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Measles Is Rampaging Through Rural Texas: Dozens Sick, Hundreds Feared Infected https://gizmodo.com/measles-is-rampaging-through-rural-texas-dozens-sick-hundreds-feared-infected-2000564981

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Spoke with @awgaffney.bsky.social about RFK's now-sealed nomination to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—and why it's dark days for the country's public health. gizmodo.com/its-official...

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Meet the Sexome: The Bacteria in Our Junk That We Swap During Sex https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-sexome-the-bacteria-in-our-junk-that-we-swap-during-sex-2000562797

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Our fluids aren't the only thing we're swapping during sex—we're also transferring over our genitals' microbiomes! gizmodo.com/meet-the-sex...

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🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

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Scientists Uncover an Unlikely New Weapon Against Cancer: Fat Cells https://gizmodo.com/scientists-uncover-an-unlikely-new-weapon-against-cancer-fat-cells-2000559081

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Our members at Gizmodo have started bargaining with new management 💪 Fair contract on the way! #UnionStrong

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Trump's CIA Now Backs Controversial Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory https://gizmodo.com/trumps-cia-now-backs-controversial-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-2000555181

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@edcara.bsky.social @gizmodo.com asked me about the CIA reassessment claiming with low confidence that the pandemic began with a "lab leak." This reassessment wasn't because the science changed. The people changed. They have a vested interest in lab leak being true. gizmodo.com/trumps-cia-n...

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Spoke with virologist @angierasmussen.bsky.social about the CIA's shift on covid-19 origins. “The ‘lab leak’ [theory] furthers political objectives of the Trump administration...It is in service of those goals this assessment was changed and is not a scientific change." gizmodo.com/trumps-cia-n...

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Another day, another worrying action from the renewed Trump administration on public health. “A blanket suspension of external communication from health agencies is unusual and potentially harmful." gizmodo.com/trump-orders...

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Why Trump’s Decision to Leave the WHO Is a Catastrophe in the Making https://gizmodo.com/why-trumps-decision-to-leave-the-who-is-a-catastrophe-in-the-making-2000552752

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Spoke with public health experts about Trump's decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization. Understandably, they're not jazzed! “In leaving the WHO, we put the whole world—but most particularly ourselves—at higher risk of health catastrophes.” gizmodo.com/why-trumps-d...

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Jimmy Carter's Biggest Victory Was in the Worm-Killing Business https://gizmodo.com/jimmy-carters-biggest-victory-was-in-the-worm-killing-business-2000544138

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RIP Jimmy Carter, Guinea worm slayer. gizmodo.com/jimmy-carter...

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If you've ever wanted to name a new hippo, FYI, the zoo has opened a poll to choose from four names...https://metrorichmondzoo.com/newsroom/pygmy-hippo-naming-poll/

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Fantastic timing: "A diarrhea-causing superbug is stirring up trouble in Los Angeles. Researchers have tracked down a worrying new strain of Shigella bacteria in the area—one that can resist almost every antibiotic thrown at it." @edcara.bsky.social gizmodo.com/alarming-a-d...

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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

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Can you copy the vibe of a story about a case of a creator copying the vibe of someone else?

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OK sports fans, so this is my last bulletin for my position at @losangelestimes.bsky.social. I resigned yesterday in protest of the paper's and owner's cozying up to Trump. Here's my explanation on my substack, where I hope you will follow me going forward. harrylitman.substack.com/p/why-i-just...

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The aptly-named slingshot spider flings its web—and itself—at prey, making it one of the quickest predators in the world. Now scientists have finally figured out how it knows when to strike. gizmodo.com/these-spider...

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in hindsight the NYT anti-trans crusade is one of the most despicable things that any big time journalism outfit in this country has ever done. a perfect and clearly intentional layup for the fascists on the Supreme Court

submitted 81 days ago • 100 comments

Uhh, really don't need this added stress right now, mysterious illness. gizmodo.com/a-mysterious...

