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How AP tracked and analyzed anti-science legislation in US statehouses

For its investigation on anti-science legislation, The Associated Press examined more than 1,000 bills that had been introduced in states across the nation.

 

Takeaways from AP’s investigation on anti-science legislation in US statehouses

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.

 

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

 

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century

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.

 

Woman, 66, in critical condition after Massachusetts assisted-living fire, officials say

Officials say a 66-year-old woman remained in critical condition following a fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility earlier this week.

 

Deadly Massachusetts fire highlights the minimal regulations that govern assisted-living facilities

The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing requirements that are commonplace in nursing homes.

 

Assisted-living home cited for late reports of safety incidents years before fatal fire

A Massachusetts assisted-living center where nine residents died in a fire was cited for failing to immediately report more than two dozen health and safety incidents.

 

Takeaways from AP’s report on the business interests of Trump’s surgeon general pick

President Donald Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. surgeon general has repeatedly said the nation’s medical and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans’ health.

 

How Trump’s pick for surgeon general uses her big online following to make money

President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. surgeon general has said the nation’s medical and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans’ health.

 

Takeaways from AP’s report on how federal public health cuts are affecting communities across the US

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work including inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks — and a host of other task

 

Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

 

Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find love.

 

Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F.

 

Translating what Kennedy’s anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is threading the needle between his agency’s role as a neutral arbiter of science and the rhetoric of anti-vaccine activists.

 

Takeaways from AP’s report on how flat funding set stage for Texas measles outbreak, might fuel more

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through Texas communities in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.

 

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. Health officials say the easily preventable disease has ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs.

 

Pro-RFK Jr. letter to the Senate includes names of doctors whose licenses were revoked or suspended

A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was sent by physicians in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services includes the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline.

 

New Orleans attack and Vegas explosion highlight extremist violence by active military and veterans

The military ties of the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans on New Year’s and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas highlight the increased role of people with military experience in ideologically driven attacks, especially those that seek mass casualties.

 

Takeaways from AP’s report on a study into extremism in the military that used old data

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces.

 

AP finds that a Pentagon-funded study on extremism in the military relied on old data

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces.

 

Trump Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member.

 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a long record of promoting anti-vaccine views

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was building up a following with his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, and became one of the world’s most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines.

 

RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says

A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.

 

What’s a ‘Jezebel spirit’? Some Christians use the term to paint Kamala Harris with a demonic brush

Christian nationalist leaders are telling followers that Vice President Kamala Harris is under the influence of a “Jezebel spirit.”

 

Takeaways from The Associated Press’ reporting on extremism in the military

The number of U.S. service members and veterans who radicalize make up a tiny fraction of a percentage point of the millions and millions who have honorably served their country.

 

His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same

AP Investigation finds a growing number of military and veterans are following a path to radicalization, extremism and deadly violence.

 

RFK Jr. suggests he’ll have a significant role on agriculture and health policy if Trump is elected

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suggesting he will have significant influence on American agriculture policy if Donald Trump is elected president.

 

Takeaways from AP’s report on JD Vance and the Catholic postliberals in his circle of influence

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

 

JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers

Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview. It also put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.

 

VP nominee JD Vance to dissolve last vestige of mothballed charity, give its $11K to Appalachia

The Trump-Vance campaign says Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is preparing to dissolve what’s left of the modest charitable effort he launched to help people in Appalachia after writing “Hillbilly Elegy.”

 

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