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“The bureaucracy is crumbling, and the produce aisle is a mess. But let’s be fair: The status quo on foodborne illness was never very good,” @danengber writes. theatlantic.com/health/2026/…
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Sociologist Jason Arday has resigned from Cambridge University after being accused of rampant fraud. Now his very inspiring memoir is about to come out from Simon & Schuster, and it's already an Editor's Pick on Amazon! This won't end well: theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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"Any failing can be forgiven, as long as it’s packaged in a story that people want to hear." @danengber on the Jason Arday affair. theatlantic.com/books/2026/0…
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Public-health advice is pretty clear that children are especially at risk of heat-related illnesses, but actual heat-related-illness data seem to tell a different story, @danengber reports: theatlantic.com/science/2026…
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Psychologists Jonathan Haidt and Peter Gray were once allies in the fight against the ONE BIG THING that is destroying children's lives. Then they had a disagreement over which THING, exactly, is the BIGGEST THING of all... from @kait_tiffany theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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In the past five years, Americans’ fervor for injections has reached new heights—even as a wariness about vaccines persists, @danengber argues. He examines what this selective preference for needles may reveal about the country’s approach to wellness: theatlantic.com/health/2026/…
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I missed this piece by @danengber when it came out, but it's fascinating. On the contradictions of MAGA's "animal nationalism." theatlantic.com/science/2026…
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Remember the "disappearing scientist" uproar of 2002, in the midst of the anthrax scare, when a bunch of microbiologists died mysteriously over a few months? (It turned out not all were microbiologists, the deaths were not mysterious, etc etc etc) nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magaz…
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In which @danengber looks into the story of the missing scientists and determines it is a Summer of the Shark kinda thing theatlantic.com/science/2026…
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Donald Trump's administration has taken a more active approach to animal welfare than any other president's in recent memory—which hints at something more widespread in right-wing, nationalist politics, @danengber writes: theatlantic.com/science/2026…
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Trump is, of course, a man whose rise to power has been fueled by his denigration of people for being animal-like. The same politician who describes his political enemies as “vermin”—⁦@danengber⁩ theatlantic.com/science/2026…
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