I’m going to reiterate that RFK Jr. will not stop until he takes away every vaccine recommendation and thereby reduces access to them. This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career. He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.

Don’t really post on the other place anymore but felt compelled to comment on Richard’s ongoing effort to rebrand/legitimize himself

There is no statute of limitations on murder. Come a sane administration, Jonathan Ross will face justice

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

It’s only January 3rd but I have a feeling the word of the year is going to be unconstitutional.

2025 began for @jimalwine.bsky.social and I w/writing that there could be no compromise with RFK Jr. and that if confirmed: -Increased outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease would occur -Children would die from vaccine-preventable diseases - Vaccine and drug development would be undermined

Podcast Jay and his merry band of COVID contrarians only understand grievance politics. They do not deserve to return to academia or be welcomed back to normal society. They are weird losers abjectly failing at their responsibility to this country, and deserve to be treated with scorn and contempt.

**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization** New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels. Understanding brain function beyond brain areas. #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We need you to become scientists, doctors, nurses... so that the next generation scientist then will not abuse science to impose tyranny in the name of science." Is that what Bhattacharya thinks we were doing when we were working 7 days a week to try to save as many lives as possible?

New JAMA study of 20,000 pregnancies shows that COVID vaccination before or during pregnancy: ⬇️ reduced severe maternal COVID infections (62% less hospitalizations, 90% less ICU care needed) ⬇️ reduced risk of preterm birth. buff.ly/OuyTY4q

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

Bravo to MMWR for this middle-finger salute to RFK Jr #IDSky

Love this🤣

Kennedy has gone well beyond recruiting some contrarians with novel perspectives. He has populated the advisory committee almost exclusively with people with records of attacking vaccines. And this is what that gets you: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iMMsF6

“Legally, Prasad ‘needs to have some really good reasons’ to make such changes if he wants them to survive judicial review. ‘If they decide to sue, they would have some very good arguments about this being arbitrary and capricious’ and undermining the ability of companies to rely on the FDA’s word”

#FoodInsecurity affects #healthcare workers too. Efforts like #HCWvsHunger can help. hcwvshunger.org

Yes. Reading the old accounts reveal that nothing is new. wellcomecollection.org/works/z4442m...

I’ve just been informed that not permitting scientific misinformation on my feed, including claims that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne HIV, is “tone policing”. It’s actually fact-checking. I don’t give a shit who is posting misinformation or why. Zero tolerance.

. @edyong209.bsky.social went independent and I am glad he did, because this fawning piece about a man who will be responsible for millions of excess #deaths would never be written by a proper #health and #science #journalist

The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism. The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It’s just part of RFK Jr.'s ongoing war on vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cdc-is-l...

The common good is a set of shared commitments. To the rule of law. To democracy. To tolerance. To equal opportunity. To upholding the truth. We cannot have a functioning society without these shared commitments.

Thought I’d share my experience as an AI-skeptic in a medical system that is increasingly pushing AI tools. TLDR: AI medical images are crap. Total crap.1/6

Remember that the majority of anti-vaxxers are themselves vaccinated against diseases like polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and rubella. It’s only their kids they choose to put at risk.

Therapist: So what brings you in today? Me: I’ve never truly gotten over the loss of Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher, David Bowie, Steve Irwin, and George Michael. Therapist: Oh dear. Let me put on the kettle.

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

It has been 2 months since FDA head Marty Makary falsely alleged that “There have been children who have died from the COVID vaccine…We’re gonna release a report in the coming few weeks”. His report is still nowhere to be found. Where’s the report, shitbirds?

In case anyone needs a reminder of how successful the Republican attack on public health has been: A person who is the first probable measles case near Salt Lake City refuses to speak to the health department, so anyone they came into contact with can’t be warned. This is especially insidious…

This is Rufus. His Halloween costume arrived late. Really wants to escargot trick-or-treating if you don’t mind turning on your porch light. 13/10 (IG: rufuscorg)

You can't make this up.

NEW @nejm.org: We synthesized 511 recent studies on Covid-19, RSV & flu vaccines for 2025-26. With federal advisory processes disrupted, clinicians & the public need rigorous, independent evidence synthesis. Here's what we found: 🧵 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Doctor patient communication is important but a little more than half have received training @acogd2.bsky.social #D2ADM “we never train for connection”—- Rebecca Harlow

This is such a failure; when I was in training (1998-2009) we had ~100 cases a year; the worst year being 2008 with 140. This latest outbreak will push us over 1,700, with a few months to go in 2025. America was declared measles-free in 2000 (defined as 12 months with no endemic transmission) 1/3

mRNA vaccines 🧬 are already great but they can be made even more effective by making them code for virus-like nanoparticles 🦠 rather than just single proteins 🧪 This means a lower dose is required, which should reduce side effects www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.

The nazis themselves were not some clever masterminds where everything they did went perfect. They were also comical idiots who did ridiculous things, like invading Russia in the winter. They gained power because the opposition couldn’t understand that the fascists were not rational agents.

She had a reputation for working with Republicans and Democrats alike. But @drdebhoury.bsky.social was never once able to brief RFK Jr. In fact, she only met him once — when he toured the empty CDC after a gunman killed Officer David Rose and traumatized staff. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

This is what demonizing Tylenol will wreak.

A sweet and happy new year to everyone, except for the government of Israel, the IDF, Stephen miller, and a few others. To the people of Palestine, to the immigrants to the United States, may god bestow all blessings upon you, and may he give you peace.

The CEO at Tylenol's should rename 'Acetaminophen' to 'Epsteinaminophen' #Tylenol #Autism

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

Dr. Malone asked about adjuvants in MMR. Live-attenuated vaccines like MMR don’t use adjuvants. Because the weakened virus replicates a bit in the host, it naturally provides the innate immune stimulus — the very role adjuvants play in non-live vaccines.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

The “medical freedom” movement claims to be about choices, like to not vaccinate their kids. But they already have that choice. Absolutely nobody in the U.S. has to vaccinate their kid. But what about everyone whose choice is for their infant to not get exposed to a vaccine-preventable disease?

I completely agree. Throw in low covid vaccine and flu vaccine rates given the ongoing misinformation and access barriers from the top, the threat of birdflu that never really went away and we are entering a very uncertain respiratory virus season in the US.

A conservative opinion: “HHS Secretary RRK Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency.” #MAHA @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...