That seems like a huge problem then, because those go-to "experts" were wrong so much and did a lot of damage as a result.

We ask in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social: how do we reimagine clinical care for the increasing number of people living with complex chronic conditions? "It’s not just money but also the culture of medicine that’s impeding people’s care." #longcovid sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/28/t...

The open misogyny era is so back

I dream of a nation free of empty headed political pundits and their endless stream of utterly worthless opinion editorials

“Dr. Pollan up at Harvard has cured schizophrenia using keto diets.” “There are studies right now that I saw two days ago where people lose their bipolar diagnosis by changing their diet.”

"...mistakes of the 1892 cholera outbreak, from quack cures to undercounting deaths, were repeated almost verbatim 127 years later. It seems we've learned absolutely nothing. More revealing is how wealthy interests, over a century apart, carried undue influence over the response..."

There are so many of these fucking pro-plague anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-public-health absolute fucking quacks somehow mostly from Stanford and UCSF and the lot of them should have their degrees and reputations shredded to shit yet somehow they only ascend

NEW: Yesterday, Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, declined to definitively acknowledge that vaccines do not cause autism. It’s a remarkable sign of the times—and more than a little troubling. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-direct...

This is what they said about cholera in the 1880s. Hey, it only got thousands killed in Hamburg, Germany! www.panaccindex.info/p/review-dea...

New CBS contributor Peter Attia played a big role in platforming podcaster and now-FDA Chief Vinay Prasad during COVID and was a fervant anti-masker during that time. He also now features in the Epstein Files.

Bhattacharya cited no studies, no analysis, except his belief that vaccination rates will go up as they paradoxically remove vaccines from the childhood schedule. (1/3 🧵)

The New World: The slow death of American science by Philip Ball NIH Jay Bhattahcrya bit.ly/4keFysW

Now being targeted by Libs of TT. I will always put the dignity of our patients first. I will not stop speaking out for the nuanced, personalized clinical care our patients deserve.

NEW: HHS has been using Palantir AI tools since last March to ferret out improper DEI and "gender ideology" from grants for child welfare programs. The observant @carolinehaskins.bsky.social has more:

RFK's vaccine agenda is a major theme at this hearing. BLUNT-ROCHESTER (D-Del): It's strange to me we're comparing oureslves to Denmark as a peer nation. Denmark has 6 million people, we have 340 million. Denmark has socialized medicine and universal health care, US does not.

I'm on Capitol Hill watching NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya testify to the Senate HELP committee. Thankfully I haven't been escorted out of this event (yet). Here's what I'm following. You can also watch live here: www.help.senate.gov/hearings/mod...

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

I am watching Schitt’s Creek for the first time and it absolutely lives up to the hype

Very exciting to see this candidate vaccine enter phase 1/2 studies. A pan-coronavirus vaccine aims to protect against all viruses in the coronavirus family. Trial is enrolling in Australia. Results are expected in 2028. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...

Pediatric patient started a diet based on ChatGPT recs and has measurable liver damage.

"Dr. Norton told NPR in October, “[the admin and president] is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public.” @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been an inspiration to many scientists and citizens. I can't count the number of colleagues who have praised her to me.

Our medical establishment often spoke this way about Long Covid. www.foxbusiness.com/video/631641...

It's good thing there are some professionals at the FDA protecting us from their bosses.

Sanders: Do vaccines cause autism to the American people? Bhattacharya: I do not believe the measles vaccine causes autism. Sanders: I didn't ask about measles. Do vaccines cause autism? Bhattacharya: I have not seen a study to suggest any **single** vaccine causes autism. (emphasis mine)

“MAHA works in large part because it promises sweeping change and improved health even when in practice what it delivers is benefit cuts, deregulation, and increased spread of contagious disease.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

www.justice.gov/epstein/file... holy shit

The same Jay who tweeted how he was afraid the local Stanford area suburban police would pull him over during early covid if he didn't have proof he worked at Stanford.

In 2020, my mom thought I was gonna die because I was treating COVID patients wearing garbage bags as PPE. Jay also had a hard time tweeting through it.

Discussed here by @panaccindex.bsky.social www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-em...

This happened thanks to the work of hero @briandeer.com but sadly, its malign influence is as powerful as ever today.

@wendyorent.bsky.social I’ve learned so much about FAS just writing this up www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-em...

@joho.bsky.social YOU & DEX IN TROUBLE NOW

Added the graphic. DSA folks on the app plz boost. All Leftists, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists please boost as well. This is by far our most important stream yet. Thanks!

My response: “If you understood the point of my article, you wouldn’t have written me. Goodbye.”

Oh that’s the lady that lets you play with slime for $40/hour

Michael Shermer used to be a skeptic hero. Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers' genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media. I want to lead by example and prove to him it's possible to not talk about trans people constantly. My latest.

An old, but devastating takedown of Winemom Oster depts.washington.edu/fasdpn/pdfs/...

This is actually a long dunk on Vinay Prasad

This story about David Brooks is one of the most brutal takedowns I’ve ever read. By the late Tony Judt

@wendyorent.bsky.social I found this to be rather illuminating, how a nurse in the 1800s went up against the same bad attitudes that sabotaged the COVID response www.panaccindex.info/p/review-not...

Let me put it this way: if Shmuck Coomer had his way, Andrew Cuomo would be mayor of New York City right now.

One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.

We deserve to live until we are old. substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy

Special guest essayist Sarah Everett (@goddammitsarah.bsky.social) writes a travel guide to the exciting and politically active Mojave Wasteland in the booming 2280s! What's your favorite destination in the Mojave Wasteland?

@joho.bsky.social 🤔

They can fuck off with this shit