RFK Jr has suggested he wants to end access to mifeprostone; it's the MAHA war on women >100 studies have examined the effectiveness/safety of the abortion pills mifepristone & misoprostol. "All conclude that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy" (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder vaccine access theconversation.com/fda-claims-o... via @us.theconversation.com @hanfrancis.bsky.social

If your big act of political courage is scribbling a deadname onto a portrait of a U.S. admiral who outranks you, outclasses you, and outworks you congratulations. You’re not a leader. You’re just another petty asshole playing pretend in the halls of power.

AAP continues to follow the science and good public health. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Great podcast on the ACIP disastrous decision last week. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...

Trump is backpedaling on his support for the release of the Sept. 2 boat strike video. On December 3, he said he would have "no problem" releasing the video. Today, he said he "didn't say that" (he did) and now says, "whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me."

Good. Zelensky is rejecting "Trump's" peace plan that was written in Russia and given to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“You’re the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. A terrible reporter.” Trump again attacks a Black female reporter, ABC’s Rachel Scott, for asking about releasing the full boat strike video - which he said he would do 5 days ago And the other journalists stay silent🐔

Offit, who also co-invented a rotavirus vaccine, characterized the meeting to CIDRAP News as “a sad day for America's children. You have a clearly poorly informed group making recommendations for the nation's health. They didn't know certain key facts.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Trump treats every question like it’s a pop quiz he didn’t study for and the teacher is personally insulting him by asking it.

“A bailout is like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound. Government bailouts do not make up for our loss of income... We want markets for our crops.” —Soybean farmer John Bartman www.thebulwark.com/p/heiress-so...

Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up

Insurance will still cover Hep B birth dose, but it presumes that every mother will ask for it.

And so the cycle continues: Trump wrecks the market with his own policies, then uses taxpayer money to bail out the damage, and somehow sells it back to voters as a win. Truly exhausting.

In other words, Trump is planning to provide socialist welfare to people who voted for him after he ruined their businesses with his stupid tariffs. But you can't have medicine, food, or ACA supplements.

Tyson Foods over the last few months: • Approved 43 MILLION shares in stock buybacks • Spent $196 million buying back its own stock to juice up the price • Announced closure of Lexington plant: 3,200 workers in a town of 11,000 people Then what happened?

A medical reminder.

What an interesting way to say that you are giving a bribe to farmers because of the harm you caused them.

Remember, the Trump administration is doing everything they can to limit public comments on policies like this – take a look at UCS’ resources for enhancing public participation in decisions that impact our health and safety.

Birth dose for Hep B was removed purely to please the present administration, even though it is contrary to scientific study results and best practices.

What in the actual hell

Note: "Deportation Judges," not immigration judges. No need to apply if you don't get the agenda.

And here’s the video that antivaxxers are celebrating. youtu.be/1tLv-QWb8bo

Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.

My thing about birthright citizenship and “originalism” is like… the jurists of Wong Kim Ark in 1898 WERE ADULTS DURING THE RATIFICATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT. SO THEY KNEW THE ORIGINAL PUBLIC MEANING AND TOLD YOU WHAT IT WAS IN WONG KIM ARK!!!

⚠️RFK Jr appoints anti-vaxxer to head FDA drug research center—"Putting Tracy Beth in charge [of FDA’s CDER] is like dropping an atom bomb," says an agency source, & multiple top-level officials preparing FDA resignations. "It's an extinction level event." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

As long as Trump wants to rename the Defense Department the Department of War, he might as well rename the Department of Justice the Department of Revenge.

AAP speaks truth to power. Proud to be a pediatrician and an AAP leader. #PutKids1st #science #Ivax2protect

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🚨Tucson responds to ICE’s invasion today. 1/2

If SCOTUS planned to uphold birthright citizenship, they would’ve left the lower-court rulings untouched. Taking the case is the tell. You don’t grab a 150-year precedent just to admire it. They took it because they intend to change it. Pretending otherwise is denial. #SCOTUSRot

It really is amazing that MAGA and Cons can’t seem to understand the words : “non-citizens do not get Medicare, Medicade, or Social Security.” They participate in the work force and pay taxes, yet they cannot receive the benefits citizens have access to. Such idiotic mentalities.

Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk? Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus. Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️ 🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

JFC. Dunning Kruger is an epidemic. Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.

Oh, a woman asked for them not to involve her and they ignored it? Not at all surprised they don’t understand consent when their bosses boss is an adjudicated rapist

I’d like to call out the work of two CDC career scientists— Drs. John Su and Adam Langer — for their evidence-based presentations and reasoned responses about hepatitis B at recent #ACIP meetings. Their professionalism and dedication to facts is so needed today.

"Vaccine advisers for the US ... (CDC) voted ...to limit hepatitis B vaccines in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @theguardian.com @melodyschreiber.com

We are leaving you tonight we words from Adam Langer aka our fav CDC hero who went toe to toe with ACIP today. 💪

HHS dead-named her on her official portrait. As Admiral Rachel Levine said, it is a petty thing to do. Glad the NPR article mentioned only her name.

The Trump administration's decision to roll back universal Hepatitis B vaccine schedule recommendations will leave children vulnerable to unnecessary exposure and preventable illness. Read APHA's statement: www.apha.org/news-and-med...

It is only difficult if you have zero communication ability.

"In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative." -The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

It would be all too easy to overlook this case with everything else that's going on, but it's too important to miss, so I wrote a rare midday post. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The #ACIP just voted to harm children. What a sad day.

"One of the most staggering things is that the Roberts Court has ruled for President Trump 90 percent of the time in shadow docket cases. Lower courts keep restraining the president but the Supreme Court is repeatedly saying that the president and his party are above the law"

The ACIP Committee which has exactly 0 general pediatricians just voted 6-4 to recommend that we do lab draws on babies to determine if they need subsequent doses of Hepatitis B vaccine. There are multiple problems with this:

Yup, the RFK Jr/Great Barrington Declaration/anti-vaxx/kooky conspiracy theorist panel really is "anti-vaccine theater" and "a cruel joke."

Attorney Siri makes the utterly disingenuous statement that the scientific community hasn’t studied whether vaccines “don’t cause” autism. You can’t prove a negative using the scientific method. He’s been told this many times.

"I think the exact language is that it is 'not scientifically accurate' to say that vaccines do not cause autism. It’s a very strange formulation. That is like saying, 'I have no evidence that umbrellas do not cause kittens.'" lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M