Deep reporting on the troubled state of MAHA from @katherineeban.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"Kennedy’s weak leadership skills, drifting attention, and the operational naivete of his handpicked staff have led to chaos so detrimental that agency lawyers have repeatedly warned officials that their policy rollouts fail to comply with regulations." @katherineeban.bsky.social

The Trump administration withdrew a rule requiring companies to test talc-containing products for asbestos following a meeting with Johnson & Johnson executives.

The job of the HHS Secretary is to protect the health of the American people. RFK Jr. has failed. Instead, he has caused chaos and attacked scientific expertise. Now, even the MAHA-MAGA alliance is cracking under the weight of his failed leadership.

Every paragraph in here could be an entire article. Incredible article from @katherineeban.bsky.social. Let’s hope the implosion continues.

Incredible piece, including new insights into federal interference with ACIP.

We The People: Can we get healthcare, good food, access to vaccines, and quality research? RFK Jr.: Best I can do is aliens are walking the Earth with us...RIGHT NOW. (Incredible, sweeping, thorough investigative journalism from @katherineeban.bsky.social!) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

EXCLUSIVE: As the White House embraces talc + tobacco, chaos reigns at @hhsofficial.bsky.social, agency lawyers warn of legal peril - and Sec Kennedy talks UFOs w/ a billionaire. Inside the MAGA-MAHA crack-up based on 35+ sources, dozens of internal HHS docs www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Delighted to be in Portugal to keynote the Master Control conference tomorrow, discuss findings from my book #BottleofLies and lessons learned from a decade spent investigating data fraud and substandard quality in the generic drug industry. www.mastercontrol.com/events/confe...

My latest @rollingstone.com story: Don Jr.'s turkey-hunting lawyer buddy becomes acting @usfda.bsky.social commissioner, as Dr. Marty Makary resigns under pressure: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

With the news that Marty Makary is out at @US_FDA and Don Jr.'s hunting buddy Kyle Diamantas is likely to step in as the new FDA commissioner, seems like a good time to re-up my @vanityfair.com story: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f...

Scoop: In 2019, Trump's latest surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier tried to trademark the #MAHA slogan, but told me in an exclusive interview last year: "Do I think [MAHA] is the end-all be-all and going to save the healthcare system? No I don't." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I sat down with Jay Walker for a two-part @tedmedcommunity.bsky.social conversation about scientific integrity, medical ethics, and a controversial hepatitis B study that raises bigger questions about trust and accountability. Watch Part 1 now on the TEDMED website: tedmed.com/conversation...

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...

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.