🎙️The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Health
In this podcast episode bioethicist @ArthurCaplan joins @GrinsteinJ to explore the conflict between communitarianism and autonomy, disability and perfection, and moral flashpoints shaping medicine.
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North Carolina school threatens to withhold valedictorian's HS diploma after the following extemporaneous comment: Whether it's the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or the families being torn apart by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), these are not distant issues. They are happening right now as I speak. My point is, we're not given a voice to stay silent." https://t.co/kmWRlu0D9U
Scientists are raising the alarm about a White House proposal that could fundamentally recast federally funded science. The proposed rules would put political appointees in control of all federal grants and de-emphasize peer review, among other measures.
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It turns out the real doctors who care for people in sickness and in health were right. And it turns out that a conspiratorial environmental lawyer who used too much drugs and who just wanted to be famous - RFK - isn't a medical expert.
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Trump: “You will no longer pay rent. You no longer have to pay interest on your mortgage, and no longer gonna have to pay for food. I'm gonna give you free food.”
The DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
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I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed
❗CMS has issued an interim final rule that implements new #workrequirements for adults on #Medicaid. Experts expressed concerns about the new rule, particularly medical frailty exemptions.
🔗Read more, with insight from @DarshaliVyas and @ArthurCaplan: https://t.co/3iPcuvK6Wd
President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.
Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr
But, whatever the underlying rationale, Trump's minions (not Trump, he is a scientific illiterate) are out for blood and doing well in the effort. Science is proving utterly inept at fighting back, siloed, in denial and too reliant on fed govt $$ to even try.
The administration is killing science. What is mysterious is why. His close advisors at Heritage who wrote project 2025 see science as a threat to religion, spirituality and faith.
Others see science as just lefty ideology or as a prisoner to huge corporate influences (RFK Jr)
People Can't Stop Talking About Dr. Oz's "Insane" Reason For Why He Says Trump Keeps Going To The Doctor - BuzzFeed. His answer is stupidity personified. This is monitoring for trouble out of concern not prevention https://t.co/4ZYGfZWlmd
Freedom 250 truck in CT town this week; Backlash cancels nearby stop. Phony history on tour at public expense. Content prepared by third rate institutions https://t.co/y7DRmv3VcQ
WAKE UP, AMERICA.
The Supreme Court majority just admitted it’s a PARTISAN operator willing to TORCH the rule of law to advance its ideological agenda.
In an unprecedented move with a brief UNSIGNED order, it: 1) IGNORED the central basis of the lower court’s decision, 2) DISREGARDED its own precedent (that it had assured just weeks ago remained good law), and 3) REWARDED Alabama's defiance of a federal court order.
All to help Republicans squeeze out one more seat in the midterms. And on Election Day for millions of Americans no less!
This is sick.
“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decisionmaking.” — Thurgood Marshall
If implemented, this would be one of the most significant shifts in federal research governance in modern U.S. history.
The concern is not simply budget cuts. It is political review moving into individual grant decisions - fundamentally changing how American science operates.
CMS Admin Dr. Oz repeats unsubstantiated claims of the savings Trump's drug pricing plans have achieved at White House presser today. Don't just repeat their claim. More info here: https://t.co/RxSpJMXpPO
The main claim — that the US recommends that all kids are vaccinated against many more pathogens than children in peer nations is not true. I did an analysis of 37 other countries. The US is not an outlier. https://t.co/xIxtTJCJAR