Hacker NewsOct 22
Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
https://apnews.com/article/maha-supplements-wellness-rfk-jr-vaccine-raw-milk-dc8ecf998ef3835adbf32fc88c14af07
#ycombinator #Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr #Associated_Press #Immunizations #General_news #MD_State_Wire #AP_Investigations #Maryland #California #Washington_news #Agriculture #U_S_news #Casey_Means #Public_health #Business #Legislation #Delaware #Wellness #Science #Mark_McAfee #Prescription_drugs #Tony_Lyons #Dietary_supplements #Health
How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S. They portray the Make America Healthy Again movement as grassroots, but it’s fueled by a web of well-funded national groups led by people who’ve profited – financially and otherwise – from sowing distrust of medicine and science. The Associated Press found state legislation that includes language in the text or public testimony that explicitly spells out that a reason to change the law is to make money or increase sales for dairy farmers.

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Mix Mistress Alice💄Sep 2

"The AI industry engages in the same kind of labor outsourcing that many other industries do, finding places that are far away and off the radar of their average consumer to perform the dirtiest work. In the AI industry, however, there's an additional layer.

Anyone who buys clothes has an inherent understanding that they were made by someone, somewhere. With AI, that fundamental assumption isn't there because most people don’t understand that digital technologies have a very physical footprint and that a lot of labor is involved. By doing the same kind of outsourcing that other industries have done, it enhances the “magic veneer” created for their AI products."—Karen Hao

Behind the scenes of the 'Empire of AI' >

https://bianet.org/haber/behind-the-scenes-of-the-empire-of-ai-310761

#interview #AI AI_industry #narratives #ecology #disaster_capitalism #technologies #outsourcing #global #labor_exploitation #data_centers #AI_models #imperialism #China #Silicon_Valley #USA #techno_feudalism #layered_censorship #public_health #water #energy #supercomputers #pollution #electric_grid #clean_water #climate_crisis #energy_crisis #clean_air_crisis #utility_bills

Behind the Scenes of the 'Empire of AI'

"These companies' behavior directly parallels that of historical empires. They literally grab a lot of land to build the data centers they need to train their AI models."

Show threadSu_GJul 14

@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

A headline that needs something else or perhaps a more sensitive expression: “Long Covid is continuing to linger in the workplace, and businesses struggle to cope.”
Because I’m pretty sure the people who suffer from Long Covid also struggle to cope with it.

Linked question: have workplaces done anything to either support workers or prevent transmission? Are they cleaning the shared air, for instance? (Especially with current estimates of ~40% of those with Covid-19 being asymptomatic.)

#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNot0ver #PublicHealth #Public_Health #asymptomatic #workplace

 Hacker NewsJul 2
The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True
https://www.wired.com/story/chlorine-dioxide-bleach-mms-autism-rfk-fda-warning/
#ycombinator #politics #public_health #government #medicine #robert_f_kennedy_jr #health
The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. to Make Their Dreams Come True

Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.

WIRED
 Hacker NewsMay 1
RFK Jr.'S HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/
#ycombinator #public_health #nih #medicine #health #diseases
RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.

WIRED
 Hacker NewsApr 7
CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/
#ycombinator #CDC #HHS #infectious_disease #kennedy #politics #public_health
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

STAT
Milad MalekzadehMar 13

I am truly honored to share that I have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Professional Association for #Transport & #Health.

It is both a privilege to contribute to this incredible community at the intersection of transport and #public_health.

#SustainableMobility

 Hacker NewsMar 7
Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists
https://apnews.com/article/seed-oil-beef-tallow-kennedy-4fdf0f30134277fd6dd20b4ede789295
#ycombinator #Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr #Healthy_eating #Public_health #Medical_research #Nutrition #Corey_Nelson #Lifestyle #Marty_Makary #Daniel_Wang #Eric_Decker #Health #Martha_Belury
Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists

Seed oils have been the focus of fiery critics from internet influencers to high-profile politicians like HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They claim that these oils pressed from the seeds of certain plants are toxic to human health and fueling high rates of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes. Kennedy has called for a return to the use of fats such as beef tallow for frying. Such claims have exasperated nutrition scientists, who say decades of research have confirmed the health benefits of consuming such oils, especially when compared to sources such as butter or lard.

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 Hacker NewsFeb 14
CDC cuts expected to decimate Epidemic Intelligence Service
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/trump-cdc-cuts-include-epidemic-intelligence-service-outbreak-investigators/
#ycombinator #CDC #Donald_Trump #global_health #public_health
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

STAT
 Hacker NewsFeb 14
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/
#ycombinator #CDC #Donald_Trump #FDA #HHS #NIH #public_health
Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies

The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

STAT