Robert Roy Britt
@robertroybritt@me.dm  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”

https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff

#health #healthcare #politics
The Xylom
@thexylom@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp last week

NEW: Since 2024, six large oil spills have polluted India's western coast, affecting millions; yet, no one, including the government, wants to take responsibility for the cleanup.

This story by Pragathi Ravi and Flavia Lopes was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/india-mumbai-gujarat-goa-oil-spill-fish

#india #mumbai #oil#climate #environment #health #food #photography#news #journalism
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#RFKJr, in a report, will also claim a medicine derived from #folate called folinic acid can be used to treat symptoms of #autism in some people, the WSJ reported. [guessing he owns #stock in whatever company makes it]

#Shares of #Kenvue fell 14% after the report [because people are crazy]. #Tylenol, whose active ingredient is #acetaminophen, is a very safe widely used pain reliever, including by pregnant women.

#MassHysteria#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation#Trump #science #medicine
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

The report, expected this month from the US Department of #Health & Human Services, which #RFKJr heads, is likely to highlight how low levels of #folate, an important vitamin, & #Tylenol taken during pregnancy, could be a potential cause of #autism, the report said.

So fucking stupid it hurts.

#MassHysteria#ConspiracyTheories #disinformation#Trump #idiocracy #eugenics #science #medicine

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Robert Roy Britt
@robertroybritt@me.dm  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Rhetoric from the Make America Healthy Again movement discounts the government’s responsibility for helping people with chronic illness and disabilities — in particular, autism, this writer notes. “As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of #MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs.”

https://medium.com/wise-well/maha-blames-the-ill-and-disabled-for-their-plights-37ae739dd6ff

#health #healthcare #politics
The Xylom
@thexylom@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp last week

“We have the principle of saving limbs whenever possible,” the doctor explains. “An amputation is simple — it takes only 15-20 minutes. But we’re thinking of the rehabilitation process, the patient’s quality of life later on.”

“Later on, if the patient decides to have an amputation, we can always do that.”

https://www.thexylom.com/post/ukraine-russia-war-usaid-hospital-burn-injury

#ukraine #health #photography#news #journalism
The Xylom
@thexylom@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp last week

NEW: Since 2024, six large oil spills have polluted India's western coast, affecting millions; yet, no one, including the government, wants to take responsibility for the cleanup.

This story by Pragathi Ravi and Flavia Lopes was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
https://www.thexylom.com/post/india-mumbai-gujarat-goa-oil-spill-fish

#india #mumbai #oil#climate #environment #health #food #photography#news #journalism