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"Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991."
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
theguardian.com
Hegseth announces annual testosterone screenings for service members
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a new effort to annually screen service members’ testosterone levels and offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), framing it as a way to k…
thehill.com
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · last mo.TRT therapy: despite noise from manosphere (and Hegseth), data COMPLEX & underwhelming. #Testosterone jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "Most men taking testosterone in US today don’t actually have low testosterone.” “Vast majority of people will get the therapy & it won’t change how they feel."
Fight more politicization of science!
OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning
OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...
events.standupforscience.net
Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health edzardernst.com/2026/07/chir...
Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health
In the US, the dismantling of public health is in full swing. That this development would sooner or later involve chiropractic had to be expected: The shady love affair between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a...
edzardernst.com
"Together, the accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, and adaptable platform with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and public health preparedness, and for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity."
Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: a mechanistic and public health perspective
mRNA vaccines represent a transformative advance in vaccinology, combining rapid development timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity with a favourable safety profile. Global deplo...
thelancet.com
Loeb's "team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by 'nonhuman intelligence,' claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft."
Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead new White House UFO council
A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a new Science Advisory Council tasked with finding the origin of unidentified objects ...
apnews.com
"O’Hara was following a patrol and playing the 'Imperial March,' as he had several times prior..."
DC reaches settlement with man who played 'Star Wars' music at troops
Sam O’Hara said he was detained last year for following a National Guard patrol and playing the "Imperial March" at them.
taskandpurpose.com
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, the 52-year-old former Georgia congresswoman who was once the movement’s biggest name in Washington. She has ripped into the president in a new video released this week, accusing his team of scrambling to 'throw out the Q-slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in.'”
Cambridge Skeptics@cambskeptics.bsky.social · 2mo agoQAnon’s truest believers have turned on President Donald Trump over a week-long White House social media blitz stuffed with the conspiracy movement’s catchphrases, reports Will Neal. www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-faithf...
Con: not Bigfoot Pro: it actually existed
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki | Sci.News
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to...
sci.news
"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."
'Scientists were dead right': Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
abcnews.com
"NSF issued a statement saying that it 'appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders' and would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment... it will redeploy equipment that already was removed from the water and convene an expert panel to determine the future of the network."
National Science Foundation reverses decision to dismantle oceans-monitoring network after outcry
The NSF issued a statement saying it would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment.
ocregister.com
I'm not sure how to interpret this. The article doesn't say that the recent big-news AI proofs are wrong. The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration." Thoughts?
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to "Believe the Hype" About AI
A declaration signed by over 150 mathematics experts from around the world warns governments not to "believe the hype" when it comes to AI.
futurism.com
The games are "backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm, 1789 Capitol, and tech billionaire Peter Thiel." "Enhanced Group, is using the games as a launch pad for their business, selling peptides and other supplements."
The Enhanced Games are Sunday. Here's what to know about the controversial event
Dozens of athletes — including former Olympians — will participate in the Las Vegas event while using performance-enhancing drugs.
npr.org
However, the theory took off and “outpaced the actual data,” Dr. Kaeberlein said. “You get high-profile people writing review articles, talking at conferences, nowadays going on podcasts stating what I would say are early stage models as if they are proven fact.”
New Research Upends the Argument for a Popular Longevity Supplement
nytimes.com
"What is Blake Whiting?" is more like it. Popular science books rewritten by AI.
Who Is Blake Whiting? - The American Scholar
The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times is someone you’ll never meet
theamericanscholar.org
“'Vaccine skepticism is bad politics,' read one polling memo by conservative polling firm Fabrizio Ward that was presented to congressional leaders and shared with Trump officials in recent months." Wrong use of the word "skepticism" but I like the claim!
Ouster of RFK Jr.’s allies tests MAHA-Trump alliance
Trump officials have increasingly swapped out RFK Jr.’s handpicked deputies for people with more traditional experience, seeking to tamp down on health agencies’ controversies ahead of the midterms.
washingtonpost.com
Novella vs. Dawkins on AI consciousness. They're both wrong! (1/2)
Richard Dawkins Discovers AI and Philosophy - NeuroLogica Blog
Richard Dawkins is a public intellectual of some renown, although not without his controversies. So it is noteworthy when he writes an article claiming that the chatbot Claude is likely conscious. I f...
theness.com
"the Defense Department on Friday released dozens of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings to provide what it called 'unprecedented transparency'"
Trump releases government UFO files, more expected
At the order of U.S. President Donald Trump, the Defense Department on Friday released dozens of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings to provide what it called "unprecedented transpa...
reuters.com
For my newsletter, I mocked Richard Dawkins for his AI consciousness argument and his decision that Claude is a woman. "Mr. Dawkins, have you seen Claude's vagina, sir?" www.burnsnotice.com/richard-dawk...
Richard Dawkins' AI is Neither Conscience Nor a Woman
The exhausting atheist and evolutionary biologist is kind of brainless It's been an ongoing joke on trans BlueSky for awhile now that AI is someday going to get full human rights before trans people ...
burnsnotice.com
“Readers should not get their hopes up that there’s going to be some document with photos, interviewing the aliens when they came down,” [Kirkpatrick] said. “Because that just doesn’t exist.”
Trump keeps us up in the air with his hints of what’s coming in a new batch of UFO files
President Donald Trump is promising to release new UFO records that he says will be “very interesting.”
washingtonpost.com
Religious group ‘reviewing all available remedies’ after clips of young people rushing its buildings in ‘raids’ go viral, reports Uwa Ede-Osifo. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Scientology ‘speed running’ trend has LA abuzz and church unhappy
Religious group ‘reviewing all available remedies’ after clips of young people rushing its buildings in ‘raids’ go viral
theguardian.com
