executive director, @USRightToKnow, working to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures threatening our health, food and environment.
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Which companies, lobbyists, staffers are blocking progress on ultra-processed foods? The public deserves some answers. washingtonpost.com/health/20…
Babies exposed to microplastics and hormone-disrupting chemicals through formula, plastic bottles, infant feeding supplies.
Via @USRightToKnow
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Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus better at infecting people
Via @lewiskamb @USRightToKnow
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"Gifts, payments, free meals, and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments, and drive up prescription costs, according to a systematic review of 93 studies." usrtk.org/healthwire/drug-co…
Hormone-disrupting chemical mixtures linked to excess childhood weight
Via @USRightToKnow
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Hundreds of chemicals used in pesticide products may increase breast cancer risk.
"EPA continues to approve new pesticides without adequate oversight and with little consideration of their potential effects on breast cancer"
Via @medical_xpress
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
I appreciate the transparency, but these risks are intolerable.
Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
Via @nytimes
nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/po…
Ralph Baric warned COVID statement could be used for ‘nefarious purposes to shift blame,’ email shows
Via @lewiskamb @USRightToKnow
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Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.
Via @StacyMalkan @USRightToKnow
usrtk.org/bill-gates/bill-ga…
Here’s today’s report to federal court on the games CIA is playing to slow and stonewall our #FOIA litigation for intelligence from two CIA mission centers about the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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AI and the New Age of Bioweapons. Preparing for a World of Synthetic Pathogens. "The brave new world of synthetic biology...is radically democratizing and dispersing access to the tools used to make bioweapons." Via @ForeignAffairs
foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Today we filed a #FOIA lawsuit against the State Department. Our request seeks cable traffic between the State Department and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT Taipei) that relates to Taiwanese data or assessments about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This is our 46th FOIA lawsuit for documents related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, gain-of-function research and related matters. For background, see:
usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/f…
Former Senior NIAID Official [David Morens] Pleads Guilty to Charges Connected to Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic
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"We know that dangerous gain-of-function pathogen research continues, and we know what can happen when it goes wrong. Whether we do anything about it is a decision we can make."
Via @nytimes @Ayjchan
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A very small victory. In our #FOIA litigation against the Defense Intelligence Agency seeking its genomic analyses of SARS-CoV-2, U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ordered DIA to complete production to us by September 7th. Judge McFadden warned the DIA, “Should it fail to meet that deadline, the Court will consider sanctions against the agency and possibly the DIA General Counsel personally.”
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The Trump administration promised “maximum transparency” on records regarding the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stalls and stonewalls our #FOIA litigation to obtain its latest assessments or reports (including supporting documents) on COVID origins.
Here’s our latest report to the court.
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"The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not."
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
"This meta-analysis reports increases of 61% to 71% in the risk of developing ALS [amyotrophic lateral sclerosis] in persons ever occupationally exposed to pesticides and specifically to herbicides or to insecticides, compared with unexposed persons"
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