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 the Guardian Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary Vermont senator says Kennedy is endangering the health of the American people as head of the US health department by Maya Yang Bernie Sanders  has joined in on growing  public calls  for  Donald Trump ’s health secretary,  Robert F Kennedy Jr , to resign, after  recent chaos  across US health agencies. In an  op-ed  published in the New York Times on Saturday, the Vermont senator accused Kennedy of “endangering the health of the American people now and into the future”, adding: “He must resign.” “Mr Kennedy and the rest of the  Trump administration  tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr Kennedy have done exactly the opposite,” Sanders wrote. Sanders pointed to the White House’s firing of Susan Monarez, the direct...

 Nature News Trump called for ‘gold-standard science’: how the NIH, NSF and others are answering Some researchers say that US-agency policies provide opportunities for political interference. By Dan Garisto, Jess Tollefson, Max Kozlov US science agencies have begun releasing their plans to comply with US  President Donald Trump’s call for ‘gold-standard science’ . The plans mainly detail efforts towards achieving widely supported science goals, such as  data accessibility  and  reproducibility . But researchers and science-policy specialists tell  Nature  that elements of the plans leave the door open to political interference in science. The US Food and Drug   Administration (FDA), for instance, would put a Trump-appointed official in charge of implementing the new policies, including protocols for reporting research-integrity violations. In the past, responsibility for such tasks at federal agencies was generally held by career civil servants, w...

 Science advances How to fight election misinformation by Natalia S. Bueno How to fight election misinformation What distinguishes democracies from autocracies is not the existence of elections but whether the public and political actors accept the results of fair elections as legitimate. When political leaders cast doubt on fair elections, they do more than contest outcomes—they corrode public trust in democratic institutions. These attacks make it harder for winners to govern and easier for citizens to justify antidemocratic actions, including violence and the refusal to concede power. What can be done when leaders falsely claim that elections are rigged? This question is no longer theoretical. In recent years, prominent figures like President Donald Trump in the United States, former President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and presidential candidates Keiko Fujimori in Peru and Luisa Gonzalez in Ecuador have promoted claims of voter fraud when results did not go their way ( Fig. 1 )....

  A Weekly Update of Policy News and Select Funding Opportunities Compiled by  Van Scoyoc Associates View this email in your browser August 29, 2025   Health   Fired CDC Director clashed with Kennedy on vaccine policy  CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired on Wednesday after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and that she believed contradicted scientific evidence, a close associate said on Thursday. The revelation and interviews with top officials who resigned in the wake of the director's firing underscored the growing division over the U.S. approach to public health and the upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which protects U.S. health and has played a global role in eradicating smallpox, reducing polio, and controlling HIV/AIDS. Read more:   Reuters   Top RFK Jr. deputy Jim O'Neill named acting CDC director after previous head fired  The White House named ...