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  1. Michael Harrop

    Article Three Olympic Athletes Were Just Disqualified for a Novel Reason: PFAS. Their skis and snowboards tested positive for “forever chemicals,” slippery-but-dangerous chemicals now banned in the Games. (Feb 2026)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/climate/olympics-ski-snowboard-wax-pfas-forever-chemicals.html That's very surprising, but nice to see the Olympics is trying to eliminate PFAS.
  2. Michael Harrop

    Study Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong. In part due to how users are asking their questions (Feb 2026, n=1,298) Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/well/chatgpt-health-advice.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y
  3. Michael Harrop

    Study Microplastic pollution induces algae blooms in experimental ponds but bioplastics are less harmful (Jan 2026)

    https://today.ucsd.edu/story/plastic-pollution-promotes-hazardous-water-conditions-new-study-finds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-025-00014-6
  4. Michael Harrop

    Study More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds (Feb 2026) Global and regional cancer burden attributable to modifiable risk factors to inform prevention

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00333-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04219-7 By "infections", they're referring to HPV https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00128-4
  5. Michael Harrop

    Article A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells (Feb 2026, PFAS)

    https://apnews.com/article/pfas-wells-contamination-forever-chemicals-water-b132294aca85d569926dbf47c0d02355
  6. Michael Harrop

    Article RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk’s Biggest Fan. Now He Won’t Return Industry Calls. Mark McAfee owns America’s largest raw milk dairy. He thought he’d be advising the Trump administration. What happened? (Jan 2026)

    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/rfk-jr-raw-milk/
  7. Michael Harrop

    Article A leading EU chemical safety institute ousted the director of its cancer research center after the director led a testing program into the safety of the pesticide glyphosate, sparking concerns about chemical industry influence into what has been an independent research institution (Jan 2026)

    https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/01/outrage-at-ramazinni-glyphosate/
  8. Michael Harrop

    Study Tiny RNA molecules in sperm have big impact on baby health. Findings provide strong evidence for epigenetic inheritance of paternal environmental effects (Oct 2025) Epididymal dynamics and preimplantation roles of a sperm-enriched 5′ fragment of tRNA-valine

    https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/01/tiny-rna-epigenetic-inheritance/ https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)01137-4
  9. Michael Harrop

    Article A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body (Jan 2026) Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt
  10. Michael Harrop

    Article Highly cited paper, backed by Monsanto and used as evidence that the herbicide Roundup is safe, is retracted by journal for serious ethical concerns (Dec 2025) Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans

    https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-retracts-weed-killer-study-backed-monsanto-citing-serious-ethical-concerns https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/climate/glyphosate-roundup-retracted-study.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
  11. Michael Harrop

    Study Fathers' microplastics exposure tied to their children's metabolic problems (Dec 2025) Paternal microplastic exposure alters sperm small non-coding RNAs and affects offspring metabolic health in mice

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-fathers-microplastics-exposure-children-metabolic.html https://academic.oup.com/jes/advance-article/doi/10.1210/jendso/bvaf214/8383852
  12. Michael Harrop

    Study Do microplastics play a role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases? Shared pathophysiological pathways for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease (review, Nov 2025)

    https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/12/five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-025-05428-3
  13. Michael Harrop

    Study Alarming surge in memory problems among young adults (Sep 2025, n=4.5 million) Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults Trends From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2023

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102011158.htm https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214226
  14. Michael Harrop

    Study Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition (Nov 2025, n=20) Plastic associated endocrine disruptors reduce Nicastrin protein and potentiate inflammation in hidradenitis suppurativa skin disease

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-plastics-shown.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65789-7
  15. Michael Harrop

    Article FDA Issues Warning About Imported Cookware That May Leach Lead: August 2025

    https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/fda-issues-warning-about-imported-cookware-may-leach-lead-august-2025 They have a table listing all the items, where they were sold, and photos of them. It looks like most of them are imported from India.
  16. Michael Harrop

