We had an amazing time last night with @michaelemann.bsky.social and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social as they discussed their new book #ScienceUnderSiege! One poignant quote: “Anti-science is a lethal force.” Standing up for science saves lives! ✊

Avian flu. Abstract says it all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It’s not only vaccines: CDC has long been a thorn in industry’s side. Think of all the research on workplace safety (NIOSH), like coal dust, child labor, ventilation, carcinogens in the workplace, masking, fall prevention, countless issues. So now CDC is out of the way -

Monarez to CDC staff after shooting : "…the dangers of misinfo and its promulgation has now led to deadly consequences. I will work to restore trust in public health to those who have lost it- through science, evidence, and clarity of purpose. I will need your help." abcnews.go.com/US/suspected...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

Wow! Terrifyingly similar approaches to gaslighting public to the detriment of health and science

Outside Dupont north metro

ANCHORAGE…

Energy? "Energy"? Are you fucking kidding me?

I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," Mike Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, told The Associated Press in an interview. www.commondreams.org/news/rfk-jr-...

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

RFKJr’s and MAHA’s vision of the future of health care: “It’s really kind of like watching a car accident in slow motion,” said Ted Epperly, a physician and the CEO of Full Circle Health undark.org/2025/08/04/i...

Mr. Kennedy…claimed incorrectly that mRNA vaccines do not protect against respiratory illnesses like Covid and the flu, that they drive viruses to evolve and that a single mutation in a virus renders the vaccine ineffective. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

“Virus was detected in the air in milking parlors and from exhaled breath of cows. Infectious H5N1 virus was detected in the air and water streams; sequence analysis revealed viral variants on a farm in these locations.”

It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇 Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.

You can hear the pain and absolute disgust in his voice . It's very powerful.🥺

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

See vaccine recommendations before they are deleted www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

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Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America in fascism is in full bloom.

Please kill me.

I wrote a new thing about Bobby Kennedy's crusade against vaccines in the context of H5N1. He trashed Moderna, and if there's a pandemic, he'll cash in on that decision. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/great-week...

My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

No other developed nation in the world would tolerate the monstrosity that is the GOP's Murder-Suicide Pact with America. It's time to face the fact that virtually every other leading democracy on the planet serves their people better than we do here. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-big-b...

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

Trump‘s EO on gain-of-function work underscores how differently this administration treats the risk of a dangerous virus in a lab vs. say on a dairy farm. “In this administration’s outlook, diseases come from labs, not nature, so they aren’t doing anything about it“, says @ggronvall.bsky.social 🧪

FYI: I am hearing that it would be a very good idea to log into research.gov and download copies of things like award letters if you have active NSF grants. I also recommend grabbing PDFs/screenshots of public abstracts for NSF awards in case that database goes away.

shoutout to every credulous pundit who said that this piece was hysterical

BREAKING 📰 The ACLU-NJ and the Rutgers Immigrant Community Assistance Project (RICAP) have filed a suit on behalf of 6 Rutgers students impacted by ICE terminating their immigration records. We thank our RU lawyers from RICAP for taking part in this important suit. www.aclu-nj.org/en/press-rel...

"Silenced Science Stories [is] a visual storytelling project dedicated to featuring the US scientists who have been laid off from government jobs or had their research grants halted by the Trump administration." 🧪⚛️🎢🪐🔭 #AcademicSky

“ Irving Kristol famously said that neoconservatives were liberals who’d been “mugged by reality.” Maybe soon we’ll need a similar word for the right wingers who can’t stand to live in the world they helped build.” Michelle Goldberrg- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

FFS

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

“Trump’s sane-washers have forfeited their credibility. There is no school of foreign policy realism, or trade mercantilism, that could explain Trump’s actions. If you want to forecast the world, study his psychology. While Trump is in charge, stay short on America.”