Every person who fluffed Podcast Jay and propagated his claims of "censorship" should feel very proud of what they helped unleash on us all right now. Well done, guys! By @maxkozlov.bsky.social

Makary, Prasad, and Hoeg. A trifecta of Sensible Medicine failures.

UCSF is 100% fine with this. No problem at all.

"Trump officials nevertheless cautioned that the FDA is expected to face additional turbulence in the coming days, with more of Makary’s leadership team likely to exit by the end of the week following a sweeping reevaluation of the agency’s functionality."

We also need to focus public attention on the fact that the large majority of those deaths (and the #longCOVID and everything else) were preventable, and on the structural failures that caused them. They are already repeating the same mistakes with hantavirus because there's no accountability.

“Before he joined the Trump administration last year, Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience & a history of far-right commentary & promoting conspiracy theories.”

Doctors who "know everything about everything" are our medical gurus. Discussed here.

"Perhaps the biggest lesson here is that the broader medical community failed to reign in its own bad actors. To say that there were warning signs MAHA doctors is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole. Their risks were glaring and obvious." My latest of the fall of Marty Makary at the FDA.

Vinays past credibility reflects his current credibility.

Exactly

UCSF doctor

Debunking Prasad, like dunking on a 7 foot hoop.

I bet he’s done calling for RCTs. His buddies Kennedy and Bhattacharya are exempt.

I think about this article by @panaccindex.bsky.social a lot.

I wrote about exactly this problem with journalism today.

"People need to know the past credibility of our medical leaders to accurately gauge their current credibility. Can we trust the doctors who told us not to worry about COVID in 2020 when they tell us not to worry about other viruses in 2026?" By @joho.bsky.social 👇

Congratulations to JK Rowling, Matthew Yglesias, Steven Pinker, David Brooks, Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Christakis, Olivia Nuzzi, Jesse Singal, & others (harpers.org/a-letter-on-...), who felt that the real threat came from progressives! Look what you achieved: you must feel very proud of yourselves!

"Reforming an institution requires the ability to enact lasting change. Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether Makary or Prasad held the “right” views about medical evidence. Did they create positive changes that will outlast them? Seemingly not many." @mazer.us

Life is a circle. Vinay Prasad has returned to the public eye... to dunk on 7-foot hoops. More about that...

Good read Love this line "like describing OJ Simpson as a football player who had some disagreements with his wife"

Another thoughtful piece by @joho.bsky.social . @theresisters.bsky.social was honoured to have spoken with Dr. Howard recently: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/n... and open.spotify.com/episode/09R5...

Reading not too hard between the lines, MAHA is fracturing because Trump is realizing that the anti-vax movement, which helped him on the margins, is not broadly popular and never will be.

Congratulations to the Harper's Letter signatories and the Heterodox Academy!

It's all too easy to lose sight of the fact that the press is sanewashing not just Trump, but some of the most stridently wrong contrarians of the COVID pandemic.

It's pretty trite to beat up on "the media" and there are countless excellent journalists who inform us all. But by whitewashing and sanitizing the atrocious track record of MAHA doctors, many of them are helping the COVID Amnesia Project and minimizing the current threat. My latest.

Just remember even if we wing it on Hantavirus in the UK. This guy is in charge in the US. www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨During lunch at his golf course with tobacco executives on May 2, Pres. Trump called Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Oz, furious. He wanted action on flavored vapes. And he soon got it, prompting the FDA commissioner to resign. w/ the amazing @kenvogel.bsky.social --> 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

These guys should write updates

This is the way an article like this, taking down Bhattacharya to his natural height of an ant, should be written. Kudos to the fearless and eloquent author @davidsanderssci.bsky.social.

“And in the most telling detail: CDC staff now require approval to work with the WHO, requiring a slow and bureaucratic process. Bhattacharya said in a CBS News interview that no approval is necessary, but on-the-ground employees disagree.”

I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-...

The destruction of US pandemic preparedness, infectious disease research, our withdrawal from WHO, is a five-alarm fire. Want something to be worried about? Should we be faced with another pandemic, we are now more vulnerable than ever. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

When you find out about this - if you don't already know - you will be fkn fuming. 😡 'His writing was the first I’d seen that explored how and why a handful of prominent doctors and scientists staked out a position hostile to evidence-based medicine, and got a lot of people killed.'

Put this another way, Makary's replacement will likely be *worse* and more dishonest (part of a larger trend of the administration replacing the rageposters with more traditional wingnuts).

What does Makary think about a president who lets his tobacco friends influence federal policy? Listen for yourself.

Makary was the worst FDA commissioner we’ve ever had.

Makary debased himself to validate RFKs most vile antivaxx lies.

Marty Makary was the worst FDA commissioner in 25 years. I have covered the agency that long. I don't say this lightly. He failed at the political, organizational, and scientific aspects of the job. Here's why: www.statnews.com/2026/05/12/m...

“HHS is punishing a world-class scientist who was working to protect people against pandemics, and if he had been listened to more thoroughly, we might have been better prepared for SARS-CoV-2” This might be the most insane thing yet. www.science.org/content/arti...

Good riddance. The need to trash his predecessors at the agency in his outgoing statement is on brand and typical for this grifter. He leaves a record of censorship and chaos for a once great agency www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

"Makary’s biggest problem was that he seemed unable to not make news... he also didn’t seem to have detailed plans — a reality that may have stemmed from his lack of experience running a large organization. The result was simply chaos."

Gosh, it turns out that actually being responsible for things is really hard. (Jay currently runs the CDC.)

"Makary often failed at basic leadership... In his first interview, with Megyn Kelly, he acceded to comments that the agency was composed not of public servants, but of industry rubes."