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Lots of caveats, but still pretty cool 👇 wapo.st/43Wg9hG

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

At 3C of global warming: “No more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable.” Pretty sobering, and the threshold may be lower than 3C.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/h... via @statnews.com

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

As the world struggles to respond to a global climate emergency, the US is defunding climate research.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This 💯 RFK Jr is using scientific rhetoric to pursue his antivaccine agenda, but he has no idea how science actually works.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

CDC has no Acting Director right now... Troubling in many ways. E.g., Absent a Dir., the HHS Sec. has the legal authority to approve/reject Advisory Cmte on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations. Upcoming considerations of RSV & other vaccines will have to be approved/vetoed by RFK Jr.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Secretary Kennedy makes headlines for anything he says that sounds remotely pro-vaccine. But for every one of those mildly supportive statements, there are other remarks that continue to cast doubts about these important products. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 18 days ago • 383 comments

Nearly 2,000 top researchers call on Trump administration to halt ‘assault’ on science - members of @theNASEM, which itself has not spoken up yet. www.statnews.com/2025/03/31/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.: this is not a good way to make America healthy. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews.com @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

“Leaders at the 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, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"Public health communications should [empower] people with reliable, science-based information... Unfortunately, we can’t count on Kennedy’s HHS for that anymore....the US urgently needs a strong alternative to the government public health guidance it has relied on in the past." wapo.st/3YaXUkG

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is a huge loss for FDA regulatory science. Peter Marks led FDA CBER during COVID vax clinical development. Rigorous standards for safety/efficacy were met before emergency use authorization. Peter Marks was one of the COVID heroes while RFK Jr was spreading disinformation. wapo.st/4hQn8fm

submitted 28 days ago • 56 comments

Good article on how RFK Jr could undermine vaccine access directly and indirectly. Directly by cancelling govt contracts and indirectly by changing the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to weaken liability protections for mfrs. If that happens, some companies might abandon the US market.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Nice review of H5 flu & pandemic threat👇 “An H5N1 pandemic, even with a CFR as low as 2%…would result in many millions of deaths globally & devastate the global economy, akin to COVID-19. It could also disrupt food supplies, destroy ecosystems, & induce transformative social and political upheaval”

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Even in 2025, some things still shock. Like the apparent selection of a long-time vaccine opponent who was disciplined & fined for practicing medicine without a license to conduct a new HHS study into whether there's a link between vaccines and autism. www.statnews.com/2025/03/26/r...

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

👇 These cuts are devastating for state & local public health. We can expect increasing infectious diseases, greater health disparities and reduced pandemic preparedness.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

CDC warning letter on research malfeasance by David & Mark Geier. 👇 “In summary, during the first visit the researchers conducted unapproved analysis on their datasets and on the second visit attempted to carry out unapproved analyses but did not complete this attempt.”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I can confirm this is 100% correct 👇👇👇

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“The problem with current global warming is the speed. The warming that humans are causing is unbelievably fast, & so humans…can’t fully adapt…rapid warmings in the geological past are often associated with mass extinctions – abrupt climate change is hard for life to tolerate” @hausfath.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I have said it before: if I were actively trying to turn bird flu into a pandemic, this would be my strategy.

submitted 38 days ago • 35 comments

This is the apex of stupidity. There are many potential benefits of mRNA vax, but I'll mention just one: rapid deployment of lifesaving vax for an avian flu pandemic. HHS recently awarded almost $600M to Moderna for accelerated clinical development of H5 vaccines. It would be crazy to stop this.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

We are losing an entire generation of young scientists. The effects will be felt for decades 👇 “Reductions to federal support for research at universities & other institutions under [Trump] are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects & [grad] programs.”

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

A doc in Texas is promoting useless measles remedies that do nothing except delay essential care for kids with serious infections. 👉Pseudoscience and magical thinking do not save lives. 👉Vaccines save lives.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Good news: 👉2025-26 flu vax strains have been specified by FDA and no manufacturing delays expected Bad news: 👉FDA bypassed the transparent, public external review process

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

👇 “An unprecedented streak of ocean heat since 2023 led some scientists to think that this part of Earth’s system has fundamentally changed in a way that it cannot be reversed on a human time scale.” WaPo gift link: wapo.st/4kxVdU7

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

And more. Link in next post. “It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

Lots of details not yet known on the latest measles death, but it’s clear that misinformation & conspiracy theories are driving vaccine skepticism. The health effects can be devastating.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

One small victory: the Iowa anti-mRNA bill is dead.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

👇 Good article on the RFK's weak response to the TX measles outbreak and the importance of vaccination to prevent this highly contagious airborne infection. 👉Measles cases declined 97% in the US during the 5 years after the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly. This Iowa legislation is based on magical thinking & pseudoscience. The mRNA vax saved millions of ppl during the COVID pandemic, and mRNA is promising in clinical trials for melanoma & pancreatic cancer. mRNA will generate huge benefits for humanity if we dont abandon scientific research.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

We need H5 mRNA vaccines developed, tested for safety & immune response, & stockpiled BEFORE the next pandemic. 👇👇

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI: new MMWR has been published, showing that this year’s flu vaccine is decent at keeping people from needing to see the doctor… and pretty darn good at preventing kids’ (& to a lesser extent, adults’) flu hospitalization Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.

submitted 56 days ago • 10 comments

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

submitted 57 days ago • 174 comments

Important 🛢️👇 This bill would effectively shut down a lot of vaccine R&D, including pandemic vaccines. It would also ban research to understand how flu and other resp viruses spread & cause illness.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments