Mary Ellen Cosenza
@momlovesscience.bsky.social
Scientist, mother, grandmother (Nonna).
Bishop Robert Barron Shows Us Why Dorothy Day Said Don’t Call Me a Saint mikefoxcatechist.substack.com/p/bishop-rob...
Bishop Robert Barron Shows Us Why Dorothy Day Said Don’t Call Me a Saint
Bishop Barron has produced the Dorothy Day she warned us about, turning her into a plaster saint placed safety on a pedestal while the life and the mission she lived are distorted or forgotten.
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F.D.A. Approves Drug Poised to Transform Care for Pancreatic Cancer www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/s...
F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer
In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.
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August 21, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-...
August 21, 2026
On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and t...
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Trump to Nominate Heidi Overton, a Top Domestic Policy Aide, for F.D.A. Commissioner www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/h...
Trump to Nominate Heidi Overton, a Top Domestic Policy Aide, for F.D.A. Commissioner (Gift Article)
Dr. Overton is a fierce opponent of abortion rights and a supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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Inside the C.D.C.’s Mad Scramble to Meet Kennedy’s Demands www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...
Inside the C.D.C.’s Mad Scramble to Meet Kennedy’s Demands
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President Trump seeks control of science funding www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...
President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
South Carolina House Passes New Map Aimed at Forcing Out Clyburn www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...
South Carolina House Passes New Map Aimed at Forcing Out Clyburn
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Barney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...
Barney Frank, Gay Pioneer and Liberal Stalwart in Congress, Dies at 86
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"Let me see . . . should I listen to my child's pediatrician or the former heroin addict who cuts the penises off roadkill to take home? Yeah, the dude with the racoon penis, not the dude with an MD. Boy, that was an easy decision, y'all!"
Peptides, explained: Answers to your top questions open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Peptides, explained: Answers to your top questions
Catching you up on the flood online information
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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The Pernicious Myth of Voter ID Laws: Stacey Abrams & Joyce Vance Explain open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Pernicious Myth of Voter ID Laws: Stacey Abrams & Joyce Vance Explain
A recording from Joyce Vance's live video
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It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
In a victory for RFK Jr. in his war against vaccines, a federal panel ends the decades-old recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Rebuke U.S. ‘Mass Deportation’ of Immigrants
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