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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

Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation

This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.

I think we’re know why there are so many questions on this test about the reproductive anatomy of children.

IKR? My octogenarian father got them all the time.

Ugh. So bad. So clueless.

Good morning! MAGA/MAHA dude Jay Bhattacharya will forever be remembered as RFK Jr’s biggest champion (he campaigned for him/spoke at his rallies) & the NIH director who presided over the destruction of US health research—including childhood brain cancer research 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

Public health needs to resist like this!