National Cancer Institute employees received internal guidance to flag communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics. Among the 23 hot-button issues: vaccines, autism, and peanut allergies. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @lisalsong.bsky.social - ThreadSky

propublica.org • 20 days ago

National Cancer Institute employees received internal guidance to flag communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics.

Among the 23 hot-button issues: vaccines, autism, and peanut allergies.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @lisalsong.bsky.social

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authoramy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stupid stupid stupid.

ccresistance.bsky.social•20 days ago

How is it right that the government of the USA can shut down the voices of Americans or American companies?

carlypeterpan.bsky.social•19 days ago

Approval from whom??

i-teach.bsky.social•20 days ago

It really is 1984

nobirdnonet.bsky.social•20 days ago

Freedom of speech and thought, murdered in broad daylight. RIP.

ellinst.bsky.social•20 days ago

Peanut allergies?

donadickinson.bsky.social•20 days ago

No need for science at NCI, right?

mlburris.bsky.social•20 days ago

Demanding that a list of certain words be banned, forbidden, or censored (anytime) but especially within the context of science and medicine is contradictory to the empirical quest for knowledge - the fact that these people are so anti-science is chilling.

marianweber.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cancer Moonshot????? I hate these people. I hope they all spontaneously combust today. Every straight white one of them. Just fucking go up in flames. All of them.

god-meat.bsky.social•20 days ago

They need to suffer more, I know they hate their lives but why make everyone else miserable?

yesbiscuit.bsky.social•20 days ago

Anaphylactic shock is woke now?

boatmatears.bsky.social•20 days ago

How is a peanut allergy a sensitive topic? I’m having a hard time understanding this. Is it because they get special treatment in school cafeterias? Otherwise I have nothing.

mssmig.bsky.social•20 days ago

I suspect it’s that and the labeling during manufacturing as well as the cleaning of equipment. It’s bonkers. Sesame was just added to the list of top allergens for labeling in the last two years. As someone with ANA to several foods this is terrifying.

marketingcjr.bsky.social•20 days ago

There is a belief in the wellness circles that, essentially, peanut allergies are fake, and “MY KID SHOULD BE ABLE TO BRING A PB SANDWICH TO SCHOOL”

And also that these allergies didn’t exist 30 years ago.

heatherashley.bsky.social•20 days ago

Considering I'm 41 with a peanut allergy these people are fucking morons

marketingcjr.bsky.social•20 days ago

It goes from “I never knew anyone with a peanut allergy” to “no one had it” really quickly.

It’s like their other “no one had this when I was a kid”

cds103.bsky.social•20 days ago

My uncle, who would have turned 81, had a peanut allergy, so it *did* exist 30 years ago. IMHO, I believe more processed food is causing the increase in food allergies.

cakeandcats.bsky.social•20 days ago

And that is all absolute bullshite. I had a peanut allergy as a child (I’m 62) and had to avoid ALL nuts until after puberty. So peanut/nut allergies definitely existed 50+ years ago. I was eventually able to eat nuts, even peanuts, for many years; however my old the peanut allergy has returned.

boatmatears.bsky.social•20 days ago

WOW!! How do you fake anaphylaxis?

marketingcjr.bsky.social•20 days ago

You fake *having* it. Then inconvenience everyone.

It’s hip to have an allergy

jkindy.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s also a eugenics thing.

epirunner.bsky.social•20 days ago

My nephew is highly allergic, so my mom ate peanuts in the same room as him and then complained when my SIL said she could never watch him again. He ended up in an out of network emergency room. My mom is 💯 the most selfish person and MAGA

marketingcjr.bsky.social•20 days ago

That’s the crux. *your* allergy is *your* problem.

boatmatears.bsky.social•20 days ago

OMG that’s awful! I’m so sorry. Is clear my house of nuts if a grandchild was allergic.

