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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow

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🎙️ Critically Speaking with Dr. Therese Markow: A podcast at the intersection of science and society. Listen at smartpa.ge/criticallyspeakingpodcast

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 1h
What? 🤦‍♀️ Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BPA-free doesn't mean safe. Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld's lab found #BPA and its substitute BPS have equally harmful effects on the placenta. 22 billion pounds produced annually - and that doesn't include the replacements. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti…
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Probiotics during pregnancy are supposed to be safe. The research tells a more complicated story. Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld joins Dr. Therese Markow to share what her lab discovered and what it could mean for developing babies. 🎧 New episode out today. #probiotics #pregnancyhealth
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Raw milk strikes again. Thirteen people across nine states have become sick with E. coli after consuming Sierra Nevada Graziers’ product, with 8 of them having been hospitalized.
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E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk cheese brand: CDC, FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And will they include the persons religion and ethnicity? 😡 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Use of Trump Administration’s Expansive Database for Voter Screening
Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
America's political fighting over COVID isn't just embarrassing - it's a national security issue. Adversaries look for vulnerability. We're advertising ours. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #publichealth #pandemicpreparedness @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The loudest voices saying #antidepressants don't work aren't psychiatrists or researchers. Dr. Andrew Novick is both - and he's setting the record straight. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-an…
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Video: Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen
Federal immigration agents in Evanston, Ill., mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who was later released after he identified himself.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Judge orders White House to restore access to CNN, Politico, MS NOW after Trump ban
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to temporarily restore the journalists' credentials and said the ban was likely unconstitutional.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
White! No concealing the agenda. 🤦‍♀️. apnews.com/article/refu...
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Trump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees
The Trump administration plans to limit refugee admissions to 17,500 mostly white South Africans. The administration told Congress Tuesday that these individuals face land seizures and persecution.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some schools have measles vaccination rates as low as 14%. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social explains why we have more #measles cases now than the last 30 years and why every one of them was preventable. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti…
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This has to stop! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here we go! California warns of measles exposure in six counties from unvaccinated train passenger www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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California warns of measles exposure in six counties from unvaccinated train passenger
Health authorities work to notify people who were exposed to person who traveled through at least six counties
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heartless soul less creep Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Health research is “woke”? 🤦‍♀️😡. A commission? Don’t these people have more important matters to attend to? What absurd and destructive plan will arise next. wapo.st/3UPK3BP
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Vought pushes for scrutiny of NIH grants in Oval Office clash
A heated debate took place in the Oval Office on Friday, with some Trump officials accusing the National Institutes of Health of funding grants that conflict with the president’s agenda.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The #FDA sends a "no questions" letter when companies voluntarily report new food additives. It's not approval - it's absence. Why does the system put food companies in charge of their own safety reviews? 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #foodsafety
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The FDA has permitted 83 forever chemicals in food packaging. It has banned none. Daniel Aaron explains the regulatory failure behind what's lining your food containers. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #PFAS #foodsafety
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Food companies can decide for themselves whether their own ingredients are safe - with no requirement to report what they're adding to your food. This will change how you read a food label. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #foodsafety #FDAregulations
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Que milagro 💪🏼😀 wapo.st/3T9Qtee
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Supreme Court blocks sweeping mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections
The Trump administration had said the plan was necessary to protect against voter fraud, while states and voting rights groups said it could inject chaos in contests that will determine control of Con...
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🤦‍♀️ we’re scr ewed. ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Making America Great and Healthy ? 😣 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Indeed
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Totally preventable. So sad. Will it disappear like the deceased babies who had measles? Hopefully no unvaccinated people were infect by her.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Clearly
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Beware!
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Beware www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (Gift Article)
President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Trump administration blocks $25 million in funding for national parks
The Interior Department did not give approval to more than 130 partnership agreements covering activities like tending to sled dogs and preventing damage to burial mounds.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Women get Alzheimer's twice as often as men. When Dr. Paul Schulz compared high-dose vs. standard flu vaccines, all of the additional protective effect was in women. Men barely moved. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #womenshealth #Alzheimers
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🅲🅸🆅🅸🅻 🅳🅴🅵🅴🅽🆂🅴🗽 @musiccomposer.com · 11/09/2026
they wont let him in nyc to pull his bullshit.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Terrific and insightful piece. Can this movement be turned around? Is it too late? open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...
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Why Are Women Increasingly Leading the Far Right?
‘Traditional’ womanhood now also comes in a power suit
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Think you'd recognize a narcissist if you met one? That's exactly what makes them so effective - the traits that make them dangerous are the ones that make them impossible to see coming. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eliza…
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fetterman 🤦‍♀️ Ugh. Gotta go
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Never materialized”
Sounds like bribery. Talk is cheap.
People are gullible.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lunacy abounds Where’s my 5K? 🙄🙄 wapo.st/4gSrpQU W
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Trump makes case for Iran war, promises $5,000 payouts if GOP wins midterms
The president accused Iran of trying to influence the midterm elections as escalating violence in the Middle East loomed over his convention.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Cancer’s toll on 9/11 survivors is accelerating 25 years later
The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness’s toll becomes more apparent.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
No surprise here. We’re losing ground. wapo.st/3SUahlJ
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U.S. students’ scores on international test reach lowest point in 2 decades
Students around the globe earned among the lowest average scores ever in science, reading and mathematics on the Program for International Student Assessment.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nobody expected the flu vaccine to show up in Alzheimer's research. Dr. Paul Schulz analyzed 93 million patient records and found that six annual flu shots are associated with a 40% reduction in Alzheimer's risk. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #Alzheimers
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Something nobody anticipated fell out of Dr. Paul Schulz's Alzheimer's data - and it involves the flu vaccine. Confirmed across millions of patient records. For women especially, this episode is worth your time. 🎧 Tune in tomorrow. #Alzheimers #fluvaccination
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes!!!
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And what about New York? Where do these things come from? Each day something worse. Boiling frog situation. We’re the frogs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/u...
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Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’ (Gift Article)
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We had one once… before someone tore it up 🤦‍♀️ Energy secretary says US might not reach nuclear agreement with Iran www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Energy secretary says US might not reach nuclear agreement with Iran
Chris Wright tells ABC there ‘may not’ be an agreement that would prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE bans hugging inside California’s largest detention center. Families are fighting back
In the California City facility, ‘contact visits’ are strictly forbidden – but detained residents aren’t staying quiet. Are officials listening?
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
She doesn't remember her daughter's name. But she holds her hand and smiles. Dr. Zaldy Tan says correcting someone with Alzheimer's doesn't help - meeting them in their world does. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #Alzheimers #dementia
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Save us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
An Alzheimer's diagnosis doesn't mean your career is over. Most people in the early stages can keep working - and employers are legally required to make accommodations. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #Alzheimers #dementia
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An outrage
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
No tienen huevos los de Apple 🤨 apnews.com/article/appl...
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Apple changes Lake Ontario name to 'Lake America' for US users of its Maps, following Trump's order
Apple has relabeled Lake Ontario to “Lake America” for U.S. users of its maps app, following competitor Google days after President Donald Trump ordered a new name for the body of water amid his escal...
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Only 50% of people with dementia are ever diagnosed. A blood test can now detect Alzheimer's proteins 10 to 20 years before the first symptom. Dr. Zaldy Tan explains what that window makes possible. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… #Alzheimers #brainhealth
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Our one hope for fair #elections. How can this be prevented? 😡🤬 wapo.st/4h23mQO
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Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says
An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.
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