foxandfriends Follow "We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree": Director Jay Bhattacharya reflects on his pandemic-era censorship experiences & outlines his commitment to open scientific communication at the NIH. April 1, 2025

A Health Department official said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had met with the study's authors but that they had not wanted to change its design. Eric Lee for The New York Times By Apoorva Mandavilli April 22, 2026 The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has canceled the publication of a study that found jthat the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter, a Health Department spokesman said.

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition.

2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree"

2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

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The For-Profit Education Company Scooping Up Millions of Welfare Dollars States are tapping federal money to fund $1 million Star Academies for public schools. Some schools are underwhelmed by the results.

We should all be furious about how TANF is used to divert money from needy people to the pockets of rich people.

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you see can be trusted. There are people out there with what seem...

AI might take our jobs. It might even wipe out our existence. But, first, it might cost us our democracy. 😯

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you see can be trusted. There are people out there with what seem...

And then there are the AI...

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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year

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A $440,000 Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed In on a Consumer Protection Law

It just goes to show: there's nothing about our health care system that we can't make worse. 🙄

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you see can be trusted. There are people out there with what seem...

You might be interested in this:

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you see can be trusted. There are people out there with what seem...

You might be interested in this:

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you see can be trusted. There are people out there with what seem...

"AI swarms" aren't just showing up in drones on the battlefields; they're also increasingly appearing in your social media feeds -- and they may be just as dangerous.

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Worried About AI? Try AI Swarms If, in 2026, you are still on social media — and, admit it, most of us still are — you probably have realized that not all the content you…

If you've been worried about AI taking jobs or maybe swarms of AI attack drones, you might want to start worrying about AI swarms on social media trying to convince us how to think.

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For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

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Elon Musk says a 'universal high income' from the government is the answer to AI-fueled job losses. Elon Musk endorsed a "universal high income" in response to AI-driven job losses, and says there won't be inflation due to surging productivity.

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Give That 1337 a Job! Chances are someone in your family is a gamer. Maybe you are a gamer yourself. After all, somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of…

The F.A.A's recent drive to recruit gamers for air traffic control reminds me that we need to do a much better job of identifying talent. E.g., if a real-life Nurse Dana ("The Pitt") wanted to become a doctor, would we make her go through traditional physician training? 😒

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Now THAT is funny. 😁

Elmore Leonard might disagree -- see his 3rd rule for good writing.

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Give That 1337 a Job! Chances are someone in your family is a gamer. Maybe you are a gamer yourself. After all, somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of…

It seems that air traffic controllers like to play video games on breaks, so the FAA wants to flip that dynamic to find more controllers. Other industries should take note - but the lesson isn't just about the gaming.

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A Perfect Frenzy | Grove Atlantic From the nationally bestselling author of The Secret Token, the largely untold story of rebellion in Virginia that will forever change our understanding of the...

If you want a really eye-opening spin on the Revolution, read this. We may have revolted not so much for our liberty but to keep slavery. 😔

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Give That 1337 a Job! Chances are someone in your family is a gamer. Maybe you are a gamer yourself. After all, somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of…

The Federal Aviation Administration thinks gamers might be good air traffic controllers. It might be right. What other unconventional backgrounds are we overlooking, including in healthcare?

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What a way to run a government. 🙄

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Huh.