The antivax movement has a central conspiracy theory, but there is also a central delusion behind MAHA, revealed by a blogger with the ‘nym Unbekoming, that the body is "perfect" and medicine seeks to tamper with its perfection. sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-unbekomi...

Yep. Lockdown Jay is a useful idiot for Project 2025.

But wait. Podcast Jay was co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a “let ‘er rip” approach to COVID in order to reach “natural herd immunity” in under 6 months. Not that he’s actually responsible, it seems he’s not so thrilled with that approach. Maybe it was all performative.

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Nice survey, there, Steve. Be a shame if something happened to it. (He only asks for an email address. I'm sure he also logs IPs, but that's what VPNs are for.) kirschsubstack.com/p/my-most-im...

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Amazing how this blast from the past antivaxxer has flown under the radar for so long since he was hired last year. He and his Dad improperly tried to combine patient databases well over 20 years ago to “prove” that vaccines cause autism.

I love how AI tech bros don’t know basic history. Or don’t care.

Antivaxxers have long claimed that all you need is quarantine for diseases like measles and they’d voluntarily quarantine. I was writing about this at least a decade ago. They lie, of course. The “quarantine” gambit is nothing more than a distraction to falsify imply that vaccines are unnecessary.

Antivaxxers and quacks have always killed. The only difference now is that their being in charge of the federal health apparatus of the wealthiest nation on earth allows their beliefs to become policies that kill on a massive scale.

More please. These tech bro billionaires need to hear it.

From my perspective at @sciencebasedmedicine.org, the word "scientism" has come to be little more than a slur word beloved of quacks, antivaxxers, and assorted cranks. It basically means, "Science is harshing my buzz over something that I want desperately to believe in, and I don't like it."

What version of hell is this where the National Academy of Sciences is being lectured by Lauren Boebert about what constitutes “gold standard” practices?

“Desecrating Homer”? It’s not a sacred story, at least not on 2026.

Can’t wait for for Vinay’s take on topics I’ve been blogging about for over 30 years. I mean, one of the longevity bolts he’s looking at is by Mark Hyman, whose nonsense I’ve been writing about since at least 2007 or 2008.🙄

Once again, conservative straight men are obsessing over children's genitals.

The only thing that surprises me is that RFK Jr. waited so long to get serious about this.

Earlier this month, @pnas.org published credulous nonsense about acupuncture so bad that I thought it couldn’t be topped. “Hold my beer!” cried National Geographic, as it proceeded to top PNAS. sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-credulo...

Can I just say how much I hate insurance company prior authorization peer-to-peer demands? Just sayin'.

Happy Mothra Day!

This dude was a conservative activist academic at an institution, the Hoover Institution, that hires people based on their conservative ideological biases.

Bravo, well done.

Methinks he doth protest too much.

That’s always been where I figured he’d end up after the FDA, right back at @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social. One wonders what he’ll do there, though. Didn’t he let his board certification lapse? If so, he can’t take care of patients.

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

Sad but true. Makary’s statements about COVID and vaccines were *anything* but “measured.” Before that, in 2016, he published an abysmal “study” that falsely concluded that medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death. He’s long spread disinformation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-...

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. This is what you get for abasing yourself to Trump, MAGA, and MAHA.

I've been saying this ever since Trump was elected again. They don't want to eliminate Medicare. They want to privatize it and force everyone into Medicare Advantage plans in order to make it an even bigger profit center for insurance companies. Here's the first big step. fortune.com/2026/05/07/m...

My first personal encounter with cancer quackery with I was a resident. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-orange-m...

Anyone who’s paid attention to RFK Jr.’s antivax career over the last tweet decades knows that he’s vindictive af.

This is what I’ve meant these many years when I refer to EBM fundamentalism or methodolatry, defined as the profane worship of the randomized controlled clinical trial as the only valid method of clinical investigation.

Thanks for taking the bullet. I've listened to so much RFK Jr. over the last two decades in the Internet trenches opposing the antivax movement that I'm happy to pass on voluntarily listening to him more, particularly when I can't escape him anymore.

A lot of outlets aligned with MAHA are calling for the elimination of the FDA. It’s all recycled “health freedom” revisionist history and ahistorical nonsense. The real goal is to eliminate the FDA and give quacks freedom from pesky laws and regulation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-vs-the-...

A lot of outlets aligned with MAHA are calling for the elimination of the FDA. It’s all recycled “health freedom” revisionist history and ahistorical nonsense. The real goal is to eliminate the FDA and give quacks freedom from pesky laws and regulation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-vs-the-...

Absolutely 💯 “We CaN dIsAgrEe AnD sTiLl Be FrIeNdS” Yeah about college basketball and what to dip fries in, not basic human rights.

The utter incompetence of this administration no longer shocks me.

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January 6 has entered the chat.🙄

I’ve been warning people about this since Trump was elected. It’s all about converting the entire NIH into the research arm of MAHA and, of course, turning the NIH into a patronage system to reward MAHA (and MAGA) loyalists. It’s Lysenkoism 2.0.

A new article claiming that placebos can work as well as “real medicine” is making the rounds on social media parroting several old myths to make this argument, which makes now a good time to address common myths about placebos long beloved by quacks. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-myth-of-...

Tetanus deaths still happening in the USA — vaccine prevents it www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Yup. Even if every other participant other than Podcast Jay and his cronies were perfectly reputable and even outstanding, Jay is the turd in the swimming pool. He contaminates everything he touches, including @nationalacademies.org.

Yes. There is nothing *structurally* outrageous about pushing this far superior method onto the allegedly strict payline ICs. The question is solely about who is deciding and on what basis.

I wish I could be surprised by this, but I’m not. This same narrative is a pretty general narrative among MAHA and its predecessors.

Accurate.

A functional medicine doctor is shocked that Kennedy is, in fact, anti-vaccine and does not care about the social determinants of health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/kevinmd-plat... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org.web.brid.gy @gorskon.bsky.social

Sadly, this is predictable. The mainstream press is so desperate for a “normal” HHS Secretary that it readily laps up any drivel coming from RFK Jr. declaring that he’s “not antivaccine” and report it as though credible. It’s not. RFK Jr. lies constantly, especially when he denies being antivax.

And here’s the problem. This is about the drama and the conflict, not about improving public health. The false equivalence in this whole effort is mind-boggling. This is not debate and dialogue. It’s sanewashing MAHA.

Of course, RFK Jr. lies almost s as much as his current boss.

JFC. Does he not remember where the 1918 flu pandemic first took off in the US? It was in Army barracks in Kansas, and it spread with US troops as they shipped off to Europe to fight.