After a complaint, former ILADS treasurer and board member Crystal Barnwell, MD is reprimanded by the Georgia Composite Medical Board. Another slap on the wrist for someone who should not be practicing medicine. lymescience.org/rogues/Cryst...

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Lyme disease pioneering scientists Alan Barbour and Durland Fish deconstruct bogus bioweapons claims. “Lyme disease is a product of nature and has been present for millennia throughout the continents of Eurasia and North America.”

Great discussion by the The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast (plus CME is available) 👇 #FOAMED #Lyme thecurbsiders.com/curbsiders-p...

on ACIP member Retsif Levi: "it was clear that he was not familiar with the way the data is collected and potential wrong interpretations. What was more troubling: he didn’t seem to care." #Medsky #IDsky #COVID #vaccines #science #publichealth

MDI Bio Lab's Liz Marnik writes about growing up unvaccinated and how that shaped their views on science, trust, and vaccine conversations. A thoughtful opinion piece in The New York Times worth your attention. #SciComm #InclusiveSciComm #SciEngage #SciEd 🧪 🍎 👩‍🔬

Kevin Klatt: All in all, it’s quite concerning to see how much non-evidence-based and pseudoscientific nutrition, largely in the form of ‘integrative’ and ‘functional’ medicine, has taken over huge swaths of modern medicine.

Good article but it’s pretty clear that Casey Means was a quack in 2019, two years before her mother’s tragic cancer diagnosis. Her old web site, where she gushes about functional medicine quackery: web.archive.org/web/20190407...

So did ILADS leader Eboni Cornish, MD ever finish her family medicine residency? lymescience.org/rogues/Eboni...

Looks like HHS will be have another chronic #Lyme crankfest, including long-time conspiracy theorists Kristen Honey and Amy Proal, and ILADS leader Eboni Cornish (née Smith). Eboni Cornish has a long record of dishonesty but sadly was granted a medical license: lymescience.org/rogues/Eboni...

Great talk 👇 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The next ethics director will be VERY busy, investigating: Was it ethical for NIH leadership to terminate studies on health disparities, including research at Duke on the health of transgender people? Was it ethical for Bhattacharya to ban our team from using the words “racial disparities”? 1/n

One reason you know X is a lost cause is that there was almost no pushback against Robert Malone’s nonsense.

This is the most bizarre interaction I've ever had with an HHS spokesperson. From my story on CDC's pivot to "shared-decision making" for vaccines, with insight from @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social and @jakescottmd.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/why-rf...

It is totally valid to criticize a respected scientist for appearing at an antivax crankfest, because the very act of appearing with the likes of Del Bigtree et al elevates them and diminishes the scientist.

Live stream- @jeremyfaust.bsky.social open.substack.com/live-stream/...

The idea of “medical freedom” weighs one parent’s decision to refuse vaccines as more important than another’s decision to protect their own children from contagious, vaccine-preventable diseases”. @jimalwine.bsky.social and I in a new OpEd about AZ trying to ban childhood vaccine requirements.

A short Bluetorial on plots of NIH application success rates as a function of percentile. 1/20

New: John Oliver on the destruction of USAID

Great new piece by @melodyschreiber.com in The Guardian about NIH/CDC Director Bhattacharya . In it, I talk about asking Bhattacharya in January about a recent issue affecting the affordability of healthcare for thousands of early career researchers on the NIH campuses.

Introducing Angie Farella - RFK Jr.'s Latest Addition to ACIP: she wanted to use kids as buffers for COVID because she thought oher coronaviruses made them immune, she wanted to treat COVID with flu antivirals, and more. vaxopedia.org/2026/03/04/i... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc March 2026 edition.

Science is Science!!! Let's not twist that!! Join us in DC or visit your local rally!!! DC Info: fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/ Find your rally! : standupforscience.net/march7 #March7 #standupforscience #science #savescience #rally

RFK Jr is trying to push "functional medicine" quackery into medical school, using nutrition as a trojan horse. He's the anti-Flexner.

Marty Makary released a statement. Vinay Prasad’s job was to reduce the required evidence for drug approval, except for vaccines, and contrary to his 2019 commentary that said “Replication is the hallmark of good science, and nowhere is good science more needed than in drug regulation.”

