https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE&v=1.0 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE List Archives 2026-04-17T03:01:11Z https://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-powered.asp https://www.lsoft.com/images/listserv_64x64.png https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;1d785d70.2604 https://tomdispatch.com/donald-trumps-racism-mirrors-jeffrey-epsteins/<br>Clarence Lusane, Racial Genetics Is Trump’s Defining Worldview (Full Stop!)<br>Posted on March 17, 2026<br><br>Hey, the clip was “erroneously” posted<br>&lt;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/politics/trump-obamas-video-apes-truth-social.html&gt;<br>at Donald Trump’s Truth Social website, right? You know, the one I mean,<br>the 62-second video clip (to the tune of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”) that<br>featured Barack and Michelle Obama with ape heads, the one that the<br>president felt there was simply no need to explain or in any way say he was<br>sorry for. You know, the very one where, despite later deleting it from his<br>account, he insisted, “No, I didn’t make a mistake.” [...] 2026-04-16T22:00:29-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;1d785d70.2604 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;32e0dfb3.2604 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-silicon-valley-andreesen-thiel-stem/<br><br>April 14, 2026<br>How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers<br><br>Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and<br>offering researchers scraps.<br>Hirsh Chitkara &lt;https://www.thenation.com/authors/hirsh-chitkara/&gt;<br>Peter Thiel and his ilk are starving public science.(Eva Marie Uzcategui /<br>Getty)<br><br>Silicon Valley would not exist without government-funded research.<br>Foundational technologies, including the semiconductor and the Internet,<br>emerged from Cold War–era military research programs. As graduate students<br>at Stanford, Larry Paige and Sergey Brin relied on<br>&lt;https://www.nsf.gov/news/origins-google&gt; funding from the National Science<br>Foundation to develop the search algorithms that would eventually become<br>Google. The touchscreens<br>&lt;https://www.nsf.gov/science-matters/pocket-sized-progress-smartphones-nsf-innovations&gt;<br>and lithium-ion batteries<br> [...] 2026-04-16T00:21:10-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;32e0dfb3.2604 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;89276110.2604 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/health/cdc-rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-ruling.html<br>With New Charter, Kennedy Redesigns Vaccine Committee and May Sidestep<br>Court Ruling<br><br>The charter, published on Thursday, alters the makeup and purpose of the<br>panel, opening the door for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to<br>reclaim his revision of national vaccine policy.<br>Listen · 7:03 min<br>[image: Aaron Siri gestures with his hands as he wears a suit and sits at a<br>table in a room with dark blue walls.]<br>Aaron Siri, a lawyer aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,<br>speaking at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices<br>in Atlanta in December. Credit...Elijah [...] 2026-04-11T20:49:56-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;89276110.2604 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;58d5731d.2604 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/<br>CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits<br><br>The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design<br>has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.<br>April 9, 2026<br>6 min<br>[image: image.png]A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19<br>vaccine. (Hannah Beier/Reuters)<br><br>By Lena H. Sun &lt;https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/lena-h-sun/&gt;<br><br>The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has<br>delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine<br>&lt;https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/10/23/vaccine-cancer-covid-19-mrna/&gt;<br>cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for<br>healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists<br>familiar with the decision. [...] 2026-04-11T00:12:26-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;58d5731d.2604 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;661efcfa.2604 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/artificial-intelligence-ai-paradox/<br><br>Books &amp; the Arts<br>&lt;https://www.thenation.com/content/books-and-the-arts/&gt; / April<br>6, 2026<br>Frankenstein’s Regrets<br><br>What is AI?<br>Ben Tarnoff &lt;https://www.thenation.com/authors/ben-tarnoff/&gt;<br>[image: A Facebook Data Center in Swedish Lapland.]A Facebook Data Center<br>in Swedish Lapland.(Jonathan Nackstrand / Getty) This article appears in<br>the May 2026 issue &lt;https://www.thenation.com/issue/may-2026-issue/&gt;.<br><br>Artificial intelligence is a nightmare to write about. It’s not just the<br>technical parts, which are complicated, or the fact that the field is<br>moving fast enough to give most commentary on it a short shelf life. It’s<br>that the discourse is so extreme that trying to find one’s footing in the<br>scrum can feel hopeless. [...] 