malar0ne.bsky.social
thinking about infectious diseases, information, and behavior
Postdoc UMD College Park
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I, for one, am certainly shaken up and disrupted!
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This is the opinion piece that got her targeted for deportation by the Secretary of State. For this, she was abducted and detained for 6 weeks, without appropriate medical care.
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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He also couldn't be bothered to correct his boss' suggestion that mRNA vaccines haven't been tested against a placebo. Unfortunately a pattern.
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Getting a call from downtown....
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Pro-public health but...wait for it...anti-child labor
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Can't wait to hear what they find for Aseem!
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I got the roles wrong but this was from 3 months ago and now they both have roles in the admin. Not hard to predict. It's the same 5 guys who have been propping each other up for years.
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Don't forget his work on lives saved by PEPFAR in Africa
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Thank you for your integrity and excellent reporting.
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Unfortunately, I am not surprised.
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If this is an office from which one can essentially effectuate thought control and you have styled yourself as a champion of scientific freedom, how can you dismiss the concerns of scientists who feel censored and targeted for political reasons under your own leadership?
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He brought a case to the Supreme Court (which rejected his argument 6-3) based on the premise that Tony Fauci is responsible for the moderation decisions of individual subreddits and maybe the editorial choices of Wired magazine.
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He spoke to at Medical College of Wisconsin this week and they were far more skeptical
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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“We experienced what amounts to censorship and controlling of the reporting of our science,” Dr. Hall said.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
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And NIH Director Bhattacharya has publicly made misleading statements abt it. He failed to follow this up by clarifying it is not administered to babies and that boys also benefit from the vaccine, which prevents several types of cancer (not just cervical).
www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...
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Next, @malar0ne.bsky.social on perceived experts in anti-vaccine communities. Antidotly some of the most influential voices have MDs or other symbols of expertise. Collected twitter data in April 2021 when all us adults became eligible for COVID-19 vaccine. Two communities (pro and anti vaccine) 3/
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It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.
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Last fall I questioned why President Levin started his term keynoting a summit featuring several people who have directly attacked Stanford research and researchers. Its organizer now directs NIH.
stanforddaily.com/2024/10/03/f...
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This is such a clear, concise, and blunt statement of stakes when the government censors health research.
It's also how scientists and universities need to talk much more often.
From Harvard President Garber's email to staff announcing the lawsuit: