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derekberes.bsky.social
šŸŽ™Co-host: Conspirituality āš•ļøFounder, Siris Health āœļø Writer (bylines: The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
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Massive study challenges perceived notions of race, and the NIH isn't making the researchers available for interviews? "The screening of scientists’ communications contrasts with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s promise to foster a culture of free speech." www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

MAHA is going to be responsible for an unprecedented number of eating disorders.

Who could have possibly foreseen the world's two largest narcissists ending their bromance?

Yeah, so about that Aubrey Marcus polyamory podcast... www.conspirituality.net/episodes/260...

Oh this is great.

Wonderful. "Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to work group colleagues that her decision to step down was based on the belief she is 'no longer able to help the most vulnerable members' of the U.S. population." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Serious score from Biblio. All for under $40.

MAHA in damage control — and it's not going well. sirishealth.substack.com/p/formatting...

Poor Bobby, he never realized what building a following of scientifically illiterate anti-vaxxers would mean… šŸ˜†

HHS not publicly discussing measles doesn't mean cases aren't still happening. time.com/7290566/wast...

Get ready for raw milk and methylene blue infant formula mandates. www.cnn.com/2025/06/04/h...

Today in America.

Actual response to a question about the MAHA Commission Report via @notusreports.bsky.social ā€œWell, I haven’t seen the studies that don’t exist,ā€ Sen. Rand Paul said. ā€œSorry.ā€

I live in Portland, the largest city in the US that doesn't fluoridate drinking water. Oregon doesn't need to FAFO with this issue. We already know the danger to kids. Especially low-income children, which MAHA never seems to care about. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Great sign that the head of the FDA is clueless as to how the FDA vaccine approval process works. www.statnews.com/2025/06/01/f...

While Bari Weiss and (soon) Andrew Huberman are blowing smoke up Jay Bhattacharya's ass, @walkerbragman.bsky.social talked to actual people working under him. Completely different reality for those forced to endure the NIH right now. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

One can dream about reversing chronic diseases in America—especially among children. Just don’t pray, because as Kennedy is proving during his time in power, no one’s listening. derekberes.substack.com/p/mahas-war-...

I have to wonder what children MAHA actually cares about. youtu.be/W4MP2QaDfl8

Second slide is from the 1971 video game, ā€œThe Oregon Trail.ā€ First slide is a man who never realized it was based on real life. šŸ™ @fifthcolumnfilms.bsky.social for sending.

ā€œThe additional cases represent a 7.5% increase in cavities, an added cost of $9.8bn and the loss of 2.9m quality-adjusted life years.ā€

So glad we’re winning the war on chronic disease. But I’m sure Bobby will address this. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

I always love talking to @travisview.bsky.social and the QAnon Anonymous crew — even when I have to tell them "it's probably worse than you think" šŸ˜‚ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Covid contrarians Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad have launched a new FDA podcast that promises to be "transparent." @julianwalker.bsky.social and I listen in. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...

Tempo is over it as he enters his teenage phase.

"Gold-standard science." The report refers to childhood obesity as a ā€œworsening health crisis,ā€ but also features a graph showing that the rate of childhood obesity in the U.S. remained relatively stable over the last 20 years. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I'm so glad Kennedy is making health guidance crystal clear for Americans, as he promised. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-kid...

The idea that MAHA might have used AI to generate citations is important, but don’t let that obscure the more relevant point: American public health agencies are knowingly manipulating data to fit into an agenda. And that agenda has nothing to do with health.

You might be surprised to learn that a book critical of Covid-19 school closures doesn't understand why schools were closed. Great critical review in @accountabilityji.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

Inventing 7 studies that never existed will now forever be known as "formatting issues."

I'm glad this article is making the rounds, but here's the thing: they've been doing this for years. I've identified dozens of instances on the Children's Health Defense blog. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social found similar errors in RFK's book on Fauci. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Since RFK Jr's power and influence has only grown, and since he’s now in charge of America’s entire health apparatus, there’s no way to avoid covering him—something we've been doing for years now. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/259...

What could possibly go wrong.

Recent reporting finds that drug-induced liver toxicity is on the rise—and those drugs are supplements. Waiting for MAHA to kick off an investigation... sirishealth.substack.com/p/supplement...

RFK Jr is back in the news thanks to yesterday's podcast appearance, but let's not discount who he was talking to. I wrote about Gary Brecka's pseudoscience over a year ago: derekberes.substack.com/p/the-slippe...

I look forward to RFK Jr addressing this problem and implementing safety data requirements before supplements go to market. "From 1995 through 2020, supplement-related liver failure requiring U.S. patients to be waitlisted for transplants increased eightfold." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

RFK Jr claims that Haitians and Nigerians had lower death rates from Covid-19 than Americans because they're "out in the sun more" and have "other advantages."

TIL pregnancy is a chronic disease.

What hell is my YouTube algorithm today.