This is obvious, but if we say it over and over, maybe we'll do it. Thanks to Mike for making it explicit. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
COMMENTARY: The pandemic debate the US isn't having
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I don't agree with 100% of this, but some important points made with straight, common language. www.foodpolitics.com/2026/07/the-...
The Cyclospora outbreak: an everyone-is-at-fault system failure: "LettuceGate" - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
The current Cyclospora outbreak represents a failure of companies to follow the rules and of the government to enforce them.
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Think about this as it pertains to peptides, which have the added factor of essentially unregulated manufacturing. www.science.org/content/blog...
Clinical Failure Rates Over the Decades: Yikes
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Good advice from Aaron Carroll: do the research before changing policy--that's evidence based policy as opposed to policy based evidence in which some politician decides the policy, then dispatches the researchers to find evidence that supports the policy. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The problem with RFK Jr.’s crusade against antidepressants
Millions of Americans rely on these medications. This is the wrong way to change policy on them.
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Good summary. Agree with advice at the end! open.substack.com/pub/robertwa...
ChatGPT Health
The Waiting Room is Full of Patients – and a Few Lawyers
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Over time the taking down of the deliberative scientific effort will hurt the health of many people. Glad this came up. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendati...
"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations h...
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Turns out there is a reason for comprehensive purposeful government support for health. open.substack.com/pub/drsusanm...
Real food is vulnerable to real pathogens
Why promoting nutrition while undermining food safety is NOT a recipe for health
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This is one of many examples that point to the need for a federally funded,large effort to provide unbiased evidence about nutrition and diet. www.foodpolitics.com/2026/07/indu...
Industry-funded study of the week: plant v. animal proteins - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
A study sponsored by the National Pork Board unsurprisingly finds animal proteins to provide more essential amino acids than plant proteins.
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Some wisdom here. By the way, some spectacular golf courses in northern Michigan. open.substack.com/pub/drjessic...
Nicotine Pouches Approved, EPA Drops Plans to Test Microplastics, and Supreme Court Loosens Campaign Finance Limits
What Happened This Week?
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Lots of issues to solve in the ADHD/stimulants arena. i'll be writing about this in my substack, but this is a very well thought out description of the personal nature of the problem(s). medium.com/@jsteier_292...
Mama Bear Meets the Evidence
My maternal instinct knew something was wrong. It just didn’t know what to do.
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Another useful YLE update. This heat is crimping my golf game. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Heat illnesses, flu outbreak in the military, a new mRNA flu vaccine, and more
The Dose (June 30)
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Really good summary of hope, hype and fact in womens' health products. medium.com/@jsteier_292...
Separating Menopause Medicine From Menopause Marketing
What the evidence says about today’s most popular menopause “solutions”
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Statins and creatine-2 substances on different ends of the regulatory spectrum. Both are prey to misinformation. Hopefully, Coethia can help. Stay tuned. robcaliff272993.substack.com/p/working-to...
Working Together on Truth: The Story of Coethia, Part III
Case Studies in Weighing the Evidence
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I too would love to see a more rational and unbiased approach to GRAS. Dr Nestle makes the case, but leaves off a key issue which is a real sticking point. www.foodpolitics.com/2026/06/the-...
The latest on closing the GRAS loophole - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
MAHA-led efforts to close the GRAS loophole have foundered under pressure from food industry lobbying against additive controls.
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If you want to feel good about scientific/public health progress, and hopefully inspired to rebuild public health implementation, read this. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Can we eliminate cervical cancer?
A whole lot of hope, and some work.
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Dr Nestle was unhappy on this issue. www.foodpolitics.com/2026/06/oops...
Oops. District Court in DC says USDA's state SNAP waivers are illegal - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
US District Court says USDA violated its own laws when it approved SNAP waivers so states could ban use of EBT cards for buying sodas.
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Baffling policy for military preparedness (or how to impair it) open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Did Pete Hegseth single-handedly raise the R₀ of flu?
A summer influenza outbreak didn't break epidemiology. It actually affirmed everything we know.
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Useful summary. I hope the committee hosted in USDA is reconstituted to deal with infant formula contamination as recommened by Susan Mayne. open.substack.com/pub/drjessic...
Another Formula Botulism Outbreak, Trump Opens Protected Ocean Waters to Fishing, and RFK Jr. Claims Obesity Rates Are Down
What Happened This Week?
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This is a landmark report. i hope policy makers will pay attention and that our nation's regulatory systems, industry & academic health systems will be willing to change to enable the much needed changes. www.reaganudall.org/publications...
Enhancing Early-Stage Drug Development in the United States
Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA, independent 501(c)(3) organization created by Congress to advance the mission of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Straight talk and common sense from Scott. Worth a quick read. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Making the FDA Great Again
This JAMA Forum discusses staffing and policy changes at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the past year.
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