Someone will have to share the whole thing, but it seems Makary and Bhattacharya aren’t the ones running things. They are just helpless passengers, along for the ride, and RFK has the steering wheel. Enjoy yourself gentlemen.

Check out @gorskon.bsky.social latest. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/09/24/t...

Love this graphic @drrabbithole.bsky.social and appreciate so many standing with us

How to create a great environment for an academic scam: Require grad students to publish papers in selected “indexed”journals to graduate. Like Iraq does. Surprise factor that someone took advantage of those grad students with fake publishing opportunities: exactly ZERO. 0️⃣

He's vile. Mark Blaxill fanned the flames of the 2017 measles outbreak in Minnesota: www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...

Associate Professor @medlawdan.bsky.social, a health law expert, is quoted in this @nytimes.com article about the FDA's approval of a drug for autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Trump team backs an unproven drug for autism — but does it work? www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...has not been tested for safety or effectiveness in a large trial." Trump's autism narrative autism is stigmatizing and "... a distraction, a waste of time and resource and effort."

🦆🚨 Quack alert: Mark Blaxill, major anti-vax author who blames his child's autism on vaccines, is now occupying prime space in CDC’s Immediate Office of the Director 😫 For perspective, pediatrician, vaccine scientist and parent of an autistic child Dr. Peter Hotez writes about his own experience

Anyway, here's the official press release from HHS. Again, this is the *only* study they link to in the main release (they have more in the fact sheet). www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

Think of the waste this involves

Plug for @briandeer.com's book if you haven't read it.

✓ No basis in fact.

“In 17 states, more than 5% of kindergartners were excused from a vaccine that is generally required.”

The majority of Americans support vaccines, but misinformation is obscuring evidence of vaccine safety and efficacy. @mtosterholm.bsky.social talks about his work to uplift science-backed research and offers a readout on the most recent ACIP meeting. podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/950-michael-....

It’s like watching a scene from Dumb and Dumber. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Sinclair Makes Itself Visible www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/s...

Makary pushing quack cures based on “incredible stories.”

Human research is based on trust; we have an obligation to foster/protect that trust. People participate in research to add to knowledge & benefit future patients. In return research participants have a right to expect researchers will be held accountable for their actions. Respect for persons, etc.

Honestly, no joke, #RFKJr & #Trump are excruciatingly humiliating to watch… and that’s coming from a Mexican who knows her country is crumbling piece by piece. American Psychiatric Association @apapsychiatric.bsky.social www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...

Did you ask Nazi-Homan and his SA-ICE to look into PubPeer? He might if you offer him $50k.

We are now up to 14 journals! New journals: BMC Anesthesiology BMC Genomics BMC Public Health (30,000+ articles!) Archives are now up to >600K peer review documents for >85K articles. All are available to download on Zenodo! reeserichardson.blog/datasets

A growing contingent of doctors say they are wary of federal health guidance under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe.

Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000) and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data 1/

Dr. Kesselheim @akesselheim.bsky.social also noted that the study cited by the F.D.A. showed only small improvements in autism symptoms among people with certain folate levels in their spinal fluid.

Money quote: “I wasn’t trying to run it [up] the flagpole and then be told I was an idiot.” [too late] www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/a... via @lauren-schneider.com

Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...

Good for Professor Bakken at West Point. Apparently their faculty restrictions now even include a ban on "expressing opinions" (how does that even work when teaching? We ask our students to express opinions!!!) apnews.com/article/west...

Spinal-Tap-performing, you say

I will be heading up to Philadelphia to present at the Navigating the Past Conference on the 250th Anniversary of the US Navy and US Marine Corps. Registration for Day 1: www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating... Registration for Day 2 on Battleship New Jersey: ecom.roller.app/battleshipne...

We’re joined by Arthur Caplan to expose the absurdity and deadly consequences of Trump's lie about autism and general attack on public health. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

We talk a lot about the Swedish study where the effects of acetaminophen on neurodevelopmental outcomes disappeared after sibling control. This paper from Japan with over 200,000 subjects showed the same thing. Small harmful effect that disappeared (actually sl. protective) with sibling controls.

This is awesome. 100% agree.

Andrew Wakefield, whose retracted study triggered the vaccines cause autism movement, takes a victory lap after Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday. More on the escalation of anti-vaccine rhetoric to the Oval Office: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I hope this catches on. 22 CDC websites are down. All are LGBTQ/DEI related. We are not free. When science is silenced, we all pay the price. Science has been censored in the past. Like before, it will not end well. 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

“Because of its safety profile & absence of teratogenic effects, acetaminophen is considered the medication of choice for fever & pain relief during pregnancy…we cannot ascribe any causal relationship between acetaminophen & autism, which remains the preferred drug for fever and pain in pregnancy.”

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

Collection of quotes from & about this strange event: "At times, I had to remind myself that, no, this was not a Saturday Night Live skit." garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

Just a reminder of what has overtaken asthma as the leading chronic illness in children, that our federal government actively denies and wants kids completely unprotected against: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-i...

I just spotted this lively September 2024 Inventor's Digest article about my infamous father & my efforts that exposed him as a con man & a dangerous quack. share.google/RYecozMZnoNw... Lifetime gratitude to my wife and to the medical professionals & journalists who made it happen! medfraud.info

One of the worst people in the entire administration, and that's saying something.

In 1990, the Smith family went on a buying spree that eventually made it one of the largest station owners in the country, through the purchases of stations and of companies that owned groups of stations. I remember the debate about local station independence. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclai...

Terrific debunking of the autism announcement by the (only apparently) tireless @ericmgarcia.bsky.social.

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...

The Library of Congress has three buildings on Capitol Hill but that’s STILL not enough space to store all of the collection items in the world’s largest library. Here's a look at one of the off-site Library storage facilities in Fort Meade, Maryland.

I appreciate that this NYT chat features an autistic journalist and author — and gives him the room for full-throated responses! And of course @ericmgarcia.bsky.social crushed it. gift link

When your regime consolidation is going great.

The Trump administration is adding warnings to #Tylenol over #autism concerns and approving another drug to treat the developmental disorder, even while acknowledging that studies on both are inconclusive. #disabilities

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...