Tried watching @ricksteves.bsky.social Iran episode and only made it 30 seconds before getting choked up at the sight of darling Iranian school girls. If only everyone could see their humanity. ❤️‍🩹 A must watch. youtu.be/CYoa9hI3CXg?...

I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.

Measles patients are developing severe complications including life-threatening anemia and liver inflammation. Measles is a life-threatening infection which can be prevented by vaccination. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Antivaxxers put everyone at risk

A new US nurse who’s relocated here to Vancouver Island got all confused about cash at a store. Asked where she was from, said USA. Asked if she was one of the new American nurses in town, she said yes, and all the people nearby started clapping for her. 🥹

The butcher’s bill that RFK Jr and his enablers are running up will, one day, provoke recrimination and regret. In the meantime, children suffer. www.wired.com/story/measle...

Quite simply, the disinformation spread by RFK Jr and his fellow charlatan’s will hurt more and more children until the burden of misery cannot be ignored by the policy / lawmakers - and the electorate that empowers them.

If allying yourself with an anti-vax lunatic and helping him gut public health in America while children die of vaccine-preventable diseases doesn’t get you expelled from academia, then the whole system is utterly broken.

This is the world that RFK Jr dreamed of—now that he runs the US health system he’s able to achieve his dreams each & every day, aided & abetted by Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Høeg, Kulldorff, Prasad & Oz We can’t rebuild the devastation until all 7 of these federal health agency leaders are gone

Touring only the statues of women in Stanley Park (excluding monarchy).

Uptake of the newborn #hepatitisB #vaccine has plummeted by over 10 percentage points since 2023, influenced by anti-vaccine disinformation, mostly from RFK Jr.

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

“This is an embodiment of how much power our federal health officials have,” said Michael Barnett, a study author... “Even when nothing in the evidence base has changed, even for something as ubiquitous and familiar as Tylenol, it can still shift things to a measurable degree within days.”

“Consumers may see ‘higher prices for bread within six to 10 weeks, eggs within a few months and pork and broiler chicken within six months,’ according to an estimate from food-system expert Raj Patel.” Gas prices, suburban Chicago Costco Mon, March 2 (left) and Thurs, March 5 (right) via the app ⤵️

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Among these? The most detailed report of neonatal opioid toxicity from breastfeeding ever published. One small problem: It's pharmacologically impossible.

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Dr. Høeg, a sports medicine physiatrist, “…was instrumental in the administration’s recent decision to drop a number of vaccine recommendations for children.” “Like many critics of vaccines, including [RFK Jr], Høeg has also been skeptical of antidepressants, questioning their safety and benefits.“

Pediatric field notes: How to Examine a Toddler. 1. Move into the child’s airspace while talking 2. Minimize eye contact initially 3. Play/Distract. Assess continuously. Be gentle. 4. Expect tears. Be happy if they don’t happen. 5. High 5 always: EVERY kid knows how! #pedsky #graphicmedicine

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

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#PedSky #MedSky #MedEd you allllllll have to read this piece 😳 With essential insights from @davidjuurlink.bsky.social ⤵️

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This @josephfasano.bsky.social poem has been ringing in my head ever since these little girls were killed in their school. Children are not collateral damage. This should not be expected. For any reason.

PAHO scheduled an April review of whether the US should lose its measles elimination status for the first time since 2000. HHS asked to push it to November, to analyze more data. 🧐 1,100 cases in 8 weeks. November is an interesting choice.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

*deep breath* - Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. ACOG says so. - Aspirin is good for certain high-risk pregnancies. ACOG says so. - Ibuprofen isn’t used in pregnancy. But it has nothing to do with Reye syndrome. Reye syndrome (rare) affects kids. We don’t give them aspirin. Good factual info here 🙂⤵️

One can reasonably debate what "anti-vaccine" means in many cases. But RFK jr going up to strangers and telling them not to vaccinate their kids should meet anyone's definition. Anyone who is being honest, at least.

One year later the child died. Vaccination is the way to prevent this.

Baby gets measles at 7 months of age. Survives but measles isn't done with him. When he is 7 years old, he gets Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis, which is fatal Stage I – Behavioral/cognitive change Stage II – Motor dysfunction Stage III – Severe deterioration Stage IV – Vegetative state ➡️ death

Reminder: This is the traditional way #ACIP makes decisions. Source: vaccinateyourfamily.org/wp-content/u... @vaxyourfam.bsky.social This is not how the new ACIP does it at all.

were these always so ominous

RFK Jr *lies* when he says cervical cancer risk is increased in women who get the HPV vaccine. New study: "States with high vaccination rates have seen the biggest drop in cervical cancer, while states with low vaccination rates have had little to no progress" www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding (1930)." #Einstein #Peace

A growing number of states are moving quickly to ensure that vaccines remain free and that health care workers remained protected for maintaining established public heath standards. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

Today is #RareDiseaseDay Through EB Research Partnership, families, scientists, and supporters are pushing research forward, pioneering progress in EB and helping reshape what’s possible for rare diseases. It’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of time. 🦋 Learn more: ebresearch.org

When Israel and America claim that this war is God’s will, remember that Jesus said that peacemakers are the children of God, not the warmongers.

Children should never be killed.

This flu is no joke my (young adult) daughter had to go to the ER and she had this.

my heart is heavy today 💚🤍❤️

“The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm?” - Anne Lamott #BeKind

I’m sick of the endless wars and I’m sick of us funding bombs while budgeting kids and I’m sick of our money going to the slaughter of innocent children abroad just because old balding men decided their lives weren’t worthy of peace.

Dog turning on the robot vacuum just to get mad at it like I do with social media apps

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

My elementary school daughter is still asleep, safe in her bed. These parents won’t tuck their daughters in tonight 💔 It’s ok if your voice shakes - tell your Congress members what you think: (202) 224-3121

I don’t want you to fritter away the next 86,400 seconds as they skyrocket by you from the present and into the past, never filling them with the things that give you joy or generate gratitude or register contentment...