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

submitted 2 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 1 day ago • 9 comments

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 462 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 484 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 10 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 11 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 12 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 12 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 15 days ago • 27 comments

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

submitted 17 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 20 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 21 days ago • 26 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 21 days ago • 77 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 21 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 21 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 21 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 22 days ago • 382 comments

These firings immediately & severely jeopardize our national & local responses to disease outbreaks. This is incredibly dangerous, especially during an active TB outbreak in Kansas, measles outbreak in Texas, & ongoing monitoring of H5N1 (bird flu). This puts the health of all Americans at risk!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The cost of indiscriminate and wholesale cuts to the HHS.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Bonkers. Vaccines have saved millions of lives and the US has put an antivaxxer (and HIV denier, and antisemite, and conspiracy mongers, and and and…) in charge of its nation’s health. The dumbest timeline. globalnews.ca/news/1101730...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Govt closes all HIV clinics in Uganda thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump interfering with USAID. Regardless of your thoughts on countries relying on international aid, this is NOT how you treat poor people. Shameful.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 27 days ago • 466 comments

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

submitted 37 days ago • 57 comments

Such a shock to see that the folks who screamed the loudest about being “censored” during the Covid pandemic are now cheering on & applauding Trump’s censorship. It’s almost as if they were never really free speech advocates at all (“free speech for me but not for thee”)—Who could have predicted it?

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

As a scientist, I am not going to attend any conference happening in the US. I am not giving Canadian public money to the US . #CanadaStrong #CanadaIsNotForSale

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

I don’t know what’s worse about RFK Jr: His anti-vaxx nonsense. Or the fact that he’s too cowardly to own his anti-vaxx nonsense. Truly, the backbone of a jellyfish.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Only live vaccines can shed. The COVID-19 vaccine is not live. Therefore, it is impossible for it to shed. Pierre Kory needs to revisit his vaccinology lectures from med school.

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

One headline to rule them all

submitted 48 days ago • 74 comments

This can't be repeated often enough: batteries are getting cheaper incredibly fast. This not only means that our cars can drive on electricity. But also that solar and wind become "firm" sources of power, and we can use our electricity grid much better. www.iea.org/reports/batt...

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

Whenever people say there are ToO MaNy VaCciNeS now, I always respond with: Which of the following are you ok with young children catching? Meningitis? Polio? Severe diarrhea? Pneumonia? Measles? Incurable hepatitis? Pertussis? Tetanus? Diphtheria? Seriously- which one?

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

RFK Jr makes a fortune from his anti-vaxx lies… and then lies about it… www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-admit...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

Ivermectin kills parasites. Febendazole kills worms. Neither has any clinical effect on cancer. Yet on the JRE, Mel Gibson opined that they cured his friends. Rogan uncritically amplified it. This stuff gets people killed.

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Another day, another lousy McCullough ivermectin piece retracted. h/t @drjonl.bsky.social for flagging this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Anti-vax cardiologist Peter McCullough, who currently serves as the chief scientific officer of The Wellness Company, has had his ABIM certifications revoked. www.abim.org/verify-physi... www.documentcloud.org/documents/23...

submitted 67 days ago • 31 comments

Given that “Adrian Dittman” is Elon Musk, this has to go down as possibly the saddest tweet of all time. All that money. All that power. And the man just wants validation.

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

If you’ve ever worked with kids with cancer (I have), you’ll know how indescribably heartbreaking it is. And you’d want to do everything you could to prevent and treat it. Now Elon and Trump have SLASHED money for pediatric cancer research. Profoundly evil. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Peter Duesberg’s HIV denial contributed to the deaths of >300,000 South Africans. That Jay Bhattacharya uses such a man as a cheap shot against Tony Fauci is a slap in the face for every family that lost a loved one. It is yet another reason he is grossly unfit to lead the NIH.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Make… Polio?… Great Again?

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submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

“HoW MuCh iS BiG pHaRmA PaYiNg YoU??” $0. I promote vaccines because, like other pediatricians, I don’t like seeing children being harmed and killed by entirely preventable illnesses.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Trump says RFK Jr will “investigate” the link between vaccines and autism as “somebody needs to find out.” We’ve ALREADY FOUND OUT - >600,000 kids in Denmark - >90,000 in the US - >1.2m kids worldwide NO LINK. How many more of these does he want us to do?

submitted 91 days ago • 34 comments