Links 11/5/24

At long last, our national nightmare known as campaign season is over. Let’s celebrate with some links. Science:

1st wheel was invented 6,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains, modeling study suggests
Grey area journals to level 0
Trump Transition Co-Chair Floats Plan To ‘Yank’ Vaccines ‘Off The Market’
How Public Health Could Be Recast in a Second Trump Term
Researchers ‘in a state of panic’ after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Trump will hand him health agencies
If RFK Jr. Turns the CDC Into An Anti-Vaxx Propaganda Outfit, I Don’t Want To Hear a Peep From Some “Respectable” Doctors
RFK Jr. Says Trump Administration Would Advise Against Fluoride In Drinking Water

Other:

On Health Care, the Choice Is Progress or Indescribable Nightmare: Kamala Harris would make things better. Donald Trump would lay waste to health insurance and hospitals, and bring back measles and polio.
Why I Think Kamala Harris Will Win
Advisers Recommend Trump Skip FBI Background Checks for Appointees. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Trump is promising economic pain — and voters are noticing
Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?
“I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not”: Trump’s closing argument is toxic masculinity
My Fellow Republicans, It’s Time to Say Enough With Trump
Trump’s closing argument is all about demeaning women: “Locker room talk” might finally be his undoing
Meet the Democrats using porn ads to convince Trump voters to stay home
“It is so disastrous”: MAGA men are freaking out that wives may be secretly voting for Kamala Harris
Could the Democrats Just STFU for the Next Four Days About Certifying a Trump Win?
Sleepwalking in a Snitch State: In Trump’s America, neighbors coerce and silence where the government lacks the resources to intrude.
Kamala Harris will be a president for the labor movement – and for working women
It Could Definitely Happen Here. Many Americans struggle to accept that democracy is young, fragile, and could actually collapse – a lack of imagination that dangerously blunts the response to the Trumpist Right
Trump’s Wrecking Crew: Donald Trump wants to destroy our government institutions, and he’s recruited just the team to do it.
This tight race is, in part, about sexist backlash. But feminists can lash back, too
RFK Jr. set for major food, health role in potential Trump administration
I’m an Environmentalist. That’s Why I Can’t Vote Green.
The Bullshit Machine Is Running Out of Gas
The War on Gaza Is an Outrage. Sitting Out the Election Could Make It Worse.
Lots of voters don’t know who Trump is. Harris is informing them
Why the UAW’s Shawn Fain Is So Excited About Nebraska Independent Dan Osborn
Trump Says He’ll Fight for Working-Class Americans. His First Presidency Suggests He Won’t.
Her dad was among the first covid deaths. She wants voters to remember.
For president, the Advance/SILive.com endorses Kamala Harris
Trump’s Health-Care Plan Is Mostly Just RFK Jr.
Trump doesn’t rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president: ‘I’ll make a decision’
It’s Time To Vote (“I wish it were clear that the potential political price of losing Dearborn, Michigan, would be steeper than the potential political price of having CNN anchors attack the nominee as an antisemite day after day. But it’s hard to look at the past year of rampaging pro-Netanyahu McCarthyism and conclude that the morally odious approach is the tactically wrong one.”)
If you can keep it. Final thoughts on the impending

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