Bénédicte C
Biosciences & Tech policy
Post about research, innovation, public health, politics & policy making, regulation, disinfo
She/Her/Antifacist
- Reposted by Bénédicte CStrong Op-Ed on how Trump regime is hurting people globally, just like destroying USAID did. progressive.org/op-eds/new-f... The cruelty is the point, once again.
- Prasad cannot find the 10 deaths he claimed existed so now HHS is gaping AI will hallucinate them?
- NEW: NEW: HHS is working on an AI tool to analyze VAERS—a database of vaccine injury claims to which anyone can make submissions—and "generate hypotheses." This is from @emilymullin.bsky.social:
- Hoping…
- Reposted by Bénédicte CIt’s Wednesday so it’s time for the Whooper of the week! Trans youth deserve science-based care, not culture-war talking points. Gender-affirming medicine is supported by medical societies & decades of research. Politicians should not override decisions btwn a provider & patient.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThe current CMS Administrator, who controls health coverage for 150 million Americans, emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2016. He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape www.patreon.com/posts/149885...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CEstimated 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Severe COVID-19: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "COVID vaccines offered protection against hospitalization and severe in-hospital outcomes..." "...40% against hospitalization & 79% against invasive mechanical ventilation or death."
- Reposted by Bénédicte CLower speed limits have now gone into effect on Route 27 in Princeton. One section from Harrison St to Snowden Lane has been reduced from 35 mph to 25 mph. From Snowden Lane to Kingston, the speed limit has been reduced from 45 mph to 35 mph. centraljersey.com/2025/12/17/s...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CFDA Removes Warning Page About Dangerous Autism Treatments www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNew Mexico health officials say the death of a newborn child due to listeria is likely because the mother drank unpasteurized (or "raw") milk while she was pregnant.
- Reposted by Bénédicte C#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky🛟 🫁 The FY 2026 funding package just passed by Congress includes $246.5 million for the CDC’s tobacco control program. However, there is nobody left at CDC to administer these funds.
- RFK Jr is not a doctor and has no professional standards. That does not stop him from blaming doctors while he bullies hospitals and clinics into banning medical care for trans kids. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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- Reposted by Bénédicte CFrench trolling is just superb.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CYes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
- Reposted by Bénédicte C'There were no fancy pieces of equipment, no incomprehensible statistical analyses (...) Instead, it merely involved a researcher, some petri dishes & a lab book in which to record the results of crosses that were intellectually complex to conceive of, but which were remarkably simple to carry out.'
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNew: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
- Reposted by Bénédicte COne by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
- Reposted by Bénédicte COnly 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.
- Reposted by Bénédicte C(interlude: support my candidacy!) secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4nj
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNews from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...
- Reposted by Bénédicte C“Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby's mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
- Reposted by Bénédicte COn top of disasters in national security, civil rights, the economy, public health, climate, and education... Now the American food supply is under threat. 😥 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CFor decades, the recommended vaccine schedule has protected Americans against severe disease. Vaccine expert Walter Orenstein explains the importance of a transparently developed, standardized schedule and shares his concerns about recent changes. 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1005-vaccine...
- Reposted by Bénédicte C“Measles is a bad bug,” APHA CEO Georges C. Benjamin, MD, tells CNN. During a usual outbreak, “money would flow, resources would come in, there would be a big national educational campaign, and quite frankly, a large vaccination campaign across all areas of our country.”
- Reposted by Bénédicte CHistorically, changes to the federal vaccine schedule require a long period of review by the FDA and the CDC. That's starting to change. Hear more from Walter Orenstein, former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, on Public Health On Call: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1005-vaccine...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CHouse Lawmaker Raises New Concerns Over FDA's Ultra-Fast Drug Review Program www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThis is good news. I was wondering aloud to my students recently as to whether other states would follow California's lead in joining this. Hopefully we'll see others too from these new cross-state health alliances (e.g., the Governors' Health Alliance IL & CA are part of). 🛟 health policy idsky 😷
- Reposted by Bénédicte CYou want a hot take? Here’s a hot take. Making this stuff an issue of trust or political divides is… individualizing public health. It’s an abdication of the actual tools we had for living in a society: legal standards for business and food safety. It’s okay to regulate stuff, folks
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CBhattacharya is a right-wing academic hack, associated with Stanford's right-wing Hoover Institution. This is what happens when you substitute ideological bias for academic rigor in higher ed and every academic needs to fight that, whether the bias comes from the right, left, or center.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThinking of Giselle Pellicot today and her assertion that “shame must change sides.” Our society MUST do more to ostracize abusers instead of the victims who are made to feel like the only way forward is alone and in silence.
