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It’s a bad feeling when you read an author you respect who writes in the form “It’s not X. It’s Y” and you have to wonder if it was AI generated.

"Citation cartel"?

Other random thoughts: Yes, it’s possible that AI can be used to counter misinformation. Since we now get test results before talking to the doctor, AI may be used to interpret. Overzealous use of AI could lead to anxiety about misinterpreted tests & needless interventions (testing & treatments)

Step 1: Fill internet with medical misinformation, both in web pages and low-tier/predatory journals (Frontiers, MDPI) Step 2: Train AI tools on the medical misinformation Step 3: AI tools output misinformation-filled/hallucinated answers to health questions Step 4: Public health takes a nosedive

The Trump administration is downsizing US science by historic margins — but it's not just via funding or workforce cuts. Our new @nature.com analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across major agencies. w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social

RFK Jr. stacked the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee with anti-vax child abusers, and the agenda is being planned in secret. Autistic children will suffer in numerous ways, whether by neglecting necessary care (including vaccines) or by actively harming them with quack treatments.

Kristine Blanche (super grifter married to Todd Blanche) and Raúl D. Villalobos-Meléndez are both PAs who inappropriately call themselves doctor, having dubious credentials from the same offshore "university"! Villalobos-Meléndez ended up a felon. RFK Jr appointed Kristine as an NIH quack advisor!

The DOJ has just indicted an advisor to Dr. Fauci for “conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations”. This is a witch hunt, plain and simple. They will never forgive Fauci for making them look like the fools that they are.

Only 124 researchers remain at EPA. More than 1500 were laid off or fired. Those who are left must hew to the administration line, and be overseen by political appointees. How does this make America healthy? or great? #climatechange #publichealth #science #pollution #toxic #cancer #lunghealth

Just a reminder that the guy behind Florida's antivax crusade is into levitating and communicating with spirits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

I wonder if @nayeema.bsky.social would host someone like @jeremymberg.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social or @cdelawalla.bsky.social to discuss what it’s been like to stand up for science under this regime?

An email to Director Bhattacharya to end my weekend. 1/6

HHS is infested with incompetent idiots. Marty Makary lacks a fundamental understanding of the fact that yrs of sustained federal funding made mRNA vaccines possible, including the one for pancreatic cancer. 🧪

The reason fascists hate science is because scientists can call bullshit on their edicts. The government can claim “clean coal” exists or windmills cause cancer but science can easily debunk that. So the solution is to defund, discredit and destroy the pillars of science as much as they can.

Both Todd Blanche & NIH’s witchcraft section (NCCIH) fail to note that Kristine Blanche’s 3-year offshore MD/PhD isn’t credibly recognized in the US. Kristine is a licensed physician assistant who sells scammy detox & breast thermography. The detox of 9/11 rescuers sounds like a Scientology thing.

The guy in charge of prosecuting fraud should not be financially tied to a peddler of fraudulent detox and breast thermography, using a 3-year offshore MD/PhD that’s not credibly recognized in the US. Also, was Kristine Blanche associated with the Scientology cult’s scammy “detox” of 9/11 rescuers?

Kristine Blanche is married to DOJ’s Todd Blanche, who can’t recognize a fraudster. Someone should get ahold of her so-called PhD thesis, which hypes scammy breast thermography. It needs to be assessed for violations of basic ethical norms for treatment of human subjects in a clinical trial.

OMG- How was it not publicized earlier that Kristine Blanche (wife of DOJ's Todd Blanche) is a predatory quack physician assistant making dubious claims of being a doctor? And now RFK Jr appointed her as an advisor to the NIH's witchcraft section, NCCIH!

Experts are worried we're losing ground to HIV even as the end of the epidemic is in sight. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This week in Optimizer I fell down another rabbit hole. She's definitely heard of peptides and knows they're injectables, but — and this isn't limited to mother goop — influencers flatten how they talk about peptides relative to other injectable treatments. www.theverge.com/column/91808...

I will always support effective communication strategies, but failing to discuss critical scientific issues, especially ones with such immediate relevance to our lives like vaccination and climate change, because they are partisanized is a dereliction of duty on the part of the National Academies.

