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Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics. Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism.
Fluoride! The Trump administration has crossed the bridge from depressingly common paranoid conspiracy theorists to cartoonish Dale Gribble conspiracy theorists.