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Gary Ruskin

@garyruskin.wsocial.eu
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Executive director of U.S. Right To Know, working to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures threatening our health, food, and environment.

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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 28/09/2026
Hormone-disrupting chemical mixtures linked to excess childhood weight Via @usrighttoknow.bsky.social @pamelawrites.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/h...
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Hormone-disrupting chemical mixtures linked to excess childhood weight
A study of 1,301 European mother-child pairs found prenatal exposure to PFAS and chemical mixtures was linked to higher BMI and body fat through age 15.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 10/09/2026
Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for ‘nefarious purposes to shift blame,’ email shows usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...
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Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for 'nefarious purposes to shift blame,' email shows
New emails show virologist Ralph Baric worried that a public statement on COVID origins and his lab's work could be used for 'nefarious purposes'.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 02/09/2026
Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger. Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/bill-gates/b...
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Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.
AGRA promised to double African crop yields. Two decades and $1.5 billion later, new data shows yield growth lagged and hunger climbed 58%.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 06/08/2026
"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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AI-designed viral genomes
The generation of functional viral genomes has urgent biosafety and biosecurity implications
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 05/08/2026
"This meta-analysis reports increases of 61% to 71% in the risk of developing ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] in persons ever occupationally exposed to pesticides and specifically to herbicides or to insecticides, compared with unexposed persons" oem.bmj.com/content/earl...
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Occupational exposure to pesticides increases the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective To systematically review the evidence on the association between occupational exposure to pesticides and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods A systematic search, conduc...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 31/07/2026
The corporate shakedown via the "princess of darkness" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 29/07/2026
Here is the ultra-processed food industry and its allies telling Congress to take away states’ rights to protect us from dangerous food additives, artificial sweeteners, preservatives and colorings. americansforingredienttransparency.com/food-ingredi... Background is here: usrtk.org/ultra-proces...
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Food Ingredient Transparency Coalition and Allies Urge Action This Year on Uniform National Standard in Letter to Congressional Leaders - Americans for Ingredient Transparency
Following Chairman Cassidy’s support for a national standard, more than 260 industry leaders sound alarm to prevent patchwork of state ingredient laws from creating 12% cost increase on groceries Amer...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 26/07/2026
AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. "The absence of mandated safeguards coincides with a rise in queries from users asking AI models how to kill en masse—and chatbots responding with credible plans for mass-casualty attacks" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
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AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.
AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 24/07/2026
AI titans' biggest private fear: an AI-generated bioweapon. "They assessed a 12% chance that AI's dangerous capabilities produce a catastrophic outcome by 2030, and another 12% chance of AI-enabled weapons and mass-harm capabilities." Via @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/07/24/a...
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Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
There's rare agreement among the top AI experts about the seriousness of the risk.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 23/07/2026
"These findings suggest that prenatal GLY [glyphosate] exposure may interfere with early cognitive and social processes underlying attention, learning, and socialization in early childhood." Via Environmental Epidemiology www.ovid.com/jnls/environ...
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Assessment of effect modification in associations... : Environmental Epidemiology
Background:Glyphosate (GLY)-based herbicides are widely used globally, and GLY and its degradant aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) have been...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 22/07/2026
Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry usrtk.org/pesticides/t...
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Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry
Over the past 18 months, the Trump administration has delivered a string of victories to the pesticide industry.
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2026
"glyphosate may act upon pathways leading to preterm birth and spontaneous preterm birth. Our study highlights pregnancy as a vulnerable period to glyphosate exposure." Via Environmental Pollution sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Associations of Glyphosate Exposure in Pregnancy with Preterm Birth: a Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study
Emerging data suggests that glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide, can influence reproductive health. We investigated associations of prenatal exposur…
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
Here is a heavily redacted copy of the CIA's "Updated COVID-19 Origins Assessment," which we just obtained via FOIA litigation. usrtk.org/wp-content/u...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.wsocial.eu · 30/06/2026
"Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health..." usrtk.org/healthwire/b...
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Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide
Tobacco companies are embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a powerful channel to undermine public health.
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