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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And a video
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
And a few other interesting
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Next the crowd at Auditorium Shires
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Scenes from the Austin No Kings event. First, the march starting at city hall
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o.... With this guy in charge, biomedical science in America is screwed. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social @science.org
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Opinion | A Plan to Restore Trust in Science From a ‘Fringe Epidemiologist’
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... Every working scientist knows this but it is depressing to see it laid out. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o... This video is worth 15 minutes of your time. It summarizes the MAHA mindset and the dangers of its extreme elements.
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Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Lapredo is taking an extreme libertarian position. “The choice is yours and you have no right to tell me what to do even if it hurts others.”
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Stop the ICE Workplace Raids by @Peggynoonannyc. Peggy noonan’s opinions can drive me crazy. But her WSJ Column today got it right
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This is exactly right. Science is a core feature of my being. I’m an old guy who’s been allowed to do this for a good long while. Young people deserve the opportunity to indulge their scientific soul too.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I kinda like dazzleberries.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti.... Is there any chance anyone will listen?
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RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure
GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
You are just plain wrong about this. Where did you dig up this misinformation?
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’ve been stating a similar logic stream for science training. Draconian cuts followed by statements encouraging future scientists doesn’t make sense.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o.... This…
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Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have Either.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
You got that right.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Austin No Kings event was packed with people of all ages. I couldn’t hear the speak but the crowd and their signs were inspiring. @standupforscience.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No Kings. Philadelphia @standupforscience.bsky.social @nytimes.com @inquirer.com
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Just got word the Chicago No Kings event is filling multiple city blocks. Please post what you’re seeing Austin event starts at 5 pm. @standupforscience.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/o.... A well argued article. But So many people have been saying this and it does seem that anyone is listening. How do we motivate GOP legislators to push back and save US science? @standupforscience.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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Opinion | Red-State Universities Will Get Hit by Trump’s Cuts, Too
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h.... RFK he continues to prove he is an unmitigated disaster for American healthcare.
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Seems obvious but this is strangely a message that hasn’t broken through. Why are reporters asking RFJ jr this line of question at every press event?
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
www.chronicle.com/article/the-.... Based on this article it looks like Santa Ono has no honor or no spine to say what he really believes. Academia doesn’t need people like him in leadership
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Opinion | The Ruination of Santa Ono
When an accomplished man is reduced to pandering, it’s a sad spectacle.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w... @nytimes.com Read this and you’ll start to understand how dumb the current attack on science is going to hurt the US.
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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Does the President Want to Fix Harvard or Destroy It? by @jasonrileywsj This is the issue. It’s short sighted, it undercuts the power of American academia, and it is hurting the US, not just Harvard
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
NIH ? They don’t set public policy.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We wouldn’t have known about Ed if it weren’t for the Apollo 13 movie. But he epitomized the public servant scientist who does his job and puts the mission first.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Have you heard about the STFU about Chicago movement? Telling people to sit down and stop trashing science is what we need.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u... @NYTimes. More anti science policy from republicans in Florida and HHS. What’s next? Taking iodine out of table salt ( goiter prevention)? Vitamin d out of milk (bone health)? Folate out of flour (blocks neural tube defects)?
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Florida Just Banned Fluoride From Public Water. Here’s What to Know.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy to see the abstract from NIH REporter on these. But are you suggesting these are bad?
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b.... Theyre canceling studies on misinformation bc it interferes with people’s 1st amendment rights? First, the studies don’t do that - Even still, lying may be protected speech but to is calling people out for it. @nytimes.com @standupforscience.bsky.social #science
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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/05/2025
Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy. Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future. We all pay the price when science is defunded. www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
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Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Check out this article from USA TODAY: Trump administration deems Harvard ineligible for new federal research grants www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... This is really outrageous.
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Trump administration deems Harvard ineligible for new federal research grants
The Education Department notified Harvard University on Monday that it would be ineligible for new federal research grants.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Yeah….thats not right. F is safe at the level we add to water 0.7 mg/l. Weak evidence exists to lower IQ at twice that level. It’s not until you get to legitimately high levels >3 mg/l).
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... This puts what the Trump administration has done in stark relief with history @nytimes.com
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Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented? We Asked 35 Historians.
We categorized 22 of Mr. Trump’s actions, ranging from those that have no comparable historical example to those that do.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b.... This story is the most damming yet about the short sightedness of cutting this science budget….we need legislators to step up and stop the madness of defunding US science. #science @standupforscience.bsky.social @aacr @asbmr @aaas
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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Even weirder…..having zero scientific advisors.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great news to receive while attending AACR……sigh…..#science #cancer #nci
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
x.com/thenci/statu... We will be seen.
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National Cancer Institute on X: "Thank you for sharing such a powerful moment, @AACR. It is true that #CancerResearchSavesLives #AACR25" / X
Thank you for sharing such a powerful moment, @AACR. It is true that #CancerResearchSavesLives #AACR25
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I hope we get our representatives to wake up and act before it’s too late. True lasting damage is being done. @standupforscience.bsky.social #science
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
What do scientists do? We think, we do, we meet. Today starts the main program of the American Association for Cancer Research meeting. Big room full of motivated people. @theaacr.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/h... Come on…..seriously? This program works. It’s a volunteer driven, public-private partnership. What is not to like? @nytimes.com
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Trump Cuts Threaten Agency Running Meals on Wheels
A tiny division responsible for overseeing services for people with disabilities and older Americans is being dismantled as part of an overhaul by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
USA TODAY: 'If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it': Meet the food blogger influencing RFK Jr. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p.... I guess most people won’t be eating quinoa…
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'If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it': Meet the food blogger influencing RFK Jr.
“Welcome to the holiday death aisle,” says the 46-year-old food activist influencing RFK Jr.. “It's back, and it's in Easter form.”
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
x.com/kevinh_phd/s... If you haven’t been concerned about the direction of NIH and HHS, this departure of Kevin Hall from NIH should shake you up. @standupforscience.bsky.social @science.org @karaswisher.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social @foodsciencebabe.bsky.social
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Kevin Hall on X: "After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on https://t.co/JSybxCujDH" / X
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on https://t.co/JSybxCujDH
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I approve of this sharply worded post……..
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is on the NYT site right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u... #hands-off
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Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country
Demonstrators packed the streets in several cities to bemoan what they considered a lack of strong opposition to the president and his policies.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Well….she might know any but we exist. I love my kids and I’m happy I made the commitment to have them.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Where were you to get that picture?! Nice.
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drjfleet.bsky.social @drjfleet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Austin Tx Hands Off event has started ! Good turnout show a lot of frustration here. @standupforscience.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social
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