I finally finished Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2! Scratch another off my bucket list

Okay, so maybe that’s NOT the only post. Vaccination remains THE key intervention against severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Make sure you are protected and WEAR A MASK. 🧪🧵⬇️

I’m telling you, everything this administration does is designed to completely destroy the pathways low income people have to reach the middle class

A gentle reminder - fit tested N95s offer better protections than surgical masks. If youre adopting masking due to "super flu" head loops usually give a better fit than ear loops, and masks with a bendable nose piece fit tighter. For an easy infographic: whn.global/mask-fit-mat...

Demand that our failing medical establishment protect the vulnerable. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-murray-h...

This is only the beginning. It’s RFK Jr.’s opening gambit. His endgame is to eliminate all vaccines.

started a new semester teaching in a mask and spending time in class talking about why and telling students they can always start wearing one and that I will give them one if they want!

For those not old enough to remember the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan under W. Bush, listening to Miller and Trump and others' proudly crowing about U.S. empire and the press upholding this rhetoric, yes this happened back then, too. That was a big mask-off moment that radicalized me.

Nice article by @thorbenson.bsky.social about the consequences of the U.S. rejection of renewable energy www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I couldn't get past the graf where the Times exonerates itself for this woman's death. She "struggled to feel comfortable in her body and in the world ... The reasons for suicide are complex... multiple factors — including mental disorders, brain chemistry and destabilizing life events"

William Walker said this, and guess what happened to him?

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

“Viruses and bacteria that were under control are being set free on our most vulnerable…It won’t work and can’t end well”. Way to go @jimalwine.bsky.social, representing @defendpublichealth.bsky.social.

First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:

it really sucks that so much health econ texts are based on/use Jay Bhattacharya work given all the *gestures at NIH*

#Podcasting is the only thing that gave us Bhattacharya and Vinay Prasad. If it never existed, they would have been anonymous faculty nobody knew about instead of ruining millions of lives. And this is why I'll always and forever loathe podcasting.

Addendum: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

The end game: These guys want to make $$$ suing vaccine makers. Pediatricians who are honest and care about kids still recommend all the vaccines, posted here: downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...

Surprising nobody with a memory of the past 25 years, the Democrats did not come together to condemn the latest blatantly illegal military atrocity carried out in pursuit of oil.

why are random Bluesky accounts asking better questions about this than everyone whose full time salaried job is to report on technology companies?

Wealthy tech bro turned antivax crank Steve Kirsch attacked Paul Offit for refusing to debate antivaxxers, while Dr. Mike was “surrounded” by MAHA. These recent events led me to revisit the question: Is it ever a good strategy to publicly debate cranks? sciencebasedmedicine.org/revisiting-t...

Very good summary of her disinformation from @panaccindex.bsky.social www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-tr...

I’m awaiting for the announcement that Sensible Medicine will be donating its subscriber revenue towards paying for the child-sized coffins they helped make possible with their reckless garbage.

RFK Jr.: more kids need to die www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/rfk-...

Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn. This Sept. piece is instructive

It will take some time (a few years), but this change will lead to hundreds of thousands of preventable diseases in the most vulnerable parts of the population, including deaths. I assume we'll follow this up with the introduction of universal healthcare and paid family/sick/parental leave?

I am haunted by the ghosts of Iraq and Afghanistan. Those military operations initially went flawlessly but the problem was in trillions of $ spent, thousands of American lives, decades of lost opportunity. Americans have zero appetite for more nation building, endless quagmires.

This guy here is dead 👇

This'll create a lot of dead children. That's probably the point, not a side effect. The core MAHA belief behind this is simple eugenics: vaccines are bad because they allow the weak to survive.

Phew, good thing Mitch McConnell was also completely powerless and ineffectual as Senate Minority Leader. Imagine all the things he could’ve gotten up to!

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

COVID-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds. "Between 2022 and 2024, COVID-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows" gizmodo.com/covid-19-is-...

Throwback to one of the dumbest tweets of the COVID-19 pandemic: “Some experts say kids are too short to spread COVID-19”

reminder that more kids now have long covid than asthma.

Riley Gaines thinks her child matters more than other children, to the point that she thinks a pediatrician refusing elective care for her unvaccinated child (which would expose the other children in the practice to unnecessary risk) is a violation of the Hippocratic Oath.

The previous illegal war for oil in Iraq was championed by not just Bush, but two Democrat senators: one from Delaware and another from New York. They were promoted for their devas moral failures and directly led to Donald Trump becoming President not once, but twice.

No. No. No. Punitive processes make narrowly targeted programs *less* efficient and *more* costly. Because more scrutiny requires more bureaucracy. Punitive processes also make it *less* likely that people will get aid for which they qualify. Because of the roadblocks and stigma scrutiny creates.

This is what MAHA is all about:

Disability aids, lifesaving medicartoon, dentures, identification, shelter paperwork. These are the sorts of items Gavin Newson, son in law of a real estate mogul, is on video gleefully destroying. Something to keep in mind. projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

Love it. A must-read from @joho.bsky.social, reminding Prasad, Bhattacharya, Makary et al., reminding us that the U.S. is facing several disease outbreaks, so they have a great opportunity to show the rest of us how their way is “better”. We’re waiting…

Yes. They are proposing deliberately infecting kids with chickenpox to have them *theoretically* serve as human shields and natural “vaccines” to prevent shingles in adults, even though vaccines exist for both. It’s an ethical monstrosity.

This guy should never be allowed back into academia. Looking at you, Stanford University www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n...

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office. Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.

To the extent that I have the ability to be mad or shocked at these people I am. They got that out of me. These people are pedophiles masquerading behind cheeky little 2014 Redditor smiles. I cannot type what I want to see done to them, but you can imagine it.

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

@joho.bsky.social here is the article I texted you about exposed.substack.com/p/who-is-dr-...

Sure you might have heard of Skippy, the Jedi Droid. But have you heard of Ood the Jedi TREE?!?

TWEMTY-TWENTY-SICK HERE WE GOOOO

Also a reflection of the fact that people can only die once.

Can we talk about how few of the people making life-critical decisions about science (they're decisions with clinical *impacts*, but they're *about* science) have little or no advanced science training? Where are the actual PhD scientists? Even when you find a PhD, e.g. Bhattacharya's an economist.🫠