Neutrality Is Dangerous in the Face of Medical Misinformation www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Neutrality Is Dangerous in the Face of Medical Misinformation www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
The latest from BRC Co-Scientific Director Dr. Kelley Lee, on what researchers and scholars can do to rebuild #PublicTrust in #GlobalHealth:
📝 www.globe.uio.no/english/rese...
What role will #mRNA technology play in the future of Canadian #HealthCare? Join us for a documentary screening and dialogue with mRNA pioneers and leading experts in #PublicHealth, medical anthropology, clinical practice and regulatory affairs. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rna-health...
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
Join @healthjournalism.org for a webinar with @drdemetre.bsky.social, @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Daniel Jernigan next Wednesday and find out what went down at the #CDC, what will happen next, and what needs to happen to preserve the integrity of public health infrastructure in the U.S.
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
'You know it's artificially induced" --families destroyed over this, it's so so terrible. "No mercury in the vaccines, no aluminum in the vaccines, the MMR should be taken separately" based on what Trump feels. Good lord we're back to Wakefield.
Some foreign regimes exploit major events to distort online content and push manipulated information. By hiding their role, their lies look real and spread fast.
See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e
#ThinkBeforeYouShare
1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*.
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Above: Text Roundtable. Global Lessons in Open Science: From Biomedical Research to Particle Physics. Mid: Two Portraits. Caption: MIchaela Mayrhofer. Ethics Expert at Medical University of Innsbruck. Alexander Kohls. Head of the CERN Scientific Information Service.
🌍 #openscience in action! Join Michaela Th. Mayrhofer @i-med.ac.at and Alexander Kohls @cern.bsky.social for a roundtable on transformative #openscience across disciplines. Learn how FAIR principles and collaborative culture are driving transparency, innovation, and global impact. #osfestival2025
Above: Text. Expert Roundtable. Openness in Dialogue: Science, Citizens, Communication. MId: Four portraits. Captions.
🕺💃 It takes three to tango: #OpenScience, #CitizenScience & #SciComm. Katharina Rieck moderates this roundtable with Daniel Dörler, Katja Mayer, and Franz Kerschbaum - exploring overlaps, differences & shared challenges between openness, participation & communication. #CitizenScience #osfestival2025
This is an understatement: “Mr. Kennedy’s defiant performance at the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, his critics say, put on vivid display what happens when someone with no medical or scientific training and a conspiracy-minded approach takes charge of the nation’s public health”
Came across a brilliant article about the problems with how health equity has often been conceptualized (that white communities don't realize that they benefit from attempts to improve health equity).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including…
Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
A text box reads: “Hepatitis D is now classified as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B and C.” Below, a note says: “It causes liver cancer and can only spread in people already infected with hepatitis B.”
#Hepatitis update you should know:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.
⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mjGQCY
New post by me on the implications for global science from America's scientific retreat and what we need to do about it.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...
this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
The important characterisation of the UK pop'n from More In Common highlights v low levels of trust in most former 'authoritative' professions.
Scientists are the exception.
Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you listen to music harder
I'm hiring! Talk Science to Me Communications is looking for a senior science editor.
Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.
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www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...
Scientists, let's share our work with the public, so they can know how our work benefits their everyday health and wealth. Share your research & story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch
Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
An important follow up to the previously reported "undiagnosed" New Brunswick neurological disease. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
📣 Federally funded scientists!
Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ⤵️
Hey #SciComm and #MedComm folks, how do you communicate uncertainty?
Uncertainty is a tricky topic. I mean, heck, when discussing uncertainty in a general sense, you're defining a word that describes how things are hard to fully define.
That's pretty meta, if you ask me!
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Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
