That’s exactly what RFK Jr.’s endgame is, but he knows he can’t just ban vaccines all at once. So he’s chipping away at access. The latest is that, as I predicted, he’s going after the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, plotting to bankrupt the system by adding autism as a compensable “injury.”

It was vaccines, autism, and acetaminophen on Monday, so why not climate science next?

Especially @gorskon.bsky.social

Apropos of nothing in particular, I'm always amused by trolls like this who announce they're blocking me. Basically, my response is: Shut up and block me. I don't need to know, nor do I care, if someone with whom I've never interacted decides to block me.

This article actually underplays how damaging Thompson was. True, Thompson was betrayed by Brian Hooker, who recorded their phone conversations without consent and gave the recordings to Andrew Wakefield, but WTF was Thompson doing badmouthing his collaborators to an antivaxxer in the first place?

Oh for f**k’s sake, they’re dragging all the moldy oldie activaxxers out of retirement.

The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery On Monday, the Four Horsemen of the Woo-pocalypse joined President Trump to blame autism on acetaminophen use during pregnancy. They couldn’t resist adding antivax misinformation as well.

Correlation vs Causation #tylenol #acetaminophen

A picture is worth 1000 words: At what I think was one of the most extreme, kooky, anti-science press conferences in history, you see Trump & RFK Jr’s henchmen—3 medically trained men doing their anti-vaxx bidding, Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, & Oz The damage these MDs are doing is incalculable

I’ve been combating medical misinformation for over two decades, and this feels not just quantitatively different, but qualitatively different.

Let me just point out that I first wrote about Donald Trump saying this sort of thing in 2007. It is nothing new, and he's long been influenced by antivax narratives...

The CDC’s newly reconstituted antivax ACIP met last week. The results weren’t as horrific as I’d expected, but not for lack of trying on the part of the antivax members. I’ll focus mainly on one presentation as a lens through which to look at the meeting. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...

Well, you were certainly right, as any who have followed @gorskon.bsky.social for years or watched Shot in the Arm: bsky.app/profile/john...

My state FTW!

This one will be in the 2025 year in review features this December for sure.

Indeed. That is why I frequently call them useful idiots for the regime, because that is exactly what they are.

Sad but true.

There are so many posts on the federal employees subreddits from folks who haven’t been able to find a job. It is going to be really really bad

None of the new appointees to the CDC vaccine panel have expertise in vaccines. The only difference between these people and Caligula’s horse is that the horse wasn’t an antivaxxer.

🚨 NEW: Marty Makary's House of VAERS The head of the FDA is attempting to scare American parents with unreliable "evidence" to stop parents from vaccinating their children against a virus that has killed & disabled far too many. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: pandemicindex.substack.com/p/marty-maka...

The @fda.gov appears to be about to weaponize an antivax trope against COVID-19 vaccines, the abuse of reports to VAERS to falsely portray them as deadly, as news reports suggest RFK Jr. will further restrict access to COVID-19 and three childhood vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...

As did I, and I had to do a little last minute wrangling with my insurance company, which was initially not going to cover it. I would’ve paid out of pocket if I had to, but I shouldn’t have to. The vaccine should be covered.

And, of course, they get to define “mourning him properly” means.🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

If you haven't gotten your updated COVID vaccine by now, book an appointment fast before next week's ACIP meeting. After that, you might not be able to get one. I plan on getting mine this weekend if I possibly can. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

I’ve been writing for two decades about how antivaxxers misuse and abuse VAERS to blame vaccines for complications they do not cause. Anyone who’s been paying attention to the antivax movement expected that. RFK Jr. would do this. Next it’ll be autism.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Something to ponder…

Charlie Kirk’s death is awful and abhorrent but it’s appalling that the President is calling for national mourning for a right wing propagandist and hasn’t said a word about Officer David Rose or the brave employees at the CDC

I’m sorry to say that MAGA now appears to have its very own Horst Wessel. I fear what will come next.

Funny how fast McCullough turned quack grifter. Actually, no it’s not.

@gorskon.bsky.social covered McCullough's Nattokinase hype that very year in @sciencebasedmedicine.org. 2/3 sciencebasedmedicine.org/base-spike-d...

Funny how that worked out…not really.

"Public health is under siege in our country. This time it is not from fringe communities scattered across the nation but from our appointed leaders, who were nominated by our president and confirmed by our elected officials in the Senate." A must-read anonymous piece www.bmj.com/content/390/...

It’s an old antivax trope.

Sadly, we are doing just that.

To understand #MAHA, it is important to understand that MAHA denies or minimizes two big branches of biomedical science related to health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/denial-of-ge...

“Nice university ya got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”

...I mean, I remember @gorskon.bsky.social and others making this very warning when Kennedy's nomination was still be debated. We bloody well knew this would happen, #RFKjr has shown nothing but contempt for evidence and public health his whole career, & the consequences will last decades

Keep up the good work, @gorskon.bsky.social 👏👏👏

I was honored to be invited to join the pod to discuss RFK Jr! I hope I helped illuminate some things!

New Episode! Discussing the tumultuous last couple of weeks at the CDC, what RFK Jr stands to gain from it & what troubling changes lie ahead for public health. With @gorskon.bsky.social & Prop of @coolzonemedia.bsky.social iTunes: tinyurl.com/2xba4kud Spotify: tinyurl.com/4h3turbx

Vinay Prasad had YouTube censor Jonathan Howard’s channel because he didn’t like how it made him look. A petty act by a vindictive, unqualified hack. And more evidence that these frEe sPeEcH warriors have always been petty censors out to silence criticism that they just can’t cope with.

In case anyone wondered why I let my subscription to The Atlantic lapse years ago.

Going to sit down for a nice chat about all the exciting, totally precedented and absolutely normal stuff happening over at the CDC. Being joined by hip hop artist Prop and @gorskon.bsky.social. What other show does that?

What is Vinay Prasad afraid of? Coward.

The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.

Correct. To them science policy is a weapon. They view funding scientific grants in much the same way that the Godfather viewed his favors and patronage, as rewards for loyalty and service or as a favor given that mandates a "service" in return, as demonstrated by the very first scene in the movie.

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices