"It’s essential to remind fellow citizens that both medical science and sincere religious conviction call us to preserve life, not endanger it. The Bible consistently lifts up compassion, wisdom and care for the vulnerable." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

A small Texas think tank cultivated COVID dissidents. Now they’re running U.S. health policy. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/19/a... @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org @texastribune.org

Makary is also pushing to change FDA regs affecting depressants, puberty blockers and psychedelics, seeking to cut career scientists out of decisions, our sources told us. Pazdur has pushed back, saying career experts must have input. He has also mused about abruptly retiring. More in our story→

Pazdur, a longtime FDA employee, has taken issue with Commissioner Marty Makary's plans to reduce the number of research studies needed to justify more drug-related decisions — with Makary arguing just one study is sufficient. Also has warned that new Trump drug voucher plan may not be legal.

exclusive: Rick Pazdur, the official just tapped by Trump administration to be FDA's top drug regulator has privately warned that some of the agency's new initiatives could be illegal and dangerous. w @rachelroubein.bsky.social

If you could catch flu from the flu shot, immunocompromised people wouldn’t be able to get the shot. We can. So you can’t.

he's susan collins-ing

What doctors say about one of the biggest flu shot myths: No, you cannot get the flu from the flu vaccines. But there are reasons you might wrongly think you did. wapo.st/3LRIv5F

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Push Has Saved 1.4 Million Lives: Gavi www.barrons.com/news/cervica... via @barrons.com

Senator Bill Cassidy is concerned that the new non-expert ACIP, appointed by the anti-vaccine Secretary he voted for, may undermine access to hepatitis B vaccines. www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-ca... via @kaiahubbard.bsky.social @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

Children are people with rights.

I've been saying it since RFK jr got the job, but other countries need to start developing their own reps for a new CDC agency and have one or two other large countries lead it... NOT in the US at all. Maybe Canada and the UK or something, but it really needs to happen.

Kids have a right to vaccinations. Seeing preventable diseases coming back is both wrong and a right violation. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c... via @statnews.com

CDC 1946-2025: R.I.P.: Kennedy made the CDC site misleading. via @pauloffit.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

Scientists tell Americans not to trust the CDC. Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into “a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories,” said @pauloffit.bsky.social. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Speaking of which.. www.berlingske.dk/internationa...

From @doritreiss.bsky.social — Vaccine Injury Compensation Program worked in tragic child death

"It is concerning that such a prominent research group has conducted so many randomized trials over such a long period without finding real results"

The term “non-specific effects” is confusing as that is typically a synonymous with placebo in medical treatment. They should call it off-target effects, side benefit, or something like that. If MMR somehow also protected against another virus, it would be because of a specific immune effect.

via @cidrap.bsky.social 'Kennedy pulls US support for Gavi's vaccine efforts' share.google/74PepaOuZrjr...

All the good people at HHS need to leave and start a good safe place for healthcare information. Like switching from Twitter to Bluesky. Why give RFK all your best years and skills he is just going to destroy them anyway.

Life For autistic people just got harder. Tired of telling people no I am not autistic because of vaccines. RFK is a bioterrorist using lies about autistic people and vaccines to attack the public confidence. People are going to get hurt and die because of the lies.

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program worked in tragic child death, and the lack of evidence in the case highlights how safe vaccines are - serious harms are extremely rare, deaths almost unheard of. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Commentary: Keep school vaccine mandates to protect our children, says Florida Nurse Practitioners. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/15/c...

CDC in turmoil after agency backpedals on debunking vaccines-autism link - the website now repeats multiple discredited, untrue claims, explains @lenasun.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4idz3Wn

RFK Jr. is battling a top aide on vaccines, again politi.co/4o1s0Bh via @politico.com

From @doritreiss.bsky.social — The Sims family was compensated for their baby's tragic death. This story shows that the Vaccine Injury Compensation System works as it should, not that #vaccines are dangerous. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

We get vaccines to prevent disease and death—vaccines have saved countless lives. But despite the fact that the claim that vaccines cause autism has been debunked repeatedly, RFK Jr. continues to promote it, even now stating it on the CDC website. .

As we and others have repeatedly reported, credible researchers have said there is no link between vaccines and autism.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Holy shit one of the things I have been waiting on for months finally happened

Sad for Bill and his missing wallet

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Wow. Simply wow.

HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

A New More Severe Flu Variant Is Spreading In The U.S. Here’s What To Know via @forbes.com: the vaccine will be less effective against it, but still somewhat effective - good idea to get it. www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...

reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery

In spite of claims from Dr. Christine Stabell Benn and Dr. Peter Aaby, a large review of their trials found that they did not find evidence of non-specific effects of vaccines. www.linkedin.com/pulse/random...

"A local doctor says the community is alarmed over a proposal by health officials in Florida to end many childhood vaccination mandates." jaxtoday.org/2025/11/13/v... via @jaxtoday.org

Did eliminating Vermont’s philosophical exemption help vaccination rates? A study suggests not www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too, to understand how and why people get pulled into and trapped by misinformation. www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c... via @statnews.com @craigspencer.bsky.social

Vaccine advice based on science: US centre (CIDRAP) fills gaps in public-health information www.nature.com/articles/d41...

SCOOP: Mario Díaz-Balart, a top House GOP appropriator, tried to add guardrails against pocket rescissions to an appropriations bill — something Democrats have been wanting for months But then Russ Vought intervened, and Díaz-Balart quietly got rid of the provision www.notus.org/congress/mar...

Based on the justices’ own words, Judge Angel Kelly reasonably concluded that “not all Supreme Court writings are equal” put differently......not all of the Court’s opinions are worth following! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

NEW: After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom. All but about 200 pages are blacked out.

This link is amazing and may lead to new and better treatments for immune system diseases like MS, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis Note: the article is written mostly in “ordinary English” with good explanations of technical information 👏

They are, actually, coming for our vaccines. Not just to allow people who don't want to vaccinate to have the right to infect us. I wish I had been wrong about their obvious, oft stated intentions. And I hope my kids have access to more vaccines than I did, not fewer.

Epstein-Barr virus may be linked to all cases of lupus www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

“MAHA has fallen”? Antivaxxers are getting very impatient with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: a detailed discussion of infighting. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-has-fal... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social

The new ACIP is changing expert recommendations without a process designed to guarantee serious consideration and transparency. It's members are not qualified, and fail on both process and substance. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...