One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Brilliant breakdown of the fatally flawed study that Senator Ron Johnson and Aaron Siri used as their star witness at a hearing on vaccines. They claimed it shows that vaccines cause chronic conditions in kids. It doesn’t. Great analysis and explainer on biostats @jsm2334.bsky.social

No, doctors don't get rich off vaccines. www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

281 US children died from the flu in the 2024-25 season. Vaccination saves lives. 👇

There’s no scientific evidence that separating the MMR vaccines provides any medical benefit. And there are no separate vaccines available in the US. Great work by @aniloza.bsky.social 3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered www.statnews.com/2025/09/26/t... via @statnews.com

We have a vaccine schedule built on decades of rigorous research by actual medical experts. Trump’s counter-proposal? Trust his gut. What could possibly go wrong when the president cosplays as a pediatrician? He’s putting real children at risk from diseases we know how to prevent for no reason.

“He’s (Secretary Kennedy) becoming dangerous to the health of our nation”- my conversation on the Common Health podcast with @csis.org about recent times at the CDC and reflections from the Senate hearing

"The weight of scientific evidence, particularly from the largest and most methodologically rigorous studies...shows no causal relationship between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders." #ObGynSky + #MedSky - FIGO should be on @bsky.app. www.figo.org/paracetamol-...

"But congenital syphilis cases, in which infected moms pass the disease to their babies, aren’t seeing the same improvements....The number and rate of newborn cases has been rising since 2012, when about 300 were reported, and last year rose to nearly 4,000." - #IDSky + #MedSky + #ObGynSky.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Politicians are repeatedly making dangerous medical claims based on deeply flawed studies to support their agenda. This exploitation of science pollutes the information ecosystem and fundamentally affects people's ability to make informed health decisions. www.freep.com/story/news/h...

It’s been a huge honor to be a part of this important project alongside amazing colleagues. @cidrap.bsky.social www.wsj.com/health/healt...

In these 2 clips, watch Makary lie and contradict himself. For quackery, “incredible stories” will suffice. For vaccines, annual RCTs are required. Disgraceful. rumble.com/v6zeqwk-maka...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

I also want to point out that this is a very effective rhetorical tactic—adding some anodyne comments (whole foods are preferable in general to “ultraprocessed” foods as nutrition for kids) to go along with the objectionable ones. It’s meant to get people to lower their guard and be credulous.

I'm having this surreal realization that standing up for evidence and data has become a politically polarizing position, and I don't know what to do about that.

Recent changes to vaccine recommendations are creating unnecessary confusion for families and providers. When decades-old policies change without new safety data, it undermines the stability that pediatricians and parents rely on. www.healthline.com/health-news/...

What to Know About Taking Tylenol During Pregnancy The Trump administration said acetaminophen could cause autism. Doctors maintain it is safe during pregnancy. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Of the five men at that press conference, none were obstetrician gynecologists, toxicologists, infectious disease experts or pain medicine specialists. www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/t... via @statnews.com

And how is the immune burden with an actual infection where kids end up in the hospital and sometimes die? I’m guessing that’s worse

“Children today receive roughly 4-5 times as many shots as their 1986 counterparts, yet are exposed to 95% fewer antigens and only modest increases in aluminum. We’ve achieved far more protection with far less immune burden through decades of scientific precision.” www.statnews.com/2025/06/24/t...

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

"Ault also pointed out that the committee skipped the usual Evidence to Recommendations Framework that typically accompany ACIP recommendations and include input from CDC staff, medical organizations like the AAP" Via @healioid.bsky.social www.healio.com/news/pediatr...

Oh my God, I missed this: "CDC staff weren’t in the room; instead, they watched from a separate livestream due to safety concerns directed at them by some ACIP members." yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-v...

After today’s messy ACIP meeting, @pauloffit.bsky.social does what he does best - distills the confusion into the real takeaway.

