And just like that, Vinay Prasad is back at the helm of CBER. From the convos I've been having, it's safe to say that no one in biotech understands which end is up at the FDA. The agency included a swipe at "the fake news" in making the announcement. But a simple chronology of

During his time at the Heritage Foundation, Trump's BLS pick "frequently included elementary errors or nonsensical choices that all bias his findings in the same partisan direction," an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute said. trib.al/6naDWVS

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I wrote about Trump's nomination of EJ Antoni for BLS Chief. Something I learned from our recent chat with William Beach is that there's a long history of this role not aligning with Presidential terms, due to the perceived irrelevance of partisan identity.

Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.

Monty Python's Life of Brian is 46 years old today. 13 Life of Brian Classic Moments - A THREAD Brian could well be the funniest movie ever made, and one clip alone won't do it justice. So dive into this thread and find out why Brian was a very naughty boy. You splitter! 1/

From Adam Tooze on Trump's firing of Lisa Cook adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-40…

A DOZEN THOUGHTS ON TRUMP'S ATTEMPT TO FIRE LISA COOK From me and Tracy Alloway in today's newsletter

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WHAT FED INDEPENDENCE ACTUALLY MEANS In today's newsletter, I wrote how I think of the concept of "Fed independence", what it actually entails, what could change, and its constitutional significance. And why Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook isn't even really the story.

And read Tracy Alloway on the prospect of a reverse Greenspan Conundrum underway. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Medicine and public health have added three decades to the human lifespan. Vaccination alone produced 40% of the reduction in child deaths. And now a disturbed and unqualified man driven by crackpot theories is destroying the foundations of this work, including CDC.

I love when actual scientists roast RFK Jr. 🥇

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opi…

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Recently-fired CDC director Dr. Susan Monarez writes in the The Wall Street Journal that she was ordered to pre-approve the recommendations of an RFK Jr hand-picked vaccine advisory panel set to meet later this month. She refused. wsj.com/opinion/robert…

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