CT Citizens for Science

02/28/2024

Proud of the work that CT Citizens for Science did to bring this to fruition. Thank you to the Advisory Board, and all the hardworking volunteers. CT kids are safer because of you!

The state's ban on religious exemptions for youth vaccinations appears to have succeeded in increasing immunization rates.

09/20/2023

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/biden-anti-vax-movement-00116516

“They keep just hoping it’ll go away.”

08/30/2023

Unfortunately, we are NOT getting smarter. Thank you social media.

Another 40% were concerned that routine vaccines could cause their dog to develop autism, a belief that has long since been disproven in humans.

05/17/2023

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/05/16/artificial-intelligence-hearing-blumenthal-ai-voice-nc-vpx.cnn

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) kicked off a Senate panel hearing with a fake recording of his own voice, illustrating the potential risks of AI technology. CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan reports.

03/20/2023

“Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," the report states. "There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly and immediately will save lives, livelihoods and ecosystems around the world, scientists say. And there are lots of ways to go about it.

03/09/2023

“Science, costs, and people—these forces all had to balance for medicine to succeed. The more I encountered patients without access to basic care, the more I realized that, in many cases, costs had become the dominant force shaping outcomes. The people part of medicine had taken a back seat; even science was playing defense, since widely available treatments weren’t being delivered to those who needed them.”

Learning to be a physician, I realized over and over again that I was seeing only part of the picture.

01/25/2023

https://www.facebook.com/107067172651824/posts/9007236319301487/?mibextid=cr9u03

01/17/2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/opinions/ozone-layer-hope-for-climate-change-lincoln

You'd be forgiven for thinking that we live in dark times, writes Don Lincoln. But this week delivered some refreshingly good news: The World Meteorological Organization released a report stating that humanity and all life on Earth dodged a bullet.

01/11/2023

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2023/1/10/23539061/european-union-deforestation-law

A new law in Europe could help prevent our favorite foods from flattening forests.

12/10/2022

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/anthony-fauci-retirement.amp.html

As he prepares to retire, “America’s doctor” reflects on his long career.

12/01/2022

https://apnews.com/article/health-california-covid-san-francisco-immunizations-a2654cad5153d7ddf3edda3cff0b2674

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A naturopathic doctor who sold fake COVID-19 immunization treatments and fraudulent vaccination cards during the height of the coronavirus pandemic was sentenced in California on Tuesday to nearly three years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

10/30/2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/twins-rsv-virus-death-ctrp/index.html

Less than three months after welcoming twin boys, Amanda and Ed Bystran lost one of them to RSV -- now they are hoping their other son recovers from the same virus.