"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."

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The folks at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social bring you this week’s Whopper of the Week. It’s the 21st century but RFK Jr wants to take us back to the 19th. Yes. Really. Forget Pasteur. Forget Koch. Forget germ theory. We’re back to miasma and terrain theory. The dude is bonkers.

A great overview on what to expect from the CDC vaccine meeting tomorrow and Friday. Pay special attention to the playbook at the end — every single one of those tactics is likely to be used and is easily recognizable if you know what to look for. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...

Yes, you still need to get your flu vaccine. Now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

I will translate from NPRese Scientists are alarmed because the Trump admin has gutted the CDC and USDA at a time when this virus could jump to a threat to humans anyday now. 🩺🧪

As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

The regime is saying it’s woke for a man to be diagnosed with breast cancer. It’s not even a joke.

In this video I discuss some aspects of shingles and the benefits of the shingles vaccination

I’m experimenting with some short videos on infectious disease topics. Here’s one on measles — highlighting some aspects that I find most important to keep in mind. Taking requests for other topics or questions I can address.

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Most of us who are covid conscious understand that widespread masking is not returning. But masking in healthcare facilities should be an easy ask. Getting folks to mask when they’re sick should be an easy ask. Cleaning the air should be an easy ask. It’s time we adapt!

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Journalists always have a responsibility to critically evaluate scientific claims and—especially in the current landscape—"to communicate that uncertainty is the nature of science—it's baked in not as a weakness of science but as a strength of science,” says @rachelzamzow.bsky.social.

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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Fourteen years in ‬‪@theopennotebook.bsky.social‬ remains an invaluable resource, and a scrappy labor of love. I gladly donate as a member of TON’s board of directors & Page Turners Collective, a community of supporters who give monthly. Please give if you can www.theopennotebook.com/the-page-tur...

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.