WaPo reports on parents now asking about leucovorin as a supplement for autistic children... Now that Trump, RFK and Makary have hyped its benefits based on one small Indian study which suggests it may help result in modest change in symptoms and behaviors as part of other therapy.

“Anne Jordan, a former state commissioner of public safety who led the commission that reviewed the [2023 Lewiston] shooting, said the [‘red flag’ firearm] law would be an important tool for preventing suicides. Maine has one of the highest suicide rates in the eastern US.”🛟🧪

Shady vaccination medical exemption for one's kid for $495. Never underestimate the efforts some are willing to undertake to sidestep a law they don't like and the market that arises to help enable them to do so--for a significant fee... 🛟lawsky sociology policysky health policy

Martin Kulldorff, RFK Jr's buddy, is running an absolute clown show at ACIP It would be funny if it wasn't so damaging & dangerous to public health Medical groups argue that the new ACIP appointees "lack the credentials & experience to serve on ACIP" www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

During COVID the Maga pandemic minimizers loved Sweden. Wonder how they feel about its policy of providing free healthy meals for children in schools? Because right now MAGA is taking SNAP benefits from Americans in need. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Long live sandwich guy! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

lol

Trump Cancels Thanksgiving Travel

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person. We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

Defend Public Health Whopper of the Week RFK Lies about Aluminum RFK Jr wants to remove aluminum from vaccines. He tasked ACIP to look into its links to asthma, which are tenous, but tenous was enough for thimerosal... Doing so would be devastating. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/buck...

Defend Public Health Whopper of the Week RFK Lies about Aluminum RFK Jr wants to remove aluminum from vaccines. He tasked ACIP to look into its links to asthma, which are tenous, but tenous was enough for thimerosal... Doing so would be devastating. www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

So this story from August seems to be linked to the Tidmarsh scandal. Not sure whether the claim there were reports of AEs related to Desiccated Thyroid Extract were real. But according to lawsuit, Tidmarsh then emailed lawyers of the manufacturer and tried to bribe them.

Former Commissioners, FDA staffers, investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers are all yelling S-O-S.

Leucovorin update for those who observe... The CEO of GSK, who last made the product in 1997, confirms they don't plan to do any research on or sell the product for its new autism related indication. The reapproval was the FDA's idea alone. www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/g...

BREAKING: The Democrats have seized the majority in the Minnesota Senate!

BREAKING: Democrats just broke the GOP supermajority in the Mississippi Senate! In a stunning victory, Democrats gained seats in court-ordered special elections and will now head to Jackson to represent and fight on behalf of their constituents.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

This person took this when they called the race

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Well sure looks like American voters handed authoritarians their heads on a platter!

I thought he was already dead.

Politico did this 5 questions interview with me and I was really grateful to be asked but I hesitated to share it last week because I was also really upset to see what they edited out “for clarity and length” :/ www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia. Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

A California nonprofit forecasts a 26% rise in ACA health insurance premiums for next year, according to new data from KFF, a health policy organization based in San Francisco. Source

Does anyone have info on who/what group at FDA is "examining the safety of the metal in vaccines". RFK supposedly wants to remove aluminum based adjuvants. I would like to know more about if there are docs or a process behind this future policy change. www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

This is outrageous. Bausch & Lomb at fault, but also Congress could have built in some sort price gauging regulatory oversight... www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/w...

The Americas, led by Canada, is on the brink of losing measles-elimination status www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

T-minus 2 days until a coalition of public health and science groups descend on DC to hand deliver petitions with over 150k signatures calling for RFK’s impeachment. We’re proud to have provided support for this effort. More Info: 🔗 www.911forhealthandscience.org

For those with long covid who didn't see this week's @drruth.bsky.social's newsletter and are interested in being in a remote trial, check out www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

I completely agree with @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social that the term "democratic fascism" wrongly insinuates that today's fascism has a "democratic" character. The fact that it operates - for now - within a democratic system does NOT make it democratic. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

The “AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity” conference will be held 10-12 November 2025 at the Augustinianum Congress Center in Rome (Italy). 🔗 Online participation available, details at at: www.aimedicine.va #MedicalEthics

Amazing, I found some good news

Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?

Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.

Wow shocked 2 learn Tariffs Not Only Impose Immense Economic Costs but Also Fail to Achieve Their Primary Policy Aims and Foster Political Dysfunction Along the Way

Caution: Poisonous Candy! - A Consultant Chemical Analyst's fight for food safety in Regency London: regency-explorer.net/comfits/

Happy International Women's Day! A reminder that this specific screwup has now killed ~25 million people. A world that allows an influential, entitled, ignorant man to just shout down a smarter and more knowledgeable woman 👉can literally kill you.👈 www.wired.com/story/the-te...

My assumption is that the New York Post has better sources inside Heritage than most other press outlets. One tidbit of note: Princeton's Robert P. George, a Heritage trustee, is said to be pushing fellow board members to oust its president Kevin Roberts. Hope he succeeds.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

www.the-scientist.com/triple-drug-... #Lasker2025 #LaskerAward #LaskerLaureate #cysticfibrosis 🧪