Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.

61st and 62nd retractions for the IHU in Marseille. 49th and 50th for Didier Raoult. Lack of ethical approval, retrospective approval, conflicts of interest with the ethics committee, and the use of code 09-022 for 258 articles.

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests. #ResearchPublishing #Academicsky 🧪

This is so, so well-articulated.

A project offering researchers up to 3,500 Swiss francs for finding errors in published academic papers is having trouble finding people to do the work. My latest for @science.org: www.science.org/content/arti... @erichehman.bsky.social, @malte.the100.ci, @ruben.the100.ci, @conjugateprior.org

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

The CDC has paused testing for rabies and pox viruses, the family of viruses that includes smallpox and mpox — and by July will have no experts to advise states on clinical aspects of the diseases Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/h...

New South Wales is the first state in Australia to ban new coal mines! This is a monumental policy shift and the first real acknowledgement by an Australian Government that fossil fuels must be phased out. #auspol

“Abortion is legal across Australia and this research shows a majority of Australians support access to abortion, whether they live in cities or country towns, or where they sit on the political spectrum.” - Ebony Bennett Read more: https://theaus.in/4sUeAKp

“The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals” Extractive, colonial, & depraved 1/2

I have now written up the issues with this study. Turns out it's even worse than I initially thought! gidmk.substack.com/p/multivitam...

Bombed a school & then, 30 mins later, bombed it again—ensuring any kids who survived & any rescue workers would be killed “People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads” One of the worst war crimes in modern history. It was a school—not an IRGC base.

No happy #IWD 2026 marked by the grim reality that it took a dead man’s emails for the world to believe the testimonies of 100s of women & girls. I urge scrutiny of how Epstein’s cabal & abuse have been health-washed And for more attention to the survivors of #VAW 👇 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The next time politicians say there is no money for health or humanitarian aid, I will remember this: $1 billion per day on war

The only remarkable thing about this is that the journal editors have not yet retracted every one of these papers. Making up data - even if it is a case report - is an astonishing breach.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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I want to tape this to my office door: "What’s more, this excessive reliance on AI leads me to the inescapable question: Why are you in this field?" mirandayaver.substack.com/p/in-defense...

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ICYMI: tonight’s full #4Corners, Scarred on gynaecologist Dr Simon Gordon is here. YouTube for international viewers. youtu.be/EwnqZ12O1sQ #endometriosis #medicine #surgeon

Heavy vehicle pollution costs us $6.2bn a year in health effects. The study found that children attending childcare near major roads are exposed to pollution levels equiv. to 8 cigarettes a day. No parent should have to worry that the air their child breathes at childcare could harm their health.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

France just cut its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 58 percent! And here we are, writing: European nations must continue to stay engaged in global health, continue to provide humanitarian assistance... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Whistleblowing protections are arguably vital for health system good governance. According to the authors: "Every one of our clients in the healthcare industry who had made a whistleblowing report before seeking legal assistance from us suffered some form of retaliation for their whistleblowing"

Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency, Rick Morton reports. satpa.pe/kyzQZla

I will never forget what it was like working as an ICU physician during the pandemic. There were many days that I went back to my hotel crying because of the patients we lost. I hate this so much.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free." After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani. @rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved. 
 It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪

ACIP, the vaccine committee that scrutinizes evidence on vaccines and offers guidance, has “now effectively collapsed,” the @ama-assn.org says. Organizations like AMA and the Vaccine Integrity Project at @cidrap.bsky.social are stepping into the gap. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Report by Jason Staines re CSIRO cuts identifies a "shared concern that Australia is drifting toward a model of public science that is increasingly short-term, reactive and fragile, even as national challenges become more complex and interlinked." www.croakey.org/public-good-...

“I am shocked and appalled,” one NCI scientist said. “We are moving funds away from so much promising research in order to do a preclinical study based on nonscientific ideas. It’s absurd.”

Preventing disease is clearly worthwhile. So why is the future of a key Australian health promotion agency, VicHealth, in the balance?

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Have I ever mentioned how surreal it is to be an Editor-in-Chief of a journal called Vaccine right now? www.science.org/content/arti... It’s pretty wild, at least by typical academic journal editorial office standards.

Prof emerita @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social, “a founding member of Defend Public Health, said Milhoan “wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread. This is so dangerous as to approach criminality””

Human rights advocates are calling for the Australia Government to stop violating children’s rights and locking them up in “cages” as the country faces renewed calls to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL

It is our duty not to become numb or indifferent to the suffering this administration is causing, here and abroad: prismreports.org/2026/01/29/g...

Rules around government-sanctioned research can leave academics in a no-win position by forcing them to accept revisions that violate their ethical obligations, a Queensland analysis suggests #academicsky ow.ly/IZUJ50Y4PJ6

Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...

For those of you following the Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B vaccine: The Danish researchers have posted their updated protocol (called version 1.5). They still propose giving a lifesaving vaccine to only half of newborns and withholding it from others. www.bandim.org/wp-content/u...

“The reason the state of our hospitals, schools and other essential services are getting worse is that, while Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, our governments act as if we are poor.” - Dr Richard Denniss Read the full article: https://theaus.in/3NnGHCh

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

Hey! @wired.com is doing a bunch of hiring. Here we go with a thread of five great jobs, with a few more coming shortly: 1) We are hiring a senior editor for our science desk, which means you get to work with geniuses like @timmarchman.bsky.social @mollytaft.com and @emilymullin.bsky.social