A thoughtful and balanced mission. Long-term resilience both ecological and human comes from careful stewardship and evidence-based choices, regardless of politics.

I doubt Macedo and Lee went and looked up the primary source for this. It's a Newt Gingrich podcast; Newt asked about a specific thing that was a conspiracy theory.

The Great Pandemic Rewrite minimized COVID, made it a lab leak, and attacked interventions. Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem. #CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

Does this pass the ‘smell test’ re ethics, colonialism and outright racism? I think not… www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

scienceaccountability.org/counterfactu... If you’re thinking it might be a good idea to get rid of vaccines try the vaccine schedule game. You get to be RFK for a day. Eliminate the vaccines of your choice and we’ll tell you how many people will get sick and die.

Turns out he was right after all.

1. Early in the Trump administration there were predictions of a brain drain from US universities. It's hard to tell how substantial the losses are at this point, but academics are leaving the US for more stable environments, @drewqjoseph.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/r...

It is deeply disturbing to see the head of the FDA shift from simply doing terrible, politically guided science to writing science fiction. #FDA 🧪

Don't worry folks, our FDA is in the hands of a serious, intelligent person! “[Lyme disease] was not the only thing that showed up nearby. They found half-rat, half-deer carcasses on…Montauk…What the hell is going on there? ..bunch of mad scientists doing things.” open.substack.com/pub/importan...

Tonight, I’m published in MSNBC—sorry, MS Now. In this piece, I explain how the right-wing war on COVID mitigation measures and politicization of science led us to this moment. www.ms.now/opinion/fda-...

youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.

Reminder: If you want advice on vaccines, ask a physician, not your favorite action movie actor! Liam Neeson fact-checked by @walkerbragman.bsky.social & Olivia Riggio from @accountabilityji.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/importan...

The Icestapo.

Here is a strong-worded takedown video on many lab leak conspiracy peddlers. I worked with @profdaveexplains.bsky.social on this and it will hit the lableak believers like a meteor. Please enjoy "scicomm unfiltered": youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U?...

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Meanwhile, measles cases are at their highest level in 33 years. And the worst effects of the MAHA anti-vaccine agenda are yet to come.

How disappointing. And infuriating.

"The A-lister has been a Goodwill Ambassador for @UNICEF since 2011, assisting with global vaccine efforts. In 2022, Neeson said vaccines were “a remarkable human success story” & recorded a video thanking scientists involved in development of mRNA COVID vaccines." open.substack.com/pub/importan...

www.newsweek.com/articles-of-... Good. At this point what we need is not being told this won’t work. What we need is some organized wat to pound on our representatives, Democrats and GOP alike, so they know their jobs are on the line if they don’t support impeachment of RFK JR.

then why aren’t you supporting your members who are trying to impeach him

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

It would be funny if it weren’t devastatingly embarrassing that the government has zero understanding of U.S. history.

Absolutely. Will they acknowledge it when there are environmental catastrophes or another pandemic or food poisoning on a large scale? I think not. We have to carry the torch.

We need a stronger response from the media instead of downplaying & bothsiding the dismantling of American public health. The current ACIP is not engaging in “scrutiny” or a “rethink” - they’re playing politics w/ people’s lives www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c...

Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

Dismantling a long standing public health rule, without any scientific rationale. Playing with people’s lives for pure vindictive politics. A new low for the USA. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Reposting this in honor of the ACIP show trial today. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

Høeg has no real background in infectious disease, drug research and development, or government regulation. Prior to the pandemic, she was doing sports medicine. We dug up her old blog, which is all about her personal life, workouts, runs, and interest in—you guessed it—sports medicine.

NEW: The FDA’s new top drug regulator is “utterly unqualified” say experts. Tracy Beth Høeg is a physical medicine doctor who became a right-wing star for her opposition to COVID-19 mitigation measures and questioning of the mRNA vaccines. More here: www.importantcontext.news/p/utterly-un...

Ukrainians need help. Donate. Pressure politicans. Help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq2R...

RAC.IST /ˈrāsəst “A person who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

RFK and the rest of the freaks & losers running the government can replace everyone and fill the FDA (& CDC, EPA etc etc) with as many extremist hacks and grifters as they want but those people cannot actually do science, regulation, and governing, and the institutions will not serve any public good

Exactly this. The staff at these institutions have taken decades to assemble and their collective knowledge and understanding will take almost as long to reconstitute. DOGE, RFK Jr, and the Trump regime are doing generational damage to the Crown Jewels of American science and science policy.

Another niche-but-damaging conspiracy debunked by the great @flodebarre.bsky.social! This and other conspiracies held Chinese scientists to higher levels of suspicion than western colleagues, were in the end baseless & aimed at govt workers who were not allowed to respond.

If you want more details, I wrote up the story as a blog post here ⬇️ (I am trying out a new format to preserve some of the work behind my threads) ▫️9/9

A June 2020 date instead of Jan collapses the entire cover-up narrative. This shows how one unverified detail, like a wrong date, can turn mundane events into viral conspiracy fuel. "Timeline matters a lot here", had written Jesse Bloom. Will he correct this tweets and Github? ▫️8/9 archive.ph/E5C8M

Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

“Sam Beyda, reportedly been linked to DOGE, is now deputy chief of staff for the CDC. Beyda, who graduated Columbia in 2023, previously worked at a cannabinoid company, the parent organization of which is headed by his father-in-law” www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Sorry, this is of course, Keith haring . www.haring.com

This picture says it all. Actual science throughout the federal government has been subsumed by evidence invented to serve policy and personal advancement.

They’ve promoted Martin Kulldorff. Now, he’s HHS chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).

Your yearly reminder that this Dec 1st date for the beginning of the pandemic is not correct: the case's symptom onset date was later corrected. The case is well known, and there's basically no debate about this, even with hard-core leakers who have studied the data. 🖼️: 2021 WHO report, page 47

Justice for blogger after 5 yrs of 'relentless' efforts by HHS Sec. Kennedy to silence him. “I wrote a 5 sentence blog in 2020, & he claimed I wrote it to derail his presidential campaign.. even though he didn’t declare until 3 yrs later,” Vickrey said. www.importantcontext.news/p/robert-ken...