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Jay Bhattacharya is a profoundly weak and unserious man who is WAYYYY outta his depth. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Pertussis (whooping cough) causes babies to stop breathing… I’ve seen older children cough so hard their eyes bleed… It’s an awful illness and it’s prevented by an incredibly safe vaccine. Mums should get it when they’re pregnant and babies when they’re old enough.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Couldn’t disagree more. Medicine and the real world are inextricably intertwined. To advocate for our patients is to engage beyond simple academia. Essentially, this article argues we should remain detached in our ivory towers. THAT is what causes decreased trust.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

A total bald-faced lie. There is NO fetal tissue in the MMR vaccine. Period. This man is unfit to lead HHS.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

This isn't a new product. It's an updated vaccine to account for new strains and viral evolution. Are they going to do this for all COVID and influenza vaccines yearly? Because that effectively shuts them down. There isn't enough time between identification of strains included & release of vaccine.

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

An absolutely catastrophic consequence of the antivaxx movement. Thousands of children potentially harmed. Some of whom will die. All because of misinformation around a safe vaccine. Horrific.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 135 comments

There are things you just don’t cut. A hotline for suicidal youth is one of them. Taking away a basic call for help when someone is at their lowest is not just cold. It’s evil.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

To talk about children with autism like this - like they are irreparably damaged and a burden to society - is ignorant, mean and callous. This man simply has no idea what he’s talking about. He brings shame to America.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

submitted 25 days ago • 1000 comments

A THREAD 🧵: Why “studying” the vaccine-autism link again is dangerous pseudoscience and not “open-minded inquiry”

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin don’t treat measles (it’s a virus- it doesn’t respond to antibiotics). For the head of HHS to be messaging this in the middle of an outbreak that has killed two children is… despicable.

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia Neurotropic herpes viruses may be implicated in the development of dementia. Can vaccines reduce this risk? Yes, they can! www.nature.com/artic... 1/10

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Kennedy's dismantling of public health has begun. Thousands of doctors, scientists & admins, w deep cuts to HIV, minority health & injury prevention. Several CDC center directors—have been offered a random (and likely remote) reassignment: Indian Health. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 35 days ago • 74 comments

CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote

submitted 39 days ago • 33 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 43 days ago • 329 comments

School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

submitted 44 days ago • 116 comments

Unvaccinated child gets measles, develops pneumonia which is a well-known complication of measles, and tragically passes away. Anti-vaxxers: “See?! It was pneumonia, not measles, that killed her! This was medical error!” 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♂️

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

Good. An immature billionaire and his crew of adolescents don’t have the right to shut down life-saving functions that benefit the poorest and neediest.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

🤣🤣🤣

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr with more scientifically illiterate ramblings: The vaccine confers life long immunity to 95-98% of people who get 2 doses. Breast milk does NOT provide reliable protection to infants, regardless of mother’s immunity (infection vs vaccine).

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Lemme get this straight - Trump inherited a booming economy with stocks at an all-time high… And now he’s crashed it and made a recession very likely… All over stupid tariffs and other poor decisions?

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Marco Rubio announces that he has killed PEPFAR. An organization that provided critical HIV care to the poorest and neediest. All while professing to follow the teachings of Christ.

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people All to save 0.08% of the budget. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism. What mistakes does he make? 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 140 comments

Please don’t have “measles parties.” Even for kids who fully recover, measles is a miserable experience. And a substantial number will have complications. Just get vaccinated instead.

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

submitted 60 days ago • 453 comments

RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore

submitted 68 days ago • 479 comments

This is so profoundly dumb on so many levels. Yeah- French fries cooked in beef tallow is what will make Americans healthy 🥴🥴🥴 Just a profoundly unserious man.

submitted 68 days ago • 6 comments

This follows the first death of a Canadian child in Ontario last year. NO child should be dying of measles in 2025. We need to do better. 💔

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

New article in JAMA shows NO increase in sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes during and after the C19 Pandemic. Bottom line: all those ghouls claiming it was the vaccine were lying. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

the way i learned it at my catholic med school was "yes HPV is transmitted sexually but it's so ubiquitous it's not really an STI"

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

“It funds work that makes no sense like giving CT scans to homeless people” The research was to address the fact that unhoused people have a mortality rate for lung cancer that’s more than 2x that of housed people. CT is the gold standard for lung cancer screening. Doesn’t make sense to him, though

submitted 73 days ago • 25 comments

They’re 100% going after childhood vaccines… www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

Large systematic review appears showing vaccines are safe Antivaxxers: “Can’t trust these biased ‘studies’ from BiG pHaRmA!” Tiny study appears showing 10pints of turmeric drowned 1 colony of bacteria in a test tube AVers: “See! The science is clear! We don’t need vaccines!”

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

I do find RFK Jr's addiction relevant in one infuriating way: he describes his heroin use as self-medication for ADHD and yet, rather than recognizing this holds lessons for drug policy and mental health care / medication access, he believes all paths except his current one should be illegal.

submitted 78 days ago • 25 comments

New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 79 days ago • 76 comments

“I never thought antivaxx policies would be put first in MY state,” sobs man who single-handedly cleared the way for antivaxxers to dictate health policy for the entire country

submitted 79 days ago • 65 comments

I have had patients have HPV disease such that it required surgical management who had only ever had one partner. About 80% of us have HPV at some point in our lifetimes. The HPV vaccine is highly effective at preventing infection from the types of HPV most likely to cause cancer

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

A common misunderstanding is that HPV is only a problem for people who are “sexually promiscuous.” The truth: you can get HPV even if you’ve only had ONE partner. Its prevalence in adult populations is very high. So we vax everyone.

submitted 79 days ago • 16 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 80 days ago • 376 comments