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Senior correspondent covering health at Vox. Tips/pitches: dylan.scott@vox.com. Sign up for GOOD MEDICINE: www.vox.com/pages/good-medicine-new…

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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Obligatory Oscar Night Top 10 of 2025 that no one else cares about: 1) One Battle After Another 2) Weapons 3) Train Dreams 4) Bring Her Back 5) Superman 6) Sinners 7) Wake Up Dead Man 8) Strange Harvest 9) The Testament of Ann Lee 10) (tie) Black Bag/Presence
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I really, REALLY hate how we have turned Oscar races into moral judgments with “right” answers
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I hadn’t watched it in years, I just appreciate its minimalism (basically non stop pace, 1 hr and 46 mins) when you consider what the Craig series had become by Spectre and No Time to Die (almost 3 hours!!)
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
quantum of solace is underrated
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I talked to the authors of the disputed brain study and this comment stuck out to me: “We’re living longer than ever. Let’s not panic.” Just maybe avoid microwaving food in a plastic container and live your life: www.vox.com/health/47530...
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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We have to find a better equilibrium for thinking about plastic.‬ ‪It has enabled wonderful things we enjoy as modern humans. It also presents health risks worth taking seriously. ‬ ‪Both things can be true!‬ ‪https://www.vox.com/health/475307/plastic-microplastics-waste-human-effects-guardian‬
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Here is, I think, a more productive mindset for most of us: - Plastics do harm human health - Take "low pain" steps to mitigate risk without upending your life - Don't overreact, in either direction, to new research or new media fixations www.vox.com/health/47530...
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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I spoke with co-authors on the brain study critiqued in the Guardian article. “Nobody’s getting it perfect. But when you start combining the best practices, all of a sudden, I think in a year, maybe two, we’re going to have this unassailable approach." www.vox.com/health/47530...
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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Lost in the public squabbling about microplastics research is this reality: This is a young field and new research should be critiqued for its methods. That's how the research will improve. This is how science is supposed to work: www.vox.com/health/47530...
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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
‪The science on microplastics is hard to do and it is multifaceted. This week’s bombshell was about a specific kind of study. ‬ ‪We need a better framework for absorbing new developments:‬ ‪https://www.vox.com/health/475307/plastic-microplastics-waste-human-effects-guardian‬
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study www.vox.com/health/47530...
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We have to stop freaking out about every new microplastics study
Microplastics are bad for us. But scientists are still figuring out the rest of the story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I am so sad www.tmz.com/2026/01/10/g...
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Grateful Dead Founding Member Bob Weir Dead at 78
Bob Weir -- the guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
oh my god. More details are surfacing about the catastrophic incompetence that led to the dietary guidelines' inaccurate claims about a litany of nutrient gaps in plant-based diets
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It’s one particularly wonky example of how politicians warp reality to bend it to what they want people to believe — not what actually happened. And at the end of the day, even if they misled people, they won the fight. That’s politics, I guess: www.vox.com/health/47472...
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Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It’s a subtle thing. But the industry and Congress clearly felt they had a stronger argument if they portrayed the Biden admin alcohol study as coming after the industry-preferred study — and they have consistently twisted these facts to advance that story.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
But this is false — and contradicted BY THE HOUSE REPORT ITSELF. Look at this page. They say the Biden admin authorized their alcohol study in APRIL 2022 —*after* Congress already authorized theirs. But follow the footnote. They cite a spending bill passed in DECEMEBER 2022
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A key talking point was this was a crusade and one that began AFTER Congress had authorized what would become the more pro-alcohol study. House Oversight published their final report on the controversy and they repeat this talking point throughout: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
There was a coordinated effort between the alcohol industry and Congress to discredit both the findings of the study that found negative effects at low levels of drinking and the researchers themselves. Again read all about it here: www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
You can read the whole saga, but in short, two different studies analyzing alcohol and health were produced ahead of the dietary guidelines. One study found negligible negative effects, while the other found a serious mortality risk at low drinking levels www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
There’s an interesting lesson in DC spin and misinformation when it comes to the new dietary guidelines and alcohol and the studies produced to justify these new changes. A short thread —>
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I gotta say, it was pretty rich hearing Dr. Oz claim there is no evidence for a more specific limit on drinking alcohol: www.vox.com/health/47472...
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Dr. Oz claims there’s no data to support reducing alcohol consumption. That’s not true.
RFK Jr.’s new dietary guidelines ignore his own government’s findings on the harms of alcohol.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hey! I'll be hanging out over on Reddit in 15 minutes, talking about our newsletter (sign up!), the health care beat, and anything else you'd like! Check it out: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In the near feature, you could get your inflammation checked at your annual check-up along with your blood sugar and cholesterol. “I can envision a future where inflammation is a pre-symptomatic warning sign — something you notice before you feel sick." www.vox.com/health/47438...
