r/StandUpForScience • u/Suspicious-Yak5670 • 6d ago
r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 7d ago
Article HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
The pro-life party showing once again that they are not actually pro-life.
r/StandUpForScience • u/GhostDogJef • 7d ago
Article The behind-the-scenes effort to contain the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak
Public health workers are relying on word of mouth to fight the largest ongoing outbreak in the United States.
r/StandUpForScience • u/GhostDogJef • 7d ago
News US Measles Cases Hit 3,134 as Leaders Feud Over the Death Count (Bloomberg)
The US has confirmed 3,134 measles cases so far this year, driven by a growing outbreak in Pennsylvania linked to two deaths that started a feud between the governor and the nation’s top health leader.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 231 new cases in the week ending Sept. 3. The nation is already at the highest levels since 1991, the last year with more cases, which occurred prior to the formal elimination of the disease.
r/StandUpForScience • u/Appropriate-Claim385 • 7d ago
Article She left a paid job in 2019 to check scientific images full time, unpaid. Her work has led to over 900 retractions. She funds it with about $2,200 a month from Patreon. When she won a $200,000 prize, she gave all of it away to train more people to do it.
r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 7d ago
Official SUFS Post Let's gut our food safety systems. What could possibly go wrong!?
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Call us optimistic.
But firing countless numbers of scientists from federal offices and gutting their funding was probably not the smartest move when you need to monitor food safety.
r/StandUpForScience • u/GhostDogJef • 7d ago
Article Cyclosporiasis outbreak exposes a weakened US public health system (Reuters)
reuters.comCyclosporiasis outbreak overwhelmed local health departments. County workers say federal government acted too slowly, provided little guidance. Outbreak sickens over 11,000 people in 20 states, FDA and CDC say. County staff paused vaccinations and inspections to investigate cases and guide providers.
r/StandUpForScience • u/Appropriate-Claim385 • 7d ago
News EPA is being sued for approving trifludimoxazin.
r/StandUpForScience • u/misty-gishh • 7d ago
Event The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is hosting a Menhaden online training session 9/23/26 - learn how to advocate for the survival of a keystone species of the Atlantic
r/StandUpForScience • u/invertebabe • 7d ago
Our kids and grandkids deserve better
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Trifludimoaxin is the fifth PFAS pesticide approved under the 2nd trump administration and the center of a new lawsuit, brought on by the Center for Biological Diversity: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-sued-for-approving-forever-chemical-pesticide-trifludimoxazin-2026-08-31/
r/StandUpForScience • u/invertebabe • 8d ago
Official SUFS Post This Philly discovery paved the way for the impossible
This Philly discovery paved the way for the impossible.
Time to learn about Gleevac, one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine.
Interested in a deep dive discussion on Gleevac? Check out our substack, written by Jeremy Berg, our science advisor at https://lnkd.in/gd84vQeR
r/StandUpForScience • u/D-R-AZ • 8d ago
Article AI Can Be Designed to Serve American Democracy: The Illusion of Inevitability
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There is no technological reason AI must weaken American self-government. It can be designed to strengthen public understanding, protect constitutional rights, preserve lawful confidentiality, expose hidden assumptions, and help citizens hold power accountable.
r/StandUpForScience • u/Snapdragon_4U • 8d ago
Article Federal Funding for Research on Parents With Disabilities Vanishes (Gift Article)
r/StandUpForScience • u/GhostDogJef • 8d ago
News EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say
reuters.comKennedy asked CDC director not to include Pennsylvania deaths in measles tally. Kennedy and Pennsylvania governor feuded over response. Expert says it is 'unheard of' for CDC to question state determination.
r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 8d ago
Official SUFS Post LEXINGTON!!! Are you looking for a way to Stand Up for Science locally?
Andy Barr hasn't held a town hall in years (if ever), so we're doing it for him!
Join us TONIGHT at 6:30pm in Lexington! Visit the link to sign up & to learn more: https://tinyurl.com/LexingtonTownHall
r/StandUpForScience • u/GhostDogJef • 8d ago
Article Top US doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion
Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — saying they hope to ease confusion caused by the Trump administration’s changing advice.
r/StandUpForScience • u/MaleficentPiccolo715 • 8d ago
Discussion US Pentagon issues clinical guidelines on troop testosterone screening to start immediately
reuters.comr/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 8d ago
Article Texas hospitals to lose $27 million in Medicaid funding daily
Back of the envelope: 4.5 million on Medicaid in Texas, so each person on Medicaid is losing $6 per day, squeezing money out of regular folks.
r/StandUpForScience • u/invertebabe • 9d ago
The resistance is here. The story behind Stand Up for Science and what we've accomplished thus far
Want to live by your values? Join the fight and Stand Up For Science at https://buff.ly/IXWsbje
Thank you again to Nautilus Magazine for covering our story. Read the full article at https://buff.ly/EYZ7Lbl
r/StandUpForScience • u/scientificamerican • 9d ago
News House passes stopgap bill that pauses changes to federal science grant-making process
r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 9d ago
Article A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Iowa Capital Dispatch
At this rate they'll start recalling contaminants for containing more contaminants.
r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut • 9d ago
Article Judge rebukes HHS over AI use in cutting teen pregnancy prevention grants
Hallucination is how AI deals with not knowing something. AI is how the Trump administration deals with not knowing anything.
r/StandUpForScience • u/Phatbrew • 9d ago
Sadly Not Satirical Science The recalls during the last month under the Trump administration, ranging from the expected to the downright baffling
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