2026-04-07T10:34:58-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;661efcfa.2604 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;78182a50.2603 https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-is-the-nih-abandoning-science<br><br>[image: GinexiNIH-0317]<br>Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty<br>Why Is the NIH Abandoning Science?<br>This is not a temporary slowdown.<br><br>The Review | Essay<br><br>By Elizabeth Ginexi &lt;https://www.chronicle.com/author/elizabeth-ginexi&gt;<br><br>March 17, 2026<br><br>For decades, the National Institutes of Health published between 650 and<br>850 Notices of Funding Opportunities each year. These announcements tell<br>the research community which diseases need study, which populations are<br>underserved, which scientific gaps need filling. They are how the NIH<br>directs resources toward problems that won’t get solved by waiting for<br>whatever grant applications happen to arrive. [...] 2026-03-30T12:09:50-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;78182a50.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;3e9428ff.2603 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/<br><br>March 26, 2026<br><br>4 min read<br><br>Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference<br><br>More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most<br>prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.<br><br>By Joseph Howlett<br>&lt;https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/joseph-howlett/&gt; edited by Lee<br>Billings &lt;https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/lee-billings/&gt;<br>[image: Woman at a protest march, holding a sign that says &quot;I was told to<br>bring a sine&quot; with a sine wave pitcured]Josh Edelson/Stringer/Getty Images [...] 2026-03-28T16:17:11-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;3e9428ff.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;92abb762.2603 https://undark.org/2026/03/20/opinion-gold-standard-science/*Opinion: *The<br>Problem With Promoting ‘Gold Standard Science’ Branding scientific research<br>with a simplified label risks misleading the public and harming scientific<br>literacy.<br><br>* Visual: Javier Zayas Photography/Moment via Getty Images*<br>By Jonathan P. Scaccia &lt;https://undark.org/author/jonathan-p-scaccia/&gt;<br>03.20.2026<br><br>Federal agencies have been branding some of their research and policy work<br>as “gold standard science &lt;https://www.hhs.gov/gss/index.html&gt;,” a trend<br>that gained new force after an executive order<br>&lt;https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/29/2025-09802/restoring-gold-standard-science&gt;<br>on the term was issued in May 2025. The phrase now appears in speeches<br>&lt;https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rfk-jr-says-the-trump-administration-is-following-gold-standard-science-heres-what-to-know&gt;<br>and guidance documents from agencies such as the National Science Foundation<br>&lt;https://www.nsf.gov/policies/gold-standard-science&gt; and the National<br>Institutes of Health<br>&lt;https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-director/statements/nih-publishes-plan-drive-gold-standard-science&gt;.<br>It [...] 2026-03-25T02:04:49-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;92abb762.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;c21461b1.2603 https://www.thenation.com/article/world/pentagon-ai-warfare-surveillance-autonomous-weapons/<br><br>March 19, 2026<br>AI Goes to War<br><br>Automated targeting, autonomous weapons, and nuclear decision-making.<br>Michael T. Klare &lt;https://www.thenation.com/authors/michael-t-klare/&gt;<br>[image: Activists place signs featuring AI robot dogs on the grounds of the<br>National Mall to protest OpenAI's decision to allow the Pentagon to use its<br>AI technologies in developing autonomous weapons, on March, 6, 2026.]Activists<br>place signs featuring AI robot dogs on the grounds of the National Mall to<br>protest OpenAI’s decision to allow the Pentagon to use its AI technologies<br>in developing autonomous weapons, on March, 6, 2026. (Heather Diehl / Getty<br>Images) [...] 2026-03-20T15:23:20-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;c21461b1.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;71fe66e4.2603 https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/18/donald-trumps-racism-mirrors-jeffrey-epsteins/<br><br>March 18, 2026 Donald Trump’s Racism Mirrors Jeffrey Epstein’s<br>&lt;https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/18/donald-trumps-racism-mirrors-jeffrey-epsteins/&gt;<br>Clarence<br>Lusane &lt;https://www.counterpunch.org/author/prubru4avefa/&gt;<br><br>Image by Wesley Tingey.<br><br>Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also — wait<br>for it — a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue<br>is just a distraction from President Trump’s virulent and endless racism,<br>others feel that the video the president posted<br>&lt;https://www.npr.org/2026/02/15/nx-s1-5715117/obama-racist-ai-video-response-trump&gt;<br>at<br>the beginning of Black History Month of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes<br>was meant to divert attention from the growing Epstein fallout. Well, as it<br>turns out, the two crises are not [...] 2026-03-18T23:15:40-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;71fe66e4.