mRNA vaccines are, without exaggeration, one of the greatest inventions in human history. We basically hacked our immune systems. “Here’s the secret code for this new virus, prep to fight exactly that.” A promising avenue for addressing some cancers too. And the US is throwing it away. For what?

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

“we reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and completely ignored it all because we are fuckin dumbasses who want millions of people to die”

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Great Measles 2025 update in NEJM. It is unfortunate we need this but measles is on course to return to endemicity in the United States and Canada. A self inflicted predicament thanks to the spread and rise of anti-vaccine rhetoric. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Not only will this likely result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths each year - in the most poor and underprivileged areas because it is eugenics - this will make us less safe at home as well and put us at risk for increasing disease outbreaks and increasing spread of infectious disease.

In a video address, health secretary Kennedy said the US would no longer donate to vaccine agency Gavi. The US had been the largest donor to Gavi, whose work is estimated to have saved the lives of 17 million children around the world over the past two decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

RFKjr is on track to kill orders of magnitude more people than food dyes ever did. "Anti-vaccine voices are now advising the CDC." wapo.st/3SZnPsJ

We are disgusted that RFK Jr. just wiped out the entire ACIP and replaced its members with people who have pushed dangerous misinformation, including critics of lifesaving vaccines. This is not reform. It is sabotage.

The lead doctor of one study that HHS cited in its decision to stop recommending Covid shots during pregnancy told us their results were "misinterpreted."

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks. The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.

Hi! I specialize in medication toxicity. All available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

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Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —from decades of NIH funded research www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

As May 12, Musk and the Trump regime are estimated to have caused 83,921 adult deaths and 175,117 child deaths as a result of their sudden cuts in foreign assistance. More deaths are currently accruing at a rate of 103 per hour. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Of the 694 NIH grants that the Trump administration has terminated so far, 128 were funded by the National Institute on Mental Health - a massive blow to mental health research. #medsky #psychsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"We know now that we can dramatically lower hospitalization rates due to severe RSV disease in young infants using our new tools — monoclonal antibodies and maternal immunization.” www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/c...

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Long-term data showed how ending fluoridation adversely affected the health of the population. www.sciencenews.org/article/fluo...

In only a few months, we've rolled back the clock on measles eradication by more than three decades. The last time we hit this benchmark in 1990, 9 children died. It took ten more years and intensive vaccination efforts after that to declare it eliminated. That was 25 years ago.

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The cuts to science funding *alone* will generate a Great Recession-sized hole in the economy. "It’s less a 'self-inflicted wound' and more 'jumping head-first into a wood chipper.'”

@syramadad.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone

We just watched this tonight. I’ve been thoroughly depressed about these cuts already, but John Oliver really brings it home about the damage RFK Jr is doing to this country. Hubs sums it up, “Our country is going to die because of this man”

NIH DOGE'd..... Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations 60 Minutes @cbsnews.com w/transcript www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.

The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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The $50B NIH budget creates $100B in economic activity. Every dollar cut from its budget is $2 immediately lost by Americans, in addition to losing access to medical trials that could cure cancer and any chance of new medical breakthroughs

Canadian Kevin Hall, a top NIH nutrition researcher, specializing in the study of ultraprocessed foods, departs, citing censorship under RFK Jr., by @megtirrell.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/h... via @cnn.com

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

Join @wissmemo.bsky.social, @dopamineisdope.bsky.social, and myself tomorrow at 3:30 PM at #AANAM for Neurological Disorders in LGBTQI+ People.

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

“Kennedy’s team requested that Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling and deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in the U.S.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

In which a senior health official is fired for both a) delaying the COVID vaccine until after the 2020 election and b) rushing approval of the COVID vaccine before it was proven to be safe. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

The relationship between wealth and mortality in the US and Europe @nejm.org Here's the bottom line👇 nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy was <50. Today, it is ~80. What made the difference? Public Health. Public health, however, is not some magic entity happening in a vacuum - it requires people. Without those people, there can be no Public Health. That serves no one. Wake up.