Dylan Scott
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Senior correspondent covering health at Vox. Tips/pitches: dylan.scott@vox.com. Sign up for GOOD MEDICINE: https://www.vox.com/pages/good-medicine-newsletter-signup
Obligatory Oscar Night Top 10 of 2025 that no one else cares about: 1) One Battle After Another 2) Weapons 3) Train Dreams 4) Bring Her Back 5) Superman 6) Sinners 7) Wake Up Dead Man 8) Strange Harvest 9) The Testament of Ann Lee 10) (tie) Black Bag/Presence
I really, REALLY hate how we have turned Oscar races into moral judgments with “right” answers
We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study www.vox.com/health/47530...
We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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oh my god. More details are surfacing about the catastrophic incompetence that led to the dietary guidelines' inaccurate claims about a litany of nutrient gaps in plant-based diets
I gotta say, it was pretty rich hearing Dr. Oz claim there is no evidence for a more specific limit on drinking alcohol: www.vox.com/health/47472...
Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
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Inflammation is on everybody's minds these days. But the social media remedies miss the complex biology underneath. I tried to get a picture of what the real, evidence-based future of managing inflammation looks like. Here's what I found: www.vox.com/health/47438...
The problem with blaming everything on inflammation
What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.
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Vox@vox.com · 7mo agoWe’re launching a new newsletter! 🩺💛 Good Medicine, written by Vox senior correspondent Dylan Scott, helps you navigate your own health and better understand the system and people shaping it today. Sign up here: www.vox.com/pages/good-m...
Measles came back because, paradoxically, our public health efforts worked so well. People lost their fear of a dangerous virus. www.vox.com/health/47333...
The year measles came back
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
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The ACA tax credit catastrophe revealed that after a decade-plus of the ACA, Republicans are no closer to having a serious, coherent plan for fixing the US health system and lowering costs: www.vox.com/health/47196...
Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
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Do we want a vaccine policy based on vibes? Because that's what we're getting: www.vox.com/health/47136...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vax committee is recklessly overhauling childhood vaccine policy
America’s vaccine playbook is being rewritten by people who don’t believe in them.
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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icing my knees and feet after coaching two youth soccer games today, I have never felt closer to 40
We took on the eternal question: Is "moderate" drinking really that bad for you? www.vox.com/health/40368...
Is “moderate” drinking really that bad for you?
The confusing guidance about alcohol, simplified.
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This is an important quote from Trump's outside health care czar: “I think you can be pretty expansive about what’s considered waste, fraud, and abuse." He's referring to the ACA's Medicaid expansion match: www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m...
Republicans’ new Medicaid arguments: They’re only cutting waste, fraud, and abuse
A conservative group's study claims there's a high level of improper payments in Medicaid, amid efforts to cut spending.
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top 10 movies of 2024 for Oscar Day: 1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2. Civil War 3. Red Rooms 4. Dune: Part II 5. Nickel Boys 6. Longlegs 7. Conclave 8. Anora 9. Flow 10. Rebel Ridge HM: The Substance, The Wild Robot, Hit Man, His Three Daughters, Nosferatu
today my sick kindergartener kept asking me “what’s wrong with your gavel until I realized he meant the wrinkles when I arch my eyebrows I am deceased now and tweeting from the afterlife
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Texas health officials just confirmed the first death in the measles outbreak spreading at the TX-New Mexico border: That of an unvaccinated, school-aged child. @dylanlscott.bsky.social with the latest: www.vox.com/health/40113... @vox.com
What RFK Jr. has said about the ongoing measles outbreak
The new Health and Human Services secretary is facing one of his first public health crises. Will he blow up the typical protocol?
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(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Elvis Costello & The Attractions · Armed Forces (Remastered 2020) · Song · 2020
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every american should be required to watch juror #2 i am not even joking