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;adbe257d.2603 https://thegrio.com/2026/03/16/trump-appears-to-embrace-racist-eugenics-theory/<br><br>Trump appears to embrace racist eugenics theory: ‘They’re not exactly your<br>genetic’In the United States, eugenics was used to justify slavery and<br>overall racist attitudes against African Americans, as well as<br>anti-immigration policies.<br>By Gerren Keith Gaynor &lt;https://thegrio.com/author/gerrengaynor/&gt;<br>Mar 16, 2026<br>[image: Donald Trump, theGrio.com]WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: U.S. President<br>Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with the Trump Kennedy Center Board<br>Members in the East Room of the White House on March 16, 2026 in<br>Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) [...] 2026-03-16T23:16:25-05:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;adbe257d.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;13897164.2603 The No Spray Coalition rejects President Trump's<br>executive order declaring the production and use<br>of glyphosate as “critical” to U.S. national security.<br><br>We join with GMO/Toxin Free USA, which authored<br>the petition below; Beyond Pesticides; Organic<br>Consumers Association; Greenpeace; Environmental<br>Working Group; Center for Biological Diversity;<br>and a slew of environmental and health<br>organizations which have been fighting against<br>the production and use of glyphosate for decades. [...] 2026-03-05T05:26:12-05:00 Mitchel Cohen https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;13897164.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;b225a1af.2603 https://truthout.org/articles/reproductive-tech-that-promises-smart-babies-is-peddling-soft-eugenics/<br>Reproductive Tech That Promises Smart Babies Is Peddling Soft Eugenics<br><br>Geneticists must not become unwitting enablers of the resurgence of such<br>pseudo-scientific ideas.<br>By Tania Fabo &lt;https://truthout.org/authors/tania-fabo/&gt; Truthout<br>&lt;https://truthout.org&gt; Published February 28, 2026<br>[image: Scientist examining a DNA profile on a screen.]Scientist examining<br>a DNA profile on a screen.Tek Image / Science Photo Library via Getty Images [...] 2026-03-03T01:46:29-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;b225a1af.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;e56f0e57.2603 https://www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-lancet-editorial<br><br>[image: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. Testifies On Budget During House And Senate<br>Hearings On Wednesday]<br><br>US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies<br>before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on<br>May 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.<br>(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)<br>‘One Year of Failure’: The Lancet Warns RFK Jr.’s Assault on Science May<br>‘Take Generations to Repair’<br>Kennedy has “made a habit of throwing good money after bad” by promoting<br>“junk science and fringe beliefs.”<br>Brad Reed &lt;https://www.commondreams.org/author/brad-reed&gt;<br>Feb 27, 2026 [...] 2026-03-02T00:29:36-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;e56f0e57.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2f79ee9a.2603 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/universities-israel-drones-weapons-manufacturing-military-contractors/<br><br>Society &lt;https://www.thenation.com/subject/society/&gt; / StudentNation<br>&lt;https://www.thenation.com/content/studentnation/&gt; / February 27, 2026<br>The American Universities Programming Israel’s Killer Drones<br><br>Industry partnerships in higher education are pushing STEM graduates into<br>the business of weapons manufacturing and genocide profiteering.<br>Julian Cooper &lt;https://www.thenation.com/authors/julian-cooper/&gt;<br>Students at the University of Central Florida take part in a campus protest<br>against the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza.<br>(Paul Hennessy / Getty) [...] 2026-03-01T01:32:29-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2f79ee9a.2603 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;603e064e.2602 https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/i-am-afraid-of-ai/<br>I Am Afraid of AI A Politico-Epistemological ExasperationDarko Suvin<br><br>When the wicked rule, the people groan.<br><br>Where there is no vision, the people perish. …<br><br>*– Book of Proverbs* 29:2 and 18 (written before 700 BCE<br><br>In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class<br>antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of<br>each is the condition for the free development of all. [...] 2026-02-28T20:49:05-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;603e064e.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2dbd046.2602 https://national.thelead.uk/p/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics-far-right-racism-science-harvard-noam-chomsky-steve-bannon<br>Epstein, eugenics, and the far rightLong after race science fell into<br>public disgrace, Epstein was working to revive its core assumptions – and<br>connecting biological hierarchy to far-right politics. As Dr Annabel<br>Sowemimo uncovers...<br>&lt;https://substack.com/@theleaduk&gt; &lt;https://substack.com/@annabelsowemimo&gt;<br>The Lead &lt;https://substack.com/@theleaduk&gt; and Healthy Futures<br>&lt;https://substack.com/@annabelsowemimo&gt;<br><br>Feb 28, 2026<br>&lt;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWDZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2ef2d2b-b6d2-4531-a8ff-650dfd61e716_1280x720.png&gt;What<br>links Jeffrey Epstein (centre), Noam Chomsky (L), and Steve Bannon (R)?