That's not good, right.

To every journalist covering Greenland: the issue is whether 50,000 people can be bought and sold without their consent. That’s all. If yes, what was the US Civil War for? And who is next?

Great to see two papers out that show the benefits of RSV vaccination (monoclonal treatment) to prevent severe RSV infection. A quick thread to unpick what these vaccines are as there are 2 quite different products in clinical use and it can be confusing what the terminology means. #HealthPolicy 🧵

This also happened this week...

He feigns ignorance, but is deliberately undermining vaccines that have demonstrably saved millions of lives... Typical.

Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months." Conspiratorial nonsense. Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.

RFKJr who has long been a campaigner against vaccines has announced the biggest change to US vaccine policy yet by announcing a cut of routine childhood vaccine vaccinations during childhood from 17 jabs to just 11. #HealthPolicy 🧵

So yesterday Trump mused about a 3rd term, said ideally he'd cancel elections because Democrats are evil, and today it emerged that he's appropriated all the proceeds of Venezuela's oil industry can we (ie number 10) *please* stop saying US is our closest ally. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Righty ho.

Hope it will be stopped but agree the damage RFKjr doing to trust in vaccines is extensive regardless of court outcome

Starting my New Year's Resolution a bit late.

Chickenpox vaccine could eradicate the virus in the UK in a decade www.thetimes.com/article/90ad...

Happy new year!

A mere one month from Trump winning the inaugural Fifa peace prize for his "exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace".

A reminder that Venezuela is a signatory to the Rome Statute. So crimes committed on its soil are subject to jurisdiction of ICC, including 👇 www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org/Crimes/Crime...

I’m excited about the real-life experimental medicine question of whether this will reduce risk of future Alzheimer’s?

Assumption comes from a series of excellent, big data papers on reduced risk associated with zoster vaccination

Anyone else think that we're in a particularly bad game of Risk at the moment.

“Like Mark Antony minus the toga and brains, he struts and preens, cries havoc! and lets slip the dogs of war.” Well penned, Simon Tisdall. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump's press conference opens with "Late last night and early today, at my direction, the United States armed forces conducted an extraordinary military operation in the capital of Venezuela" "Extraordinary military operation" sounds quite a lot like "special military operation", don't you think.

I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

Compare and contrast with bsky.app/profile/ones...

Didn’t someone do a RCT showing that health visitors are “ineffective”? Healthcare is a complex system; we need to stop relying on 20th century research tools.

To clarify: I’m being cynical about the reliance on RCT evidence. Thanks @profsarahcowley.bsky.social for confirming - there was no RCT but policy decisions to withdraw HVs were made because no RCT had shown benefit.

I talked to the lovely Dan Snow about how the Roman Empire never fell - but evolved - and my book, Domination: youtu.be/HynJ2_9_Rmk?...

What a speech! Really worth listening to in full. Cant help thinking we would be far better off if our countries were run by some of our mayors @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @london.gov.uk @annehidalgo.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social youtu.be/NFVT5iUV8bA?...

Happy 2026 folks! S

We don't know if the BA.3.2.2 saltation will mirror BA.2.86>JN1. Yet, I'm struck by complacency & cognitive dissonance wrt vax & possible impact. For flu, a handful of HA muts is bad clinically, despite OK ANNUAL vax ND50. BA.3.2.2 is off the map, but apparently all is well...

We don't know if the BA.3.2.2 saltation will mirror BA.2.86>JN1. Yet, I'm struck by complacency & cognitive dissonance wrt vax & possible impact. For flu, a handful of HA muts is bad clinically, despite OK ANNUAL vax ND50. BA.3.2.2 is off the map, but apparently all is well...

Want a 2.5 minute primer on the ingenuity of randomised controlled trials? Of course you do.

Good morning!

Let’s go back to 2010! We didn’t need cancer pathways as urgent referrals were seen in 2-3 weeks, routine in 2-3 months Recruitment was rising, jobs were good. It wasn’t perfect but in 4 decades of NHS work it was the best it had been THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED ….

Oh my God it just keeps getting worse. This #RFK sponsored #hepatitis vaccine trial in #Guinea-Bissau is being run by people whose research methods have been totally discredited. This isn’t research, it’s gun-for-hire antivax nonsense. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

We've been doing wastewater metagenomics for 2 years. In the first 20 months we never detected measles once. However, in the last 4 months we've detected it 10 times across numerous states. It's going endemic again; good reason to get vaccinated. health.hawaii.gov/news/newsroo...

Interesting article that suggests that RFKJr can’t change the childhood vaccine schedule to the Danish vaccine schedule that easily as has to follow laws. I hope so but I worry his pincer moves to discredit vaccine ingredients whilst funding dubious research into eg autism causes will enable him

Turns out to be a pretty average flu year that started a bit earlier. NHS and Govt have a responsibility to communicate data responsibly and they failed this winter.

And finally we come around full circle to the human centipede. As with many apparatchiks, it's all too often someone else's shit that is passing through his lips.

For all my anger how the damage he did during the initial phases of the COVID pandemic and my distrust him based on everything he's done since, this genuinely makes me sad.

But it's totally normal for the head of NIH not to speak with AAAS Science, right? See how bad he is at this?

Once again JPAI revealing himself as the most clueless motherfucker in the 94305 zip code. If not for Jay, things would get political, he explains.

You can't make this shit up. The man has the charisma of a hung-over JD Vance.

I wouldn't describe Jay as "man in the middle" unless I were making sort of human centipede analogy.

Persona non grata-ing your own ambassadors does appear to be a novel way of doing diplomacy.

Well done, Canada.

“new evidence that first exposure to SARS-CoV-2 antigens via vaccination strengthens the long-term protective effect of hybrid immunity”…Overall, the study highlights the role of the vaccination campaigns against SARS-CoV-2 by helping shape a strong immune response as new variants emerge.”

@profstevegriffin.bsky.social has been saying all along letting children get their first experience as the virus (almost inevitable) rather than the vaccine, is reprehensible.

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.

Could never happen here... "[BBC's Newsnight] will lose its dedicated reporters, be shortened by 10 minutes and drop its investigative films to focus on studio-based debates." www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...