“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

One of the reasons why I go so hard on science misinformation/disinformation, is that as a working scientist it is frustrating to see your research misreported to push an agenda. For example, consider this piece of right-wing propaganda from The Telegraph that was just published

I'm going through my transcript from the last ACIP meeting and saw this from Robert Malone: "It my personal bias is to err on the side of enabling individual decision making and individual rights over the rights of the collective. That's my personal preference."

Three Dems in the House voted for Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize having trans children

Even on the longest, deepest night, don't forget: we're stars. Happy solstice, friends.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Over 91% of Clients in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Reach Undetectable Status www.poz.com/article/91-c...

omg

"the patient experienced clitoris the size of a pineapple"

You've heard of hot vax summer, now get ready for www.kuow.org/stories/toil...

This is absolutely fascinating and I'll be thinking about it for a while

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

He'd probably be just as likely to work in renewable energy businessintexas.com/blog/texas-l...

-25 on healthcare

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

I had no idea this is how the NORAD Santa tracker got started! www.npr.org/2014/12/19/3...

This.... doesn't sound like the MoCA

"Officials are urging doctors to vaccinate their patients and provide flu antivirals after deaths among children reached record highs and as a concerning mutation of the virus circulates in the US." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com

Rick Vandendolder, 73: "My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were fleeing Nazi persecution," he said. "I met some of the people that he saved, and I never dreamt that I'd be seeing the same thing going on in this country."

It's funny because this photo is already public and the smart thing would've been to leave in everything known

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

It would seem that the anti-vaccine movement's focus on autism is just a way to reduce vaccines, period. They don't actually care about autism.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

I love this

I just called Tiny Tim "Little Jim or whatever" if you were wondering how things are going over here

This was shocking to me. He got the number wrong -- at least 288 children died from flu last season -- and also, my God

Get vaccinated, not just for yourself but for others who can’t fight off infections or who might be immune compromised. Urge anyone you care about to get vaccinated.

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

This is mob shit and they could try to use it on any other kind of medical care they don’t like. Abortion, birth control, childhood vaccines

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

I know you highlighted this when it was published, but seems relevant to this unethical study… americansunlight.substack.com/p/how-maga-u...

Reports show how mpox clade 1b spreads through non-sexual contact in DR Congo, Ireland Large family sizes and crowded living conditions may play a role in transmission. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau

Get ready

Two more children have died from the flu, the CDC says today -- bringing the total to three already this season

I'm not conspiracy-minded or a doomer but I get nervous every time a fighter jet flies overhead for no apparent reason

A helpful overview piece from Melody summing this ethical horror show up so far - useful for looping people in!

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"In it, the Canadian ex-doula Yolande Norris-Clark falsely links ultrasounds to autism and ADHD and states that “ultrasound damages and modifies and destroys cells”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Incredible

Every journalist knows you can find people to say pretty much anything. But the more instructive question for me is: why did they find and platform these particular people/views?

Who looked at the last week before winter break and said "let's have spirit week" at two separate schools!!!

The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. So nice to memorialize a couple who did so much for the arts in their too-short lives ❤️

RFK Jr.’s anti-science, anti-vaccine agenda is “spreading like an infection all its own throughout the globe.” Thank you to @melodyschreiber.com and @katlay.bsky.social for staying on top of RFK Jt.’s continued attacks on vaccines. H/t @nerdparty.bsky.social for the heads up.

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...