#medsky #immunosky #episky #pedsky #idsky My colleagues and I have completed our review of the obscenity that was this ACIP meeting. You can download it here (it's free after you answer the questions) www.evicollective.org/tec-briefs

Absolutely brilliant synopsis of the #ACIP meeting by @statnews.com @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social @elaineywchen.bsky.social @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/w...

3. The absolute goat rodeo nature of the meeting itself demonstrates that few if any on ACIP understand their roles and what their votes mean. 4. Many of the members seem to have just realized that making PH policy is a lot harder than tweeting potshots at the CDC.

Now here is my summary of the ACIP meeting itself. 1. The chair permitted people to present harmful misinformation about vaccines throughout the entire meeting. 2. Retsef Levi and several other members appear to have no understanding of basic public health principles and IMO should be removed.

“Today was the second meeting of ACIP…CDC staff weren’t in the room; instead, they watched from a separate livestream due to safety concerns directed at them by some ACIP members. That’s where we are right now in the U.S.” @kkjetelina.bsky.social

The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)

Saying they disgraced themselves is such an understatement. They effectively trashed whatever reputation they have among serious scientific colleagues. Beyond the absurdity of what they were saying, they explicitly lied about what multiple studies found.

Great reporting by @jennyagold.bsky.social and @corinnepurtill.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Wanna know how to tell whoever is running the CDC has no clue what they're talking about? It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.

CDC is amplifying an MIT operations research professor - now chair of ACIP’s COVID workgroup - who has argued against mRNA vaccination. He cites outlier Korean autopsy data while U.S. surveillance shows myocarditis is rare, falling, and already labeled. The call is coming from inside the house.

1/ Two days of ACIP chaos: Self-described "rookies" eliminated universal COVID vaccine recommendations, added FDA-debunked theories to consent forms, voted outside their legal authority. They literally don't know what they're doing or what they're allowed to do.

Well. If yesterday's ACIP deliberations were a farce, today's were... whatever is above that. Just an astonishing number of boldfaced lies and misrepresentations in such compressed windows. My colleagues and I are about to prove Brandolini's law yet again.

Sadly, the CDC social media accounts are posting misinformation - #ObGyn + #MedSky + #IDSky. I will try and make this brief - we have five years worth data but I think I can summarize in a few posts.

It was a good informed consent document. It's part of the process. Putting misinformation into the document undermines informed consent. Misleading people does not go with informed consent. 2/2

what a circus

Dear ACIP, Informed consent is a state issue. The Vaccine Information Statement is a federal document that needs to be give to people before vaccinating. CDC can change it - after a long process, and in consultation with the Advisory Commission of Childhood Vaccines. 1/2

RFK thinks children have too many vaccines, so make them have more.🙄

Exactly. Create doubt → cite the doubt → demand policy changes because of the doubt.

There it is: admitting they’re changing vaccine policy to address ‘concerns,’ not because of any scientific evidence. ACIP’s mandate is to follow data, not public opinion. When you sacrifice evidence-based medicine to appease political constituencies, children pay the price.

“This feels like using a known, disclosed, managed risk to undermine confidence in the entire schedule." Thank you, @lizszabo.bsky.social @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Blue line shows ages 0-19: near-zero hepatitis B cases. The birth dose created an entire generation nearly free of hepatitis B. Adults who missed this protection still get infected. That's 30 years of proof this works. Tomorrow's vote could end it. www.cdc.gov/hepatitis-su...

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it. Medical justification: none. Consequences: catastrophic. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

Pediatricians say they’re worried that all these different decisions on vaccines will confuse parents. But honestly, even the CDC committee was really confused.

ACIP voted 7-3 to NOT recommend MMRV combo vaccine for kids <4yo. Then in a confusing second vote (1 yes, 8 no, 3 abstentions - some citing confusion), they kept VFC coverage for the same vaccine they just said not to use. This chaos matters for every family. 1/8

We owe @lizszabo.bsky.social a huge debt of gratitude for listening to all of the #ACIP meeting today and highlighting it, so we didn't have to. It has been sickening seeing how RFK Jr is destroying #PublicHealth. Thank you again, Liz!