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The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food? (2009) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2879177/ The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity (Nov 2021)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EPRONZPcew More: Research highlights sustained efforts from the food and drinks industry to oppose public health measures aimed to tackling heart disease, cancer and diabetes. NCDs, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, account for over 70% for global...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-06-lawsuit-ozempic-popular-weight-loss.html From Wikipedia:

I saw news about "Chairman Bernie Sanders Releases Long COVID Moonshot Legislative Proposal", and I wanted to make a post listing the research I've seen on this. From what I see in their proposal, they're allocating 1 billion dollars into general research. I find this very frustrating given...

I'll update this periodically with more. ubiome finds no difference between male and female gut bacteria: https://web.archive.org/web/20151009050017/http://www.ubiomeblog.com/surprising-comparison-male-vs-female-microbiomes/ but this study posted by a commenter did: Dynamics and associations of...

I'll update this periodically with more. Microbial Effects on Immunity in HIV: Virus, Gender or Sexual Preference Induced? (2018): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396418301361 - Men who have sex with men (MSM) were shown to exhibit microbiomes rich in Prevotella...

Review, Aug 2022: The regulatory function of Blastocystis spp. on the immune inflammatory response in the gut microbiome https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.967724/full - unclear whether pathogen or not. There are several sub-genera of blastocystis, some are pathogenic, and...

Increasing evidence to suggest BV may be sexually transmitted (2017): http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173637 The Microbiome Composition of a Man's Penis Predicts Incident Bacterial Vaginosis in His Female Sex Partner With High Accuracy (Aug 2020, n=168 couples)...