New Casualties on RFK Jr’s Chopping Block

About this episode

Abdul discusses recent public health developments and interviews Dr. Brian Willoughby about porn use among young people.

Abdul unpacks the week in public health, which includes: Vinay Prasad’s exit from FDA Susan Monarez’s confirmation to lead CDC New childhood vaccination data The EPA’s move to rollback the endangerment finding Why more experts have been ousted from ACIP Then Abdul interviews professor Dr. Brian Willoughby about his research on porn use among young people, and what parents should know about modern porn content. Note : We recorded this episode before RFK Jr announced the cancellation of $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development. However, Abdul and Katelyn discussed the threat of mRNA research cuts in our May 7 and June 3 episodes. (their May convo begins at 00:11:00 / their June convo begins at 00:16:00) Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Work. Science Matters.” t-shirts!

People in this episode

Hosts: Abdul, Katelyn

Guest: Dr. Brian Willoughby

Topics covered

• public health
• vaccination
• mRNA research
• pornography
• youth
• CDC
• FDA

Keywords

• public health
• vaccination data
• mRNA vaccine
• CDC leadership
• pornography research
• youth education
• FDA news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FDA, CDC, EPA, ACIP

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