What could possibly go wrong?
Tag: public health
They skipped right over the communists.
“RFK Jr. barred registered Democrats from being vaccine advisors, lawsuit says.”
Dangerous products do get to market, or even stay on the market.
De-regulation actually means re-regulation – in favour of industry, not people over profits, so there’s really no such thing as deregulation.
If Trump crashes and burns, the tycoons are still trying to take over.
Not all fellow travelers are allies. And no kings means no to data center power plant schemes, AI slop, and crypto corruption.
Where are all the doctors who could be informing their patients? And where are the hospital lobbyists?
We know there’s tons of lobbyists working on the behalf of big healthcare corporations. Yet they seem to have let this healthcare industry destroying big boondoggle bill succeed. What happened?
HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy) is a dangerous unproven treatment sold dubiously for a lot of things.
I keep seeing it dangerously promoted for covid complications
Someone needs to tell Doctor Oz that carrot cake isn’t the problem.
Medicaid & Medicare budget cuts are the problem. Scammy Medicare DisAdvantage plans are the problem. Lagging vaccine uptake is the problem. (Heather Digby Parton was on the Majority Report this afternoon and kept mentioning carrot cake and that dipshit comment by Doctor Oz trying to shame people over eating carrot cake. And now I’m hell […]
Pennsylvania AI boondoggle summit as full of BS and unwanted garbage as expected.
I listened to Trump at the Republican data center power plant “summit” in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and read about Josh Shapiro’s involvement so you don’t have to. (You can thank me later.)
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Don’t use pet medical products on humans.
If you have anyone in your life suggesting using pet covid tests, advise them that this is not wise as tests are generally designed differently for animals.
Republican politicians have been using “natural” catastrophes for eugenics purposes.
Of course the Republicans are using weather now the same way they used the pandemic.
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
Government determines the distribution of wealth. That’s not charity, it’s governance.
Social insurance is not charity. Social programs make a civilization work.
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
Conflict of Interest: Rep. Rob Bresnahan campaigned on stopping congress stock trades and then dumped medicaid-related stock before voting for the big boondoggle bill.
It’s a little ironically insulting because he actually introduced a bill in Congress to supposedly ban stock trades. I guess he has to make a show of it because he campaigned on the issue.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
CDC ACIP is a nightmare scenario.
I tuned into the CDC ACIP meeting to hear some woman reading some anti-vax screed rattling on about RSV vaccines a script that sounded like it was written by a chatbot.
Medical disinformation is to blame for waning vaccine sales and insufficient opposition to the anti-vaxxers in the Trump regime.
The demand for vaccines is down because there have been no real campaigns to get people vaccinated, and yet there have been huge and well funded disinformation campaigns scaring people about vaccines so that they are not making clear-headed risk benefit decisions.
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
Deregulation of AI is part of an overall ideological agenda to deregulate everything.
Boondoggle The Hot, New Plan to Bribe States Into Deregulating Artificial Intelligence AI infrastructure money in exchange for an AI Wild West. Pat Garofalo Jun 24, 2025 Wielding phony concerns about a “patchwork of state laws,” big tech interests and their allies in the federal government are attempting to eliminate in one swift stroke a host […]
We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.