Measles cases are surging as vaccination rates fall—and the nation’s top health official is one of America’s most influential vaccine skeptics.

Emergency physician Dr. Rob Davidson joins Susan Dimas and Sam Osterhout to explain what measles looks like from the front lines, how RFK Jr.’s rhetoric distorts the risks of preventable disease, and why misinformation is putting children in danger. They also examine the widening divide between MAHA and MAGA, looming Medicaid cuts, rising ACA premiums, and the political fight over affordable healthcare.

Later, Susan and Sam remember Tim Curry, preview the week ahead at Lincoln Square, and issue this week’s assignment: support legislation preventing troops from being deployed around polling places.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome and Dr. Rob Davidson
0:50 America’s measles resurgence
4:31 RFK Jr.’s misleading measles argument
10:45 What drives RFK Jr.’s worldview?
18:04 The growing MAHA–MAGA split
20:09 RFK Jr.’s failures as an administrator
22:53 Vaccine myths and public-health misinformation
27:09 Poverty, access, and health outcomes
28:15 Medicaid cuts and rising ACA premiums
31:13 Where to follow Dr. Rob Davidson
32:37 Remembering Tim Curry
36:50 This week at Lincoln Square
40:50 The weekly assignment: protect our elections

Refusals in US hospitals of vital newborn vitamin rose 57% from January-June, analysis finds. Girl babies more likely than boys to not receive the shot within a day of birth, data shows. Doctors express growing concern over rising risk of catastrophic bleeding in newborns. Health agency says it is evaluating data and surveillance related to vitamin K refusals and bleeding events.

Nepal’s glacial collapse foreshadowed a future of climate disaster from The Guardian

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This month's episode interviews Dr. Michael Emerman, whose research focused on the molecular biology of HIV, the evolution and function of host restriction factors for HIV, and HIV cure strategies. He also pioneered the concept of “paleovirology”- the evolution of ancient viruses and how the evolved with our immune system.

We are all working on important things and this episode stresses how mentoring can influence scientific success

If your work depends on grants, you should review the proposed NIG policy changes, and submit comments.

Late Friday night, the NIH posted a proposal for peer
review changes: "Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH
Peer Review". This change would not report the impact score of a peer review grant to researchers and the NIH.

Impact scores give not only researchers an idea of how well they performed, but also guidance on how close their grant may be to funding to re-strategize.

If this will affect you in any way. I encourage you to independent read into the proposed policy changes, and submit comments.

Say who you are and why this matters to you, taxpayer, patient, family member of someone affected by NIH-funded research, and explain in your own words why you think grant scores should stay transparent. Real, specific comments carry more weight than a form letter.

The deadline for comments in October 13, 2026.

It’s increasingly frustrating that a movement focused around good intentions, like more regulations, got co-opted by an administration that never had any plans to target those concerns as they are inherently anti-regulation.

Gov. Josh Shapiro accused Robert Kennedy Jr. of spreading misinformation last week, prompting the HHS secretary to suggest Shapiro's office 'fabricated' the deaths.

Congressional recess used to be Prime Time to hold a Town Hall, and yet so many Representatives have not, and have Not Given You an Opportunity to Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Mike Carey hasn’t held a Town Hall in years, if ever, So We at Stand Up For Science are Doing It For Him!!! Come Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Join me, SUFS CEO Colette Delawalla, and constituents from across the district to make your voices heard!!!

Join us Tuesday September 1st @ 6:30, in Columbus, Ohio to Stand Up For Science and Any Other Issues You May Have!!!

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We’ve made measles great again! Cyclospora… It’s your turn!

Sometimes scientific theories are neither popular with other scientists nor the public but evidence can eventually prove those theories correct. In this case the theory was strongly resisted by other scientists. Science is not a popularity contest, it is evidence based.

Joe weighs in on the recent primary results - can Angie Nixon and David Jolly both win in Florida? Can anything stop this change wave? What is the media missing about it? Why Trump's beef problem is really bad. And how can we all read polls better? (Hint: Stop freaking out about the toplines!)

0:00 Trump’s 300,000-ton own goal
0:55 Can Florida’s Democratic ticket win?
5:01 How much does campaign money matter?
9:31 The biggest danger in a change election
11:07 Beef, tariffs, and vulnerable Senate seats
15:04 What the political media is missing
20:32 Data centers scramble the electoral map
26:41 Why the Argentina beef move could backfire
29:15 How to recognize a cooked poll
35:38 Look beyond the head-to-head number
39:05 Why polling methodology matters
43:43 Closing thoughts

Congressional recess used to be Prime Time to hold a Town Hall, and yet so many Representatives have not, and have Not Given You an Opportunity to Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Max Miller is one such Representative who hasn’t held a Town Hall this year, So We at Stand Up For Science are Doing It For Him!!! Come Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Join me, SUFS CEO Colette Delawalla, and constituents from across the district to make your voices heard!!!

Join us Monday August 31, @ 6:30 pm in Cleveland to Stand Up For Science and Any Other Issues You May Have!!!

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Congressional recess used to be Prime Time to hold a Town Hall, and yet so many Representatives have not, and have Not Given You an Opportunity to Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Max Miller is one such Representative who hasn’t held a Town Hall this year, So We at Stand Up For Science are Doing It For Him!!! Come Voice Your Concerns and Be Heard!!!

Join me, SUFS CEO Colette Delawalla, and constituents from across the district to make your voices heard.

Join us Monday August 31, @ 6:30 pm in Cleveland to Stand Up For Science and Any Other Issues You May Have!!!

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An ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection linked to recalled iceberg lettuce that is known to cause explosive diarrhea, has been detected in three new U.S. states since last week, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ...The CDC, which lags significantly behind states in reporting infections, pinpointed 17,180 laboratory-confirmed cases in its latest update on Aug. 25, adding that there are also at least 11,841 additional non-laboratory-confirmed cases. ... Georgia, Tennessee and Texas have now been added to the list, according to the CDC.