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Conference organizers planning where there next conference should be

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Anyone who has ever downplayed the threat of the anti-vaccine movement has either not been paying attention or has been bamboozled.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Here’s RFK Jr in June 2023 saying he’s going to blackball any scientist who is on ACIP and block them from ever sitting on a committee again, and from receiving federal funding for 8 years. Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 8 hours ago • 353 comments

I'm on the receiving end of a terminated NIH grant that had no actual appeals process

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

submitted 9 hours ago • 271 comments

To remove vaccines from ACIP guidelines, which seems to be the end goal here, is effectively a ban. If a vaccine is not recommended, Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance can refuse to cover it. Few people can afford to pay for the cost out of pocket. RFK Jr's end game is to ban vaccines!!!

submitted 23 hours ago • 33 comments

Why should everyone be concerned that all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices were fired at the same time? Because it's a slippery slope to losing our choice to protect our children and our families 💉 are one of the best tools to prevent disease. We need them available

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

submitted 1 day ago • 1371 comments

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement: “If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” WITHOUT CHANGES.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Bill Cassidy was soooo confident in 🧠🪱's assurances that vaccines wouldn't be touched. Where is Bill Cassidy now? #WheresBill #SaveCDC #SaveACIP

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Fuck

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Reporters, looking for actual CDC employee reactions to this news? You can quote us: "What the actual 🤬?"

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

My main surprise is that this move took this long to do but this is about as grave a situation as you can get when it comes to vaccine regulation in the US: archive.ph/Y5WCM

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Sorry, used the archive link to get around the paywall so you can't see what it's about- HHS Secretary Kennedy just fired every member of ACIP.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr disbands the ACIP. The science continues ("and yet it moves!") but the recommendations may no longer be scientific. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I see some discourse about ditching the former Twitter, and so I'll remind folks that the best reason to there is that it's a fucking Nazi bar and we all deserve better. I'm on social media to enjoy conversation with cool folks. Bluesky does a bang-up job of that. The former Twitter doesn't.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

This really cannot be said enough. The only two major internal crisis's in the US are combatting climate change and affording healthcare.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 1 day ago • 1147 comments

Babies can’t be vaccinated but the folks around them sure can.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Cutting federal funding to cancer research to pay for an endless line of tanks filing past the Washington monument.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 4 days ago • 294 comments

In 2019, NIAID proposed an ambitious scientific network focused on pandemic preparedness, research, and response - the "CREID Network". Ten centers kicked off just as the pandemic was taking off, playing critical roles throughout. We were just notified the whole network is terminated. Reason? 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

remember, this guy ran illegal medical experiments on autistic children using castration drugs and lost his medical license because of it

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 5 days ago • 644 comments

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

submitted 6 days ago • 96 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

Kind of jars you, hearing someone speaking truth so plainly after what we’ve been conditioned to accept as “news”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

submitted 8 days ago • 78 comments

“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.” This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Heavy stuff. The Regime desires to completely eliminate the Forest Service’s R&D division. Shocking. R&D is statutorily mandated. R&D is part and parcel to management of the forests. It’s how we keep communities & firefighters safe. How we plan for the future. This is wrong. And unlawful.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The media shuffles this aside because either oh it’s Trump being Trump or because they’re running cover for him. And it’s easy to dismiss as more nonsense. But suggesting members of the opposition party are clones/robots/NPCs is dangerous: it unpersons them, makes them likelier targets of violence.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

This past flu season was a deadly one for kids. The #CDC reported today that it has been informed of another 4 pediatric flu deaths, which takes the year's to-date total to 235. The only worse season on record was the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, which was really hard on kids. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 10 days ago • 463 comments

Needs more press: -227 kids have died from influenza so far this flu season -90% unvaccinated -kids flu vax rates have dropped from 64% to 49% in past 5 years Kids are dying from anti-vax nonsense and very few are reporting it. mailchi.mp/messages/pan... Thank you: @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...

submitted 12 days ago • 1131 comments

This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a bunch of dipshits who want us all to have bird flu, I guess, that or Covid, probably both, some kind of Fluvid, anyway everything is going great

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

submitted 12 days ago • 130 comments

These plague-loving woo fucks want IMPORT A GODDAMN AVIAN FLU OSTRICH FLOCK Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

This is a terrible decision. Our ability to respond to pandemic influenza viruses is now severely compromised.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment