It seems like there should be an amendment or something that protects your right to free speech, including speech critical of government officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship. But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach. To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk. New post from me: 1/

i am never, ever, ever going to stop posting that Truemed is Calley Means's company and Calley Means is the MAHA power broker that introduced RFK Jr. to Trump. some 👏 conspiracies 👏 are 👏 real 👏

Macedo and Lee misrepresent what happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise. Congratulations, I guess. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

All ten parts of our series attempting to put our arms around the ramifications of various cuts and disruptions to the scientific enterprise this year are live, and you can read them here: www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Many thanks to cofounder @asinclair.bsky.social & the entire SCIMaP team (scienceimpacts.org) for collaborative work to confront federal cuts to science and medical research; together, our effort was recognized as a 2025 Public Health Hero in @thenation.com. a 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is a reminder of how much it matters that pediatricians, public health specialists, scientists and members of the public who care about vaccines and science based recommendations continue to speak up. Many voices break through. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

As a reminder, this was all propaganda. Successful propaganda.

This is a real disaster in the making. Babies are going to die. Full-stop. "Why Denmark’s vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States." www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d... via @statnews.com

"...the hollowing out of NHGRI’s communication & education programs comes as nuanced and fact-based conversations about the science, history, and ethics of genomics are more important than ever." From @mmolteni.bsky.social and @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

"The damages extend beyond the immediate year. Science cannot be turned on and off and on again; it requires continuity for experiments, personnel, and, in some cases, clinical trial participants — more than 74,000 of whom have been impacted by post-award terminations."

Bhattacharya hedging on vaccines? If only there were some way to know this would happen before he was appointed NIH Director...

INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration. She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.

"Memoli ... knows just enough about the agency—and, in particular, its approach to infectious disease—to help destroy it."

SCOOP Harvey Risch is a Yale epidemiologist who has speculated about links between "turbo cancer" and COVID vaccines, while working for a company whose customers use ivermectin as a cancer treatment Trump just appointed him to oversee the US national cancer program www.wired.com/story/risch-...

Sharing a birthday with this famous centenarian is pretty cool 😎 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

Just in time for the holidays, today's HHS dump of terminated grants lists a bunch of child welfare projects funded by the Administration for Children and Families' Children's Bureau. Programs across KS, KY, MN, NY, OR, CA, MD, DC, and IA. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

If you are more of an audio person, @mmolteni.bsky.social & I joined our colleagues on The Readout Loud to talk about our takeaways from contributing to American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/a...

Bhattacharya inexplicably cites a 2022 list of recommended terminology for Stanford's IT department to avoid vague/offensive language to justify his campaign of censorship as NIH Director (of which a judge said he'd "never seen gov't racial discrimination like this") thespectator.com/topic/cured-...

Exactly one year ago, my daughter was in the hospital battling RSV. The thought that more families might go through that when an incredibly effective and safe medication exists is mind-blowing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rather than hosting administration leads to share talking points within society events and major conferences (and then leave without Q&A), event organizers should be willing to offer a platform for scientists to talk frankly about ongoing attacks on science.

We need to be having these conversations openly and frequently. Here's a template 👇

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Recently, I've been asked whether every baby actually needs HBV vaccination, largely with the implication that doing this is "one size fits all," and that's not a good approach. Implicit in this assumption is the idea that every individual's physiology is so unique that it demands unique care.

It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.

This is revealing, but not in the way he thinks. Bhattacharya did and does hold fringe views in the scientific community. He got to where he is not by persuading scientists, but by benefiting from rightwing billionaires and their media platforms—Musk bought Twitter and gave him a blue check. 1/

Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.

The babies who will become infected as a result of this vote — and some will die prematurely of liver disease — will overwhelmingly be those born to marginalized, underserved families. This is a profound failure of evidence-based public health and a big step backwards. 2/2

The Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination and Voices for Vaccines, programs of The Task Force for Global Health, express profound concern regarding the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)’s vote to delay hepatitis B birth dose vaccination. www.globalhep.org/news-blogs/c...

!!! The Post obtained hot mic comments by the chair of RFK Jr.'s CDC vaccine committee. "We feel like a little bit like puppets on a string as opposed to really being an independent advisory panel" wapo.st/4atob4M

In voting to eliminate the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ACIP ignored decades of evidence confirming its strong safety profile and effectiveness. Its decision will result in more hepatitis B infections and more people with chronic liver disease.

1/ Aaron Siri is presenting to ACIP right now. He's not a vaccine scientist. He's a plaintiff's attorney whose firm profits from vaccine-injury litigation, RFK Jr.'s personal lawyer, and someone who helped vet HHS leadership. He's now advising the committee that sets U.S. vaccine policy.

CDC's @drdebhoury.bsky.social calls on Congress to act. "It is a purposeful reshaping of CDC away from evidence-based practice & toward ideology-driven governance...I did not resign to make a symbolic point. I resigned because staying silent would have made me complicit." time.com/7338714/dr-d...

The ACIP recommendation to end the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine puts millions of American children at greater risk of liver damage, cancer and early death.

A dystopian reality: unqualified decision makers with disregard for basic concepts in epidemiology, clinical medicine, and the evidence-to-decision guidelines process on full display at ACIP - leaving American children to bear the harm. (A few ACIP members excluded) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

The ACIP Committee which has exactly 0 general pediatricians just voted 6-4 to recommend that we do lab draws on babies to determine if they need subsequent doses of Hepatitis B vaccine. There are multiple problems with this:

This vote has gotten less attention but could lead to children not getting the full protection of the entire series.

An ACIP member reports that they received 3 versions of the votes in past 72 hours, committee now on break because CDC presenter is having to deal with making sure slides align w current vote language, which seems not to be what she was last given. Once again, the committee has devolved into chaos.

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ACIP co-chair and rabid anti-vaxxer Robert Malone keeps silencing ACIP members Meissner and Hibbeln because they are DEMANDING evidence of the false claims being made by radical anti-vaxxer and climate scientist Nevinson and radical anti-vaxxer and Harvard MBA Blaxill.

We now have a presentation from Cynthia Nevison, a CDC contractor. Nevison has long been a proponent of the claim that vaccines cause autism and is also a climate researcher. Nevison begins by claiming that more targeted measures have had the biggest effect in bringing down HBV incidence.

Alright, pals: ACIP meeting is beginning. Here is the link to the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/LpthhPB... The updated agenda: www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa... And the prebunk from TEC/Your Local Epidemiologist: open.substack.com/pub/yourloca... Anticipated votes: www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...

Time for FDA to show its work re: COVID vaccine death allegations. That ‘the investigation is still ongoing’ doesn’t pass the smell test, especially given how certain they claim to be re: causation for the 10 deaths discussed in the Prasad email. endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...

The grievance blog masquerading as a "journal" founded by Trump HHS appointees (The "Journal" of the "Academy" of Public Health) is now publishing lengthy screeds about how HHS secretary RFK Jr is being treated unfairly by the BMJ and calling it a literature synthesis...

CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project has released a major evidence review: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion is unmistakable. There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose. Full report: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Martin Kulldorff, the chair of ACIP, was just appointed chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). Kirk Milhoan is the new chair of ACIP.

I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.

Recharging will be key to confront what's to come... the days and months ahead will be marked by a elevation of Covid grievances into policies that could transform the health and regulatory landscape. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Show us the evidence. 🎁 wapo.st/49GmNLP

Happy Thanksgiving! Today, I’m grateful to all the scientists, public health professionals, health care workers, and others who work so tirelessly and brilliantly to advance our scientific understanding and to save lives. Here is just one beautiful example of helping vulnerable kids flourish.