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skam240 writes:
I'm proposing the following idea for a Slashdot poll
Overall, do you think AI is having a net positive or negative effect on the internet?
A) Mostly positive
B) Somewhat positive
C) It's a wash
D) Somewhat negative
E) Mostly Negative
F) Just mark a second vote for whatever Cowboy Neal votes for
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skam240 writes:
Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases.
State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children.
Florida’s move, a significant departure from decades of public policy and research that has shown vaccines to be safe and the most effective way to stop the spread of communicable diseases, especially among schoolchildren, is a notable embrace of the Trump administration’s public health agenda led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist.
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skam240 writes:
President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
The “endangerment finding” is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.
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skam240 writes:
On Wednesday U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed 8 new members to the CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel after dismissing the entire panel earlier in the week . His new appointees include individuals who have been associated with vaccine misinformation and even one who has claimed that the COVID vaccines cause a form of aids. This is after stating on Tuesday “We’re going to bring great people onto the ACIP panel – not anti-vaxxers – bringing people on who are credentialed scientists.”.
Abram Wagner of the University of Michigan’s school of public health, who investigates vaccination programs, said he’s not satisfied with the composition of the committee.
“The previous ACIP was made up of technical experts who have spent their lives studying vaccines,” he said. Most people on the current list “don’t have the technical capacity that we would expect out of people who would have to make really complicated decisions involving interpreting complicated scientific data.”
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skam240 writes:
Well known vaccine skeptic and US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks https://apnews.com/article/ken... ,
Kennedy has an extensive history of vaccine skepticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , frequently furnishing false or misleading data dressed up to look scientific to the public.
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skam240 writes:
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has pledged "a massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism in five months.
Experts cautioned that finding the causes of autism spectrum disorder – a complex syndrome that has been studied for decades – will not be straightforward, and called the effort misguided and unrealistic.
Kennedy, who has promoted debunked theories suggesting autism is linked to vaccines, said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday that a US research effort will "involve hundreds of scientists from around the world."
"By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we'll be able to eliminate those exposures," Kennedy said.
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skam240 writes:
"Satirical news publication The Onion has bought Infowars, the media organisation headed by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, for an undisclosed price at a court-ordered auction.
The Onion said that the bid was secured with the backing of families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, who won a $1.5bn (£1.18bn) defamation lawsuit against Jones for spreading false rumours about the massacre."
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skam240 writes:
California has just become the first state to add Covid vaccination to its list of required vaccines for in school attendance. The requirement will go into effect at the start of the term that follows the FDA's full approval for that grade group — either January 1 or July 1, the governor's office added in its release. For grades 7-12 the requirement is expected to begin on July 1, 2022.
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skam240 writes:
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