- Sex aside, the hubris of the ideas presented in "The Edge" via Epstein's science fan-boy club is something else. Aren't we all the cleverest boys in the class? No wonder AI models are sycophantic, it worked to hook the professors and writers onto the pedophile band wagon.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CHappy to see this: Howard County revokes permit for ICE detention facility in Elkridge www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
- Reposted by Bénédicte Cexactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CZohran Mamdani overcame millions of dollars of superPAC and billionaire money to win his race. One reason why? New York City’s public financing system. Watch:
- Oh you mean like pushing ivermectin as a Covid cure? Or stem cell injections for ageing? “Without fear” they might lose their license for selling quack medicine? Or fear of being sued?
- Nebraska senators are paving the way for a new bill that protects doctors' rights to voice dissenting medical opinions without fear of losing their licenses—find out what this means for healthcare professionals! Click to read more! #NE #PublicHealthPolicy #ProfessionalExpression #CitizenPortal
- Relatedly... pauloffit.substack.com/p/whos-reall...
- Paul Offit's latest blog: MAHA isn't a bunch of "Moms" who care about their children's health, it's the unregulated $6.3 trillion -- yes, trillion with a T -- Wellness industry. Right, RFK? pauloffit.substack.com/p/whos-reall...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CPart of my book on backlash politics since Reconstruction focuses on the shoring up of Jim Crow in the early 20th century through a combination of Confederate memorialization and the demonization of Reconstruction, and the founding of the Alfalfa Club in 1913 fits right in to that timeline.
- I’m sorry, what? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Bénédicte C#Medsky🧪 Against this backdrop of increasing attacks on scientific truth from 🇺🇸 administration & #publichealth, @pasteur.fr reaffirms its determination to combat all forms of disinformation by pursuing its scientific research, www.pasteur.fr/en/press-are...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNew: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CMore of this kind of thing!
- Reposted by Bénédicte C🚨BREAKING: The French government is currently raiding the X/Twitter offices in Paris.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThere is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
- Reposted by Bénédicte Cas someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams
- Reposted by Bénédicte CRFK Jr., the man destroying America’s public health system and access to healthcare, is in the Epstein files going on “safari” with him and Ghislaine Maxwell. To the same country where Epstein offered to bring back little Black children for his customers. They are pedophiles.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CLord I see what you’ve done for others
- Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0
- Reposted by Bénédicte CFlorida's legislature continues apace with its Governor and Surgeon General's declared war on children via embrace of infectious diseases. 🛟😷🧪medsky sociology idsky health policy
- Reposted by Bénédicte CA crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells @apnews.com The roughly 40 million Americans who get drinking water from wells are at particular risk when harmful forever chemicals contaminate the supply.
- Reposted by Bénédicte Cfor over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them
- “Retreat”
- Reposted by Bénédicte CPlease enjoy this article featuring Larry Krasner, someone who is keeping Philly safe unlike Gov Shapiro share.inquirer.com/rn2MtX?utm_s...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThe death of Alex Pretti has been ruled a homicide, the Hennepin County medical examiner’s office said. Pretti was shot Jan. 24 during a chaotic encounter with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez were named as the two officers who fired at Pretti.
- Reposted by Bénédicte CTwo chem profs decided to check George's work after our Mexican Coke video, so we went to see what they'd found. In the process we accidentally discovered Coke's doing something totally new and hasn't told anyone. Naturally the next step was to break into NPR and talk with @planetmoney.bsky.social 🧪
- Reposted by Bénédicte CNew six word horror story: “measles outbreak exposes hospital maternity unit” www.healthbeat.org/2026/02/02/s...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CThe first plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on #Chemicals, #Waste & #Pollution kicks off today in #GENeva. A most read to know why this is important for all of us: sdg.iisd.org/commentary/g...
- Reposted by Bénédicte CStarting today in Geneva, a new global science-policy panel begins its work on chemicals, waste and pollution. Pollution harms health, economies and ecosystems. This Panel brings science together to support smarter decisions and help #BeatPollution before harm happens: www.unep.org/isp-cwp
