Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH
@rmcarpiano.medsky.social
Professor, University of California, Riverside School of Public Policy. Public health scientist & sociologist keen on population health & community issues. Sometimes in the news, often for troubling and frustrating topics. Opinions my own. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦
😂 Joke all you want, but that Alan Parsons Project is no laughing matter.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I like how you think!!
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Is ordering 2 halves a possibility?
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You're fine. 👍
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
No worries--I was pretty sure you weren't. Just wanted to be add more context to my OP bc I realized it might be read that way.
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I wasn't implying that bringing it back fixed those problems and/or didn't introduce others.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Not that I am aware of, but I am definitely no expert on this.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I don't know another word for it. I just meant citing dip as an example is something you don't often hear (vs. smokes, vapes, or "uses tobacco"), as dip has a far more circumscribed user demo. He's from rural OK but I doubt it was intentional. I'd guess most who dip aren't watching Fox Bus. News.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Well, that's still policymaking--but just policymaking based on the bad process you described. I'm trying to think back to when this happened in 2020 and remember the discourse. Maybe I was too mired in COVID matters and life in shelter in place, but I am at a loss to remember much at all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Really makes you ponder too when you see the the interquartile ranges of GPAs for entering classes of various UC campuses. Super high, yet this news.
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
That sounds good. I never joined Facebook and, as time goes on, I am ever more thankful I haven't done so given everyone else's experiences I hear.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Thanks. Once again, the RFK Jr./Trump admin. appointing no one but the best... /s

lailluminator.com/2025/02/18/a...
There's no evidence Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham is a board-certified family physician • Louisiana Illuminator
Abraham is not listed on the online portal of the American Board of Family Medicine or the State Board of Medical Examiners' website.
lailluminator.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Right way to put it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM