The politics of health?
https://www.bespacific.com/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-policies-are-unreviewable-doj-lawyer-tells-judge/
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are “unreviewable,” DOJ lawyer tells judge
Ars Technica: “A lawyer for the Trump administration told a federal judge Wednesday that anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has such ample authority over the country’s vaccine policies that he is “unreviewable.” His unfettered powers even allow Kennedy the freedom to recommend, if he chose to do so, that people ditch vaccines and actively expose themselves to infectious diseases, the lawyer argued, according to Reuters. The comments came amid a lawsuit filed against Kennedy by the American Academy of Pediatrics, several other medical groups, and three anonymous women. The suit challenges a number of Kennedy’s actions on vaccine policy since he took office, including his unilateral changes to COVID-19 vaccine policies, his firing of all 17 expert vaccine advisors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—whom Kennedy replaced with hand-picked anti-vaccine allies—and his decision to dramatically overhaul the CDC’s childhood vaccine schedule to match that of the small country of Denmark, dropping the total number of recommended vaccinations from 17 to 11 and making the US an outlier among high-income countries…”
Well that clears everything up nicely.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/03/05/an-ai-disaster-is-getting-ever-closer
An AI disaster is getting ever closer
Although he was trying to sound decisive, Donald Trump accidentally conveyed something of the world’s ambivalence regarding the rapid development of artificial intelligence. On February 27th America’s president walloped the “leftwing nut jobs” of Anthropic, an American AI lab that works with the defence department, among other government agencies. “I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” he thundered on social media. Yet just a single sentence later he also vowed to “use the Full Power of the Presidency” to compel Anthropic to co-operate with the government for the next six months. Apparently, the nut jobs simultaneously pose an intolerable risk to the good functioning of the state and are so indispensable to the state’s good functioning that they must be forced to work with it, if necessary.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.bespacific.com/27-ways-to-access-scientific-research/
27 Ways to Access Scientific Research
Card Catalog: A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings. Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS: “We are living through a strange moment in the history of knowledge. More information is available to more people than at any point in human history, and yet the feeling of not knowing what to believe has never been more widespread. Studies get published on Monday and debunked by Thursday. Experts contradict each other with matching credentials and matching confidence. A headline announces a breakthrough; the fine print, buried three paragraphs down, reveals it was a study of fourteen mice. Somewhere in your feed right now, someone is citing “research” to support something that research does not actually support. The problem isn’t a shortage of information. It’s that most of us were never taught to navigate it at the level where it originates. Academic and scientific papers are where claims about the world are supposed to get tested. Where hypotheses meet methodology, where evidence gets weighed against competing explanations, where researchers have to show their work in a way that other researchers can scrutinize. The system is imperfect, sometimes deeply so, but it’s also the most rigorous process we have for building reliable knowledge. Understanding how it works, what it can and can’t tell you, and how to read the outputs for yourself is one of the most practically useful things you can learn. The good news is that you don’t need a PhD to do it. You just need a map…”
(Because)
The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 7
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 7 – This article is the seventh in a series focused on how the second Trump presidency unleashed a causal chain that has rapidly morphed into an extensive continued attack against civil liberties, commerce, government funded programs, research and the rule of law. The attacks quickly escalated beyond the federal sector into the private and non-profit arenas. In alignment with the Project 2025 roadmap cultural, historical and political censorship has made deep inroads into many aspects of American life. Sabrina I. Pacifici continues to identify new as well as expanded examples of administration directed censorship in the public and private sectors, along with the elimination of programs, services and data critical to education, healthcare, the environment, climate science, defense and the economy.
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