And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

I also want to point out that this is a very effective rhetorical tactic—adding some anodyne comments (whole foods are preferable in general to “ultraprocessed” foods as nutrition for kids) to go along with the objectionable ones. It’s meant to get people to lower their guard and be credulous.

It’s going to be so awesome being paid 9 times the cost of medications instead of having to pay for them

I'm not in any way trying to diminish this development—it's a very good thing!—but we should not be in a position where philanthropy is required to ensure people can access lifesaving medication.

I have this concern as well. Honestly at this point I’m defaulting to not trusting prescribing information issued after 2024 until I can independently verify it.

Absolutely wild how many people today have told me that autism has nothing to do with genetics. It’s fine to not know everything about a subject, but if you’re going to make claims, at least do a little bit of learning about it first.

I'm having this surreal realization that standing up for evidence and data has become a politically polarizing position, and I don't know what to do about that.

I can’t imagine being a layperson and trying to navigate the current information ecosystem with respect to science and medicine. It’s actually terrifying.

I don't know whether this has been discussed by anyone yet, but the meta-analysis that claims to find a relationship between acetaminophen and autism: ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Here's how it reported the results for the largest study. This study carries massive weight...

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

This is from @bmj.com from 24 years ago, for goodness sake (it was countering Wakefield’s anti-vaxx nonsense) RFK Jr, Trump and the MDs at the press conference today who are their anti-vaxx lackeys—Drs Oz, Bhattacharya, & Makary—are playing such a dangerous game 😢

Art Caplan does not mince his words and I’m here for it.

Seconded. RFK and Trump’s history of substance use is immaterial to his destruction of the public health of Americans through institutional sabotage and prolific firehosing of falsehoods. Neither of them are who they are because of the substances they’ve taken.

MAHA does this a lot -- saying they will focus on healthy foods and chronic illness, as though those aren't mainstays of the entire field of public health

One thing that really annoys me about our current HHS (aside from everything) is that, as part of their efforts to retain credibility, they regularly regurgitate a piece of common-sense medical knowledge as something novel, e.g., "acetaminophen should be used at the lowest possible dose and...

Reminder: personally attacking a journalist for criticizing the government is not normal agency conduct. It's a pretty clear attempt to intimidate the journalist, and from those that complained about government censorship, like Secretary Kennedy did, the hypocrisy is jarring.

It is frustrating that protection of the newborn was not considered in the ACIP analysis. Though given that the effects seem to be similar between newborns and over 65, we might make an argument that any recommendation applying to >65 should also apply to pregnancy. 8/

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

"Remarkable" is a very charitable term to use from Professor Bergstrom, but... yeah.

Brilliant, baller move by Dr. Bagdasarian.

Wanna know how to tell whoever is running the CDC has no clue what they're talking about? It's "correlate of protection," not "correlative protection." h/t @malar0ne.bsky.social In another era, this would be extremely embarrassing.

Saying they disgraced themselves is such an understatement. They effectively trashed whatever reputation they have among serious scientific colleagues. Beyond the absurdity of what they were saying, they explicitly lied about what multiple studies found.

#medsky #immunosky #episky #pedsky #idsky My colleagues and I have completed our review of the obscenity that was this ACIP meeting. You can download it here (it's free after you answer the questions) www.evicollective.org/tec-briefs

A kooky bunch of anti-vaxxers/Great Barrington Declaration folks—incompetence was entirely expected 😢

The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)

Well. If yesterday's ACIP deliberations were a farce, today's were... whatever is above that. Just an astonishing number of boldfaced lies and misrepresentations in such compressed windows. My colleagues and I are about to prove Brandolini's law yet again.

They just voted 12-0 to agree with question number 4. Which backs shared decision making. Not clear on whether a prescription will be required. That's question 2 and out of ACIP purview.

Listening to Malone is absolutely WILD "I worked in this field so I know quite a bit about correlates of protection and you're lying if you claim we have one for SARS-CoV-2" You would think as someone who worked in this field, he would understand the difference between CoP and absolute correlates.

God they're really speedrunning through every single canard possible with mRNA vaccines

And hats off to Dr. Fryhofer for her continuing advocacy for maternal immunization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHN...

Vaccines don't cause birth defects and that includes COVID vaccines. And thanks to Carol Hayes of American College of Nurse Midwives for speaking up at the ACIP meeting vikilovesfacs.bsky.social feel free to add more - #IDSky + #MedSky. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/no-...

ACIP member Levi felt the need to remind us that he’s a professor at MIT.

I'm a bit behind on the live feed for ACIP, but I want to buy Jason Goldman a coffee (IYKYK)

Today, #ACIP will be voting on #CovidVaccination. I will be examining a PhD viva at the time and won't be able to follow live. So, to anticipate some of the claims that may be made on COVID vaccination in #pregnancy... 🧵 www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/defaul...

Jason Goldman is absolutely an MVP liaison member.

it is *infuriating* to listen to RFK Jr. slander CDC workers — including his comments that they kill children — when this is the way his stacked, handpicked panel handles the actual responsibility of children’s health

We are witnessing a full blown war on science, public health & truth itself. Let me be clear: Vaccines have prevented more than 1.1 million deaths, 500 million cases of illness & 32 million hospitalizations. That's a lot of moms and dads who don't have to bury their children.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.

we need parents everywhere to be calling their reps in congress to protect vaccines + remove RFK Jr they are literally letting random internet cranks dictate your children’s health care

@sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social just linked me to an immunology presentation for tomorrow’s ACIP meeting and it’s literally fractally wrong. Worst birthday present ever.

congress needs to enforce FACA

It's been the standard of care to test pregnant people since before you were born. If I dig around a bit I could probably find the ACOG recommendations from the 1980s.

This literally isn't even within ACIP's purview

At one point Vicky Pebsworth asked what ramifications their votes had because she did not know what ACIP actually does.

These ACIP members literally don't even know what the current ACIP recommendations for the vaccines they are voting on are

Every time these "ACIP members" say anything within the domain of immunology I want to scream. I have yet to hear them correctly explain any aspect of the human immune system.

The non-expert ACIP members decide there is no problem in testing mothers for hepatitis B and that any lack of information can be fixed in the hospital. These people don't seem to have much knowledge of how birth or hospitals work in the U.S. or Hep B. Really, this is painful.