Gary Ruskin
@garyruskin.wsocial.eu
Executive director of U.S. Right To Know, working to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures threatening our health, food, and environment.
Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus better at infecting people usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...
Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus better at infecting people
Newly released emails show an NIH lab chief suggested engineering a furin cleavage site into a SARS-like bat virus in October 2019.
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"Gifts, payments, free meals, and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments, and drive up prescription costs, according to a systematic review of 93 studies." usrtk.org/healthwire/d...
Drug company gifts, meals, and payments to doctors lead to worse prescribing, review of 93 studies finds
Doctors who accept drug company gifts, payments and meals prescribe less appropriately and at higher cost, a new Cochrane review of 93 studies finds.
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Hormone-disrupting chemical mixtures linked to excess childhood weight Via @usrighttoknow.bsky.social @pamelawrites.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/h...
Hormone-disrupting chemical mixtures linked to excess childhood weight
A study of 1,301 European mother-child pairs found prenatal exposure to PFAS and chemical mixtures was linked to higher BMI and body fat through age 15.
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Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for ‘nefarious purposes to shift blame,’ email shows usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...
Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for 'nefarious purposes to shift blame,' email shows
New emails show virologist Ralph Baric worried that a public statement on COVID origins and his lab's work could be used for 'nefarious purposes'.
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Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger. Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/bill-gates/b...
Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.
AGRA promised to double African crop yields. Two decades and $1.5 billion later, new data shows yield growth lagged and hunger climbed 58%.
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"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI-designed viral genomes
The generation of functional viral genomes has urgent biosafety and biosecurity implications
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"This meta-analysis reports increases of 61% to 71% in the risk of developing ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] in persons ever occupationally exposed to pesticides and specifically to herbicides or to insecticides, compared with unexposed persons" oem.bmj.com/content/earl...
Occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To systematically review the evidence on the association between occupational exposure to pesticides and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods A systematic search, conduc...
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The corporate shakedown via the "princess of darkness" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Here is the ultra-processed food industry and its allies telling Congress to take away states’ rights to protect us from dangerous food additives, artificial sweeteners, preservatives and colorings. americansforingredienttransparency.com/food-ingredi... Background is here: usrtk.org/ultra-proces...
Food Ingredient Transparency Coalition and Allies Urge Action This Year on Uniform National Standard in Letter to Congressional Leaders - Americans for Ingredient Transparency
Following Chairman Cassidy’s support for a national standard, more than 260 industry leaders sound alarm to prevent patchwork of state ingredient laws from creating 12% cost increase on groceries Amer...
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AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. "The absence of mandated safeguards coincides with a rise in queries from users asking AI models how to kill en masse—and chatbots responding with credible plans for mass-casualty attacks" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.
AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.
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AI titans' biggest private fear: an AI-generated bioweapon. "They assessed a 12% chance that AI's dangerous capabilities produce a catastrophic outcome by 2030, and another 12% chance of AI-enabled weapons and mass-harm capabilities." Via @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/07/24/a...
Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
There's rare agreement among the top AI experts about the seriousness of the risk.
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"These findings suggest that prenatal GLY [glyphosate] exposure may interfere with early cognitive and social processes underlying attention, learning, and socialization in early childhood." Via Environmental Epidemiology www.ovid.com/jnls/environ...
Assessment of effect modification in associations... : Environmental Epidemiology
Background:Glyphosate (GLY)-based herbicides are widely used globally, and GLY and its degradant aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) have been...
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Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry usrtk.org/pesticides/t...
Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry
Over the past 18 months, the Trump administration has delivered a string of victories to the pesticide industry.
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"glyphosate may act upon pathways leading to preterm birth and spontaneous preterm birth. Our study highlights pregnancy as a vulnerable period to glyphosate exposure." Via Environmental Pollution sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Associations of Glyphosate Exposure in Pregnancy with Preterm Birth: a Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study
Emerging data suggests that glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide, can influence reproductive health. We investigated associations of prenatal exposur…
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Here is a heavily redacted copy of the CIA's "Updated COVID-19 Origins Assessment," which we just obtained via FOIA litigation. usrtk.org/wp-content/u...
"Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health..." usrtk.org/healthwire/b...
Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide
Tobacco companies are embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a powerful channel to undermine public health.
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