🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr. We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV

Autism has always existed. We haven’t always called it autism. "In fact, historically speaking, classifying medical conditions is a dynamic process of changing definitions—whether one is describing autism, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, obesity or other conditions whose cutoff points keep shifting"👇

Just watched that video. Wow. The contrast is stark: Dave Farina and Dan Wilson (@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social) come in with scholarship, engaging deeply with data. Meanwhile Kory & Kirsch rely on cherry picked bits, suspicion, and appeals to authority bsky.app/profile/yvo... 1/3

Huntingtons disease is a devastating disease and this is absolutely extraordinary news!

Internationally-recognized virologist Dr. Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social had a chance to appear on the Infectious Dose podcast with @pathogenscribe.bsky.social and share his thoughts about the state of pandemic preparedness. Have a listen if you can. www.infectiousdose.com/post/jim-alw...

🎧 New Episode Now Live! Virologist Dr. Jim Alwine joins me to unpack: 🧪 What we stopped measuring—and why it matters 🧬 What "gain-of-function" research really is 🏛️ How lab-leak politics reshaped science Listen or read: www.infectiousdose.com/post/jim-alw...

The ECDC Fellowship Introductory Course 2025 has kicked off in Spetses, Greece! 🎉 From 22 Sept – 10 Oct, fellows in epidemiology and public health microbiology will train together to strengthen Europe’s response to health threats 🌍 #ECDCFellowship #30JahrePAE #EODY #IDsky #EpiSky

"We now have a regime that sees science as an enemy and public health as only fit for personal anecdotes and conspiracy." Must-read, scathing OpEd by Arthur Caplan, Prof. of Bioethics, NYU www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

From Argentina to Vietnam, from Nepal to Luxembourg… 🗺️✨ 20 new countries (and Puerto Rico!) have joined the #InfectiousDose community. Wherever you’re tuning in from, thank you for being part of this global conversation. 💚🎙️ #PublicHealth #SciCom infectiousdose.com

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Pressure works. ABC/Disney bought into the image of Trump as all powerful, but they found out pretty fast that everyday people hold a lot of power, too. An attempt to subpoena FCC Chair Brendan Carr is being blocked. Tell your representative to demand an investigation into government censorship. 👇

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Just let me vent for one second. I wake up this morning. @washingtonpost.com piece that leaves out major study on Tylenol and autism (which found no link) Then a @nytimes.com piece on the failures of NIH written by a guy with ties to right-wing theocrats and undisclosed. What the hell is going on?

It appears that RFK Jr.’s report on autism is expected today. It seems that it may not mention vaccines as a cause, and they are not a cause. Someone needs to ask him point blank if he still thinks they are. He’s been pivoting to other angles, suggesting he knows he can’t get away with it.

🎙️ New episode drops Tues at midnight (CST): What happens when we stop watching for the next pandemic? Virologist Dr. Jim Alwine & I talk surveillance, research limits, & what real preparedness looks like. 🧬💧💥 Stay ready. #PandemicPreparedness infectiousdose.com

We can’t say, “Avoid it like the plague” now…people aren’t avoiding plagues, they’re inviting them. So…what…avoid it like the truth? Yeah, that works now.

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

I will have an explanation of what the fuck this shit means for public health law and the regulation of the practice of pharmacy. (I went to law school, so why the fuck should you need to try to figure that out on your own...)

This is the proposition that passed.

Antivax ACIP is a shit show. We are not in good hands.

None of the ACIP understand that they just voted to maintain VFC coverage for the MMRV vaccine for kids under 4 (50% of US kids) through one vote—a good thing!—while removing the overall recommendation for any kid to get it (and thus ending ACA coverage requirement for kids with private insurance).

About the combined MMR and varicella vaccine (MMRV), ACIP has just voted to *not* recommend MMRV before the age of 4 years. This will not change access to MMR and varicella separately.

Dr Judy Stone says she's a practicing infectious disease doctor. She remembers treating meningitis outbreaks. "I still have nightmares about that," she tells ACIP. Hundreds of thousands of child deaths have been prevented, she said. "We must not go back."

Friends, the Houston Museum of Natural Science will be joining me for a day of hands-on shark research this November as part of an expedition to Florida. There are spots on their trip if anyone wants to join us! Please spread the word. www.hmns.org/shark-taggin... 🧪🦑🌎🦈

Canceled Hulu/Disney. I hope enough do to make an impact.

