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This from @walkerbragman.bsky.social about Jayanta Bhattacharya, who's unfortunately head of the Nat'l Institutes of Health. He's "out of his depth," "sold his soul," "clueless," according to NIH staff members www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...

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The Trump regime has siphoned off billions in research funding for chronic diseases, global health & vaccines. It's trashing cancer research & pretends infectious diseases are a figment of our imagination. Here's a look at the gutting of America’s medical research, every canceled or delayed grant👇

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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

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I was turned away at my pharmacy today from getting a Covid vaccine. Even though I was willing to risk a sore shoulder Makary and Prasad felt I shouldn’t have that right. They made the decision for me. My medical freedom and bodily autonomy meant nothing to them.

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My colleague and friend @scripps.edu, @ardemp.bskyverified.social, on the NYT front page today

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We rely on deep sleep to clear the brain's metabolic waste products (that can induce inflammation), which decreases with aging. Now there's a discovery of a non-invasive way method to augment waste clearance in aged mice @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A new report from @warren.senate.gov details Elon Musk’s reign of corruption in Washington, itemizing 130 dodgy dealings in 130 days. EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

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"How would it change your behavior to know that the government had a drop of your blood – or saliva – containing your 'entire genetic code, which will be kept indefinitely in a government-controlled refrigerator in a warehouse in Northern Virginia'?"

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Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail https://go.nature.com/4ksCN6I

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RFK Jr is a conspiracy theorist & totally unhinged about vaccines. He wants to turn back the clock to 1895 when measles, diphtheria, whooping cough & rubella ruthlessly sickened & killed children. He’s being aided by an army dummies, so-called MAHA moms www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jrs-wa...

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One of the world’s most notorious pathogens—Yersinia pestis, the Black Plague bacterium—has survived for centuries. Scientists now know why: a single gene mutation produced new strains that were less deadly & more transmissible. An earlier Medieval strain killed 25 million Europeans in 5 years👇

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The Trump regime is stripping the U.S. of its defense against deadly infectious diseases. Now, an uncertain vaccines market keeps getting dicier www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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The Nat’l Institutes of Health is the crown jewel of American biomedical research, but it like other US science agencies, is being slashed & gutted by the nefarious Trump regime. US scientific leadership, which has prevailed for more than a century, is being forced into decline 👇

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#Vaccineswork: Children who are unvaccinated against #SARSCoV2 face 20x the risk of #LongCovid, according to new research medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04...

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We've actively canceled many programs that help to protect us from a pandemic. We're not just forgetting, we're actively helping to make it happen.

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The COVID-19 vaccines are the closest humans have come to a scientific feat like blowing up an asteroid headed to Earth in real time and saving millions, if not tens of millions, of lives. And conservatives are like, "Witch!!"

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ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

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After eliminating #measles 25 years ago in the U.S., measles will come to stay in America again if we don’t keep up vaccination rates. #CommunityImmunity #Ivax2protect time.com/7290566/wast...

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The Department of Homeland Security is NOT making our country safer. They're ignoring immigration laws. They're handcuffing moms, zip tying children and disappearing them without hearings or due process. They're weaponizing DHS to purge people from the population. They're hiding their faces.⬇️

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The Nat’l Institutes of Health is the crown jewel of American biomedical research, but it like other US science agencies, is being slashed & gutted by the nefarious Trump regime. US scientific leadership, which has prevailed for more than a century, is being forced into decline 👇

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#Covid data still being tabulated: New research published in JAMA show a higher-than-usual number of heart-related deaths as part of Covid’s larger impact. The research by medical investigators at Massachusetts Gen’l Hospital revealed an unusually high number of deaths at home. #Vaccineswork👇

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RFK Jr is a conspiracy theorist & totally unhinged about vaccines. He wants to turn back the clock to 1895 when measles, diphtheria, whooping cough & rubella ruthlessly sickened & killed children. He’s being aided by an army dummies, so-called MAHA moms www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jrs-wa...

