Tag: public health

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Anti-Science MAGA CDC: “It’s like the flu”

2024-03-02

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FDA shouldn’t have Purdue and the Sacklers involved in Opioid Abuse Surveillance

2024-03-01

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Robin Hanson @robinhanson 11:29 AM — 14 Feb 2020 “Though it is a disturbing & extreme option, we should seriously consider deliberately infecting folks with coronavirus, to spread out the number of critically ill people over time, and to ensure that critical infrastructure remains available to help sick.”

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Robin Hanson’s 2020 Viral Valentine Tweet

2024-02-29

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The Princess Bride Inigo Montoya You keep using that word meme, the picture of Inigo Montoya giving Vizzini a confused look, the caption says you keep using that word “immunity” I do not think that word means what you think it means in the context of medical science.

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WaPo reporter’s citation used fraudulent appeal to authority to make anti-vax “natural herd immunity” claim.

2024-02-26

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MedPage Today publishes business PR consultant written op-ed arguing for lax infection control for covid (and other diseases)

2024-02-20

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CDC ACIP public comment by Chloe, February 2024

2024-02-16

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Visual multitasking is not physically possible, even if Apple Vision Pro creates that dangerous illusion.

2024-02-12

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A person at a telescope lit in red light against the darkness of a silhouette treeline against the starry sky of the Milky Way over dark sky site Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania USA. June 30, 2019. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

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New York Times Op-ed details the signs of anti-vax propaganda like an astronomer showing evidence of a black hole that cannot be seen directly.

2024-02-07

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The evidence for pandemic virus related heart risks observed since 2020.

2024-02-05

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Project 2025: Righties ready to roll. (Heads up, yes it’s real & you might not like it.)

2024-02-02

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Yes, Paxlovid is recommended for covid and the science says it works pretty well.

2024-01-16

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letters to reps Your representative’s office receives your letter and considers your position and interest in the issue as representative of some number of constituents who feel the same as you do, but did not have the inclination to write at present. They often keep tallies in spreadsheets and track issues. So it’s not just your lonely voice, each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect from one person. chloehumbert.com/letters-to-reps

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Corporation’s pitches land daily in the inboxes of YOUR elected representatives

2024-01-15

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Image is the meme of the little girl in the car seat looking skeptical and disgusted and the caption reads so it’s ok if I catch covid because there’s room at children’s hospital?

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Pandemic patient displacements

2024-01-14

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry - Image is the letter from Delta Airlines to the CDC Director asking for shortened guidelines because of the impact on their business caused by 10 day isolation.

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CDC made medical guidelines please Delta Airlines, and now lots of people work sick and contagious in every industry

2024-01-10

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The promotion of more privatization of water in Pennsylvania is unacceptable

2024-01-08

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Public Health Debt

2024-01-05

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Manufacturing doubt on the physical harms of alcohol with a tepid promotion of one month off for “psychological” reasons.

2024-01-04

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The image is the deep fried meme of Garfield the cartoon cat’s head and underneath it is the caption You are not immune to propaganda.

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Don’t miss the message because social media incentivizes us to prioritize rage over action and change.

2024-01-03

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Ridiculous headlines in the New York Times, 2023

2023-12-31

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Pandemic memes 2023

2023-12-31

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Pennsylvania about to allow tire burning to make cryptocurrency.

2023-12-28

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