Prepping for the State of the Union? Don't be fooled by Trump's misleading claims on drug pricing. #healthpolicy www.citizen.org/article/dont...

Casey Means is a crank-charlatan and should be wholly rejected by the Senate as Trump's nominee for Surgeon General. Tell your Senators to reject Casey Means: actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

A new Nature Medicine study on ChatGPT Health isn't encouraging. The system under-triaged 52% of emergencies, telling folks with DKA to wait 24-48 hours. It does fine on routine stuff, but fails at clinical extremes. I'll take a deeper look 🧵 #MedSky #ChatGPTHealth

Thanks to resistance by ordinary citizens, the Trump administration has been denied 11 detention warehouses — that's roughly 35,000 beds. 6 potential sites remain: Port Allen, LA; Chester, NY; McAllen, TX; Starke, FL; Durant, OK; and Lebanon, TN. The fight isn't over, keep going!

“Clindamycin is notorious for causing C diff infections,” which kill nearly 30,000 people a year in the US, @ameshaa.bsky.social said. Yet “clindamycin is one of the go-to antibiotics for dentists.” Read one woman's story, and how it happened: www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

Wolfers: What we have is a pro-tax Republican president. Maybe he favors this tax because it’s regressive — it takes a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of the poor than of the rich. Maybe he thinks he can baffle us with bullshit and pretend China is paying, but that’s a story people aren’t buying

This article about George Church's Personal Genome Project is interesting beyond the sketchy funding & affiliation it had with Epstein. It's a mini-history of the hype of personal genome sequencing and its failure to deliver much medical value for the individual. www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/e...

I'm sorry, Anthropic and OpenAI don't have salespeople they can send abroad on their own dime?

What RFK Jr.’s CDC Doesn’t Want You to Know open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr.'s CDC is hiding information about outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Congratulations to Guinea Bissau and the global health community for successfully pushing back on dangerous experiments by anti-vaccine researchers.

Guinea-Bissau "terminated a contentious hepatitis B vaccine trial bankrolled by the Trump administration following a sharp ethical rebuke from the WHO, which warned the study risked causing irreversible harm to newborns" "It's not going to happen, period," said Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira

Oh shit. Epstein gave preeminent geneticist George Church $600k+ and got priority genome sequencing of his genes. Church has spun off over 50 biotech companies, so presumably his discoveries are worth a good amount to Harvard. www.statnews.com/2026/02/24/e...

Oh dear me. Having found nothing, they pin hope on a result that is significant “before adjusting for multiple comparisons”. People: this adjustment is not optional. It’s clear nobody will ever give up on this quest.

“Donald Trump’s envoy to Paris will not be permitted to carry out his diplomatic duties until he has explained his refusal to comply with a foreign ministry summons over US comments about the killing of a far-right activist”, a 2026 lede

Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside — accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.

Philly Inquirer calls on Congress to rein in Trump. There’s no room in the union for Trump’s chaotic imperial presidency | Editorial www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

This is completely asinine. Mercury damages babies’ brain development and harms pregnant women and children. Sacrificing children’s health to prop up aging coal plants is reckless, indefensible, and a betrayal of basic moral responsibility. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

JFC, you cannot make this up. Nicole Shanahan is funding a film that tries to make Covid contrarians into "great heroes who stood up and said no” to “dangerous scientific experiments mixed with misleading propaganda, mass psychosis, and outright lies.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

17x more deadly than the Ford Pinto!

study via @rabednarczyk.bsky.social and @americancancersoc.bsky.social and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

“Compared to the reduction at the national level, the large declines in cervical cancer incidence observed in several states were very encouraging" Cancer rates decreased in states with the highest HPV vaccination rates - #MedSky + #OncSky + #ReproSky. pressroom.cancer.org/declines-in-...

Every single step that the anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK Jr takes to dismantle the US medical, public health, & health research systems is incredibly painful & distressing This one would hit so hard Without the USPSTF, evidence-based screening & prevention would crumble 😢

Stat is reporting that Pharma lobbying is now more focused on the WH (than Congress). Article reads more like an advertorial for the lobbying firms than an analysis of why presidential access is deemed as necessary. www.statnews.com/2026/02/23/f...

