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Virologist, Retired UPenn Professor, avid defender of facts, scientific research, vaccines and public health. Bicyclist, hiker, grandfather, writer, owned by two dachshunds and bass player for the Herpetic Legion.
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I think “negative criminal” is sort of a double negative so they are good guys.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The President of the US wore a blue suit at the Pope’s funeral. I had to paraphrase the great 1967 song by Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels: “Devil with the blue suit”. I wonder if there were exorcists there?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Happy thought for the day: The saguaro cacti are budding and blooming in the Sonoran Desert springtime.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

To all the scientists in the US, there is a Trump war on science. If you think it will pass and things will return to normal you are dead wrong. If you think that you can just do business as usual in the safety of the lab, you are dead wrong. You have to fight back, to keep the damage

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Mehmet Oz: "It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources." So why isn’t Oz pushing back against RFKJr’s anti-vax movement that will result in a decline in health? He must know that many unvaccinated children will be permanently damaged

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Musk/trump distruction of USAID has stopped the delivery of needed drugs and medical aid for third world countries. Remember when Trump called these “shit-hole” countries that, apparently, www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The white house changed its covid site to a promotion for the lab leak theory. There is nothing new here just the same debunked conspiracy theories and fabrication. There is no credible peer-revied scientific data, nor intelligence data (prior to Trump 2's manipulation) that supports the lab leak.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

What a great piece by @arstechnica.com: "This moment calls out for moral clarity and resolve. It asks universities to take their mission in society seriously and to resist being co-opted by government forces." arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

My latest OpEd. progressive.org/op-eds/trump...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Today 70 years ago a group of school children would be vaccinated with the new Salk polio vaccine by Dr. Charles Hawkins, a country doctor in the small town of Spring Grove, PA. It was a great day, a liberation day, because there had been so much

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The courage of @APHA needs solidarity. Do you run or sit on a board of a professional organization? #StandwithAPHA. Join the call. RFK Jr. must resign or be fired. Speak out now before he does more damage to the nation's health and future. apha.org/news-and-med...

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Ok, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the order for the Trump administration to return a wrongly deported man. The chief justice said the measure was to give the justices some breathing room while the full court considers the matter. REALLY! What is there to consider. A

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

After speaking for over 24 hours Cory Bookers was ask a question, by a fellow senator: Did he know about the terrible cuts at HHS that happened today while he was speaking, the attack on American health and health research? At that moment MSNBC felt it

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I wish it was all a bad April fools joke. But it’s not, the firings of experts, the closing of vital health programs and the dismantling of the department of health and human services are a devastating blow to American health, public health and health research. A victory for a

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Let’s all just conclude right now that an anti-vax, germ theory denier as head of HHS will appoint a likeminded person to head up the study to show that vaccines cause autism, and no matter how many studies show they don’t, the one fraudulent, piece of shit study that does will be the winner.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

NYT: Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China…and then he will sell that to china to get tesla and starlink contracts. But I’m starting to root for all the pathogens

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration is planning to completely eliminate the CDC Division of HIV Prevention, cutting $700 million that should be used to prevent HIV infections and control HIV the HIV epidemic. Such cuts would have horrific consequences for the health of Americans. aidsunited.org/action/polic...

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

I have just heard from several sources that the administration will soon gut the funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC). It will be similar to how they gutted USAID. Your health is in real danger. Protest, write to senators and reps now.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

We just saw a group of spineless, clueless democrats give away Medicare, social security…give away the government to psychopathic facists. Of course we could say vote them out in the next election. But they gave away the possibility of a next election.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I want to tell non-Americans not living in the US, for your safety, stay away from the US. It’s not safe for you here even if you have the appropriate visas etc. ICE is a monster. It’s not safe healthwise, the measles epidemic is just the tip of the pathogen iceberg being left loose by Kennedy.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

This was a favorite time when I lived in PA, with snow and ice still on the ground the snowdrops pushed through. Right now I could use some spiritual snowdrops pushing through the dystopian darkness.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Our OpEd was published 3/2/25 and in just 11 days the future of health science in the US has gotten so much worse. And the general public reaction to this travesty, perpetrated by psychopaths, and putting our future health in danger, has been pathetically wimpy. Fight

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment