@scottlgreer
Political scientist in a public health school. Health policy and politics, especially in Europe. Recent books on EU health policy, federalism and social policy, co-benefits. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opinions personal. 🚲. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5288-0471
My compliments to all the people who sanewashed the likes of Prasad and RFK, jr, presenting them as if they just wanted better science and whole wheat bread. Congratulations, *at best* you’ve been played.
I think it’s dawning on Trump/his court that while MAHA might have been a beneficial electoral addition in 2024, it’s a perpetual motion machine generating wedge issues that unite democrats and split republicans
Part of it is lack of broad education. You need to understand where the idea of median voter comes from AND be equipped to see the limits of how it gets measured/invoked…maybe including history, qual methods, and *gasp* knowledge of non-US/UK country contexts. How can you teach that in one class?
How long has this existed? A corporate NYT defense on social media of NYT editorial decisions? What does its establishment mean?
Six Federal Scientists Run Out by Trump Talk About the Work Left Undone kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
It’s actually hard to teach this. A good rule is to never intentionally teach an error because the error, rather than the debunking, might stick. But how to explain its bad implications without first explaining the bad underlying median voter theory that gives it power?
Talk about topics that unite and energize your coalition while dividing and demoralizing their coalition! Now was that so hard?
The idea that there is one ideological dimension and parties must seek the median voter along that dimension is both unbelievably stupid and apparently one you are required to hold in order to to be booked into a TV pundit appearance
I love this article. Not just because it explains why strategic and value based purchasing isn’t producing intended effects in the Netherlands. It also explains why so many fiddly “incentive-compatible” health reforms simply don’t work- their underlying theory of organizations is often wrong.
Shame on the NIH for stripping fellows of collective bargaining rights!
"The fellows at the NIH deserve the same voice, protections, and dignity on the job that academic workers across the country are fighting for every day."
Read @proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social's statement⬇️
New: The effects of political advertising on Facebook & Instagram before the 2020 US election www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Most ads targeted towards supporters; fundraising most common. No detectable effects of removing political ads on many outcomes across both platforms & among both Ds & Rs.
“Even if Bhattacharya’s time at the CDC will be brief, he seems eager to force the agency to acknowledge his version of reality while he’s in charge. As much as he may claim to be working to restore trust in the agency, his actions seem far more likely to achieve the opposite.”
The power of the American legal profession, a cartel that regulates itself, is immense. Its unique power in the US has been noted since Tocqueville. So the fact that many law firms and bar associations have been folding to the administration so far has been something of a puzzle.
Unpopular opinion: federal Dems are actually doing a lot to oppose Trump and it’s having current effects (eg DHS shutdown) and likely future ones (making sure everyone knows it’s a *Republican* war on Iran). IMO they’re doing it in large part because of from a furious Dem base.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Andrew Powie Fuller and Geraldine Spreckels Fuller Collection, 1999 © 2016 Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Architecture (Eccentric Construction) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1916
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137247
“If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race. That isn’t a game worth saving.”
“Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society.”
Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...
Folks will be - legitimately - furious with the Ds that voted no (leadership whipped hard for yes), but I think it is worth looking on the other hand: 98% of House Democrats (and 1% of House Republicans) just voted to try to block the president from waging war on Iran.
Iran! The Great Evil!
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Chart showing the pay of various NHS staff groups relative to 2010/11. The chart shows that 15 years since, real terms pay for most NHS staff has recovered slower than the public sector average.
🆕 How do #NHS staff earnings compare to 15 years ago?
Our analysis finds that real terms pay for most NHS staff has recovered slower than the public sector average. Pay recovery to 2010 levels for #nurses and #midwives in particular is still out of reach.
Read here: buff.ly/xQD2Nhw
Republicans and accountability
To be clear, that’s surprising because they have high rates of vaccination. A few more years of the current American regime and maybe all our children can have a serious risk of polio
Spain? Britain? Finland?
I harp on this a lot, but there used to be a time in America where a sitting Senator breaking the arm of a US Marine on camera would result in weeks-long media fallout, congressional investigations, and a swift kick in the ass on their way out of D.C. Now it's a Wednesday.
I think it might be good. List new issues to be aware of by specialty