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Scientist who is passionate about correcting misinformation https://www.youtube.com/backtothescience
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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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Celebrating my 60th birthday with a half-price workout at the gym (seniors' discount).

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

My mum was born in 1940 when there were very few vaccines available, so she saw firsthand what can happen when children are exposed to childhood diseases without the benefits of vaccines. She had friends who died and she had friends who were left crippled. youtu.be/CCOS7vy-BrI

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Lack of US involvement in the upcoming WHO-led flu vaccine meeting could lead to less effective flu vaccines, experts fear. www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

A timely reminder that the appeal to authority fallacy is as valid today as it was during Covid. You can always find eminent experts who will disagree with the scientific consensus. You shouldn't accept what they say uncritically. 🧪https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2WTN3HltM

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

A timely reminder that the appeal to authority fallacy is as valid today as it was during Covid. You can always find eminent experts who will disagree with the scientific consensus. You shouldn't accept what they say uncritically. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2W...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Somehow I have made it to the top 500 Bluesky Users list (number 435). Thank you to all my followers. I appreciate all of you. vqv.app?s=09

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

If you're wondering why multiple media outlets are suddenly jumping on the Lucy Letby is innocent bandwagon and uncritically accepting as fact the opinion of new defence experts that completely contradicts different defence experts from December, it's part of a slick PR campaign.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

It always amazes me how polite scientists like Dr Susan Oliver can be when they are calling out reports that need retracting: 🛑 - like the #LucyLetby 'might be innocent and should get a retrial' report that David Davis has been waving while wandering around Westminster grabbing newspaper headlines.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

As is now known, Dr Shoo Lee deliberately updated his 1989 review paper so that the new paper would be seen as fresh evidence by the Court of Appeal to help free convicted serial killer, Lucy Letby. /1

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments