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Today — 4 September 2025Main stream

Kennedy to Add New Members to Vaccine Advisory Panel

The health secretary fired the original committee members in June, replacing them with some who have been critical of vaccines.

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A meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in June.
Yesterday — 3 September 2025Main stream

Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.

In a post on Truth Social, the president suggested that the C.D.C. was being “ripped apart” over a question that was answered long ago.

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Five years after the pandemic began, most people in the U.S. have some immunity to Covid from vaccination, infection, or both.

Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses

2 September 2025 at 23:46
Changes in screening recommendations over a decade ago may have inadvertently resulted in later diagnosis of the most common cancer in men, a new study has found.

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Ultrasound and M.R.I. images of a prostate biopsy in California.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

31 August 2025 at 17:00
Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.

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The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of the heliocentric theory came to symbolize the church’s hostility to open inquiry.
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