@gorskon.bsky.social on the whole sordid saga of RFK Jr., FDA's sports medicine doc Tracy Beth Hoeg, Bandim Health Project at the University of Southern Denmark, hepatitis and babies in Guinea Bissau. sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...

There was a vogue for climate debates along these same lines a decade or so back. And for evolution/creationism before that. With very few exceptions, these formats are stacked against the mainstream position. I recommend not doing them (and yes, I speak from experience).

Paywalled but... a bit of good news. We'll have to watch what happens next.

I do want to clarify that, while there is absolutely no question that this change is catastrophic, immunization requirements are set by states and AHIP has previously committed to covering vaccines recommended until the current ACIP recommendations through the end of 2026.

When Denmark finds itself aligned with the administration that wants to take over Greenland, maybe it should rethink it's vaccine policy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

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I cannot fathom what would possess a person to want to leave their child vulnerable to rotavirus or varicella if they could avoid it. Even if the chance of mortality from both of those is low, it is such a terrible experience for everyone involved.

The statistical concerns with the Bandim Health Project's work are very much real, but beyond that, that their claims about the harms of certain vaccines (e.g., DTP, the whole-cell pertussis vaccines) are not reproducible when others look: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Preprint now, submit to journal in January

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h... Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).

Apropos... www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/h...

This about sums it up, folks. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

I'm Danish-American and I think Denmark is a model country of a great welfare state. When it comes to healthcare, however -even if universal - it is very far from perfect. As for vaccines, there are many deficiencies in Denmark with the US having significantly better (current..) recommendations.

On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient. Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.

"The group “systematically selected and highlighted results that supported their theories, while downplaying the fact that they did not confirm the primary hypothesis the trials were actually designed to test,” said Henrik Stovring, PhD, a professor of biomedicine at Denmark’s Aarhus University" 👇👇👇

Like many others, I’ve been trying to figure out how the team that RFK Jr. just funded to do a randomized, controlled trial of HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau is going to get ethics approval. In this thread, I share what I think they will do to alleviate ethical concerns. bsky.app/profile/eliz...

I thought it would be worthwhile to substantiate @katherinejwu.com 's reporting on "Podcast Jay". I went looking on the internet for all the speaking engagements or shows he's been on since getting confirmed back in April. So far I've found the NIH Director in 66 separate appearances. 🧵

Finally visited the site of the Nuremberg trial today. Lots of thoughts and feelings but mostly a potent and poignant reminder of the international order the US and allies tried to create after the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War and that is increasingly being abandoned by the US.

This is an important article by @katherinejwu.com on the destruction of infectious disease research - and the man behind it. As someone in the ID field reliant on US federal funding for our research, know that once the next pandemic happens, we won't be around. www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

There is rarely everything normal with people so deeply invested in debunked lab theories. Lyme disease existed for thousands of years before labs. 🤣 HIV goes back to 1900s Kinshasa, Congo; many decades before the false 'polio vaccine' HIV origin conspiracy myth 🫠 Guess time travel on the table?

STAT: Former NIH leader Jeanne Marrazzo sues administration over termination 🔥 @drjeannem.bsky.social bit.ly/4al9Jfg @statnews.com by @aniloza.bsky.social

Naturally aspirated cancer's got nothing to fear 🏎️.

We gave Jay Bhattacharya an opportunity to clarify his vaccine stance: does he REALLY believe that the vaccine is worse than the disease? Instead, he launched into a defense of MAHA as the future of scientific inquiry, and never really gave us a straight answer... @repauchincloss.bsky.social

Here's my thread on this preprint/project, in case you'd prefer a primer prior to digging into the whole thing! bsky.app/profile/josh...

The sequel to this story should be about those in civic institutions-partners at law firms, journalists & editors, university presidents & others-who simply have just gone along. The ease with which these figures chose collaboration is stunning & they should be held accountable for their actions.

The impacts of the Trump Administration's "let them eat cake" foreign policy outlined in grim detail www.propublica.org/article/usai...

I have always dreamed of Neeson talking about my scientific work and f*** yeah, it happened!!!! Maybe not the way I intended it to be, but still 🙃😑 And I'm saying that as someone who's scientific work has also been heavily featured on the (web)pages of none other than the White House 💪

Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me? rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...

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-...

I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others. Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP. Please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

My father died from PSP. I know how heart breaking this diagnosis is and how hard it is on families. Please consider donating to support a good man and his family.

I rarely ask for things, but I will make an exception for my colleague and friend, Augustine Goba, who dedicated his life to saving others. Augustine was Director of the hemorrhagic fever lab in Kenema, Salone, and is struggling with PSP. Please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/augustine-...

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?...

Proud to be part of @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & grateful to my amazing, courageous colleagues for speaking up on behalf of vaccines and public health. Trump/MAHA efforts to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule endangers our families & our health. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/save-ameri...

As wastewater has become a core part of infectious disease surveillance worldwide, new guidance from WHO, GLOWACON, ASTHO, and others has laid key foundations for public health. But in practice, it’s not always obvious how to apply these recommendations or choose among available tools.

A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

This op-ed by @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social is profoundly worrying. Identity-driven opposition to vaccines that's fueled by misinformation & political polarization is impeding the capacity of doctors to effectively care for their patients. www.statnews.com/2025/12/10/a...

The way the word “expert” has been weaponized is frightening. You want an expert flying your plane — and you should want one taking care of your health, too

The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country. You want to read this series. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Everybody who read my book will have heard about some of the background story from Dr. Yan. Now the NYT did a longer dive that characterizes her as somewhat between a victim of Guo Wengui's propaganda operation and trapped in a cult. I can add a few more notes on this maybe... 1/

Delaying the birth dose of the hep B vaccine was just the beginning. Trump is ordering RFK Jr to overhaul the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s a preview of the dishonest, Denmark-infused MAHA strategy to harm as many kids as possible. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-vaccin...

Amazing novel mpox recombination between epidemic clade 1 and 2 in returning traveller detected in UK: virological.org/t/inter-clad...

It’s nuts, and Yan Li-Meng is broken, but she bears responsibility for the path she chose to venture down.