falconis.bsky.social•20 days ago

It ties into the antivax movement. There are people that believe that vaccinating kids leads to their immune systems to overreacting to things like peanuts.

cuspis.bsky.social•20 days ago

Karens are mad because they can't bring cupcakes into their kids classroom.

herculesmulligan.bsky.social•20 days ago

POS Pussy Grabber and his Psychotic Clown Car of Spectacularly Incompetent and Malicious Crackpots have transformed their Milgram experiment into policy

Clusterfuck 2025 is here

Cancer
Vaccinations
Measles
CDC
VA
CIA
FBI
DOD
Veterans
Firings
Tariffs
USAID
Ebola
doge
musk
Grift

RISE UP
or
RIP USA

yd52.bsky.social•20 days ago

One may argue about the reasons why, but the objective reality is the trump/GOP cabal is working diligently to make the USA a much more dangerous place to live, ... and die.

stacyws.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who do they hate that has a peanut allergy? Or is this spillover from Jimmy Carter's half mast flag meltdown?

thisaintright.bsky.social•20 days ago

Just rub some turmeric on it - RFK jr

visiliki.bsky.social•20 days ago

Peanut allergies? Umm… is it going to be renamed mast cell overreaction? A rose, is a rose… is a rose.

mrfahrenheit.bsky.social•20 days ago

Fcking insanity.

pham60.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why peanut allergies? Can someone elaborate? Does Kennedy cast doubt on that, too? My son’s several episodes of anaphylactic shock would beg to differ.

pham60.bsky.social•20 days ago

I see Kennedy wrote the Forward and a chapter in a book called The Peanut Allergy Epidemic.

junayt.bsky.social•20 days ago

What in the fuck

wayofthelotus.bsky.social•20 days ago

I have one allergic to tree and peanuts. This is scary.

boatmatears.bsky.social•20 days ago

The only thing I can think of is that kids get special treatment in school cafeterias. No one can have special treatment now. That’s equitable. I can’t think of anything else.

houlmont.bsky.social•20 days ago

In the 1960s, I was segregated from the cafeteria, along with my siblings and the other "poors" -- because we couldn't afford to buy our lunch. Lunchbox Siberia.

boatmatears.bsky.social•20 days ago

That’s awful

duckanl.bsky.social•20 days ago

To give an actual answer , it is likely because accommodation of people with peanut allergies is technically DEI, which the current DOGE staff wants to purge anything seeming to be what they think DEI is. Also, I remember conservatives complaining about peanut allergies in cafeterias in the 2010s, ½

duckanl.bsky.social•20 days ago

and it seems since the far right won the fedgov trifecta, both the government and the far right has been going after issues already decided, ie trying to repeat gay marriage, undoing minority clubs, trying to undo no-fault divorce, sometimes going farther like trying to consider being trans as ⅔

duckanl.bsky.social•20 days ago

Identify fraud & a felony, or removing any legal recognition of intersex Americans

also purging of any scientific papers mentioning words like inclusion, gender, woman, intersex, equality, poc, disadvantaged, disabled, etc

Much of this can be slowed or stopped with enough protest disobedience, etc

duckanl.bsky.social•20 days ago

well erm obviously having peanut allergies is a personal failing and only weak willed liberals would try to accommodate people with "peanut allergies." If they did have peanut allergies, just get over it or die, I don't want a peanut free table in my cafeteria ewww woke liberals

/s
Fuck fascism

oppositionco.bsky.social•20 days ago

Next up; parents of kids with peanut allergies will be required to homeschool their kids. You can't impose on other kids just to keep your kids from dying. What were you thinking? That was full on sarcasm for those who can't tell.

claireburdett.bsky.social•20 days ago

Crumbs 🤯

asw2belle.bsky.social•20 days ago

DOES ANYONE SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE ,NOT JUST HEALTH.....ACROSS THE BOARD!!🤔

starryledger.bsky.social•20 days ago

You know what is going to convince a kid learning about American history in 200 years that these people were batshit insane? It will be the vaccine denial. It's just flat out fucking idiotic, as any school kid can tell you.