    Article The ‘Worst Test in Medicine’ is Driving America’s High C-Section Rate. Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections, but it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns (Nov 2025) A Grave Condition, Placenta accreta, Caused by C-Sections Is now on the Rise

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/health/electronic-fetal-monitoring-c-sections.html It’s accompanied by this article: A Grave Condition Caused by C-Sections Is on the Rise. Placenta accreta is a life-threatening condition in which the placenta attaches to scar tissue left by a C-section. It...
  17. Michael Harrop

    Article FDA Drug Unit Chief Resigns, and Is Sued by Drug Company. The official, Dr. George Tidmarsh, has become embroiled in an ethical dispute and is now the target of a lawsuit over his actions involving certain drugs tied to a business associate. (Nov 2025)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/health/fda-drug-unit-chief.html
  18. Michael Harrop

    Article Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead. Consumer Reports investigation (Oct 2025)

    https://www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein-powders-and-shakes-contain-high-levels-of-lead-a4206364640/
  19. Michael Harrop

    Video RFK Jr. hosts roundtable on long COVID (Sep 18, 2025)

    https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-secretary-kennedy-long-covid-roundtables-action.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzGbNCAzkcI This video makes this administration seem like a big fucking scam. All the big players in this video know about the gut microbiome and FMT, including Senator...
  20. Michael Harrop

    Study Obesity during pregnancy doubles autism risk and increases ADHD risk by up to 57% (Sep 2024, n=3.6m mother-child pairs) Associations between maternal preconception and pregnancy adiposity and neuropsychiatric and behavioral outcomes in the offspring: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2024/obesity-in-mums-doubles-the-risk-of-autism-in-babies/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178124004347 Relevant due to the recent RFK/Trump announcement blaming Tylenol. Rhonda Patrick alerted me to this.
  21. Michael Harrop

    Article Trump admin links Tylenol/acetaminophen use in pregnancy to increased risk of autism despite mixed studies (Sep 2025)

    https://apnews.com/article/tylenol-cause-autism-trump-kennedy-0847ee76eedecbd5e9baa6888b567d66 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-suggests-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy-causes-autism-experts-say-a-link-between-the-two-is-unproven This was their "big September...
  22. Michael Harrop

    Article Trump admin releases long awaited MAHA roadmap. The new strategy stops short of surprise regulations and leaves pesticides alone (Sep 2025) The Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/maha/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-MAHA-Strategy-WH.pdf https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/09/09/maha-commission-unveils-sweeping-strategy-make-our-children-healthy-again...
  23. Michael Harrop

    Study Chronic Exposure to Microplastics Induces Blood–Brain Barrier Impairment, Oxidative Stress, and Neuronal Damage in Rats (Jun 2025)

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12035-025-05157-0 https://www.psypost.org/chronic-exposure-to-microplastics-impairs-blood-brain-barrier-and-damages-neurons/
  24. Michael Harrop

    Article Priorities for a New FDA | Martin Makary, Vinay Prasad (Jun 2025)

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2835314 Subsections: Unleashing AI Healthier Food for Children Harnessing Big Data Financial Toxicity Sounds like more useless, distracting BS, and that they have no plans to do anything about FMT.
  25. Michael Harrop

    Study Mount Sinai study supports evidence that prenatal acetaminophen use may be linked to increased risk of autism and ADHD (Aug 2025, review) Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094641 https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-025-01208-0
  26. Michael Harrop

    Study The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics (2025) "Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health"

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01447-3/abstract
  27. Michael Harrop

    Article Top FDA Official Resigns Under Pressure (Jul 2025) After turning down several new drugs and restricting use of another, Dr. Vinay Prasad drew the ire of the right-wing influencer Laura Loomer and others

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/health/vinay-prasad-fda-resigns-loomer.html https://archive.ph/JEveK This is big, but I'm not sure if it's good or bad for FMT. Based on the article, he seems like the kind of person who would work to make FMT available, but then again, maybe not, and he...
  28. Michael Harrop

