Christie VanHorne (she/hers)

Want to better understand the growing anti-science and anti-public health movement? These books can help! 2025 promises to be a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health. Thankfully, American physicians and scientists have published books that can h...

2025 is a tough year for the fight against disinformation, anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health!

These books that can help us understand and better deal with the ongoing infodemic 👇🏽

communities.springernature.com/posts/want-t...

If you had to read one book on global health... If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 450 books generated by this question on Twitter!

An excellent list of #globalhealth books. communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you... #publichealth

I used to use Twitter as a post-it note. I hope that is acceptable here.

How is it only Thursday?

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

All of this is avoidable

"more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same... millions of infections are possible if rates drop"

www.wired.com/story/scient...

This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...

#BookstoreDay

Loretta Ross's Calling In!