Someone ask Vinay Prasad if he stands by the recent proposal from himself and Marty Makary to accept a single trial for FDA approval, which is contrary to his 2019 paper urging replication.

Jay Bhattacharya can be in charge of something else to ruin.

“Lyme literate” quack Kent Holtorf’s 2026 reprimand is based on misconduct from 2020. So separate from this 2025 Propublica investigation from @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/pept...

It hurt every brain cell and my editors will attest I came running screaming into the DMs almost every chapter in real time.

Much respect to anyone who critically examines a quack’s book www.theverge.com/column/88992...

ILADS "Lyme literate" predator Kent Holtorf, MD reprimanded for Unprofessional Conduct including deviating from the standard of care and Repeated Negligent Acts by failing to adequately supervise a naturopath in connection with prescribing human chorionic gonadotropin and bacteriostatic water.

1/5 🧵 📣 Casey Means is fundamentally not qualified for Surgeon General. Call your Senator today - Vote NO on her confirmation. 📣 Why? There’s simply too many articles to choose from! Check out 🔗👇 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly

The unabashed nerdiness of @altmetric.com is always a delight

This was great 👇

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON SATURDAY?? #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social

Great essay from @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social. Liz’s story resonates with me. I also grew up unvaccinated. I know my mom made the choice not to vaccinate me and my sisters out of love, misguided as it was. I got myself vaccinated when I turned 18. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

It was predictable that the COVID quacks would become anti-vax Lyme cranks. Crank magnetism in action.

Since we have 2 months of 2026 data now, we can see if the trend we saw last year holds up: does research from the current year get shared more on Bluesky or X-Twitter? As you can see here, we still see days regularly where Bluesky's volume of research sharing is markedly higher than Twitter. 1/9

Cancer risks from DNA fragments in vaccines, formaldehyde, radiation, or chemicals? I saw all of these this morning. A critical thinker might ask how and how much. Exposure, mechanism, & probabilities matter. Quantitative risks by numbers not nouns. substack.com/@allthingsto...

Dr. Steven Novella on Dr. Mike’s podcast youtu.be/Nv1ZaJ9mL1k

Merriam Webster defines Gish Gallop as "a rhetorical technique or strategy by which a debater puts forth too many false arguments for their opponent to be able to refute in the allotted amount of time." In 2026, cranks can use AI to generate Gish Gallops on steroids.

New: Paper, video, and CME by Dr. Ryan Kessel Risks Associated With Undisclosed Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice It's important to talk about it! #FOAMed #quackery doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...

1/3 Meet Dr. Angelina Farella, RFK Jr.'s new ACIP member. Texas pediatrician, decades of practice… and a noted anti-vaxxer. As if ACIP's credibility weren’t already flushed down the toilet 😬🩺

7 years of symptoms! Fake chronic #Lyme diagnosis & needless antibiotics/IVIG! Real diagnosis: "tumor-induced osteomalacia caused by a 15 x 9 mm phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor lodged in his left femoral neck — a small, slow-growing lesion that had been silently dismantling his skeleton for years."

Evergreen: The Once Promising Journalist Who Became a Sadistic Troll www.keithkloor.com?p=14917

U.S. birth-dose hepatitis B vaccination coverage has dropped sharply more than a 10-percentage-point decline in ~2 years, reversing several years of progress. Approximate numbers reported: ~83–84% coverage (2023) ~73% coverage (2025) www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Case in point: The dishonesty of Casey Means and Calley Means about her inactive medical license. Jerome Adams: "To serve as a physician in the Corps, you MUST hold an active medical license." Calley Means gaslights and asks Adams for an apology! x.com/calleymeans/...

Do not forget that it was Yale scientists Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz who worked with anti-vaxxers to legitimize highly dubious claims of “vaccine injury” and “persistent spike.”

ACIP will be taking up the issue of COVID-19 vaccine injuries at the upcoming meeting March 18-19. Meanwhile, the vice chair of ACIP, Robert Malone, continues to publicly spread misinformation about vaccine injuries. 🧵 1/9