Trump called it “one of the biggest medical announcements that this office has ever made.” But experts questioned whether the moves will change the status quo much. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/w...

Time to turn the Tylenol temperature down. Social media’s wild claims of a “liberal” pregnant woman dying of overdose, mass hospitalizations and organ failures. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/turn-the-t...

Trump health follies: fake video on "historic new health care system," a post promoting hemp-derived CBD, his FDA banning a dye that hasn't been used for decades & FDA Commissioner double-talk on acetaminophen & autism. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Regulators in Europe have issued new statements backing the safety of Tylenol use in pregnancy, effectively repudiating claims from the Trump administration that the medicine can cause autism in children. www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

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-...

Who writes this stuff for him? “It’s too much liquid,” Trump said of pediatric vaccines. “Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number.” Please pronounce acetaminophen again for me! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump reveals lack of knowledge of what he’s talking about & his insensitivity to women who “can’t tough it out.” youtube.com/shorts/UDMHZ...

President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence. apnews.com/article/tyle...

Sign up for The Patient Revolution Town Hall on issues of trust in health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

“Members were unprepared, misunderstood or ignored key data and highlighted flawed or inconclusive research often trumpeted by vaccine critics.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Has the nation’s largest health care company exploited incentives in the federal insurance program for seniors? www.startribune.com/why-unitedhe...

How can anyone go to work at CDC any more? open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

“Taking steps where it has no impact.” apnews.com/article/fda-...

Must-see TV, before it, too, is banned. youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

Association ≠ causation. So don’t talk about “effect” if cause-and-effect hasn’t been proven. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/you-could-...

“Most governments are trying to fight vaccine hesitancy with science and investment, while the United States heads in the opposite direction.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

STAT News “pierced the hype” on one cancer test and on one cancer treatment. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/two-exampl...

A huge mistake in the making. kffhealthnews-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kffhealt...

“America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research — and 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

“It looks exactly like the report from Michelle Obama's task force in 2010…What's disappointing is that things that'd make a big difference aren't here…I want to see action. What are they going to do? They haven't said.” garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/marion-nes...

If you didn't see Marion Nestle analyze the MAHA children's health strategy report on PBS NewsHour last night, I urge you to watch at this link: open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

STAT News is tracking a running list of RFK, Jr.’s promises - on how many he’s delivered, how many incomplete, and unfulfilled. www.statnews.com/2025/09/10/r...

People who are really good at their job don’t need to pump up their own resumé. RFK Jr. did that today: “We have accomplished more already than any health secretary in history,” he said. And his boss does it all the time. www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/r...

We need to place Jess Steiers in bars all over America. www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/c...

See how a few “influencers” with many followers spread misinformation via social media on topics like ivermectin to treat cancer. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/social-med...

Martha Rosenberg’s Four Reasons Why Serena Williams’ Endorsements Are Insidious. open.substack.com/pub/marthace...

Hmm - has he told RFK Jr. this? “You have some vaccines that are so amazing,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, citing the polio vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed during his first term. thehill.com/policy/healt...

1. Will America be healthier? 2. Will we be prepared for next pandemic/major health threat? 3. Is this “Gold Standard Science” & transparency or just slogans? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

RFK Jr. said “Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They’re pressured to follow the money, not the science.” That’s B.S. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Jess Steier, DrPH, on "Work Worth Doing: A Letter from the Ruins of Public Health" - medium.com/@jsteier_292...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Meet, listen, learn - to build trust. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/maha-fans-...

These comments come from a parallel, bizzaro universe. “A crown jewel of the administration…one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health.” www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

“We’ve always been through periods of cataclysmic change and upset and disruption, and then we get through to the other side,” Dr. Megan Ranney said. “I don’t know how long it will take, but we will come through this.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

“Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people.” open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

In the wake of the Minneapolis shooting deaths of two schoolchildren, with 17 other kids injured, it’s worth remembering how the Trump Administration has gutted gun violence prevention funding. theweek.com/crime/trump-...

A collection of readings about the assault on the nation’s health. Depressing though it may be, it’s important to stop and reflect on the cumulative effect as the daily headlines fly by. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-to-wre...

RFK Jr. fired Dr. Susan Monarez after he pushed her to change vaccine policy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Absolute chaos at the CDC. Newly-appointed director is fired. Three top officials resigned. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The head of a new federal task force charged with reviewing the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has a long record of spreading false claims about the vaccines. open.substack.com/pub/newsguar...

STAT delivers a one-year report card on MAHA. An important read. www.statnews.com/2025/08/25/r...

Slamming the door on support for students from marginalized backgrounds in the biomedical sciences. www.statnews.com/2025/08/25/n...

Big Food industries get a lot of free, fawning news coverage about studies they funded. Big Egg & Big Peanut are latest examples. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

Why was this a front-page New York Times story? Unpublished findings, uncontrolled study, observational research. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

Trump fired the labor stats chief cuz he didn't like the numbers. RFK Jr. wants a paper retracted cuz he didn't like the study finding no link between aluminum in vaccines & disease. Is this his Gold Standard Science? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“If voters paid as much attention to the price of health insurance as they do to the cost of gas and eggs, maybe elected officials would respond with more action.”

How GLP-1 drug use is driving up health care costs. And how PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) - meant to control drug spending - often do the opposite. A few fragments of this crazy patchwork quilt health care system. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

In response to the Aug. 8 CDC shooting, Department of Health & Human Services employees, with >700 signatures, wrote to Congress, calling for HHS secretary RFK, Jr. to address these 3 things. www.savehhs.org/letter/hhs-s...