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Tag: misinformation
Out of touch Republican in Tennessee blames outsiders with nose rings for unpopularity of Trump & Musk policies.
I don’t live in Tennessee, but I live smack dab in Appalachia and I’ve had my nose pierced for 35 years.
People who oppose public safety & human health are never right.
This is an example of Kaiser Family Foundation and MedPage Today conforming to manufacture consent, by introducing the topic this way in a PR piece that is of course outrageous clickbait material.
Health disinformation & pseudoscience promotion will likely get much worse.
It’s really unlikely that there will be any policy reforms in the US to combat medical misinformation any time soon.
Cryptocurrency has no deposit insurance.
FDIC insurance does not cover cryptocurrency. Pass it on.
Alternative crisis pregnancy centers can ignore HIPAA.
They can ask you for all sorts of private do what they want with people’s private health info.
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
Don’t fall for propaganda shaming people into inaction.
There are always people who will mock civic engagement, and you better believe that the opposition is the beneficiary when people get shamed into inaction.
Don’t shove dubious stuff up your nose, just put on an N95 mask.
“Unproven products can seem attractive, especially when social media marketing overhypes potential benefits, without mention of risks or uncertainties.” – Kaitlin Sundling
Slashing staff at Social Security has really serious consequences that will hit senior citizens most, but nobody’s going to happy about this.
I expect more stories like this hitting the news, and attempts to normalize or justify it.
Rob Bresnahan’s comms director defamed constituents in order to make excuses for not having a public town hall in the district.
Indivisible’s Ezra Levin has pointed out that Republicans will do tele town halls because then they can tightly control who can speak. So of course: U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has announced he’s holding a “Telephone Town Hall”
Can we please end loser leftism and extol the public good?
Stop thinking “if only we could convince people” of something, that things would change. Just stop that. It’s not about explaining.
We need a shadow government to scrutinize everything that happens at HHS.
Every policy decision and everything that comes out of that entire HHS department, and all the agencies within, needs to be scrutinized.
Political abuse of psychiatry.
Authoritarians always target mentally disabled people as low hanging fruit, and the definition of mental disability is always flexible. People are rightfully upset about the Minnesota bill by state lawmakers to try to dictate a medical diagnosis of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” toward any Republican detractors. And I’d like to point out that this slide toward political […]
Herd immunity misinformation on the left.
Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]
Not the worst pandemic takes, but why do people seem to miss the experience of entire segments of the population?
And it’s not that I’m alone or unique because I know many many people who are in similar situations to me. Marketplace – Make Me Smart Unpacking our collective COVID-19 trauma, five years on Episode 1347 Mar 11, 2025 David Wallace-Wells was on Marketplace podcast talking about the covid pandemic declaration anniversary and was surprisingly […]
Online troll farm mercenaries to be hired by US government to police speech online.
There are operatives celebrating a boon in their job market.
Undermining the messenger is one of the most effective ways to sabotage a good idea or effective action.
here are business incentives behind this, and lots of methods available to those with lots of money to sabotage opposition.
Accelerationist James Carville at a retreat this week advising House Dems and Dem governors.
The Democrats have an apocalyptic hopium problem. Nobody should be listening to James Carville for any reason.
Speak to your own representatives, as a constituent – once more, this time with feeling.
You’re not going to be heard by Hakeem Jeffries unless maybe you’re some kind of business mogul, and maybe, just maybe, if you live in his district.
Taxpayer money to be thrown into the nonsense hole.
And I’m sure there’s plenty of scummy clout chasing pathetic scientists and total nonsense believing kook doctors will be willing to follow the politics right into garbage medical disinformation promotion.
RFKJr is pushing Great Barrington Declaration “natural herd immunity” eugenics pseudoscience for bird flu.
RFK Jr. warns vaccinating poultry for bird flu could backfire By Alexander Tin March 6, 2025 / 4:00 PM EST / CBS News We’ve in fact said, at the USDA, that they should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds and preserve the birds that are […]