NEW: The chair of the President’s Cancer Panel, Dr. Harvey Risch, is a co-author on a study touting ivermectin for cancer. The study is backed by two anti-vax orgs, including The Wellness Company, which sells the drug and with which he is affiliated. www.importantcontext.news/p/chair-of-p...

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

"We want the government to crack down on this thing that no one can define" is a recipe for a right-wing power grab and a raft of moral-panic legislation.

It’s the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day. Of course I’m republishing my Bobbie Gentry article! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...

Oh boy...

" Almost everything about the vaccine schedule report from Tracy Beth Høeg, a sports medicine doctor, is pure propaganda. It should be retracted and should not be used to guide Donald Trump’s immunization policy for our kids!"

Join us live at 10:00 a.m. for This Won't Hurt A Bit! A medical talk show produced locally here in the inland Northwest and broadcast from the central library in downtown Spokane, Washington. 88.1 or 92.3 FM or streaming worldwide at kirs.org

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

🚨 WASHINGTON STATE: Preliminary 2028 *gross* #ACA rate filings have been published...and it ain't pretty: acasignups.net/rate_changes...

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

Jay Bhattacharya spent 6 years insulting and belittling public health experts who were using evidence-based strategies in trying to save lives during a global pandemic. Well, guess what? One of the people who was exposed to hantavirus wants to leave quarantine and Jay had change his tune.

The Trump administration has ousted 80% of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' top officials. This comes as Ebola and hantavirus spread internationally.

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Høeg officially out at FDA!

Good riddance

In an open letter, thousands of researchers criticized the White House’s firing of the research agency’s board as ‘an alarming attack’ on U.S. science

Also @atg.wa.gov Nick Brown

You can't mock these dipshits more than they mock themselves bsky.app/profile/mike...

Hantavirus on a cruise ship was a test - an easy one - and we already failed. Much worse is coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

Here come the ivermectin grifters again!

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

RFK Jr clears path for minors to use tanning beds www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Folks in Idaho health care and public health, please share Duaa's story with as many people as you can.

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Great reporting by @by-cjewett.bsky.social.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a bioengineered chewing gum that dramatically reduces cancer-linked microbes in the mouth, including human papilloma virus (HPV) and harmful bacteria tied to head and neck cancers offering a promising new approach for cancer prevention and treatment.

Once again I’m photographing Bloomsday 🙂. I’ll be on TJ Meenach, Doomsday Hill, through Lindeke and Broadway, as usual. So if you see me on the course say hi, wave or gesture. This is a photo from last year. Spokane, WA

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

How eating gets your immune system fortified: revving up T cell metabolism and function, the adage to "feed a cold" has a basis! nature.com/articles/s41... explainer nature.com/articles/d41...

I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

New member appointed to an NIH Advisory Council (story from STAT). Acting AG Todd Blache's wife Kristine, an MD?/PhD (from the University of Science, Art, and Technology, located in the Caribbean) www.statnews.com/2026/04/26/k... 1/4

A new article claiming that placebos can work as well as “real medicine” is making the rounds on social media parroting several old myths to make this argument, which makes now a good time to address common myths about placebos long beloved by quacks. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-myth-of-...

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

Department officials said the money will go toward constructing a carbon dioxide system at the city’s water treatment plant and decommissioning a well to address PFOS and PFOA emerging contaminants.

Join the MAHA Movement, and you too can become this sterling picture of health.

Orwell's 1984 is being used as a guidebook. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Fuck it...let's live skeet the Senate Labor sub committee hearing of RFK Jr. I'm in a MOOD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5yu...

“The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force”

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...

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.

Kennedy's career pre-antivax advocacy was as an environmental attorney, focusing on mercury (his gateway to vaccines). Now he's abandoned that, allowing *actually harmful* mercury to pollute low- income areas, & using fake mercury fears to deny vaccines globally. Full 🧵👇

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