Three days after cops in a small town in Bucks County choked a girl on a sidewalk, kidnapped her and her friends from an anti-ICE walkout, and prevented their parents from contacting them, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro still hasn't even issued an official statement acknowledging the incident.

I've got a new survey out today (part of private polling consulting work I do) that finds Trump's deportation agenda is eroding support for the GOP, and voters want the president to prioritize economics over deportations. W/ direct data on Trump defectors: morrispredictive.com/assets/surve...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

A US vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for later this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will not be held, with no new dates announced. Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr) has stepped up efforts to rew... TAT: [Attacking Science]

RCTs: Gold-standard, or just one of many tools in the medical toolbox? "The growing role of industry in global knowledge production has raised profound ethical and policy questions regarding the extent to which modern RCTs serve public health." sts.wtbpaadmin.com/wp-content/u...

"People don’t really see the daily side of living with a vaccine-preventable disease," said @candidkitten.bsky.social. "The only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

People often assume that "natural" products are both safe and free from profit incentives. This could not be further from the truth. The wellness industry is incredibly profitable and largely unregulated, with huge risks to health. pauloffit.substack.com/p/whos-reall...

I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.

Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next. But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is one for the ages. The damage Donald Trump (under the guidance of Russell Vought) has done to biomedical research is profound and will be long-lasting. It is a national tragedy to be measured in the sick and the dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

With #measles outbreaks raging in the the US, I've been puzzled by the drop in hospitalizations reported in 2026 by #CDC. Here's why: @propublica.org reports that SC, which has racked up 100s of cases in 2026, doesn't require hospitals to report measles admissions. www.propublica.org/article/sout...

The last bastion of institutional resistance, the judiciary, is being disregarded in the widening scope of the Trump regime's lawless deportation agencies. This part of the fed govt is serving as the nucleus of the Trumpist prerogative state, the place of limitless violence beyond protection of law

Public Health on Call has a podcast episode on the regulation of mifepristone this week, as does Boom!Lawyered. FDA’s “review” is expected out soon. Brace yourself for bad faith bullshit “science” from Makary & co. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

I’ll stop now but if people take away any lesson from this is that science and democratic structures are deeply linked in multiple ways and fixing science involves fixing democracy. /end

Fixing American science is no longer just about science. It’s about media and information and public consensus truth. It’s about other public goods beyond basic science. And also it’s about law, the Supreme Court and its separation of powers views (ie presidents of their party get all the power.)

Scott Atlas and the rest didn’t just spontaneously emerge— they were selected by the Epstein class to be the face of narratives of selfishness and division.

Interesting article about the National Public Health Coalition, of ex CDC-ers who are volunteering as a shadow CDC to maintain national public health comms and capacity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Medsky🧪#IDsky #neurosky #pedsky #episky @ukhsa.bsky.social #Measles, #mumps & #chickenpox (#varicella) can cause encephalitis, which is the inflammation of 🧠 , as a rare but serious complication. Vaccines have greatly reduced these cases,

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h... Photo: Bart Heird / Flickr cc

Greenland Prime Minister: “Pres. Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here...has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. That's a deliberate choice—& a fundamental part of our society. That is not how it works in the USA.” wapo.st/4b2ALYC

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/c...

This is non-fiction but lands as visceral (as per author's point) social horror. Only it's entirely real. And that some, even many, won't understand, intuit, or feel any sense of the horror at all, will only see cause to celebrate and wonder what the big deal is, is part of the horror itself.

The U.S. has a legal definition of "chocolate" that falls significantly short of the standard in other countries, and yet Reese's and Hershey can't even meet that standard anymore. Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs now contain no milk chocolate. Same for Rolos, Mr. Goodbar, and Almond Joy.

More footage- Student led peaceful protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The police chief showed up in plain clothing and assaulted two students.

RFK Jr.’s billionaire running mate is making a comedy about the pandemic www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The kids in Quakertown are still in jail! These kids defended themselves when MAGA chud Police Chief Scott McElree rushed into a crowd of protesters in plainclothes and put a teenage girl in a choke hold with no warning. They've been in jail since Friday and may be kept until Tuesday. Speak up!