dg93023.bsky.social•20 days ago

The way things are going, the history books will reflect the great victory against woke culture and will praise the sacrifice of millions of patriotic Americans that made this possible.

starryledger.bsky.social•20 days ago

I didn't say it would be American kids ;). They will be lucky to get any education at all.

dg93023.bsky.social•20 days ago

True that.

captainhober.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh good. Let's kill some kids with peanut allergies. That one wasn't on my bingo card.

delightw2023.bsky.social•20 days ago

"is it safe for me to have this vaccine while having cancer treatments"

You need that information

ladytbirdrn.bsky.social•20 days ago

Interesting that “vaccine” is on the list, though not surprising given RFK Jr’s views. I wonder if he has a clue that there are vaccines used for some cancer treatment protocols and a great deal of current research being done on their use in the treatment of a variety of cancers.

14767977.bsky.social•20 days ago

Approval from whom?

travelingthrulife.bsky.social•20 days ago

Every grievance these morons have nurtured in their hearts for generations and decades.

everydaydancing.bsky.social•20 days ago

If our taxes funded any of these studies, would that mean we legally have the right to them? If so, is this legal?

planne7.bsky.social•20 days ago

There will be an increasingly lengthy list of what’s off limits for institutions, the media and others to cover. This is how authoritarians operate. Americans in large numbers must resist these attempts at suppression.

bnomad.bsky.social•20 days ago

Are we in the 60s USSR?

hopefulinthepeaks.bsky.social•19 days ago

30s Germany

sainttim.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah - 1st amendment rules!

Well if what you want to say agrees with th MAGA fuckwits!

gingerredshoes.bsky.social•20 days ago

Here's the list.

houlmont.bsky.social•20 days ago

Bird Flu????
Can't have people thinking about the price of eggs, now can we...

curtnaus.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good news, no one is obese anymore.

ism58.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is another attack on our 1st Amendment. While "hate" speech & lies are encouraged by this Administration, speech is being policed at the micro-level. This affects everyone, especially our children. Targeting of speech is an authoritarian policy, un-American & UnConstitutional. FIGHT BACK NOW!

jrriver.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good little Nazis

kkrober.bsky.social•20 days ago

That is outrageous! Why does Trump not want the American people to receive any news/updates on these subjects?

arkancrow.bsky.social•20 days ago

When are we going to talk about these "policies" as nothing else but harsh censorship from the government?

handle.invalid•20 days ago

Look at this, Americans.
We looked at you as the country that used to support freedom around the world. But now, your majority chose to be slaves to a dictator, his party, his billionaire friends, & Putin.
Europe is rising, and you are dying!

erica-sama.bsky.social•18 days ago

You must not have known about the true history of America. How could you believe a country with Native American massacres, Africans enslaved, Jim Crow lynchings, redlining, and segregation could ever be about freedom?

millieto2.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why are Americans rolling over? I hope they get inspired by this

cakeandcats.bsky.social•20 days ago

Once again I ask WHAT THE HELL 😡

thedailyrobin.bsky.social•20 days ago

OK SO WHY?

Why is dump doing this to the National Cancer Institute to the Americans
why is he taking away freedom of speech/medical
freedom to learn specific things on science
Cancer FFS?
This isn't rhetorical I want somebody to tell me why he's doing it
why?

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_content=bufferd1802&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky

shawneee514.bsky.social•20 days ago

He is a cruel, vindictive & horrible little man I hope he chokes on a peanut & dies

whatisabeau.bsky.social•20 days ago

If this is true then your freedom to information has already been muzzled. You must seriously consider why an administration would not allow their citizens access to information about their health. That is insane. ✊🇨🇦✌️

boontonkat.bsky.social•20 days ago

Except for the outrageous and utterly disgusting premise
That he wants people

DEAD

Which meanwhile is exactly what most of us are wishing FOR HIM

#SoonerBetter

rp-vb.bsky.social•20 days ago

📌

laoc.bsky.social•20 days ago

WHY IS CANCER RESEARCH CONTROVERSIAL?? Someone please explain this to me like I’m 5.

sophieclw.bsky.social•20 days ago

The C19 vaccine is mRNA technology. Science at its finest. That tech is now getting great results in pancreas cancer and cervical cancer.

