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Post-NECSS thanks

The last time I was at NECSS, which was in 2015.

No new Insolence today, I’m afraid. But I have an explanation.

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The FDA cracks down on bogus cancer “cures.” Will this be the last time this happens until after Trump?

This week, the FDA sent warning letters to 14 companies making unsupported claims that their products can treat cancer. Given the new administration’s determination to deregulate almost everything, but especially the FDA, is this the last time in the foreseeable future that such a crackdown will occur?

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Federal biomedical science policy under Donald Trump, nearly 100 days in

In less than two weeks, the Trump administration will have passed that magical “first 100 days” marker. Let’s check in and see how Donald Trump is shaping federal biomedical policy thus far. Hint: It’s deregulation über alles.

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Antivaxers marched on Washington last week. It was less than impressive.

The mass of antivaxers yearning to be free to let their children suffer from vaccine-preventable diseases descends upon the White House.

A few dozen antivaccine activists descended upon Washington, DC to protest and lobby their legislators. The protest itself was not impressive, but pro-science advocates shouldn’t let this pathetic march lead them to be complacent. Antivaxers are meeting with legislators, and President Trump is sympathetic to their aims.

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Tomorrow, antivaxers march on Washington, and, boy, are they excited!

This is the banner that antivaxers will be marching under. Why is it that they always try to conflate "freedom" with the ability to let disease run rampant?

Antivaxers are marching on Washington tomorrow, as they did in 2008. The cast is different (other than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Barbara Loe Fisher), but the dangerous pseudoscientific is the same.