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Ben Ryan

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Health and Science Reporter at Freelance

Health Journalist at Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan

🔬Health & science reporter: @NYTimes @NBCNews @WashingtonPost @TheAtlantic @Guardian @NewYorkSun | Cancer survivor | @Columbia 🎓| https://t.co/dQRHZHqWHn

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  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Ben Ryan

    The nation’s LGBTQ research field is collapsing. In recent weeks, academics who focus on improving the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans have been subjected to waves of grant cancellations from the National Institutes of Health. More than 270 grants totaling at least $125 million of unspent funds have been eliminated, though the true sum is likely much greater, researchers told NBC News.

  • 1 month ago | nysun.com | Ben Ryan

    The United Kingdom will spend $13.9 million to study the impacts of puberty blockers on minors experiencing gender-related distress. The U.K.’s National Health Service earlier this month announced its plan to invest in much-anticipated research into the controversial treatments, for which there remains insufficient data, per an NHS-commissioned report called the Cass Review. The study still needs to pass muster with an NHS ethics board.

  • 2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Ben Ryan

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reportedly targeted a manufacturer of poppers, an inhalant drug that has gained increasingly mainstream popularity as an adjunct to clubbing and sexual activity. The drug has long been sold in convenience stores under a legal loophole.

  • 2 months ago | benryan.substack.com | Ben Ryan

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  • 2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Ben Ryan

    6 minBenjamin Ryan is an independent journalist who has covered science and public health for more than two decades. He writes the Substack "Hazard Ratio." To hear Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their allies tell it, the federal government's apparatus for doling out scientific research grants is a woke slush fund for silly scientific studies that offer nothing in the way of solutions to the world's problems.

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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
14 May 25

RT @Acyn: Secretary Noem appears to not want to say if the picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand is doctored Swalwell: I have a 7 year old, a 6…

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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
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Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter
14 May 25

I once traveled to Montana to interview cattle ranchers there for a story I wrote for @NYTimes about regenerative agriculture. Presumably Gov. Gianforte is seeking to protect their interests by banning lab-grown meat in the state. That said, it’s not as if more than a fraction of

Governor Greg Gianforte
Governor Greg Gianforte @GovGianforte

So-called "lab-grown meat" has no place in Montana. By signing HB 401 into law, I am proud to defend our way of life and the hardworking Montana ranchers who produce the best beef in the world. https://t.co/INc2WuAvNI