Kudos to @formerantivax.bsky.social for writing this fantastic, insightful piece for Macleans magazine. She explains her journey here:

via @gorskon.bsky.social : "MAHA tends to deny external causes of disease that modern pharmaceuticals address...in favor of the idea that one’s health is nearly totally within one’s own control through one’s own virtue." sciencebasedmedicine.org/denial-of-ge...

Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.

Via @gorskon.bsky.social : "Cranks and science deniers often position themselves as The True Seekers of Knowledge, because they are, apparently, unbound by all that accumulated weight of human knowledge, which makes their crank beliefs somehow superior." sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...

Looks like Vinay doesn’t like the facts that @joho.bsky.social keeps documenting. sciencebasedmedicine.org/vinayprasadl...

"I don't know where you magic pixies came from, but I like your pixie drink."

how can i be sure i’m in the right timeline

What if there's a bird flu pandemic, given the sorry state of affairs in US vaccine policy and public health infrastructure? "We are fucked" Whole interview here: open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Health Canada has approved Moderna’s newly updated Covid vaccine — and for the first time, the vaccines will be manufactured in Canada. globalnews.ca/news/1134908... #medsky

via @angierasmussen.bsky.social : "Get your family immunized now, while you still can." rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-vacci...

Via @gorskon.bsky.social on "Gold Standard Science" : "..there is no longer any doubt that Lysenkoism 2.0 is here in the US with a vengeance (literally)." sciencebasedmedicine.org/jay-bhattach...

"If violent rhetoric is denounced but never deplatformed, it will only become bolder—& more violent. In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine." The authors call out violence caused directly by Kennedy, Bhattacharya & Prasad. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

This is an incredible visualization, not only about shoddy vaccine-autism studies, but about how to read and understand every research manuscript like a reviewer would

America is finally healthy again

If you want to understand why RFK Jr. has halted $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development, look no further than Synthroid and herbal medicines. It has nothing to do with following better science and everything to do with alt med beliefs. sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna...

Via @gorskon.bsky.social : " I hope we all enjoy falling further and further behind China and the rest of the world in science, because that is the trajectory that President Trump and RFK Jr. has put our country on." sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna...

Via @gorskon.bsky.social : "In reality, they were not for free speech or scientific freedom at all. They were just unhappy that they were not in power and therefore were not able to suppress speech and science that they didn’t like. " sciencebasedmedicine.org/every-accusa...

#NIH director Jay Bhattacharya doubles down on his assertion that the US is moving away from mRNA vaccine research because the public does not trust these vaccines. Distrust of mRNA is not universal; where it exists, the flames have been very actively fanned. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Measles was eradicated with the vaccine, which is 97% effective at preventing measles. Antivaxxers are the ones keeping people sick for profit.

So, @cnet.com published an article on microplastics (because they have a "wellness" section now... OK), and who's the quoted expert? "A family physician"... namely Joe Mercola. www.cnet.com/health/nutri...

We asked some Australians to try these classic Canadian snack foods and they died, they all died

There’s not enough fentanyl coming from Canada

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Vinay Prasad, by @angierasmussen.bsky.social: "Prasad never met a form of COVID risk mitigation that he didn’t complain about. Whether it was school closures, masks, or vaccines..." open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Via @joho.bsky.social : " We don’t have to debate whether or not Dr. Prasad “would have” restored trust. He didn’t. He was given the opportunity, and he failed." sciencebasedmedicine.org/byevinay/

When I first saw this photo a day or so ago, I thought it was an AI-generated prank. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

via @gorskon.bsky.social : "When Mike Adams okays a post portraying you as a brave truth-teller, your medical and scientific credibility should be demolished for the rest of your life. " sciencebasedmedicine.org/prasad-is-to...

Angie Rasmussen takes a blowtorch to Vinay Prasad #scicomm

EBM “Boy Wonder” Dr. Vinay Prasad was fired as FDA's CBER Director after less than three months on the job. What can the kerfuffle surrounding his ouster tell us about the FDA and doctors who enabled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and serve as useful idiots? sciencebasedmedicine.org/prasad-is-to...

"Now everyone knows him as the biggest clown in medicine, flaming out of the Trump Administration in a matter of just a few weeks. Was it worth it, Vinay?" www.panaccindex.info/p/a-eulogy-f...

Link: www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Reupping my miniseries in case you missed it.

“…who has promoted hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as COVID treatments…”. Quelle surprise. retractionwatch.com/2025/07/22/m...

Rather than “anti-vaxxer,” I tend to use “anti-vaccine agitators,” “the anti-vaccine industry,” “anti-vaccine activists,” etc, depending on the discussion. The merely vaccine hesitant should not be conflated with dedicated or professional opponents of vaccination. Never use “vaccine skeptics”!

Per @joho.bsky.social : "It’s a dangerous time to be a child in America." sciencebasedmedicine.org/trap/

High fructose corn syrup is generally 55% fructose and 45% glucose. Cane sugar is 50% fructose and 50% glucose. The problem is not HFCS. I wonder how long it will be before the FDA memory holes this page. Link below.

Why is the NYTimes platforming disinformation doctors like Monica Gandhi to allow them to complain about their own actions?

Via @gorskon.bsky.social :"He doesn’t like EBM because he thinks all the RCTs on vaccines that demonstrate their safety and efficacy are 'fraudulent'." sciencebasedmedicine.org/an-antivaxxe...

Sales of U.S. spirits in Canada fell by 66.3 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to industry Data. globalnews.ca/news/1129832...

FDA panel promotes #misinformation about antidepressants during pregnancy www.nbcnews.com/health/menta... "...rousing concerns about safety that are not evidence-based or established..." Reality: "no convincing evidence to suggest that SSRIs are linked to autism or birth defects."

Watch @drjengunter.bsky.social 's take on the FDA Expert Panel on SSRIs in Pregnancy: vajenda.substack.com/p/my-take-on...

There's been a big surge of people getting injections of biologically active peptides without data to support their use or FDA approval (and off-label use). I've written about the status of 15 of them here, along with NAD+. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...

As if on schedule, the pseudoscientific idea that drinking bleach is a cure-all is back. edzardernst.com/2025/07/the-...

Not The Onion.

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Via @joho.bsky.social “No one thinks Drs. Makary and Prasad are heroes because they saved a narrow demographic group the minuscule risk of an abnormal MRI after a voluntary vaccine.” sciencebasedmedicine.org/dontrustfda/

did we ever get an explanation of the reasons that undercover cop's sister loved the monkey man?

Over at Science-Based Medicine, @gorskon.bsky.social outlines what he sees next in the MAHA agenda against vacccines: sciencebasedmedicine.org/eliminating-...

Via @joho.bsky.social : “When it comes to the COVID vaccine, Dr. Prasad feels cardiac MRI abnormalities are “not a benign clinical finding”. With COVID, he said these exact same MRI abnormalities are “massively overblown.”” sciencebasedmedicine.org/rawmilk/