Casey Means has a history of putting profits over people. The American people deserve leaders committed to safe, evidence-based recommendations -- not lining their own pockets. Yet another example of how deeply unqualified she is to be Surgeon General.

Thanks to @katherineeban.bsky.social with @rollingstone.com for a great piece about Casey Means' grifting of unsafe products. archive.ph/G21Xy

EXCLUSIVE: As Dr. Casey Means awaits Senate HELP committee vote for Surgeon General, my latest @rollingstone.com investigation finds 5 of her newsletter sponsors stood accused of selling products w hazardous ingredients, unsafe lead levels or PFOA traces: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The publisher Elsevier confirms it has turned down a request from the leaders of the Bandim Health Project to retract a commentary in Vaccine that analyzed their work on non-specific effects of vaccines & concluded there were significant problems with it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That controversial vaccine study? Yep, dodgy from go.👇 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... by @katherineeban.bsky.social "...inadequate human research protections" & not vetted by scientists at CDC. @jakescottmd.bsky.social: “...funding an unsolicited study to generate doubt about a vaccine..."

In today's episode of "As the #CDC Turns", the agency's #2 official — the one who actually goes to work in Atlanta — steps down from a job he started in early January. "Unforeseen family obligations cited as the reason for Ralph Abraham's departure. www.statnews.com/2026/02/23/r...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare. Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

A grant request proposed a trial to study whether a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine had negative effects. 7 current + former CDC employees say that everything about the proposal set off alarm bells: "None of our scientists would touch this...” Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just read a striking investigation into a proposed CDC-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. It details an unusually fast, politically driven grant process and serious questions about ethics oversight and protections for newborns in a high–hepatitis B setting.

Scoop: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New reporting says that Kennedy-aligned political appointees at the CDC fast-tracked a $1.6m grant for a randomized trial in Guinea-Bissau that would delay the hepatitis B birth dose for half of ~14,000 infants, bypassing the agency’s normal scientific/competitive review... TAT: [Attacking Science]

If the registration for the Institutional Review Board (IRB or ethics board) in Guinea-Bissau expired in 2018, as this article in Rolling Stone says, then all previous studies published with data from the research program there must be scrutinized.

This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists. Ethics matter, especially in science. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

EXCLUSIVE: In my latest @rollingstone.com investigation, new documents/20+ sources reveal a controversial vaccine study's unusual path to CDC approval, and irregularities in the only ethics review done, in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1 🧵👇

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I could keep posting quotes. This is just so beyond anything I’ve seen in modern global health research. It is criminal. But, instead, I recommend just getting a Rolling Stone subscription because their health reporting, especially @katherineeban.bsky.social has been excellent.

The Senator Who Has Made It Her Mission to Stop RFK Jr. @alsobrooks.senate.gov on Kennedy's first year as health secretary: “His leadership has been absolutely disastrous.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive: To mark Secretary Kennedy's first year in office, I interviewed @alsobrooks.senate.gov, the Maryland senator intent on bringing him down. Calling it "a matter of life and death," she details her quest for @rollingstone.com. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Thank you @laurabeil.bsky.social. Very kind, and right back at you.

A 🧵on my @rollingstone.com exclusive: Internal emails show how @hhsofficial.bsky.social officials close to Sec. Kennedy made a $1.6 million no-bid grant to study purported Hep B vaccine harm in Guinea-Bissau a "funding priority." rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Nice reporting on RFK Jr.'s "own Tuskegee experiment." Also, shame on Pershing Square Foundation for offering funds for this.