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The problem with blaming everything on inflammation
What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Inflammation is on everybody's minds these days. But the social media remedies miss the complex biology underneath. I tried to get a picture of what the real, evidence-based future of managing inflammation looks like. Here's what I found: www.vox.com/health/47438...
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The problem with blaming everything on inflammation
What your favorite TikTok influencer gets right — and wrong — about this widespread concern.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
TOMORROW, a new health care newsletter that promises to be a little different from all the other wonderful health care newsletters. Sign up --> www.vox.com/pages/good-m...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We're launching a new newsletter, Good Medicine, on a simple premise: These are chaotic times, with so much distrust and confusion around our health and our health care system. So our goal is to help all of us navigate through the cacophony, together: www.vox.com/pages/good-m...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Don't call it a VoxCare comeback. We're cooking up a new health care newsletter that I think you're really going to like -->
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“We’re going through a cycle, and there will be casualties. There will be needless deaths and illnesses,” a Texas pediatrican told me. “I think that the only generation that is going to learn from this will be maybe the next one.” www.vox.com/health/47333...
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The year measles came back
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“It only takes one generation to forget the progress we’ve made on certain things," one Arizona family doctor told me. "Twenty-five years ago, we were a measles-free nation. Now we’re back one generation later because we forgot how terrible it was.” www.vox.com/health/47333...
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The year measles came back
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Measles came back because, paradoxically, our public health efforts worked so well. People lost their fear of a dangerous virus. www.vox.com/health/47333...
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The year measles came back
Doctors reflect on how the virus’s resurgence has affected their patients and themselves in 2025: “It’s been insane.”
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The ACA tax credit catastrophe revealed that after a decade-plus of the ACA, Republicans are no closer to having a serious, coherent plan for fixing the US health system and lowering costs: www.vox.com/health/47196...
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Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Do we want a vaccine policy based on vibes? Because that's what we're getting: www.vox.com/health/47136...
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RFK Jr.’s anti-vax committee is recklessly overhauling childhood vaccine policy
America’s vaccine playbook is being rewritten by people who don’t believe in them.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I talked with @drtomfrieden.bsky.social about what's happening at the CDC: www.vox.com/today-explai...
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The disaster at the CDC, explained by its former boss
The CDC has lost one-third of its staff this year. What now?
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“The thing that the alcohol industry fears more than increased taxes is increased knowledge about the risks associated with drinking alcohol, particularly around cancer,” Mike Marshall, CEO of the Alcohol Policy Alliance, who was not involved, told me: www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It was fascinating to see how effectively the alcohol industry and its allies commandeered the narrative about these alcohol health studies. People were really treating the one that actually got commissioned first as if it were duplicative and suspect: www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The saga of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study reveals a lot about how public health and science collide with politics and corporate interests in Washington, DC: www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows. www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
icing my knees and feet after coaching two youth soccer games today, I have never felt closer to 40
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We took on the eternal question: Is "moderate" drinking really that bad for you? www.vox.com/health/40368...
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Is “moderate” drinking really that bad for you?
The confusing guidance about alcohol, simplified.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
the new Vox pod on AI is gonna be so good www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?
The battle over artificial intelligence is just beginning.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is an important quote from Trump's outside health care czar: “I think you can be pretty expansive about what’s considered waste, fraud, and abuse." He's referring to the ACA's Medicaid expansion match: www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/m...
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Republicans’ new Medicaid arguments: They’re only cutting waste, fraud, and abuse
A conservative group's study claims there's a high level of improper payments in Medicaid, amid efforts to cut spending.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
yep I saw my mom and sisters (and even me and my friends) in that dynamic
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
So good. My mom is one of three sisters and my grandpa died in a similar way, so it really hit home.
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
top 10 movies of 2024 for Oscar Day: 1. The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2. Civil War 3. Red Rooms 4. Dune: Part II 5. Nickel Boys 6. Longlegs 7. Conclave 8. Anora 9. Flow 10. Rebel Ridge HM: The Substance, The Wild Robot, Hit Man, His Three Daughters, Nosferatu
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
today my sick kindergartener kept asking me “what’s wrong with your gavel until I realized he meant the wrinkles when I arch my eyebrows I am deceased now and tweeting from the afterlife
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Here's another sign-up link for Vox's new newsletter, GOOD NEWS: www.vox.com/pages/good-n...
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hey, we're launching a new newsletter called GOOD NEWS, about, well, the good news that does not get enough attention. Sign it up here: www.vox.com/newsletters
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Newsletters | Vox
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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Texas health officials just confirmed the first death in the measles outbreak spreading at the TX-New Mexico border: That of an unvaccinated, school-aged child. @dylanlscott.bsky.social with the latest: www.vox.com/health/40113... @vox.com
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What RFK Jr. has said about the ongoing measles outbreak
The new Health and Human Services secretary is facing one of his first public health crises. Will he blow up the typical protocol?
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Dylan Scott @dylanlscott.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Vox's Future Perfect is accepting applications for its excellent fellowship program --> job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...
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