    Article FDA names former pharmaceutical company executive, Dr. George Tidmarsh, to oversee US drug program, CDER (2025)

    https://apnews.com/article/fda-drugs-trump-makary-george-tidmarsh-88471eab7dcaf1ab8cc4dd2491218120 No mention of scrutinizing the safety of antibiotics, even though Dr. Makary is well-informed on their harms and their contribution to the chronic disease crisis.
  29. Michael Harrop

    Article Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A. How the new health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is dismantling the agency (Jul 2025)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/fda-collapse-rfk-kennedy.html Includes some comments by the former FDA commissioner, Robert Califf. And ends with: NYT's article title is blaming RFK for cuts he wasn't responsible for. As far as I know, it was DOGE and the Office of Management...
  30. Michael Harrop

    Article Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back (Jun 2025)

    https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water
  31. Michael Harrop

    Study Certain species of microbe found in the human gut can absorb PFAS (Jul 2025) Human gut bacteria bioaccumulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances

    https://phys.org/news/2025-06-species-microbe-human-gut-absorb.html https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gut-microbes-could-protect-us-from-toxic-forever-chemicals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02032-5
  32. Michael Harrop

    Article RFK Jr's MAHA project funnels millions from public health to private wellness industry (Jun 2025) MAHA’s Goal Is Not Health. Robert Kennedy’s movement promises more privatization

    https://boingboing.net/2025/06/27/rfk-jrs-maga-project-funnels-millions-from-public-health-to-private-wellness-industry.html https://www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/mahas-goal-is-not-health Some parts seem concerning. Other parts are written to raise concern, but aren't necessarily...
  33. Michael Harrop

    Article US FDA Makary’s Pharma CEO Tour Goes Against Transparency Rhetoric (May 2025) CEO Forums: An FDA Listening Tour to Engage Pharma CEOs

    https://insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/agency-leadership/us-fda/us-fda-makarys-pharma-ceo-tour-goes-against-transparency-rhetoric-3E5RP5IATVD73DRPQHZPSTHKRA/ https://www.fda.gov/industry/ceo-forums-fda-listening-tour-engage-pharma-ceos Related: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Announces Major...
  34. Michael Harrop

    Article FDA Commissioner Marty Makary Announces Major New Policy to Limit Conflicts of Interest (Apr 2025) "we are removing industry members – pharma members – from FDA advisory committees"

    https://www.megynkelly.com/2025/04/17/marty-makary-announces-policy-to-limit-big-pharma-conflicts-of-interest-at-fda/
  35. Michael Harrop

    Study Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles; mostly from the plastic paint on the caps (May 2025) Microplastic contaminations in a set of beverages sold in France

    https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157525005344
  36. Michael Harrop

    Article The Secret Gamble at the FDA That Exposed Americans to Risky Drugs (Jun 2025) Factories, mostly in India, where inspectors found contaminated drugs, filthy labs, and falsified records, were given a pass to continue sending drugs to the US.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drug-loophole-sun-pharma
  37. Michael Harrop

    Study Polystyrene nanoplastics disrupt the intestinal microenvironment by altering bacteria-host interactions through extracellular vesicle-delivered microRNAs (Jun 2025, mice)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59884-y
  38. Michael Harrop

    Article Kennedy Says ‘Charlatans’ Are No Reason to Block Unproven Stem Cell Treatments. The U.S. health secretary said people should have access to experimental therapies including unregulated uses of stem cells. But some methods have resulted in blindness, tumors and other injuries. (Jun 2025)

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/health/kennedy-stem-cells-experimental-treatments.html
  39. Michael Harrop

    Article Over the last several decades, the FDA has allowed pharma companies to sell hundreds of drugs to patients without adequate evidence that they work and, in many cases, with clear signs that they pose a risk of serious harm (Jun 2025)

    https://jacobin.com/2025/06/fda-approval-drugs-effectiveness-risk/
  40. Michael Harrop

    Video PFAS: How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood | More Perfect Union, Jun 2025

    The video covers the known harms and history of PFAS, and then covers this Trump administration's regulatory capture that will prevent anything from being done. Very depressing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0lsLnXX4U8
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