Jon Shaffer

To the Editor: We of Vermont’s public health professional community call for the immediate removal of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. We also call on Vermont’s Congressional delegation as well as Governor Scott to join as a unified front to demand his immediate removal. The Senate Finance Committee hearings of Sept. 4 made clear the harm RFK Jr. in his current role will bring to Vermonters and to the health of the entire United States.

Protest —for Aya Each night is a night of slaughter; in the shadows children dress in tatters, parched, glass-eyed. Children whose homes are ash, children plastered in cement and blood. The world doesn’t care about us, you say. You’ve gone from displacement to displacement searching for life, for rest, yet every evening, the bombing starts again. And I want to say, look! our streets are alive: banners flare & drums beat and quicken like hearts.

Dispatches from the artificial intelligence hype machine whirlpool By Alicia Puglionesi Stories meant to showcase the inspiring potential of AI in healthcare can leave the reader in a strange, dark place. In 2022 the New York Times covered a suicide prevention app developed by Harvard psychologists to monitor high risk patients after discharge from the hospital. We follow a woman who enrolls in the study and is saved from a suicide attempt when the app cues the researchers to intervene.