“We’re witnessing a rapid erosion of press freedom and free speech in the United States. Trump and his MAGA entourage are launching all-out attacks on journalists. Their behavior is alarmingly reminiscent of authoritarian regimes”, says chairman Mika Beuster.

This sane and thoughtful man will be deciding which vaccines your kids can get at the ACIP meeting tomorrow. He is talking about Dr. Monarez, who today was unbreakable in the face of verbal abuse from Mullin. Malone cannot understand how a woman could be so steely calm, so the CIA is his guess.

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two ways you can help protect public health next: - talking about the hearing and what the CDC officials said during it with the folks in your life who are not on here - call your reps and senators. demand they continue using all their tools to investigate RFK Jr. cap switchboard: (202) 224-3121

🧪A reminder that it took decades to understand the nature of cancer and eventually see a reduction in cancer related mortality. Now we are losing so much that we have built. Cancer has become treatable because of federal investments in research.

Big welkom to our new listeners from the Netherlands! The land of bikes, canals, and stroopwafels 🚲🌉🍪— we’re so glad you’ve joined the Infectious Dose community! #InfectiousDose #SciComms #Welkom

The disasters mount... Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/m... via @statnews.com "He did not have any data or science to point to." Of course not. Cuz there ain't any...

🎙️Live now: #DefendPublicHealth's @jonshaffer.bsky.social‬ on building people power for public health—what organizing really is, why state teams win, and how you can plug in today. 🎧 listen or read:‪ www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... #InfectiousDose #PublicHealth #Organize

bb's first podcast. Here's my conversation w/ Heather McSherry abt @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, science, power, organizing, & the existential threats to public health in this precipice moment. www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @pathogenscribe.bsky.social @infectdosepodcast.bsky.social

This week on #InfectiousDose: My interview with organizer + sociologist Jon Shaffer, PhD, of Defend Public Health, on how public health can build power (ethically, nonpartisan, effective). www.jonathanshaffer.net www.defendpublichealth.org #DefendPublicHealth

This week on #InfectiousDose: My interview with organizer + sociologist Jon Shaffer, PhD, of Defend Public Health, on how public health can build power (ethically, nonpartisan, effective). www.jonathanshaffer.net www.defendpublichealth.org #DefendPublicHealth

In my measles episode, I explain this condition and all the reasons measles is not something to dismiss. I also explain exactly what’s in the vaccine and how we know they are safe. www.infectiousdose.com/post/measles...

🚨A child in LA has died from SSPE, a rare but 100% fatal complication of measles that can appear years later. Risk: ~1 in 10,000 overall—up to 1 in 600 if measles occurs in infancy. Vaccines prevent this. abc7.com/amp/post/child…

Social media undercuts public health and institutional trust A new study finds causal evidence that morally charged attacks generate anger and social media engagement which exacerbates the political polarization of public health www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

Hej Sweden! Thrilled to welcome new listeners—I’m over the moon that Infectious Dose has found a home in the land of fika and innovation. ☕🎙️ #Podcast #ScienceCommunication #InfectiousDosePodcast #Sweden

Which of these infectious villains gives you more chills? 👀 🧫 Anthrax — sudden, brutal, unstoppable spores or 🦠 Polio — slow, creeping paralysis, breath by breath Vote in comments!! #InfectiousDisease #Horror #PathogenPoll #SpookySeason

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death," Charlie Kirk said at a Turning Point USA Faith event as reported by Media Matters for America. "That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am—I think it's worth it."

How RFK jr is hurting us all open.substack.com/pub/petebutt...

'Gestapo!' Immigration agents swarmed and tires slashed in explosive standoff www.rawstory.com/ice-arrest-2...

We are deeply saddened to share that Natalie Crawford, a RAND analyst and leading authority on U.S. air and space power, has died. She was 86 and had worked at RAND for more than 60 years. https://bit.ly/46139rC

🦟 New Episode is live! West Nile is spreading again—cases across the U.S. and Europe, with climate change raising future risks. How it spreads, what it does in the brain, and why prevention matters. 🎧 Listen now: www.infectiousdose.com/post/neuro-i...

When top scientists sound the alarm about the nation’s health leadership, it’s time to sit up—this isn’t just politics, it’s about your health. Watch why public trust is on the line now.

A heartfelt céad míle fáilte to my new listeners in Ireland! This McSharry is grinning ear to ear knowing Infectious Dose has landed on the Emerald Isle. 🌍 #Podcast #ScienceCommunication #InfectiousDisease #Ireland