The Trump administration and RFK Jr are helping to spread chronic disease

Because @nationalacademies.org decided to bend the knee and host a session with Jay Bhattacharya and some of his fellow travelers, they tarnished a meeting on the important topic of scientific integrity even before it began. 1/

We urgently need a vaccine against Chagas disease

Another internet survey used to promote quackery

🚨 Great analysis of 21 harmful LIES by RFK Jr makingsciencemakesense.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-ask... by @jessicamalaty.bsky.social @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social SUM: LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE!

Airborne molds can cause asthma and allergies. But quacks falsely blame "toxic mold" for everything. It's an example of the "One True Cause of All Disease" trope. CDC scientists documented fraudulent urine testing: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview... More in this thread: bsky.app/profile/lyme...

a good opportunity to revisit some of @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and my reporting on exactly what RFK Jr. has said and how often he has said it: wapo.st/41RqWY9

I just stumbled across this. Warning: it may require deep breathing to get through. The fact that Bhattacharya continues to tout academic freedom after censoring people, science and projects at both NIH and CDC is wildly absurd. His hypocrisy is astounding. 🧵1/? today.usc.edu/nih-director...

What short memories! RFK Jr just appointed three anti-vaccine groups to be ACIP liaisons, including the autism quacks at MAPS, which is the successor to DAN. Many stories of abusive autism quacks, as documented in Paul Offit’s Autism’s False Prophets and Seth Mnookin’s The Panic Virus.

PLEASE STOP REPORTING RFK HAS CHANGED HIS TUNE ON VACCINES WITH NO EVIDENCE TO BACK THAT UP THE SAME DAY HE REPEATEDLY LIED ABOUT HIS ROLE IN THE ANTI-VAX MOVEMENT. www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/k...

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

An emerging contageous virus, like a flu virus, will easily spread in the confines of a military base or a military operation…unless the troops are vaccinated. So the brilliant leaders of HHS and DOD decide to stop protecting the troops by no longer requiring flu vaccination. In 1918, before

Journalist Sarah Keoghan: A celebrity paediatric chiropractor has been banned from calling herself a “doctor” and using the prefix “Dr” after a tribunal found she engaged in “serious professional misconduct” by spreading “false” and “misleading” medical views.

RFK Jr: Promotes child abusers in the chronic #Lyme cult and promises to fight discredited "chronic lyme". Also RFK Jr: Fights vaccinations, which prevent: chronic measles/SSPE, chronic HPV, chronic Hepatitis B, chronic herpes zoster/shingles, & chronic sequelae of germs (polio, COVID, meningitis).

OMG RFK Jr further reiterated his intentions to post a directory of physicians, presumably quacks. He falsely claimed millions of Americans have Lyme disease, and he recklessly recommended unnecessary testing. www.facebook.com/reel/1617321...

RFK Jr held crank-filled Long COVID & #Lyme roundtables. His HHS promotes pseudoscientific guidelines created by cranks David Putrino & Amy Proal at their Mt. Sinai quack clinic. The goals: Normalize health scams, feed people to fraudsters, and promote bogus "vaccine injury" and "Lyme" claims.

He means that he’s losing people who want to study why vaccines cause autism

Dr. Sara Gorman is phenomenal! See also her book The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America

More education is important. For a tick bite with no symptoms of infection, experts do not recommend tick testing, going to the ER, serologic testing, or treating with more than a single dose of doxycycline. And any bug bite can cause a local rash, but it's not the same as an expanding #Lyme rash.

Although some of the criticisms of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA movement are spot on, why did KevinMD platform a practitioner of functional medicine woo to make them? sciencebasedmedicine.org/kevinmd-plat...

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination 🧵

Influencer Prescription Drug Promotion May Spread Misinformation jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Credited with saving 26 million lives, PEPFAR suffered big blows to its impact after the Trump administration’s abrupt stop and restart of its activities last year, according to the first tranche of data from the program since 2024. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

New in @cidrap.bsky.social: amid the worst measles outbreak in 30+ years, the HHS Secretary said on national TV that MMR contains "millions of particles from aborted fetal tissue." It doesn't. What the manufacturing and regulatory record show. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...

149 scientific and medical organizations express concern over changes to CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices charter