopper of the Week: Food Dyes: RFK Jr. Talks Big, Does Little | Defend Public Health In April 2025, Kennedy promised to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply in order to restore “gold-standard science” and “earn back the public’s trust.” Since then...

It’s Whooper Wednesday! This time we take on RFK Jr.’s broken promises on removing food dyes in the face of industry pressure.

Should my new band name be Brent Crude and the Vultures or Daily Insider Trades?

Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr’s Peptide Vibes Influence FDA Policies | Defend Public Health RFK Jr is hyping peptides and promising changes to FDA rules that would make some unapproved peptides legally available from compounding pharmacies, despite concerns about their safety. His claims tha...

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We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.

Art of the deal, baby.

Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s War on Public Health Is Framed as “Restoring Trust” | Defend Public Health For National Public Health Week, we look at Secretary Kennedy’s claims to be “restoring trust” in public health. Unfortunately, he is doing the opposite and weakening America’s scientific, medical, an...

It’s Whopper Wednesday!
For Public Health Week, we take aim at claims that RFK Jr. and his flying monkeys are “restoring trust” in public health.

ENSURING FOOD SAFETY: Don’t Rely on the FDA Emily K. Abel

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For decades I used to teach Dr. Strangelove as Cold War commentary. Now it seems like an accurate forecast. Hegseth as Buck Turgidson? #Amendment25

Antisocial personality disorder - Symptoms and causes

Thought for the day: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

Iranians Condemn Strike on a Top University

Iranians Condemn Strike on a Top University www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Just spitballing here, but is it possible he was teleported to an IHOP🤣

Trans rights are human rights.

Another war crime of possible special interest to health scholars and practitioners:

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

CO-OPTING “MEDICALIZATION” Emily K. Abel

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GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war New efforts to rein in health programs open the GOP up to attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s Search for Hidden Vaccine Injuries Fails Again | Defend Public Health Since taking office, RFK Jr. has promoted a half dozen projects that were meant to “find the root sources” of chronic disease in health databases. So far the studies have come up empty. The latest fai...

This weeks Whopper is about how RFK Jr tries to circumvent normal processes of scientific deliberation and go straight to the public with his half-baked reports.

My father at age 18 landed on Iwo Jima on day 3 and crawled over thousands of dead bodies. Lindsay Graham is a cowardly and callous …fill in the rest

Want to qualify for Medicare & Social Security? Speed up your aging by going to an airport after the ICE folks get there

Whopper of the Week: In a Deadly Flu Season, RFK Jr. Discourages Vaccination | Defend Public Health RFK Jr said in January that it may be a "better thing" if fewer children are vaccinated against influenza. In fact, multiple studies have shown that influenza vaccination protects children against sev...

Whopper of the Week: In a Deadly Flu Season, RFK Jr. Discourages Vaccination

Trump pulled mine-sweepers from the Middle East and they’re sitting in Philadelphia as the Iran War rages The Navy went through with plans to pull the ships from service despite ongoing tensions with Iran

I guess it is now safer to go rowing on the Delaware River: www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Is bombing places for fun in the US Defense Department Warfare Handbook? If so, what page?

Whopper of the Week: No, RFK Jr, Guidance About Menopausal Hormone Therapy Isn’t a “War on Women” | Defend Public Health Kennedy said he was ending the “war on women” by removing box warnings about the risks associated with menopausal hormone therapy. He wildly exaggerates MHT benefits and stokes conspiracy theories by ...

It’s Wednesday which means it’s time for the Whooper of the Week! “No, RFK Jr, Guidance About Menopausal Hormone Therapy Isn’t a “War on Women”

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social A great collection of articles on the history of measles and vaccination mailchi.mp/historynewsn...

Designing Public Health: How the U.S. Public Health Service Shaped a New Building Type By Bryan Stringer ~ In the 1940s, as federal public health ambitions expanded in the wake of the New Deal, the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) turned its attention to a seemingly ordina…

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social A history of our community public health buildings and the architecture of public health. circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2026/03/05/d...

Raise your hand if you remember “we won’t get bogged down” in the Vietnam War, Afghan War, Iraq War. Or will this be a bomb and depart effort so beloved by Commander in Chief? Either scenario brings death, cover ups, and lies.

Whoever made this, it’s BRILLIANT.

Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Outcry grows over ‘clown car’ cabinet but no sign Trump ready for shakeup Antics of RFK Jr, Kristi Noem and others prompt derision – could their erratic behaviour prove president’s undoing?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026.... This is an insult to clown cars. Do better.

Netanyahu: “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war”
Trump: “Bombs away; I’m off to a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago and the Epstein files exonerate me”
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