<br>Pics: *Wikicommons* [...] 2026-02-28T20:41:42-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2dbd046.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;d9ef99f3.2602 https://www.chronicle.com/article/jeffrey-epsteins-academic-fixer<br><br>[image: Photo-based illustration of literary agent John Brockmanover files<br>featuring Jeffrey Epstein.]<br>Illustration by The Chronicle; Tania, contrasto, Redux; Davide Bonaldo,<br>Sipa USA, AP Images; Getty<br>Jeffrey Epstein’s Academic Fixer<br>How John Brockman, the most powerful man in science publishing, brokered<br>Epstein’s access to academe.<br><br>The Review | Interview<br>[image: Goldstein_Evan.jpg]<br>By Evan Goldstein &lt;https://www.chronicle.com/author/evan-r-goldstein&gt;<br>February 23, 2026<br><br>The avalanche of revelations spilling out from the release of the Epstein<br>files runs the gamut from criminal to complicit to curious. It will take<br>months to sort through. But what’s already emerged is a damning portrait of<br>how power operates [...] 2026-02-24T09:07:44-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;d9ef99f3.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;897dfc58.2602 https://thednaexchange.com/2026/02/23/guest-post-they-canceled-our-anti-eugenics-talk-the-censorship-proved-our-point/<br><br>&lt;https://thednaexchange.com/2026/02/09/guest-post-countertransference-as-prior-probabilities/&gt;<br>February 23, 2026 · 4:19 PM<br>Guest Post: They Canceled Our Anti-Eugenics Talk. The Censorship Proved<br>Our Point.<br>&lt;https://thednaexchange.com/2026/02/23/guest-post-they-canceled-our-anti-eugenics-talk-the-censorship-proved-our-point/&gt;<br><br>*by Ambreen Khan, Kim Zayhowski, Robert Resta, and Laura Hercher*<br><br>This piece is our team’s account of censorship and threats from members of<br>the genetic counseling community. It is both testimony and a demand that<br>our profession do better. We were twice scheduled to present a webinar on<br>the threat of modern eugenics – only for both events to be canceled after<br>anonymous complaints and undisclosed claims about threats and safety. When<br>organizations shield reputation over transparency, they marginalize [...] 2026-02-24T08:53:06-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;897dfc58.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;c52ceecb.2602 https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-glyphosate<br><br>[image: Roundup]<br><br>An employee adjusts Roundup products on a shelf at a store in San Rafael,<br>California, on July, 9, 2018.<br>(Photo by Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)<br>After Promising to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ Trump Mandates Production<br>of Cancer-Causing Glyphosate<br>“President Trump just gave Bayer a license to poison people,” said one<br>public health advocate. “Full stop.”<br>Julia Conley &lt;https://www.commondreams.org/author/julia-conley&gt;<br>Feb 19, 2026 [...] 2026-02-23T23:24:54-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;c52ceecb.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;ca5d27b1.2602 https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/gilded-rage-how-tech-lords-became-a-far-right-world-force/<br><br>Reviews &amp; Culture &lt;https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/&gt;Gilded<br>Rage: How tech lords became a far right world force<br>New book Gilded Rage examines the radicalising networks of power in big tech<br><br>By *John Newsinger*<br>Sunday 22 February 2026<br><br>[image: Gilded Rage examines the radicalising networks of power in big tech]<br>Gilded Rage examines the radicalising networks of power in big tech [...] 2026-02-23T10:49:21-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;ca5d27b1.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;1e56de1c.2602 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-research-cuts-trump/<br><br>Society &lt;https://www.thenation.com/subject/society/&gt; / February 19, 2026<br>The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves<br><br>The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but it’s still<br>destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the<br>president?<br>Gregg Gonsalves &lt;https://www.thenation.com/authors/gregg-gonsalves/&gt;<br>[image: President Donald Trump, left, and Jayanta Bhattacharya, director of<br>the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the Roosevelt Room of the<br>White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025.]<br>&lt;https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/GettyImages-2236339006.jpg&gt; [...] 2026-02-21T23:20:36-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;1e56de1c.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;23f068b0.2602 https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman<br>&lt;https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman?fbclid=IwY2xjawQHFslleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEefQ2VjYvvoGRa1cm6znc-0V0vn79Gh7L5VSNrz7wNAdGvUI0E2OHx1_zjaeM_aem_oen6ga99asBv-xPT8CanpQ&gt;<br>The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard,<br>muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science<br><br>Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a<br>gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files<br>reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked<br>eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability [...] 