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Every hour that Kennedy remains Secretary puts lives at risk. We stand with our patients, and Congress must as well.

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1/ Wow, this paper is extraordinary! But not, unfortunately, in a good way 'Bridging science and society: Key communication points for climate experts' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Attended this weekend's Autism Health Summit, an anti-vaccine conference peddling false cures. Kennedy beamed a message in from DC, Peter McCullough praised Andy Wakefield and bad research, Del Bigtree urged patience with RFK Jr. and the whole thing made me so sad. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Sobering assessment of the current state of things under Kennedy by @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-bad-is-i...

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The consequences of this man’s delusional paranoia is likely to cause countless needless deaths and untold suffering. He is a public menace. Every Senator who voted to appoint him should either work to remove him ASAP, or resign. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/h...

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A THREAD 🧵: Why “studying” the vaccine-autism link again is dangerous pseudoscience and not “open-minded inquiry”

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70 years ago today Dr. Jonas Salk's inactivated polio vaccine was announced with 3 words: Safe, potent, effective. It remains one of the most remarkable achievments in medical history. gavi.org/vaccineswork...

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Nurses For America is standing in solidarity with the American Public Health Association, which is calling for the resignation of RFK Jr. Public health experts across the U.S. refer to RFK as a danger to the public👇

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The excellent "Why should I trust you?" podcast interviews Dr. Peter Marks 👇

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Announcing @sciforgood.bsky.social! #standupforscience #scienceforgood

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Removing the part about the lab leak hypothesis being not substantiated by evidence is just creating a lie.

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Typical anti-vaxxer- When there are multiple antigens, cry "too many, too soon" When there's a single antigen, make up another reason to not vaccinate

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Hildebrand said he didn’t know Kennedy had posted photos of his family, or given out Daisy’s full name. He said that he hadn’t wanted “any of this on the internet from the get-go,” but he didn’t blame Kennedy. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/h...

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"Virulent: The Vaccine War" is fighting disinformation by streaming free on @PBS and @YouTube. Learn about the history of vaccine skepticism and denial, and how we allowed measles to return. youtube.com/watch?v=pgj6...

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is trying to have it both ways when it comes to the measles vaccine. We are skeptical. Here is why ⬇️

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APHA is not holding back in demanding that RFK Jr. leave office or be removed from office. We agree.

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“My best analogy is this is like the flat Earthers taking over NASA,” Woodcock said. Once in charge, the “first thing they do [is] they fire everyone who disagreed with them and said the Earth was round.” “The next thing they do, they’re going to purge any round Earth ideology out of NASA."

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

📢 Update!📢 I'm sharing my recent op-ed in @thehill.com, a platform I chose to reach policymakers, judges, & key decision-makers 🌟 I explain the reasons behind my lawsuit against #RFKJr at #HHS for the reckless &—I believe—illegal terminations of #NIH research contracts 🔗 👇 1/

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Peter Hotez was prescient in 2016: A rapidly growing “anti-vaxxer” movement in the state appears to be contributing to the increase in vaccine exemptions. [First area of concern: Gaines County, where 2/3 of its 2025 measles cases have been reported]

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Talking to quacks and snake oil peddlers is always an educational experience

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Let’s talk about fraud, waste and abuse. Measles outbreaks are expensive to society. The human costs—hospitalizations, potentially severe long-term effects, immune amnesia, and death—are bad enough. But some aren’t swayed by this. So let’s talk about the financial costs of a measles outbreak.

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Antivax has always been at least borderline eugenicist. Is RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement "soft eugenics" or social Darwinism—or both? Take a look at the Texas measles outbreak, and let's discuss. sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha...

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🧵1/10: What happened when Japan suspended the MMR vaccine and why it's a cautionary tale on vaccine safety decisions, public trust, and the real-world cost of mumps outbreaks. Let’s talk data, autism, and what’s changed since.

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I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The entire press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

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Second parent of child dead from #measles in Texas also maintains the vaccine doesn't work. Again, how can their illnesses be worse than literal death? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NEW: How Not to Stop A Measles Outbreak. RFKJR role in sowing doubt about vaccine; a CDC muzzled; funding cuts to state, local health depts Me @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @fenitn.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Beside measles outbreaks, we are likely to see resurgence of: - HIV - Tuberculosis - STIs (Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea) - A worse flu season - other vaccine preventable diseases. Because that's what happens when you gut public health, defund research and promote vaccine misinformation.

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Speaking in Utah today, Secy Kennedy called for end of water fluoridation. An HHS official now tells us they're "directing the CDC to reconvene the Community Preventative Services Task Force to study and make a new recommendation on fluoride" tinalexander.github.io/notes/2025/0...

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Aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin don’t treat measles (it’s a virus- it doesn’t respond to antibiotics). For the head of HHS to be messaging this in the middle of an outbreak that has killed two children is… despicable.

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InfoEpi Lab: HHS Under RFK Jr.: Centralization, Corruption, and Censorship As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already fundamentally altered the nation's public health infrastructure.

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The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.

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open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. should apologize to parents for his inaction during this measles epidemic.

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Before she realized she could make more money as an antivaxxer, Hoeg was grifting pseudoscientific, cash-only scams like “platelet rich plasma injections” and “bone marrow concentrate injections” (she takes your blood or marrow and injects it into your joints), which evidence clearly says don’t work

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The lunatics are running the asylum. Conspiracy theorist influencers who became famous on Twitter now run the government. Their disordered thinking sets policy & personnel decisions. They are a bridge bt the online crowds & political elite -pulling fringe ideas up. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

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You guys. Watch this and share this. This is the TRUE STORY of the effect of these #publichealth cuts. Thanks to @brindabee.bsky.social and even more so to these brave veterans for speaking up. youtu.be/6vUypKX39q4

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

It's unfortunate that this needs to be said, but to stay alive, listen to scientific consensus (on health, climate, environment, etc.) and ignore the conspiracy theorists.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

Wow. Firing Christine Grady is a terrible mistake and certainly will not make America great or healthy.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Parents of children with autism worry about the harm Kennedy and Trump's promotion of the false link between vaccines and autism will do to their children and families. via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

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Best academic dunk I’ve read in a hot minute, thank you @joho.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

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