gift link. this will be challenged in court

Apparently based on a review by Tracy Beth Høeg and Martin Kulldorff. Still can't believe so many people in Sweden trusted the words of Kulldorff, Bhattacharya and others. And Tegnell joined them in celebrating the Great Barrington Declaration. Now we know where they stand, if that wasn't obvious.

Yup. It has been incredibly painful watching the MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/MAGA/anti-vaxx crew—RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Oz, Makary, Høeg, Kulldorff, Prasad—deliberately dismantle public health, drive the return of deadly yet vaccine-preventable child diseases, & rip apart pandemic preparedness

Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January. www.trumpactiontracker.info Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/

The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age. Sheer arrogance and cynicism.

Ironically or unsurprisingly? @galsh.bsky.social have you read Science under siege by Mann & Hotez?

Trump national security strategy says US should stop "hectoring" repressive nations in the Middle East about human rights then goes on to hector democratically elected European nations about their domestic policies. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...

I woke up this morning to see that many states across the country have decided to #REJECT the decision to scrap the #HBV vaccine birth dose by #ACIP. Here are some (alt-text included). But who will be left behind? 1/

När Ryssland gör det här kallar vi det hybridkrig. Det är vad Trump-administrationen har inlett mot Europa. De är inte våra allierade utan våra fiender. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Igen och igen och igen. Inte den enda mysintervjun som publicerats i svenska medier senaste månaderna. Skämmes!

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

#ACIP invites anti-vaccine lawyer Aaron Siri to present on the schedule, since apparently they could not find any vaccine experts to do that. Apparently they invited Drs. Offit and Hotez who refused, maybe because Malone called them "industry experts."

HHS appointed Dr. Martin Kulldorff as chief science officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) aspe.hhs.gov. A few thoughts: 1/n

Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

As autocratization proceeds in the U.S. and elsewhere, it's time for a stock-take. Where are we, where are we going? What works? What might work better? Nearly 6 months after we published the Anti-Autocracy Handbook sks.to/autocracy the SciBeh team is hosting its next big event .... 1/6

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...

Dismantling pandemic preparedness @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Oh, to be a fly on the wall. www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

"Jag tycker att svenska politiker – inte alla, men många – har lagt skuld på invandrare i många frågor. Jag tror att det skapar en känsla av ansvarsfrihet hos våldsamma nazistgrupper. De kan känna att de får tillåtelse att utöva sitt hat och angripa oss." www.dn.se/sverige/moha...

Det här är verkligen skrämmande. Svensk gränspolis trakasserar, låser in och hotar en EU-medborgare med permanent uppehållstillstånd på grund av hans klimataktivism. Vi ser den svenska demokratin urholkas i realtid.

Lawmakers from Germany’s far-right AfD party have been accused of seeking to spy for Russia by asking numerous questions in a regional parliament on sensitive issues. The inquiries covered transport, water supply, as well as digital and energy infrastructure. www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

more on this important discovery today www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

A must-read @politico.com piece about the man behind the Great Barrington Declaration & the Brownstone Institute, two groups that were foundational and central to RFK Jr’s rise and to his MAHA agenda (I was interviewed for the piece; there’s a quote from me) www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is slated to attend the annual conference of Tucker's Brownstone at the end of the month, where he is being honored. They are also currently fundraising for a movie about him, produced by RFK Jr's running mate substack.brownstone.org/p/the-story-...

Glädje, tacksamhet, smärta, sorg, uthållighet, plugg, jobb, förtvivlan, framtidstro. Fantastisk, mångfacetterad läsning om 16 personer som kom till Sverige för tio år sen www.dn.se/tio-ar-efter...

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies 1/2

Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.

important article highlighting the continuing benefit to both mother and newborn of vaccinating pregnant women against Covid. The US under RFK Jr just stopped recommending vax for pregnant women. The UK has withdrawn vax for pregnant women too - I think both are very stupid decisions.

På uppdrag av regeringen har Trafikverket tagit fram den så kallade nationella planen för infrastruktur. Resultatet presenterades idag – mer pengar till väg och mindre till järnväg.

Utspel som detta och kopplingar till antisemitiska rörelser och idéer i närtid borde ha lyfts i debatten om SD:s vitbok i somras. Istället kunde SD, utan kritiska motfrågor, spinna bilden att de (till skillnad från andra partier) har en glasklar gränsdragning mot antisemitism.

Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."

Om FHM:s ovilja till smittskydd. www.svd.se/a/B0ompv/fol...

I live in Sweden, Östergötland, and will not be allowed any Covid vaccine at all this year. Not even if I offer to pay for it. I have Spinal muscular atrophy, basically no muscular function, and I depend on respiratory support even on days when I'm not infected with anything. 1/2

”Nu väntar vi på att det justitiedepartementet i Sverige ska godkänna detta. Går inte det, blir 8 januari inte aktuellt och då löper jag risk att bli internationellt efterlyst av Turkiet. Jag vill absolut inte hamna i den situationen” säger Medin: