After all, mRNA vaccines were deemed useful by the same people that constantly maligned them and now run ACIP. "Just let it be someone else's decision, not ours". Their disinformation was either a vehicle to gain power, or a lie that, when in need of scientific evidence, didn't find any...

A recent Sounding Board article in @nejm.org by Makary & Prasad outlined their policy on/ against COVID-19 vaccines. Their policy violates a human's right to be protected from infection. Their distorted "science" needed a response and my response was published in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

An honor and a duty, to be selected as an Editorial Fellow covering biosecurity, for @thebulletin.org. thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-...

Virus, 1980. A film about a lethal virus, no vaccine available, and something that reminds us of the present times:

It was perhaps Jimmy Carter's most significant heritage: it was the Carter Center that was crucial in the path towards dracunculiasis elimination. An Alien-like parasitosis that few, in the developed world, knew or cared about (images are derived from its site) 1/n

Can synthetic mirror-bacteria induce an annihilation event? Why, and why now, are major scientists warning about the need to avoid (or abort) similar experiments? what has changed for them since 2010? I have written some notes on this here: 1/n georgiospappas6.substack.com/p/can-synthe...

History repeating? I wrote for @bulletinatomic.bsky.social how US future health under RFK Jr may be a 3rd major episode of science denialism, post Soviet Lysenko times and Thanbo Mbeki’s South African HIV-denial (obliged to @mattyfield.bsky.social ) : 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/11/lyse...

What to expect in global health after the US Election? Matt Field, for The @bulletinatomic.bsky.social asked experts of public health/ biosecurity/ biology/vaccines/ health law on their thoughts. My opinion focused on isolationism and science-scepticism: 1/n thebulletin.org/2024/11/what...