aniloza.bsky.social
science journalist @stat | also: npr, nature, sciam, science, science news
covering health equity, neuroscience, and interaction btwn science & society (he/him) (signal: aniloza.16)
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story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Overall, experts were worried the political debate about fluoride is becoming more and more divorced from the scientific literature on the matter because of how politically heated it has become
www.statnews.com/2024/11/13/f...
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Part of the rationale behind stopping the practice of adding it artificially to water, HHS told us, is a growing concern around potential effects on IQ
This was most recently highlighted in a meta-analysis from the National Toxicology, which some have critiqued
www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/f...
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it's actually been extended — until June 7!
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If you want to read more on this issue, @donmoyn.bsky.social & @pamherd.bsky.social wrote about it in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We talked to former agency leaders, political experts and a historian about what this change could mean, incl @jeremymberg.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @nicholasbednar.bsky.social
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from here:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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It's also the second major retrenchment by the largest private funder of biomedical research
In Feb. it axed a program meant to make sci education more inclusive and wiped some of its sites of mentions of diversity/inclusion
www.statnews.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Susan Desmond-Hellman says she is uncharacteristically *angry* rather than just worried:
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From Eric Rubin — diligently working on NIH grants on his way to the panel
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From Georges Benjamin on DEI:
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Link to our coverage of this study here:
w/ input from @scott-delaney.bsky.social & @jeremymberg.bsky.social as well as several economists on the economic impact of cutting R&D
www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...