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June 2025

EPA Staffers Demand Change in ‘Declaration of Dissent’
“Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration's focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions…
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Walker Bragman
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Amanda Magnani
NIH Fellows Union Endorses Bethesda Declaration Criticizing Agency Leadership
“So far, the director has been unwilling or unable to deliver on his promises.”
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Walker Bragman
Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At CDC Vaccine Panel
The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.
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Walker Bragman
Kennedy Stacks Critical Vaccine Panel With Anti-Vaxxers
In a move that aligns with his own stance on science, the health secretary fires all 17 experts on an advisory panel in order to appoint fringe…
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Walker Bragman
NIH Workers Demand Changes In New ‘Bethesda Declaration’
The public letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya was signed by hundreds of agency personnel.
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Walker Bragman
“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
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Walker Bragman

May 2025

Senate GOP Ramps Up Attacks On COVID Vaccines Amid FDA Push
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Wednesday hearing on myocarditis was an anti-vax spectacle.
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Walker Bragman
“I Believe It”: Bhattacharya Pushes Lab Leak Conspiracy At Contentious NIH Town Hall As Staffers Walk Out
Dozens of staffers walked out when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya promoted the unproven COVID origins story; others protested research cuts.
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Walker Bragman
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Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Took Social Darwinist View Of Pandemic
Wellness influencer Casey Means wrote that Americans needed to get healthy or risk death from COVID, calling the crisis “a Darwinian moment for…
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Walker Bragman
Doubt-Peddling YouTube Doctor Named FDA’s New Vaccine Chief
Vinay Prasad has a long history of questioning the necessity, safety, and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. Now, he’s the FDA’s top vaccine regulator.
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Walker Bragman
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Canada Healthwatch

April 2025

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