Maggie Fox
@maggiefox.bsky.social
Journalist. Health, science, tech in plain English and in context. Truth is not liberal bias. Facts matter, but stories stick. maggie.34 on Signal maggiefox.com https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/maggie-fox/ onehealthtrust.org podcast host
WTF? I don't ever use AI. I used it once - to generate an image to make a point about how terrible AI is. It helped me make that point perfectly. If you use low-level AI like Claude or Chat GPT to do your work, that does not say good things about you.
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭@ajaanmark.bsky.social · 8h agoMate, I could do without a mobile phone. Didn't have one til I was 28. Then I'll go buy a typewriter. I would be just fine.
• High-potency pouches deliver massive doses of nicotine. • Nicotine raises blood pressure and increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. • Addiction is the business model. Americans deserve regulators who protect children, not tobacco’s bottom line.
FDA authorization of flavored nicotine pouches threatens to sustain youth nicotine use
DALLAS, August 4, 2026 – The American Heart Association, a relentless force changing the future of health for everyone everywhere, issued the following statement in response to the Food and Drug Admin...
newsroom.heart.org
In a new blog post, I review the first chapter of a new book on #covidorigin, Steven Quay's "The Code as Witness". The book opens with an impossible anecdote, and I also show that its claim of an early cluster at an Army hospital in Wuhan is unsupported.
Fact-checking Steven Quay’s “The Code as Witness”
Since 2020, Steven Quay, aka DrQuayTM, has been publishing documents claiming to have found damning evidence for a lab leak origin of COVID-19. He was even invited to testify before the Committee on H...
pandemonium.hypotheses.org
THIS. China had lockdowns. France had lockdowns. The US did not. It's revisionist history. Also whining.
Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3d agoAppropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.
Hmmmm...who might be right? 30 years of solid science showing that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck....or a bunch of real quacks? maggiefox.substack.com/p/about-that...
About That Lab Leak Idea
30 Years of Evidence Points Elsewhere
maggiefox.substack.com
He liked talking to the media long before it was glamorous. Long before it was fun. Long before it got him the attention of movie stars. open.substack.com/pub/maggiefo...
Why I Always Trusted Tony Fauci
Hint: He never lied to me
open.substack.com
Overnight this Omni ICE removal trip refueled in Anchorage and is now likely headed to its second refueling stop in Guam. It’ll be another 10 hours at least before it makes its first removal stop. The people onboard have been shackled for at least 14 hours so far.
this sort of thing seems like it should be part of the fauci diaries coverage
Hypoautonomic, BS@hypoautonomic.bsky.social · last wk.From Fauci's diary, September 29, 2021. TLDR: Matthew Memoli is a contrarian who doesn't make any sense. Ah, this is how you get selected by Jay Bhattacharya.
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃
Some business news: Pleased to announce today was my first day as Director, Science Policy News, at the American Institute of Physics. We're best known for FYI: Science Policy News www.aip.org/fyi the long-running weekly newsletter and news platform for science insiders. More TK.
FYI: Science Policy News from AIP
FYI is an authoritative source for science policy news and analysis trusted by policymakers and scientists nationwide.
aip.org
‘The media can cover Trump without sane-washing, without “both-sidesing,” and without normalizing him’ @sulliview.bsky.social on the shameful WHCD margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-predic...
The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner
And why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trump
margaretsullivan.substack.com
Happening Now! Still time to join AVAC's satellite session at #AIDS2026. programme.aids2026.org/Programme/Se...
How can we still be here? In 2012 @jnaleccia.bsky.social and I were writing a series on this for what was then MSNBC News, later NBC News, as Obamacare was having a rough rollout.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.Nearly a quarter of U.S. workers are staying in their current job for fear of losing health insurance, an eight-percentage-point increase from 2021, according to a new report from Gallup. Read more here: https://wapo.st/4yyGjnz
A team of scientists uploaded videos of marmots burrowing nests or scurrying across rocks on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
nyti.ms
I reported on more FDA committing meetings than I can count, back when the world was a saner place. This is abnormal. This is dangerous. This is crazy. @maggiefox.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/maggiefo...
This Week’s FDA Committee Hearing on Peptides Was Nuts
It’s important to understand how abnormal this all was
open.substack.com
What happened at the @fda.gov this week regarding #peptide regulation was not normal. It's important to call it out. maggiefox.substack.com/p/this-weeks...
This Week’s FDA Committee Hearing on Peptides Was Nuts
It’s important to understand how abnormal this all was
maggiefox.substack.com
Trump can't order changes to Smithsonian exhibits, so he's having NPS basically heckle the museum via signs outside.
Just a reminder that the report got its "facts" wrong. maggiefox.substack.com/p/a-radical-... and maggiefox.substack.com/p/whos-rewri...
A Radical, Activist Museum
Bad museum "slanders the Founding Fathers" because it doesn't portray history the way my second grade history book did
maggiefox.substack.com
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump orders the installation of "temporary exhibits or signage" on the sidewalks outside the National Museum of American History "that corrects inaccurate information presented in the Museum." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/a...
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
This is one of the dumbest & most bizarre Executive Orders we have ever read. This EO is a clear political overreach, driven by an ideological agenda to rewrite American history. Our Smithsonian institutions do not belong to the President, but to the American people & so does our nation’s history.
Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. On
whitehouse.gov
Global review of studies about #longcovid find a third - 36% - of #covid survivors develop some symptoms. Many have #autoimmune symptoms and many have continued immune response against sars-cov-2. Antibody and cytokine tests might be best bets for diagnosis.
TRAstonDrs@castltrastondrs.bsky.social · 2w ago#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #publichealth #PostCOVID19 / #Longcovid #immunedysregulation, particularly in the context of #PASC / LC), www.ovid.com/jnls/annals-... represents a complex, multi-systemic breakdown of immune homeostasis. Emerging trends in #clinicalresearch publications point away from a simple
Dr. Sally Ride passed away on this date in 2012 at the age of 61 of pancreatic cancer. She was the first American woman & the youngest American in space (STS-7 1983) She was on both the Challenger & Columbia committees investigating the crash causes.
"In terminating 283 Department of Energy grants from states where a majority voted for Harris in the 2024 election, and leaving untouched hundreds of grants that went to red states, the Trump administration wrongly punished researchers for merely living in states the White House politically opposed"
Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2w agoRemember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
You can see for yourself. It appears several members of Congress didn't bother to. #Smithsonian #history open.substack.com/pub/maggiefo...
Who's Rewriting the Past?
Fighting over museums, history and Mickey Mouse
open.substack.com
Some funny moments from this hearing, especially from @repstansbury.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/maggiefo...
Who's Rewriting the Past?
Fighting over museums, history and Mickey Mouse
open.substack.com
➡ Avoid recalled product and bagged salads and pay attention to FDA updates. This is an ongoing investigation that includes multiple outbreak clusters. 9/
