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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report all products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
I do think the article is perfectly fine, and even insightful in establishing Kennedy's position which amounts to all public health risks of vaccines must be excluded and benefits cannot be included. This is not just an impossible standard, but also one we do not apply to other policies.
Trump was duly elected, and he appointed Kennedy as HHS secretary to carry out priorities Trump had advanced during the campaign. This gives Kennedy’s scientific policies democratic legitimacy, even if trained health experts shudder at what that may mean. But as we sat in his living room, I realized that Kennedy was making an argument I had not previously understood—a policy claim, not a factual one. He was saying that regardless of the lives saved by vaccines, it was irresponsible for the government to recommend them without first comprehensively ruling out all hidden dangers. He believes that only a few vaccines, including the tuberculosis vaccine, have been studied enough to clear this bar. Kennedy had slashed the budget of his own department. But now, he says, he plans to spend billions of dollars on hundreds of studies investigating vaccines’ potential ties to chronic diseases. “The default setting in medicine is ‘Do no harm,’ ” he said, as we talked about the COVID-vaccine boosters. “You never do an intervention—particularly with a healthy human being—unless you know that it’s safe and effective. And we don’t know if it’s safe and effective.”
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
neazil.bsky.social
I thought that's why you're doing what you're doing here. Carry on, please.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
neazil.bsky.social
Kyle, what is the history and tradition of sitting presidents publicly threatening the lives of members of Congress?
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
neazil.bsky.social
"Needs additional work," is what you write on a middle-schooler's failing essay.
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
neazil.bsky.social
To be clear: this is shameful and appalling.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM