BREAKING: We’re honored to represent the American Academy of Pediatrics after nearly $12 million of their federal public-health funding was cut in an attempt to retaliate against them for speaking out against the admin’s health policies. We will stop this blatant abuse of power in court.

Someone should sit the new members of ACIP down and explain what their job is and is not to them in simple terms, and maybe teach them some basic law. Dr. Malone's claims here have several misunderstandings. 1/n

My segment on CNBC today Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’ grabien.com/story?id=562...

The American right, including Jay Bhattacharya, is trying to weaponize free speech by crying censorship. But freedom of speech isn't freedom of reach. To fight back, scientific institutions should say that junk science is junk. New post from me: 1/

Nothing to see here Just the NIH Director trashing, um, one of the world’s best respected journals, Science It makes sense really—power-hungry, power-consolidating autocrats love to criticize the media, it’s one of their favorite tactics

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

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

The CDC has announced a Salmonella outbreak linked to raw oysters in 22 states. A survey about twenty years ago found Salmonella in 7.4% of sampled oysters in the US, with considerable variation from bay to bay. Oysters are delicious boiled, broiled, fried or baked! www.cdc.gov/salmonella/o...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

“By attempting to impose a single nationwide standard and threatening to punish providers who adhere to well-established, evidence-based care, HHS is unlawfully interfering in decisions that should be made by doctors and their patients,” said the NY AG's office. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The new NIH multi-year funding policy is a scheme to undercut the NIH budget and fund less science. And it’s working (see below). The Senate approps bill has language to limit MYF use, but the House version does not. Call your reps (House and Senate) and insist it’s included in the final bill! 🧪

And now we have the CDC's update, putting the country at 2,012 cases with a week to go in the year: www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

The Great Pandemic Rewrite minimized COVID, made it a lab leak, and attacked interventions. Now it is squarely focused on the vaccine— and the math doesn’t hold up. John Ioannidis has an order of magnitude problem. #CDC #vaccines 🧪 #episky #medsky open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

Another shake-up of scientific leadership is underway at NIH after a policy clash over the alleged dangers of funding a study that would alter seasonal flu viruses. That grant is now suspended, Science has learned, and the leader of the NIH division that oversaw it has resigned.

Vaccine policy should be guided by evidence. The evidence doesn’t support the U.S. copying Denmark’s. 🔗 Read the full Viewpoint from the Vaccine Integrity Project: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

I will also note I have heard from sources outside NIH, including in Congress, who feel like the renewals are not due to Memoli and/or Bhattacharya 'persuading' anyone -- but instead due to public attention and pressure.

Excellent piece illustrating the fallacy of RFKJr and Hoeg making accusations the USA over vaccinate & conflicts with other countries. This is not the case - it’s brutally similar to many and each country vaccine policy reflects its health infrastructure, population and budget constraints.

Well things are finally looking up wait no that’s just the child mortality rate my bad

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

🧵 Essential ID Papers for 2025: A Clinician’s Guide Each year brings a flood of amazing ID literature. Here are candidates for some of the most important ID papers of 2025, spanning guidelines, trials, antimicrobials, and vaccines. 👇

“A long list of scholarly articles gives a veneer of authenticity, and most people won’t bother to look more closely at the studies. That’s why researchers have an obligation to keep watch for how their studies are being used and to speak up when their work is twisted and weaponized.”

The NYT panel's response to the recent change in ACIP guidance on HepB vaccination at birth seems rather lukewarm. A recent study predicts 1400 more HepB infections, 300 more cases of liver cancer, 480 deaths and $222 million excess costs each year from this policy. hepvu.org/news-updates...

"Federal cuts this year will increase the risk of foodborne illness in the future, including a reduced number of pathogens monitored by surveillance, a drain of foodborne illness staff at the CDC and FDA amid low morale and overwork, and cuts to the administrative staff who support FDA inspectors."

Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good go.nature.com/4iZwCXT

Latest update from Caitlin Rivers: Influenza test positivity has risen from 8.5% to 14.8% as flu activity is rising quickly in nearly every state. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...

“Once-unthinkable” here should be “in wild and blatant violation of the law and the US Constitution.” At NIH alone: The RIFs were illegal (as a judge, Illston, ruled). The grant terminations were illegal (Young ruling). The probationary firings were illegal (Alsop ruling). We must say this. 1/

Nothing to see here Just the NIH Director speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 👀

Paywalled but... a bit of good news. We'll have to watch what happens next.

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

New piece from @celinegounder.com about how antivax disinformation tactics are making their way to the CDC via the McCullough foundation.

[In approx] "117 million children born during 1994–2023, routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented approximately 508 million lifetime cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations, and 1,129,000 deaths, at a net savings of $540 billion in direct costs and $2.7 trillion in societal costs."

@science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

The former head of R&D for Pfizer warns the future doesn't look great biopharma. People looking for new cancer drugs, cures for rare diseases, or thinking about what we'd need in the next pandemic, take note. The concern here isn't just dividents & stock prices. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/p...

Bill Cassidy come get your boy

research is an act of resistance

BREAKING: The U.S. is preparing to stop recommending most childhood vaccines and defer to doctors instead. The plan, which is not finalized, marks a fundamental shift in the U.S. vaccine strategy, @lenasun.bsky.social & @rachelroubein.bsky.social report. Gift link: wapo.st/4aXfzn5

🎁 Gift article: "A Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting 'crazier and crazier in public health'.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

NIH funding is like pizza 🍕. Usually, the NIH gives many researchers a slice of the pie, but this year they decided to just give a few researchers the whole pie. The data show that, disproportionately, early career researchers went hungry. We need Congress to stop NIH multi-year funding mandates.

The White House plans to break up a key weather and climate research center in Colorado, a move experts say could jeopardize the accuracy of forecasting and prediction systems. n.pr/4b0Esyh

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

If only we could try to emulate Denmark’s gun laws instead of its vaccine schedule

Yes, @davidaldridgedc.bsky.social , 1,000 times yes! Seattle must get an NBA team back. www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...

My latest: Last month, RFK Jr.'s dep. sec. staged something of a coup against FDA boss Marty Makary. The White House waved it off. But what a year: 4,000 staff out, a drop in foreign inspections and $$ restrictions that left lab staff sitting idle. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

Hotez: "They picked Denmark because they administer the fewest vaccines of any Western country... depriving Americans of vaccines for meningitis and rotavirus which are major causes of morbidity and mortality of America’s children. They’ve not done their epidemiological homework."

47's admin will fund a $1.6m study on hepatitis B vax of newborns in Guinea-Bissau, where 1/5 adults live w/ the virus. It's a move researchers call “highly unethical” & “extremely risky” because the proven-to-be-safe vax will be withheld from 1/2 of the babies. No pay wall.

There's two ways to do this: 1. Give fewer of the existing shots 2. Remove components from the existing vaccine schedule The problem with #1 is the FDA approval and RCTs are based on the schedule as defined. The problem with #2 is how do you pick which diseases to no longer protect against?

HHS is reportedly planning to adopt Denmark’s vaccine schedule. The comparison driving this policy is totally misguided, and the consequences for American children would be severe. open.substack.com/pub/jakescot...

This is a great story about trying to do ordinary pluralist politics under the lawless rule of an administration that exclusively understands politics in the friend-enemy mode. CO senators try to protect a home state research center which Vought lawlessly seeks to abolish as an enemy institution

What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...