Helene was so giving to others about her battle, and went through to make it into maybe the top 1% of survivors of pancreatic cancer, before succumbing Dec 19, 2025 all while losing her father to it. She supported @letswinpc.org and the family asks for you to consider supporting them as well.💔

This is also the Jay Bhattacharya and Vinay Prasad story. While many scientists and doctors today do feel responsibility to their profession and to the public, some self-promoter contrarians who worship power have been elevated to the upper echelons of science. 1/

This is a lie. Tillis supported RFK Jr because Tillis didn’t have the courage to buck Trump. He capitulated to Republican party pressure because he’s a coward and a follower and he selfishly put himself above the country. It’s that simple.

This is illegal - directly violating the law - and every available civil and criminal law should be brought to bear on the people participating in this change.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

Illegally terminated

Podcast Jay: His job is to lie to the public about NIH while the Vought people destroy science and universities

Can confirm

1 Regime staff cut 90 percent of USAID and ate cake 🎂 2 Cholera clinic shut. Bodies followed. 3 Experts warned millions would die. Regime applauded. 4 This is blood policy. Get them out. Share. Burn the cover story 🔥📢 This is white Christian nationalism. Marco Rubio 🤮 most be so proud of himself.

NIH has for decades used a rigorous recruitment process to hire its top scientists, the institute directors. The Trump NIH is changing that. They’ve already installed one political hire this way, reportedly a friend of JD Vance. This post describes the process. Demand the Trump people follow it.

If anyone in the US research development / administration community wants to talk about NOT-OD-26-018 (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...), let's commiserate. The changes to the common form will not even be released until next week, & it increases admin burden significantly. @altnih4science.bsky.social

I’ve practiced law for over 50 years and today makes me mourn for my life. And for all of us.

One of the things I was most excited about 1yr ago was joining 1 of the MOSIAC UE5s as a project scientist to work with those ECRs assigned to it. The opportunity to serve our greater communities. Truly a program that supported people across broad institutions, unlike the parent.

This is the most dangerous court in the history of this nation.

Discussed here sciencebasedmedicine.org/everythingca...

“Allowing these people to speak is an egregious attack on public”, I said, in reference to unqualified anti-vaccine activists presenting disinformation at ACIP.

It's truly bonkers what they are doing to public health. 🩺 🧪

Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bhattacharya’s NIH 😢 “Earlier this year, it delayed reviewing grants in order to vet research by political appointees, culled projects that mentioned D.E.I. and fired thousands of employees or pressured them to retire early.”

One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before. It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it. Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Merrick Garland had a chance to do this with Trump. But Garland took a process-first, no-vision approach. He followed a set of bad rules often created by Republicans. We need leaders now and in the next DOJ.

When will RFK Jr be held accountable for all the antivax injury he has caused? He loves to talk about injury. But the biggest threat is from him: he’s causing antivax injury.

Carl created a seat for this loudmouth HIV activist at Strategic Working Group of the Division of AIDS when it didn’t have community rep focused on prevention. Meant groups I repped helped set policies & funding for 5 global research networks. A true mensch. Huge loss, along with Jeanne Marrazzo.

The last few days Uranus has been at its brightest. Barely naked eye from a dark sky site. Possible to see its bluishness using Binoculars. Close to the Pleiades each night. 🔭 🧪

Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true. I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems. Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB." Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH. 🧪 1/

Fact, and all scientific leaders should say this to his face. Stop trying to butter up or compromise with Cassidy and Susan Collins. It will not work! Believing it will is a flawed theory of how US politics works in 2025.

Bill Cassidy has done infinitely more for the antivaccine movement than he can ever claim he has done to promote vaccination. He is one of the worst antivaxxers to ever live.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is right and it’s important for people to get

This week the Trump CDC attacked science — and our health, and our kids’ health — by twisting the truth on the CDC website. There’s things to say about the playbook they used, and that’s helped by a little explanation about scientific truth in practice. New vid explainer from me: 🧪 part 1/

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

Bhattacharya's newest 1-page pandemic plan forcefully rejects the GBD, his previous 1-page pandemic plan. It's really just an admission that he's not competent enough to control a virus and not caring enough to even try. My latest devastating takedown. sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

In August, NIH institute and center directors received this document entitled "Achieving NIH Mission: Leveraging Funding Policies". 1/6

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social the @ama-assn.org has caved to Trump. They invited known grifter Dr Mehmet Oz to give a speech, but, the AMA board/ John Whyte decided to censor all delegates in the following way. 1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.

A failure of communication. The Society for Neuroscience has a responsibility to be clear about what is happening to research, knowledge, and people.

Who’s putting it at risk, @sfn.org ? This passive voice stuff has got to stop. We have to name the people destroying US leadership in science. (Hint: Trump. Vought. Bhattacharya. RFK. Say their names.)

I’m finally leaving Chicago and following Bovino to Charlotte on Thursday. If you’re in the area and have any leads on finding CBP/ICE/DHS, dm me for my number.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

Cannot believe it’s 10 years after 2015, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested (twice?), let off the hook by a Trump I cabinet secretary, died in jail, Merrick Garland had access to all these docs and emails and… IT’S TAKEN TEN YEARS TO COME OUT. We have a crisis of elite accountability.

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NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

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lol when they mean “destroying all of American biomedical research and cancer cures by corrupting NIH” they say ”Transformation at NIH”

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

“I don’t view something… as a win, when it was already a law” “no RIFs until the end of January… I find that to be such a low bar.” @tyk314.net, speaking as a private citizen

I make my statement in my personal capacity at 4:30. It frightens me that health policy and health systems are not priorities when we told our leaders we need a fighting CR to keep the ACA afloat. #hspr #hpsr #hpss #shutdown