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Lead Exposure Drove a Hidden Mental Health Crisis in the U.S., Study Reveals https://gizmodo.com/lead-exposure-drove-a-hidden-mental-health-crisis-in-the-u-s-study-reveals-2000533663

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70% of those killed in the genocide in Gaza are women & children. Health care & humanitarian workers say conditions for pregnant women/newborns in particular are only worsening: “Previously Gaza was an open prison, but now it’s fully closed. It’s a cage.” via @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

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I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

submitted 82 days ago • 214 comments

Posting some old content

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Scientists Uncover 'Game-Changing' Therapy for Asthma Attacks https://gizmodo.com/scientists-uncover-game-changing-therapy-for-asthma-attacks-2000532798

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"oh treat for me??"

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What if I told you that the only reason I am bald is that I’m afraid of a Ratatouille situation? What if I told you that I’d have so much hair if not for the fear of a rat using me like a puppet? These are modes of control, Neo. This is how they manipulate us. Ratatouilles, Neo. Rats that pull hair.

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How Trump's Second Term Could Shape the Future of Health in America https://gizmodo.com/how-trumps-second-term-could-shape-the-future-of-health-in-america-2000528082

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Seems like people wanna talk about all the locked-up stuff at chain pharmacies and big box stores today. Here’s a gift link to a feature I published a few months ago about why retailers started putting so much stuff behind plexiglass and how badly it’s backfired. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 84 days ago • 124 comments

On World AIDS day, let’s mourn the people who have suffered and died due to denialism. Robert Kennedy Jr is fond of citing one, Christine Maggiore, who he neglects to mention died of AIDS after allowing her own young daughter to succumb to the same disease.

submitted 85 days ago • 11 comments

Introducing the world's dumbest but sweetest orange cat to Bluesky, Cheddar "Chiz" Cara.

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New from me: Two influencers make very similar content promoting Amazon products. They dress the same. They buy the same stuff. They even have a similar tattoo. Now one is suing the other, claiming her rival won't stop copying her. But who influenced whom? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...

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"No need to directly pick the pockets of suckers looking for a get-rich-quick scheme if you can pick everyone’s pockets indirectly by looting a vast store of treasure held in trust for the American people." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

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A study of 14,000 Weight Watchers participants is the latest to suggest that Ozempic and similar obesity drugs could be adapted into treatments for substance use disorders. gizmodo.com/losing-weigh...

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Straight up corruption: it is bad enough that Esphteyn was asking for $30-40K in monthly retainers to promote potential Cabinet officials, he also sought $100K from a defense contractor who hoped to win taxpayer-funded contracts in return. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...

submitted 89 days ago • 46 comments

Magnesium is critical for maintaining QT and electrolyte contents in the bloodstream during Ibogaine Therapy.

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PEPFAR has saved ~25 million lives in Africa. RFK Jr is an AIDS denier who may well get rid of it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration to be Trump's attorney general, amid doubts about his fitness to serve and ability to be confirmed.

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In new videos, Vice editor-in-chief Shane Smith treats immigrants as a problem and apologizes to Elon Musk for past coverage.

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On Sept. 29, 2023, Japanese ambassador Rahm Emanuel made a 6-figure buy on the stock market into an AI cloud computing company. The very next day, the Japanese government announced a $320 million subsidy into that industry. What luck! prospect.org/power/2024-1...

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"It’s entertaining to poke fun at RFK’s eccentricities, from his repeated instances of mutilating dead animals to having a dead brain worm. But America has plenty of real public health issues, and there’s little indication he plans to seriously address any of them." gizmodo.com/you-thought-...

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"Now that RFK Jr. has been given carte blanche to at least try to tear down vital aspects of public health in the U.S. like vaccination, dark days could certainly loom ahead." gizmodo.com/trump-promis...

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Earlier this year, a provocative case report raised fears that a deadly prion disease in deer could infect and kill people, too—much as mad cow once did in the 90s. But outside experts are much more skeptical that such a thing is possible, at least for now. gizmodo.com/prions-venis...

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Wrote about one of the most enduring criticisms made about GLP-1 drugs: that they will hollow out your muscle mass and make you weaker than before. Long story short, the data just isn't showing that right now. gizmodo.com/ozempic-wego...

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New research highlights another tragic aftereffect of the 9/11 terror attacks: a higher risk of early dementia among responders exposed to the dust and debris of the WTC collapse. gizmodo.com/9-11-terror-...

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