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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century
AP News ^ | Updated 9:36 AM CDT, October 21, 2025 | MICHELLE R. SMITH and LAURA UNGAR

Posted on 10/21/2025 2:25:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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MAHA is a threat to their bureaucracy!
1 posted on 10/21/2025 2:25:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“You have an opinion which differs from mine??? You must be ANTI-SCIENCE!”


2 posted on 10/21/2025 2:28:07 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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They’re against the New Science that says men are women, formaldehyde is good for you, the earth is on fire.


3 posted on 10/21/2025 2:30:21 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Ashlee and Erik Dahlberg of Lowell, Indiana, lost their 8-year-old son, Liam, to a vaccine-preventable disease in April.

“I thought having the vaccines would protect our children,” Erik Dahlberg said. “Unfortunately, it did not because other kids, other adults, need to be vaccinated as well in order for it to work.”


So- lets see....

1) there have been plenty of unvaccinated kids in the past- yet now EVERYONE has to be vaccinated in order for the vaccine to work??

2) Liam died in April- three months after President Trump took office...yet somehow they want to pin this on RFK Jr...

“The effort normalizes ideas fueled by the anti-vaccine movement that Kennedy has helped lead for years. His Make America Healthy Again agenda masks anti-science ideas while promoting goals such as making food more natural or reducing chemicals. Meanwhile, vaccination rates continue to fall, allowing the infectious diseases measles and whooping cough to make comebacks as Kennedy has sought to broadly remake federal policies on public health matters including fluoride and vaccines.”

I mean- what good could come from people eating healthier or reducing chemicals in foods???


4 posted on 10/21/2025 2:32:24 PM PDT by God luvs America
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Real menace.
Can’t frighten or kill as many gullible citizens.


5 posted on 10/21/2025 2:33:18 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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“I thought having the vaccines would protect our children,” Erik Dahlberg said. “Unfortunately, it did not because other kids, other adults, need to be vaccinated as well in order for it to work.”

Then apparently the vaccine does not work if you take it but it doesn't protect you against exposer to others.

6 posted on 10/21/2025 2:46:35 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AP Muppets and Sock Puppets spew big pharma propaganda.


7 posted on 10/21/2025 2:48:40 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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LOL! Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

Rather:

Anti-Nazi Medical "Research" bills hit statehouses, stripping away Nazi Medical Methodology built over a century!

8 posted on 10/21/2025 2:50:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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Big Science has been a potential menace for decades.

Once they started telling folks get the vaxx or lose your job they showed their true colors.


9 posted on 10/21/2025 2:50:47 PM PDT by cgbg ("The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are we dead yet?


10 posted on 10/21/2025 2:55:51 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

My oh my. It's almost as if journalists had ditched objectivity in favor of desperate fanaticism in shilling for their POV.

11 posted on 10/21/2025 3:08:54 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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Perhaps - Just perhaps - if the Leftists had not so bastardized the “science” label into a meaningless propaganda vehicle, people would give “science” more credit.


12 posted on 10/21/2025 3:12:40 PM PDT by marktwain
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Lots of papers are “not replicable”.

It is the heart of science to be able to replicate results.

If the results cannot be replicated, it is not science.

Yet huge numbers of policy decisions are based by pushing non-replicable paper.


13 posted on 10/21/2025 3:18:44 PM PDT by marktwain
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Lots of papers are “not replicable”. It is the heart of science to be able to replicate results. If the results cannot be replicated, it is not science. Yet huge numbers of policy decisions are based by pushing non-replicable paper.

Much of "peer reviewed scientific research" is fraudulent.

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a

Beware those scientific studies—most are wrong, researcher warns

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html

Last year Wiley had to retract 11,000 fraudulent "peer reviewed" papers and shut down 19 "scientific" journals.

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/

14 posted on 10/21/2025 3:21:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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It's almost as if journalists had ditched objectivity in favor of desperate fanaticism in shilling for their POV.

In Oregon we see the local press backing Antifa. Journalism doesn't exist anymore

15 posted on 10/21/2025 3:27:26 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some things never change.

Dr. John Snow’s career was destroyed for figuring out the cause of cholera in 1854. Conventional wisdom was misma, or bad air caused cholera, not dumping sewage directly into the Thames River. Same thing happened with Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, who in 1847 discovered midwives that washed their hands before delivering babies had better outcomes than “real” doctors because they wouldn’t. Was committed to an asylum and beaten to death for pushing this “absurdity” against mainstream wisdom.

Bureaucratic science is deadly.


16 posted on 10/21/2025 3:30:18 PM PDT by zek157 ( )
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Science must be imbued with the humility of recognizing its history of man continually proving himself wrong.


17 posted on 10/21/2025 3:49:53 PM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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MileHi wrote: “Then apparently the vaccine does not work if you take it but it doesn’t protect you against exposer to others.”

Name one vaccine that is 100% effective in protecting against disease. There are always breakthrough cases which is why the more are vaccinated, the more effective in prevention. But, you knew that, didn’t you?


18 posted on 10/21/2025 4:28:29 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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I did know that you’re a clown.


19 posted on 10/21/2025 4:32:31 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: God luvs America

Nothing is stopping people from vaccinating their kids to death if they wish.

Just don’t MANDATE that everyone do it.


20 posted on 10/21/2025 4:41:35 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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