If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

Everyone in public health, healthcare and biomedical research has been screaming this for months. It’s time for RFK Jr to go. Everyone, please, please get on the phone to your members of Congress. Call them every day. This man is that dangerous.

NEW: The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces insurers’ equal treatment of mental and physical health.

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This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...

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The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.

The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.

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Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.

Thanks @gregggonsalves.bsky.social - these conditions cover so many of us or our loved ones...and migraines, don't forget about migraines

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

Trump tried to bury this story on a Friday night, but it’s extremely important: He’s planning to take land on the border controlled by the Dept. of Interior and sign it over to Dept. of Defense so migrants “would have trespassed on a military installation,” resulting in harsher punishment.

Yes, this! Thank you for posting @scott-delaney.bsky.social

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What Jeannie says. Just do what Jeannie says. I always do. If you want a reason, then science writers' job is to figure out what's BS and what's real science before they write the story.

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There’s a new Health Alert Network (HAN) notification out for Dengue virus, which is most commonly spread through the bites of infected mosquitos of the Aedes species in warmer climates, including the southern US and Puerto Rico. www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han...

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Yeah make America great again. What a fucking joke. It took close to a century to build up biomedical research in this country, which made it the envy of the world. And it's been destroyed in an instant. #Trump #Musk #Vance #Vought are modern day Visigoths. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Sorry fellas. Not fringe theories. False information and pseudoscience call it what it is.

The Trump administration is dismantling essential government agencies by offering $25K buyouts to HHS employees. This reckless strategy undermines public health infrastructure and expertise, leaving critical agencies understaffed and putting millions of lives at risk.

Hey everyone, call your Senators! Dave Weldon is an anti-vax extremist who can do a LOT of damage to public health as CDC Director.

"Only fools or kremlin tools" is a nice little rhyme that benefits from being the truth.

Yes, please, what @gregggonsalves.bsky.social said @drjudystone.bsky.social is a colleague and top-notch reporter. Call your senators to make the case against Dave #Weldon for #CDC Director.

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Marine Pfc Harold Gonsalves was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism 80 years ago next month. He received this award posthumously. He died in Okinawa when he threw himself on a grenade to save fellow Marines. #WeRememberThem + #HistorySky. www.military.com/history/meda...

@angierasmussen.bsky.social points out who is to blame heree. Mathew Memoli is the MAGA scientist driving this. He’s been at the NIH for years, knows the place & just how to destroy it. He should be a pariah for the rest of his life once this is over. He’s the executioner of American science.

🧵Missouri Congressman Mark Alford (R) sent staffers to harass MO State Representative David Tyson Smith’s Legislative Assistant. Alford is big mad that he’s being held accountable and doesn’t want his constituents calling him anymore. You know what to do. *See next post* #MoLeg

This is such awful news for what's always a terrific meeting. I hope they find new sponsors.

I'm with you @piperformissouri.bsky.social ... So what will it take to get a Democrat from Congress here for a town hall?

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.

It's genuinely hard to believe PubMed is still down. It's virtually impossible for me to do half of my job without it. Yes, there are alternatives... but nothing quite like it, and alternatives take time to learn to use. The cognitive load of re-learning is not minor in terms of productivity.

Digitally burning a library indeed. I don’t even want to think about the damage that could possibly be done to PubMed in the meantime. What will be left when (if) it comes back online???? Guess I'll search "vaccines" to find out...

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

Health and science journalists depend on PubMed, too...

Every word of this.

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Cancer touches us all. I'm so worried that a friend - whose cancer is not responding to standard treatment - won't even get a chance to join a clinical trial.

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BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals. CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of

Imagine if university presidents instead of cowering, called up their faculty too speak in a round-the-clock marathon across the nation about how their research serves every American who has ever faced illness and disease.

Or microbes that thrive in extreme environments, like Yellowstone’s hot springs Hint: Ever had a DNA test? ⬇️

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

Keep fighting!

I love Midwesterners - Probly cause am one. We make sense and sense of things ⬇️⬇️⬇️