Except Covid is fake and the vaccine is full of nanobots or 5G. Or something. https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/

hopefulinthepeaks.bsky.social•19 days ago

Don’t forget the transgender mice. mRNA testing probably turned them woke

dg93023.bsky.social•20 days ago

It’s not “or 5G.” Don’t you know, 5G is used to activate the nanobots.

sophieclw.bsky.social•20 days ago

My bad. TBF I’m still waiting for those Soros checks, so what do I know?

melissainkc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Now they’re denying peanut allergies? There’s no bottom to the stupid.

putawomanincharge.bsky.social•20 days ago

Omg ...
I will NOT follow ANY directions from this Administration ESPECIALLY Krazy Kennedy.

tammelas.bsky.social•20 days ago

I wonder if they’ll flag “incontinence”, “ketamin addiction”, or “Syphilis brain”?

cassandracmplx.bsky.social•20 days ago

You win.

healthsci.bsky.social•20 days ago

those look like good topics for library guides. do we already create way more guides than is humanly possible to maintain? yes. but also, let’s make a libguide for that.

https://youtu.be/GNpIOlDhigw

jkindy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Eugenics is back

dg93023.bsky.social•20 days ago

They want us to die.

pistisspirit.bsky.social•20 days ago

Gotta love that free speech protection and the presumed autonomy of our educational/research institutions.

dr-ann1953.bsky.social•20 days ago

Back to the 1950s

heldwithlove.bsky.social•20 days ago

How is anaphylaxis controversial? This is all coming from a group who likes to call others snowflakes!
Take all these controversial words and read up on it more! It's coming time that I don't believe what the internet says. Web pages are getting altered, and we are flying down this slope.

arabellasays.bsky.social•20 days ago

Scientists should not need the approval of the government to publish scientific findings.

meltlikebutta.bsky.social•20 days ago

Here's the full list.

nellonearth.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh, they missed menopause. I’m sure that’s next.

meltlikebutta.bsky.social•20 days ago

Make sure to click through to the source article as well.

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-cancer-institute-flagged-topics-vaccines-autism-rfk-jr?utm_content=bufferd1802&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky

chimpjen.bsky.social•20 days ago

"include but are not limited to" means NCI employees can't publish anything w/o prior approval because they can't possibly know what "may" be considered controversial

alherix.bsky.social•20 days ago

They truly are murderous nuts!

detroitgoose.com•20 days ago

From peanut allergy to peanut galley!

auntrove.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thank you, Thom Tillis.

gardenerd.bsky.social•20 days ago

🤬

foxylass68.bsky.social•20 days ago

And the censorship of the actual qualified professionals continues so the unqualified,brain damaged drug addict can spin dangerous conspiracy theories…

crysxx.bsky.social•20 days ago

Jffcccc

kazahler.bsky.social•20 days ago

“It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”

cpk47.bsky.social•20 days ago

The destruction of standards, norms, rules, and policies that protect Americans is indefensible, unconscionable, depraved.

joys1.bsky.social•20 days ago

just like the nazis did... oy vey!

shadyguy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Look at that big government interfering.

carpederpum.bsky.social•19 days ago

Disobedience should be the norm. Do it because it's the right thing to do. Make them work for it if that's what they want. Drag it out in court. Pain.

warren-gates.bsky.social•20 days ago

WHAT KIND OF CENSORSHIP BULLSHIT IS THIS ?

charitymorganlv.bsky.social•20 days ago

🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷

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