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email article Amid the national reckoning over systemic racism in the midst of the pandemic this past summer, Michigan joined Ohio, Wisconsin, and more than 60 local governments in declaring racism a public health crisis. Yet as we sat in our October medical school Zoom session discussing racial health disparities with our classmates, many of us noted that once more the connection between racism and health had been proclaimed with no follow-up actions. Declarations that racism is a public health crisis, while good steps, must generate tangible results in order to have any meaning. Every...

Dems Seek $300 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for CDC Gun Research Democrats this week introduced bicameral bills to Congress that aim to give the Centers for Disease Control big bucks to support research into guns.  The Gun Violence Prevention Research Act of 2021 would appropriate $50 million to the CDC each fiscal year from 2022 through 2027, "for the purpose of conducting or supporting research on firearms safety or gun violence prevention." The legislation was introduced jointly by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., who were not coy about what laws the researc...

Feb 4, 2021 Press Release Washington, DC – As 2020 marked the deadliest year for gun violence in the last 20 years, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today reintroduced the  Gun Violence Prevention Research Act to fund research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on firearms safety and gun violence prevention. The legislation would authorize $50 million in funding each fiscal year for the next five years at the CDC to study gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 43,495 people lost their...

Courtesy of Maeve Wallace Maeve Wallace, PhD, studies maternal mortality. Specifically, she studies the violent deaths of pregnant and postpartum women. She’s known for years that guns are involved in most cases of maternal mortality. But Wallace has never been able to recommend gun-restricting policies in her federally funded research papers or request federal funding for gun violence research — until now. After a 24-year-long ban, the federal government made funds available to study gun-violence and gun-violence prevention through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a...

The CDC & Their Government Highlighter, What are They Hiding? Ammoland Inc. Posted on The CDC & Their Government Highlighter, What are they Hiding? New Jersey – -(AmmoLand.com)- I’ve had the opportunity to read through two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) acquired document dumps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), amounting to 529 pages of information (20-00859-FOIA and 20-01880-FOIA), and I am not impressed at all. In the age of transparency and citizens’ rights to information, I need to point out the CDC’s excessive use of what I call the “government h...