The nearly 80-year-old law that could hamper RFK Jr.’s drive to remake vaccine schedule Legal experts say Kennedy needs to follow established legal procedures to prevent any policy changes from being dismissed by a judge. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c... Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr cc

"As one of the most turbulent, tragic years in American history drew to a close, millions around the world were watching and listening as the Apollo 8 astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders – became the first humans to orbit another world." #OTD in 1968. www.nasa.gov/missions/apo...

Interestingly, an ACIP member just contradicted the CDC's claim from today that "There have been 3 confirmed deaths from measles." Strange times.

This Week On The Charts 12/24/1976: ‘Hotel California’, the sixth LP from The Eagles tops of the Billboard album chart. It’s Joe Walsh’s first and bassist Randy Meisner last with the band. This record has sold over 34 million copies worldwide.

Omg I found out I’m on Santa Paws’ Naughty List. Nooooooo!!

Private Biddle was from Indiana near where I grew up and I didn't hear his story until I was an adult. He won the Medal of Honor for his heroics #OTD in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. #WeRememberThem + #HoosierSky.

Happy Festivus to all that celebrate….is everyone ready to air out their grievances?

"It's been too hard living But I'm afraid to die 'Cause I don't know what's up there Beyond the sky" This single by Sam Cooke was released #OTD in 1964. In 2021, @rollingstone.com listed it third on the 500 greatest songs of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBl...

"I've seen another world - Sometimes I think it was just my imagination." @tcmtv.bsky.social 's tribute to the film makers who left us in 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...

TCM will honor the life and career of the late Rob Reiner with a programming tribute including a special premiere presentation of THE PRINCESS BRIDE ('87) next month: https://bit.ly/3MN4T0x

Betty Reid Soskin NPR @npr.org

Everyone needs to read this astoundingly disturbing piece by Charlotte Strøm on the dubious ethics of the Bandim project researchers As @markhoofnagle.medsky.social notes, ironically/surprisingly it’s published by the RFK Jr-boosting website Sensible Medicine www.sensible-med.com/p/the-false-...

Michael and Gloria Stivic became parents #OTD fifty years ago tonight on "All in the Family"- #TVSky. Rob Reiner, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were nominated for Emmys, as was the series. The series lost to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" for best comedy series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztL2...

Sending love to the lonely and to those finding times tough; sending love to those who are in pain, and all the people sleeping rough. Sending love to everybody missing somebody this year; sending love to everyone not full of festive cheer.

Not only are groceries more expensive, food is now less safe thanks to @fda.gov Director Makary, RFK Jr & Trump. #MAHA

I also love "Let's Dance" and his holiday classic "Driving Home for Christmas", which is must-listen for this time of year. Thank you for the music, Chris! 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrOA...

my FB memory from 4 years ago via @twisteddoodles.bsky.social -

"this study documented co-occurrence of #syphilis and #HCV among pregnant women, revealing overlap with substance use and inadequate syphilis treatment." #MedSky + #ObGynSky + #ReproSky. www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/news/syphili...

Kennedy attempted a similar unethical experiment in Samoa in 2019 for the MMR vaccine. Samoa didn't let him do his study. I hope Kennedy's latest unethical study also gets thwarted. share.google/MfIRJRHmR8Eo...

Check this out! More evidence for vaccine benefits. IDSOG members include Drs. McClymont, Boucoiran, Kuret, Yudin, and Money. #JAMA bsky.app/profile/jama...

HPV vaccination could prevent most cervical cancers, but only 27% of eligible adolescent girls worldwide have received the vaccine. Data suggest that a single dose may be protective. Research findings from the ESCUDDO trial are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/3MFcHBr #MedSky #IDSky

Larkin Poe’s 'An Acoustic Companion Volume II' is a masterclass in simplicity, proving that their masterful instrumentation and poetic lyricism shine even brighter when the electric layers are stripped away. zurl.co/1e0Pk

"Meet Me in St. Louis" is on tcmtv.bsky.social December 25th at 11:30 eastern. My children refer to this movie as the one "where the daughters prove they are smarter than their dad." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSHu...

The Battle of the Bulge began #OTD in 1944. For me this poem very much speaks of the fighting, here read by actor Sir Gary Oldman: it was written by 101st Airborne veteran Bernard J. McKearney. I’ve added some contemporary images for some atmosphere. #Bulge81 #WW2

Frank Capra’s 🇺🇸 American #Christmas fantasy drama film “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore premiered #OnThisDay in 1946 at the Globe Theatre, New York City 🎬 RKO Radio Pictures #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄🦌🔔🍷🕯✨☃️🎁❄️🎅🏻 #xmas2025

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 105.

The current circulating strain(s) of influenza are causing severe morbidity & deaths in pregnant people and young children. Vaccines are still available but it takes about 2 weeks for them to take effect. If you’re part of one of these populations, be cautious around holiday gatherings. 😷 💉

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

'We didn't make much of a fuss with Hanukkah, merely exchanging a few small gifts and lighting the candles. Since candles are in short supply, we lit them for only ten minutes, but as long as we sing the song, that doesn't matter.' Anne Frank - December 7, 1942. via annefrankhouse.bsky.social

does this look like game day prep before the Butler vs. Northwestern basketball game? I think not - #Caturday.

The CDC just announced a new study on hepatitis B vaccination on newborns in Guinea-Bissau – a move that researchers call “highly unethical” and “extremely risky”. Happy to team up with @katlay.bsky.social on this story: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

via heinleinsociety.org - #Caturday.

The Danish physician “said he was struck by the irony of Mr. Kennedy and his associates holding Denmark up as an ideal because many of the studies that disproved Mr. Kennedy’s theories of vaccine harm were led by Danish health officials.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

TikTok videos promote supplements and vaginal gels claiming to treat #HPV infection But these lack large well-designed trials to show safety and effectiveness Review by @kevinault.bsky.social & Linda Eckert @uwdeptmedicine.bsky.social science.feedback.org/hpv-infectio...

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

Coach Tony Hinkle, born #OTD in 1899. His total wins as a collegiate head coach - football 183, baseball 335 and basketball 560. And he was also athletic director while at Butler. #HoosierSky + #BasketballSky.

Do you have questions about that $1.6 million hepatitis study in Guinea-Bissau? My story answers (almost) all of them. Who are the Danish researchers leading this study? Why are they criticized by mainstream scientists and the Danish media? www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...

some good news #IDSky + #MedSky.

Horrific. Jewish students have a right to feel safe on campus, free of vile antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate. www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

Currently watching- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) One of the greats. Still ahead of its time

#HoosierSky.

The cranks at Bandim have no ethics. Seen what @lizszabo.bsky.social wrote: "In 23 out of 25 articles, the researchers highlighted secondary findings as support for their theories, but in 22 of these cases the evidence disappeared after proper statistical handling."

The RFK, jr effect.

CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

“A majority of primary care physicians understand shingles risk factors, but only 29% are fully aware of current vaccine recommendations.” www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/many-pc...

Yesterday CDC adopted the hep B birth dose rollback. Today a grant hit the Federal Register: $1.6M to U of Southern Denmark for an RCT in Guinea-Bissau on birth dose "timing." They're funding research to generate evidence after making the policy change - the opposite of evidence-based medicine. 🧵