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Virologist turned science writer. She/her. Fighting science misinformation with a podcast/blog. Infectiousdose.com My views are my own & do not represent any organization
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Contaminated kids cough syrup. Check your stash of Little Remedies Honey cough syrup. people.com/popular-kids...

The silence was deafening 😅 No one wanted to be wrong on this one… so I’ll take it from here! The answer: D) Sterilizing immunity blocks infection. It’s the wrong gold standard! 🎧 Want the full breakdown? Listen/read: 👉 www.infectiousdose.com/post/protect... #InfectiousDose #SciComm #VaccinesWork

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Protect transgender scientists | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

👇🏼👇🏼yep. The COVID denial industry is doing serious harm.

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

Darnella Frazier was 17 when she had the presence of mind to document what was happening to George Floyd. These ICE abduction videos differ but also convey an out-of-control state abusing its power. Sometimes bearing witness is among the most important forms of civil resistance.

70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Russell Vought is an unelected zealot hell-bent on bringing down the US government.

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I like when people who voted for a sex-abusing felon talk to me about "illegals."

We don’t know her, but the concern is evident. Dr. Fiona Havers was a senior advisor on vaccine policy at the CDC for 13 yrs. She could no longer continue while RFK Jr. dismantled the rigorous processes that help determine vaccination standards in the U.S. 🧪🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

NIH researchers were working on treatments, health equity, and saving lives—but their work was cut for being ideologically inconvenient. Now a federal judge says: illegal. Recently, NIHers risked everything to speak out. Stand with them here ➡️zurl.co/rqq7T zurl.co/0GTNE

This is a very exclusive quiz. As in… not one person has answered. 😂 I guess y'all just don't know! 👇 5 hours left til the answer drops! If you don't want to wait, listen to the episode!

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Noting that the Trump 1.0 decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is a major contributing failure to the crisis, the Nobel-prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War has released a statement—a good script for us all: peaceandhealthblog.com/2025/06/13/i...

With the rising antivaxx BS, good to remember...👇 154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Good morning, friends! Today is Juneteenth, we celebrate the end of slavery in America. This afternoon in my town, we will march 2.5 miles, marking the 2.5 yrs it took after the Emancipation Proclamation for Texas to get the news. #FreedomDay

It was always about, “‘Medical freedom’ for me but not for thee.” Supplements, refusing vaccines, and quackery Freedom! How dare anyone tell us what medicine we can and can’t use! Women’s health care and gender-affirming care for trans youth? Now wait a minute! It’s wrong, and you can’t have it!🙄

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If you think this moment is about one politician or one press conference, you’re missing the point. This is about speaking up for every single American and fighting for our constitutional rights.

Call your Representative tomorrow demand they get louder and more assertive about these masked, unidentifiable thugs who are ripping people off the streets. The current pushback is as “hardcore” as a bowl of warm pudding.

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FINALLY Democrats are putting out HARD-HITTING ads. WATCH AND SHARE: #MAGAKidnappers

Really good piece. We need art, in every form, and artists need to be able to make a living and get healthcare. Making it impossible to do both will destroy the arts.

This photo of Oz, RFK, Makary, Prasad and bhattacharya is dark. The perfect merger of “respectable, evidence-based medicine” with rank equals and grifters, all for political power. Anyone who enabled these men in any way owns this moment too.

Cool. Cool. Quality control schmality control. We don’t need no stinking oversight.

Illinois is PURE AWESOMENESS! 😎✨

Wrote this piece for Harpers Bazaar about the life, legacy, and hate-induced murder of Jonathan Joss through the eyes of being a Two-Spirit Native person this Pride. I hope you take a read. For Him. For all of us. 🪶

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

This, and the fact that it’s inherently stupid to outsource your thinking to a hallucination prone bullshit generator

🧪 Pop quiz: What is “sterilizing immunity”? Immunity that: A) ...lasts forever B) ...prevents symptoms C) ...makes you untouchable in court & in bed D) ...blocks infection Drop your best guess 👇 Answer tomorrow! Can't wait? Listen Now: 🎧 www.infectiousdose.com/post/protect... #InfectiousDose

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

Each child death is an immense tragedy. This year, more children died of flu than in 15 years. Child flu vaccines are essential. “There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but a big one is that fewer children get flu shots” - Dr. Sean O’Leary of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social

OUT NOW! Listen + read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/protect... #InfectiousDose #SciencePodcast #Vaccines

“If it isn’t stopped, & some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases”—Fiona Havers RFK Jr & the MAHA/MAGA bros happily pushing forward his agenda—Makary, Bhattacharya, Oz, Prasad, his ACIP kooks—are going to cause ⚰️

The least qualified administration in history? www.statnews.com/2025/06/18/v...

🚨 NEW EPISODE: “Protection, Interrupted” Sterilizing immunity—the idea that a vaccine can completely block infection—is the wrong goal. For why it fails the herd and what truly saves lives: Listen + read now: www.infectiousdose.com/post/protect... #InfectiousDose #SciencePodcast #Vaccines

Tucker holding Cruz to account was not on my end-of-times bingo card

Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.

Our freedom to live without government-sanctioned religion is central to the First Amendment.