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It should come as no surprise that the Trump regime’s head of FEMA didn’t know hurricane season exists.These are the same people who fired federal meteorologists & gutted the Nat’l Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The entire Trumpian circus is the dumbest group of climate deniers in the world👇

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#Vaccineswork: Children who are unvaccinated against #SARSCoV2 face 20x the risk of #LongCovid, according to new research medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04...

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COMING SOON: more measles! Nine new measles cases in TX outbreak since the May 27 update. Ninety-four of the patients have been hospitalized and three have died. Dropping Wed 6/4/25, episode with updates on the measles outbreaks and listener questions re measles. www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

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👇🏼👇🏼measles is more contagious than COVID. And people are contagious before they have symptoms. People also are not necessarily reporting mild illness. This means there are more infected and infectious people than we know about and they are infecting people before they know they are sick.

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How do we properly assess the health of our gut microbiome? It's not simple. www.jci.org/articles/vie... @jclinical-invest.bsky.social

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Where was this important 1st randomized trial performed? China Where are 8 of the 10 most productive research institutions in the world as of March 2025? China nature.com/nature-index... What country is radically defunding research and will lose its competitiveness? USA

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This is going to go spectacularly wrong. www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/f...

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The FDA has issued it highest-level health alert as a tomato recall turned substantially more serious. Salmonella contamination of tomatoes has sickened people in multiple states en.econostrum.info/tomato-recal...

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“It’s taking off pretty quickly,” said Professor Catherine Bennett, warning that “if you’re exposed, you’re more likely to catch it.” She added, “We might be in for a bigger winter wave,” and COVID deaths were 5x higher than flu—"So COVID-19 is still to be taken seriously"

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When everything else fails, there’s always voodoo. I think these dolls come with pins 👇

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#Covid data still being tabulated: New research published in JAMA show a higher-than-usual number of heart-related deaths as part of Covid’s larger impact. The research by medical investigators at Massachusetts Gen’l Hospital revealed an unusually high number of deaths at home. #Vaccineswork👇

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The FDA has approved Moderna's new lower-dose #Covid vaccine. The shot is a fifth of the dose of the mRNA vaccine, Spikevax. It's not a replacement for the company's existing shot, but a 2nd option. The new vax—mNexspike—is a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines👇

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The Trump regime has ended the research program that's key to searching for an HIV vaccine. The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to HIV research & programs to prevent the disease www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

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It’s a good time to grow your own.

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NEW: The Department of Veterans Affairs has ordered its scientists NOT to publish in journals without clearance from the Trump administration. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Makary knows that ACIP is not a kangaroo court, but a panel of experts who make recommendations based on evidence, not political objectives. The FDA Commissioner is trying to take vaccines away & is too inept to come up with a remotely believable justification why.

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Even if only 12% of parents are vaccinating kids, does that justify taking away the choice from those parents? Shouldn’t they have “medical freedom,” too? Interesting pattern of respecting the rights of some parents (those who reject Covid shots; or those who want book bans) but not other parents.

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Jay Bhattacharya’s right wing MAGA anti-science kookiness is having awful consequences

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The Trump regime has ended the research program that's key to searching for an HIV vaccine. The termination is the latest in a series of cuts to HIV research & programs to prevent the disease www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...

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The FDA has approved Moderna's new lower-dose #Covid vaccine. The shot is a fifth of the dose of the mRNA vaccine, Spikevax. It's not a replacement for the company's existing shot, but a 2nd option. The new vax—mNexspike—is a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines👇

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#Covid vaccine guidance for pregnant women has been changed by the Trump regime—but reality remains steadfast. Pregnant women are still a high risk population www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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Escaping Nazis: American doctors are moving to Canada to escape the insane Trump regime. Canadian authorities have documented a surge of US physicians moving north 👇https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/american-doctors-moving-canada-escape-trump-administration-manitoba/

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Ending water fluoridation may cost billions & rot millions of teeth. Despite benefits, RFK Jr, acting on his own hunches & conspiracy theories, has promised to remove fluoride from public water supplies www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...

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Disruption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing influences biofilm formation without affecting antibiotic tolerance. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #MicrobioJ using a #PublishAndRead agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mic....

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Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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