Teens and young adults across the country are dying from vaping. Yet, the Trump administration has chosen not to take the appropriate steps to fix this pandemic. Read more >
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Are Your Children Vaping? On Vaping and a Need for Science-Based Policy
Jacob Carter, Research scientist
February 13, 2020 1:45 PM EDT
On Mental Health and Guns, Experts Ordered Not to Contradict President Trump’s Lies
Michael Halpern, Deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
August 21, 2019 2:06 PM EDT
As people searched for answers around the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services prevented its scientists from posting relevant research about guns, violence, and mental health on social media. According to the Washington Post, which broke the story, the orders came in the wake of the president’s incorrect suggestion that mental illness leads to mass shootings. Read more >
Deadly Shooting at California Synagogue—Where is the Gun Violence Research, CDC?
Anita Desikan, Research Analyst
April 30, 2019 4:28 PM EDT
This weekend I learned that my hometown of Poway, California, a sleepy suburban city just north of San Diego, was the location of a violent shooting at a Jewish synagogue. A 19-year old walked into a synagogue armed with an AR-type assault rifle and began firing on Jewish people who were gathered to observe the last day of Passover. Read more >
Damien Jones, the equity and justice outreach specialist for the Climate and Energy Program at the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC.
Tell Secretary Alex Azar: We Need to Demand Equitable Gun Violence Research and Reform
Charise Johnson, researcher, Center for Science & Democracy
April 2, 2018 4:41 PM EDT
It has been only six weeks since last I wrote about gun violence in America, following the Parkland shooting that took seventeen lives and impacted a nation. In that time there have been 22 more mass shootings, at least 10 of them at schools. The number of deaths by guns in 2018 is at 3,423, and we’re only 89 days into the year—that’s about 38 human lives lost per day. In that time, hundreds of thousands of people have voiced their outrage and concerns over our country’s inaction around gun violence, as we witnessed at last weekend’s March for Our Lives. Read more >
WIN: Congress Cracks Open Door for Gun Violence Research to Resume
Michael Halpern, Deputy director, Center for Science & Democracy
March 21, 2018 3:12 PM EDT
Just three days before the March for Our Lives, Congress has opened the door for federal research into gun violence to resume. In a spending bill to provide funding for the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year, Congress has clarified that the CDC is able to pursue research to help stop gun violence. Read more >