Killer reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social

“Kennedy’s “fingerprints are all over it,” he says, pointing to the study’s stated objective to examine secondary outcomes such as eczema and neurological disorders. “It makes absolutely no sense to study associations between this vaccine and these outcomes,” except that’s what interests Kennedy.” 🧪

Really critical story on the unethical hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea Bissau. In addition to the Danish researchers, #RFKJr & billionaire #BillAckman are key drivers of this nonsense. The combo of bad science, bad politics & bad money are putting kids at risk again. @katherineeban.bsky.social

🚨 This @rollingstone.com piece about the Danish investigators is explosive & deeply alarming The whole episode gets murkier by the day The author of the piece got access to e-mails between Danish PI Dr Stabell Benn & 2 HHS staffers with anti-vaccine histories😳 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The scientists Christine Stabell Benn/Peter Aaby faced allegations they'd oversold their findings that certain vaccines have nonspecific effects that can increase mortality. But HHS/CDC officials close to Secretary Kennedy steered the no-bid grant through the bureaucracy. /2

EXCLUSIVE: In my 1st @rollingstone.com story, internal @hhsofficial.bsky.social emails show how 2 Danish scientists accused of "questionable research practices" got a $1.6 million grant aligned w/ Sec. Kennedy's theories to study HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

Psyched to be starting my 1st full week as @rollingstone.com 's nat'l investigative correspondent, covering public health, politics + nat'l security. Got stories? Signal me securely at KatherineEban.45. www.pmc.com/news/rolling...

Horrified to see this tragic news of multiple people shot at my alma mater Brown University. Prayers for everyone harmed in this heinous attack. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

On Jan 1, I’ll be joining Rolling Stone as National Investigative Correspondent. Grateful to Vanity Fair for the years of opportunity and support. Looking forward to joining Sean Woods and his talented Rolling Stone team to report on national security, politics, and public health.

Looking forward to today’s discussion at @BrookingsInst on the media’s role in investigating #COVIDorigins. Important conversation ahead — tune in live at 1:30PM ET: www.brookings.edu/events/the-r...

Delighted to join this @BrookingsInst event Monday Oct. 27 for a long overdue discussion on the media's role in investigating #COVIDorigins. Tune in at 1:30PM www.brookings.edu/events/the-r...

Glad to have my @vanityfair.com reporting on counterfeit Ozempic featured in this new ABC News segment, “The Dark Shot: Counterfeit Weight Loss Drugs.” You can see the whole segment here: www.hulu.com/watch/47bfc6... #ImpactOnHulu

Delighted to be speaking this Thursday 7PM about investigative journalism for the official launch of the Brown University Women’s Network (BWN). The virtual event, “Comforting Lies Versus Unpleasant Truths,” is free/open to all. Pre-register here: brownconnectplus.brown.edu/networks/eve...

Looking forward to my convo with David Lusk for the Brown Club of Charlotte next Thursday. Please join us. There's still time to register:

For 7 years, I ran a PTA committee called Beast Relief at my kids' school, to help save wildlife. Each year, the kids wrote/illustrated a book about a real endangered animal. Our proudest moment: when Dr. Jane Goodall wrote the foreword for One Special Elephant. RIP Jane Goodall. 💔

Delighted to join Brown Club of Charlotte Oct. 16 7 PM ET to talk about pursuing investigative journalism in a misinformation age. Event open to all: brownconnectplus.brown.edu/events/12486...

"We are in a state of free fall." My new @vanityfair.com Q&A w/ pandemic preparedness expert @mtosterholm.bsky.social on publication of his new book, "The Big One: How We Must Prepare For Future Deadly Pandemics." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

EXCLUSIVE: My latest @vanityfair.com story is a deep dive into RFK Jr's controversial deputy chief of staff Stefanie Spear. Formerly a radical environmental activist, she's become a powerful MAHA gatekeeper, dogged by opponents Laura Loomer + Steve Bannon: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m... /1

Great to talk w/ @theweekendprime.bsky.social about this consequential moment for public health.

Looking forward to going on @theweekendprime.bsky.social shortly to talk about RFK Jr. and the recent public health tumult. Tune in around 6:40pm.

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything that better captures Trump's second term. Note the "reported to be". Six months in and it wasn't even clear whether he was the head of the office. And in fact he wasn't. Or maybe he was. But now he's out. www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump Administration's pandemic preparedness leader Gerald Parker has resigned and biosecurity expertise is flatlining at White House, I report in an exclusive for @statnews.com. The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/w... /1