There were 2 articles about “health” in the newspaper in early September 2025. One was ostensibly about staying healthy during air travel, and the other was about children staying healthy at school. Neither mentioned aerosol transmission of infectious disease like covid, nor anything you could do about it.
Tag: public health
The anti-vax team at the central government.
This is what I found over a year ago on the doctor Jordan Vaughn who’s now on the CDC ACIP working group as a “subject matter expert”
Universal covid vaccination is better for everyone, because that’s how vaccines work best.
“Universal COVID vaccination saves lives, averts 10% to 20% of disease burden, estimates suggest”
Apple iphone Siri to start pushing anti-vax pseudoscience politics?
“intolerance” and “systemic racism”
The supplement boom is based in shoddy science, or no real science at all.
Because so often the online marketing of supplements and various wellness products involves linking to a study that doesn’t back up their claims at all, but nobody ever clicks through so they get away with fraudulent appeal to authority.
Republicans are running nonstop commercials in NEPA (Northeastern Pennsylvania) to justify the BBBill.
Republicans, or somebody pro-Republican, is running ads that are trying to tell us Rep. Rob Bresnahan voting for the Big Boondoggle Bill was good actually. They’re trying to advance this false narrative that denying healthcare insurance coverage for some healthy young men and rarely use their healthcare is somehow going to make it better for disabled people.
Partnering with AI tech tycoons who wanna be kings is not democracy.
Anyone trying to push for “managing” AI or “sustainably” supporting AI is not operating in reality.
Worst headline ever to describe mental healthcare misconduct with AI slop.
It’s an offensively inappropriate use of the term “triggered” in this headline.
More pressure on elected representatives on vaccines must come from constituents.
RFKJr promised that anyone who wants to would be able to get covid boosters if they want to, but that’s not what’s happening.
Are people really so naive that they don’t know about astroturfing? Seriously?
I see people who have no idea why someone rich right-winger might fund something leftist. Did nobody ever hear of a strawman? People have seriously never heard the concept of being co-opted?
People have been misled about the opposition to public health, and the dangers of MAGA MAHA.
It was always the right-wing pushing everyone to the right. And politicians need to be pushed back, and the only people who can do that is constituents. Quite a catch 22.
If something is “drug free” it can’t treat anything, because if it can treat something, it’s a drug. That’s how words work.
That’s the definition of a drug, it treats disease, in the dictionary and legally. But companies use this line of something being “drug free” in order to try to openly skirt the law.
The Trump administration revoking the unions of VA nurses is a grotesque injustice.
The illegal executive order revoking federal workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain is unacceptable. We have unions for a reason, it’s because they are needed…
The pressure on elected officials about vaccines must come from constituents in their districts.
I believe the only answer here is that the congresspeople and senators all get unimaginable pressure.
Vaccine fruit basket upset: write your reps.
Vaccines are in jeopardy and a public health doctor resigned from CDC, openly citing the eugenics language of leadership.
Berwick school board entertains MAGA psychological hangups about trans kids.
Waiting for a lot of unequal treatment with the implementation of this “only your proper name” policy.
When something is sold with a “trick” to get around safety regulations, that’s a big red flag.
There are tons of supplements sold with this trick, where they have influencers and mommy bloggers, and accounts that seem like randos on social media, making the claims, even when the label on the bottles say something else, something serious, because there’s a rule to try to protect people.
The Wellness Company is right-wing, and pushes covid quackery including anti-vax crap.
Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.
Pandemic fraud leads to jail time for a landlord in Scranton Pennsylvania.
“The companies had no business operations, according to a federal indictment. Four companies own five residential buildings, where the businesses supposedly operated, according to deeds.”
Another attempt, this time at the state level, to legislate forcing consumers into harm from automated stuff without recourse.
Colorado edition. The Lever – Aug 19, 2025 The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws. Helen Santoro Under pressure from tech giants after their legislative loss in Washington, Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has called […]
Ghost health insurance plans.
Spread the word about sketchy health insurance! You never know who in your life might be buying health insurance and walk ass-backwards into one of these hustles. Health insurance plans tied to fake jobs. Self-employed, small business owners and people in the gig economy are getting ripped off when they think they’re buying health insurance […]