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Dr. William Buchan, author of the best-selling medical manual of the 18th and 19th centuries, recommended measles patients to be bled, purged (laxatives), take opiates, drink ass's milk, and ride daily on horseback. I think if you refuse vaccines, you should have to follow Dr. Buchan's advice.

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* The first measles death in over a decade * A canceled meeting to decide what flu strains to vaccinate against next year * Possible devastating cuts to Medicaid & Social Security Lots of things to worry about in all of this, but I can't overemphasize how in danger our senior citizens are in.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

What RFK should have said: "We have a safe and effective measles vaccine; measles is very dangerous to children, talk to your pediatrician about your comfort level with this vaccine, but I recommend it." On the pod, Trump-RFK-Musk are a public health menace: newrepublic.com/article/1920...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 5 days ago • 758 comments

I don’t know anything about military history; is having an army unvaccinated against diseases good?

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Massachusetts Governor Christopher Gore said this in support of the 1810 law that became known as the Cowpox Act, the first law of its kind in the United States, which stated that it's the duty of every "town, district, or plantation "to superintend the inoculation of the inhabitants."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

You would think a company called “Carvana” would help your vehicle attain ultimate extinction, but it is actually about recycling them through painful existence after existence.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

When a woman in Reedsburg, Wisconsin broke out with smallpox in 1951, perhaps the last case of smallpox in the US, the entire town quarantined, and local boy and girl scouts went door-to-door to inform residents that they had 48-hours to be vaccinated. 7000 vaccinated. None refused. MAGA?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Good lord. Smallpox.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is no longer the president.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is really saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

Not only did the Revolutionary Americans support inoculation (and later vaccination), they claimed inoculation to have been a proud American invention up there with Franklin's lightning rod. Putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health and defunding scientific research is an insult to the U.S.

submitted 16 days ago • 48 comments

Since the first vaccine (for smallpox) was introduced in the United States in 1800, the federal government and every American President has strongly supported vaccines (both publicly and privately). That 225 year streak will likely end today.

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I really enjoyed messing around in the Old West for my new article "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792-1861" in this special issue on health & medicine in Kentucky. Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

In real good company including @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social and @jonathansjones.bsky.social with the latest issue of the Kentucky Register all about medicine and healthcare in the Bluegrass State. Check out my piece on KY women and birth control: doi.org/10.1353/khs....

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

We’re renovating our kitchen and discovered this wallpaper underneath the drywall. What sort of monsters used to live here?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

For the record, I did not say that the Maple Leaf Rag was my favorite song ever, but I did say it was one of the best songs ever (I played it before a lecture on the politics of the 1890s). And, yes, comparing it to the Pink Pony Club was one of my finest moments in teaching.

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is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 21 days ago • 790 comments

I’m giving an OAH Distinguished Lecture on campus at CMU for the Clarke Historical Library on Monday evening Feb. 10 on “America’s First Vaccinators.”

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Tennessee Families for Vaccines gave away copies of my book to legislators yesterday as they declared that "protecting public health is patriotic!" How awesome is that?! I hope it makes a difference! The US has been pro-vaccination since its founding. Let's not change it.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The only other world-wide disease ever eradicated & the only one in animals, is rinderpest, 'cattle plague'; it could kill up to 100% of a herd and resulted in famines, responsible for millions of human deaths. It was ERADICATED in 2011, BY VACCINATION.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." - Federalist 47 (Madison)

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

A really useful explainer on the McKinley tariffs and Trump's misplaced obsession with them from the WSJ. I plan on showing this in class today.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"Believability is earned through craftsmanship" Really fun and enlightening piece. The videos really add to it. Enjoy! Make sure you stay for Hank Azaria doing "A Tale of Two Cities" in a bunch of Simpsons voices

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Finished reading @profwehrman.bsky.social’s excellent The Contagion of Liberty in preparation to discuss it w/ my Revolutionary America class tomorrow. Important, timely, and original. Highly recommended.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Authors, if you see this, post the first line of your book. “While thousands of men took up arms against the British in the American Revolution, thousands more men, women, and children rolled up their sleeves to defend themselves against smallpox.”

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Crazy that United States public health guidance will now rely on something called the Wayback Machine

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

America is not okay right now.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.

submitted 29 days ago • 178 comments