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For this weekâs Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.âs appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement. You can read it below.
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Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's âUnbiasedâ Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-kennedys-unbiased-vaccine-panel-actually-packed-anti-vaxxers
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âYouâre mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,â Mr. Trump said, referring to the murdered columnist. âA lot of people didnât like that gentleman that youâre talking about. Whether you like him, or didnât like him, things happen."
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This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
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This is an excellent discussion of public health's current dilemma.
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Angie Rasmussen
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I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoliâs screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a âfree-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted
@jeremyfaust.bsky.social
's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
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Judy Stone
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New free Coronavirus/ID and liberal politics Tidbits newsletter is up,
drjudystone.com/coronavirus-...
w bits abt
#BirdFlu
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#Marburg
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#PandemicPreparedness
(or lack thereof),
#ACIP
, political shenanigans Special thx to Mike Coston,
@cohenjon.bsky.social
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@madhupai.bsky.social
@joffirphd.bsky.social
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Coronavirus Tidbits # 371, November 16, 2025 - Dr. Judy Stone
Quick links News   Diagnostics   Drugs  Devices  Epidemiology/Infection control   Tips   Politics   Feel good du jour   Comic relief   Perspective/Poem   Bits of beauty Announcement...
https://drjudystone.com/coronavirus-tidbits-371-november-16-2025/
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Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-logic-of-destruction?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Timothy Snyder on Trump's and Vance's grift bubble.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-logic-of-destruction?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
aspph.org/department-o...
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Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from âProfessional Degreeâ Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
https://aspph.org/department-of-education-proposal-excludes-public-health-degrees-from-professional-degree-definition/
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CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
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CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
Other agenda items for December meeting include the childhood immunization schedule
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/hepatitis/118479
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CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
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CDC's Vaccine Panel May Change Recommendations on Hep B Shot Next Month
Other agenda items for December meeting include the childhood immunization schedule
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/hepatitis/118479
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RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-says-he-gets-fan-mail-scientists-and-doctors-letters-sent-congress
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RFK's biggest fan (surprise!) is himself. Scientists and physicians, except for his cabal, disagree. They recognize a crackpot who is destroying the nation's public health.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-says-he-gets-fan-mail-scientists-and-doctors-letters-sent-congress
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David Szalayâs âFleshâ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
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David Szalayâs âFleshâ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/books/booker-prize-2025-david-szalay-flesh.html?smid=bs-share
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David Szalayâs âFleshâ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
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David Szalayâs âFleshâ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/books/booker-prize-2025-david-szalay-flesh.html?smid=bs-share
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Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
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Joyce Carol Oates, already a goddess of literature, knows more than most about class (in several meanings of the word). Musk is an empty husk. She called it.
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Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-wants-remove-aluminum-vaccines-and-endanger-americans-health
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Our latest Whopper of the Week. Defend Public Health refutes another crackpot theory spewed by RFK.
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-wants-remove-aluminum-vaccines-and-endanger-americans-health
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YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
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YAY!!!! ZOHRAN WINS!!!!
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So, I LOVE Zohran, and sure hope he's our next Mayor.
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Gregg Gonsalves
20 days ago
I am going to be that annoying friend. Get your
#COVID
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#flu
shots. There is little downside to getting immunized and it will spare you from being out sick, having to go to the doctor's office, hospitalization and yes, death. Too many people aren't stepping up to get the shots. Do it this weekend.
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Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
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Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/covid-vaccine-health-care-workers-under-65/
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Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
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Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/covid-vaccine-health-care-workers-under-65/
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Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a âhealth influencerâ with...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/senate-must-reject-casey-means-surgeon-general-defend-public-health-says
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Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a âhealth influencerâ with...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/press-release/senate-must-reject-casey-means-surgeon-general-defend-public-health-says
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As you know, RFK is obsessed with his own macho virility. Has this bias shaped his views on sperm counts (and apparently, he's counting)? Yep, and he's cherry-picking his evidence as usual. What a liar! Our Whopper of the Week counters his crackpot point of view.
#CarolineWarnedUs
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As you know, RFK is obsessed with his own macho virility. Has this bias shaped his views on sperm counts (and apparently, he's counting)? Yep, and he's cherry-picking his evidence as usual. What a liar! Our Whopper of the Week counters his crackpot point of view.
#CarolineWarnedUs
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I predict that at some point this idiocy will be fodder for a @DefendPublicHealth Whopper of the Week. It's all about kissing the big, fat behind of Donald Trump.
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I predict that at some point this idiocy will be fodder for a @DefendPublicHealth Whopper of the Week. It's all about kissing the big, fat behind of Donald Trump.
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Angie Rasmussen
22 days ago
I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from
@monscience.bsky.social
and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource. But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
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Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health
This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases
https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vaccine-preventable-disease-a-global-tracker
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Slippery slope putting a guy who thinks like a Nazi in charge of special ed. This is the creep who already floated the idea of sending certain classes of children to camps.
#CarolineWarnedUs
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Slippery slope putting a guy who thinks like a Nazi in charge of special ed. This is the creep who already floated the idea of sending certain classes of children to camps.
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or âHumiliationâ?
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or âHumiliationâ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/health/cdc-kennedy.html?smid=bs-share
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or âHumiliationâ?
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Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or âHumiliationâ?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/health/cdc-kennedy.html?smid=bs-share
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Jon Cooper
28 days ago
Cartoon by
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Molly Jong-Fast
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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
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So much work goes into these weekly Whoppers. RFK, aka Pants On Fire, lies like breathing so we have lots of material.
#CarolineWarnedUs
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So much work goes into these weekly Whoppers. RFK, aka Pants On Fire, lies like breathing so we have lots of material.
#CarolineWarnedUs
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Defend Public Health
29 days ago
Whopper of the week! RFK Jr.âs Claims of âImmune Overloadâ is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.âs Claims of âImmune Overloadâ is Nonsense and Ignores How the Immune System Works | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr does not want the CDC to recommend newborns be vaccinated against the Hepatitis B virus (HBV). HBV infection early in life, especially as a baby, puts a person at a high risk of developing a ch...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jrs-claims-immune-overload-nonsense-and-ignores-how-immune-system-works-4
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The author of the law told ProPublica she believes infectious diseases have been made âthe bogeyman.â She thinks measles can protect against cancer and put cancer into remission. (The sources she provided for this claim don't actually say that.)
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Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive âmedical intervention.â Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a âsocietal normâ ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-vaccine-bill-medical-freedom-act-maha
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Frightens Parents with False Claims about COVID Vaccine Dangers | Defend Public Health
COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children. But Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the vaccines are deadly and should not be given to kids because of their âprofound risksâ. Kennedy wildly exa...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-frightens-parents-false-claims-about-covid-vaccine-dangers
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Frightens Parents with False Claims about COVID Vaccine Dangers | Defend Public Health
COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children. But Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly claimed that the vaccines are deadly and should not be given to kids because of their âprofound risksâ. Kennedy wildly exa...
https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-frightens-parents-false-claims-about-covid-vaccine-dangers
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The Truth about Panics
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The Truth about Panics
One is being generated right now
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The Truth about Panics
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The Truth about Panics
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https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-truth-about-panics?r=207ct3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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This is a must watch. Gaza and Protest
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Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/gaza-and-protest?r=207ct3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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This is a must watch. Gaza and Protest
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Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/gaza-and-protest?r=207ct3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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