2026-02-21T17:21:54-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;23f068b0.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;634590b8.2602 https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy<br>How the Kakistocracy Became a QuackistocracyCorruption is a germ’s best<br>friend<br>&lt;https://substack.com/@paulkrugman&gt;<br>Paul Krugman &lt;https://substack.com/@paulkrugman&gt;<br>Feb 17, 2026<br><br>[image: A chart of measles AI-generated content may be incorrect.]<br>&lt;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WQFa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F921cf9d3-e8dc-44b5-a393-ffe0347002da_1700x1276.png&gt;<br><br>Childhood vaccination is one of public policy’s greatest success stories.<br>People who view the 1950s through rose-colored glasses, seeing them as an<br>era of American greatness, miss many ways in which life was much worse then<br>than now, ranging from gross racism and sexism to high poverty rates<br>&lt;https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2021/demo/p60-273/Figure11.pdf&gt;<br>among the elderly. One often-overlooked feature of the “good old days” was<br>that many children contracted, and some died from, infectious [...] 2026-02-17T09:04:13-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;634590b8.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;d4619af2.2602 https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/revolt-against-big-tech<br><br>[image: Amazon protest]Amazon workers and “community allies” attend a rally<br>outside the office of BlackRock in Manhattan, to protest against Amazon’s<br>working conditions and company policies in New York on May 24, 2021.<br>(Photo by Ed Jones/ AFP via Getty Images)<br>Is a Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen?<br>Will there be a popular uprising against AI and the vast AI-based robotic<br>machinery that’s taking over both the means of production and the means of<br>information?<br>Tom Valovic &lt;https://www.commondreams.org/author/tom-valovic&gt;<br>Feb 14, 2026 Common Dreams &lt;https://www.commondreams.org&gt; [...] 2026-02-16T23:05:33-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;d4619af2.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;849e787.2602 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/health/rfk-school-vaccine-mandates.html<br>Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren<br><br>Proponents of vaccines warn that the efforts will further dismantle the<br>immunization infrastructure and lead to more outbreaks of disease.<br>Listen to this article · 9:59 min Learn more<br>&lt;https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/24318293692180&gt;<br>[image: Rows of desks in a dark, empty classroom.]<br>An empty classroom at the high school in Williston, N.D., during an<br>outbreak of measles there last year. Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times<br>[image: Christina Jewett] &lt;https://www.nytimes.com/by/christina-jewett&gt; [...] 2026-02-15T16:55:42-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;849e787.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;956b86ea.2602 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-race-science-watson-pinker-chomsky-musk/685965/<br>The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race<br>The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”<br>By Ali Breland<br>&lt;https://archive.ph/o/y7RjI/https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ali-breland/&gt;<br>[image: A black-and-white photograph of Jeffrey Epstein's face with a green<br>line at the bottom and sketches of skulls on the left, alluding to<br>phrenology]<br>Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: The Print Collector / Getty; Rick<br>Friedman / Corbis / Getty.<br>February 11, 2026, 7:15 PM ET<br>In February 2016, after exchanging email pleasantries with the left-wing<br>public intellectual Noam Chomsky and extending an invitation to his private<br>island, Jeffrey Epstein recommended an article. “On [...] 2026-02-12T21:11:36-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;956b86ea.2602 https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2d8bd63b.2602 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-emails-eugenics-chomsky-altruism-billionaires/<br><br>Politics &lt;https://www.motherjones.com/politics/&gt;<br><br>February 10, 2026<br>Jeffrey Epstein Couldn’t Stop Emailing People About EugenicsIn the latest<br>files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: “genetic<br>altruism.”<br>Julia Métraux &lt;https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/&gt;Reporter<br>Bio &lt;https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/&gt;<br><br>[image: A simple photo collage that centers a mugshot of Jeffrey Epstein<br>against a red background. Overlaying his face is an e-mail excerpt dated<br>Monday, February 11, 2013. The excerpt reads &quot;even iq tests for children.<br>there are enough differnt types of tests. making the system robust&quot;]Jeffrey<br>Epstein’s emails show a fascination with eugenics consistent with the<br>billionaire tech class. Mother Jones illustration; Palm Beach County<br>Sheriff's Office/ZUMA [...] 2026-02-11T23:30:16-06:00 Phil Gasper https://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE;2d8bd63b.2602