Giving a Grand Rounds talk at Brown University for "National Public Health Week" next Wednesday at noon "Seeing through epidemiological fallacies: How statistics safeguards scientific communication in a polarized era" Link to register is below if you want to come! events.brown.edu/event/327327...

MIT’s UnDark published this interview with me discussing a few points from my new white paper on the U.S. vaccine safety monitoring system, and follow up points related to myocarditis, childhood vaccine rollouts, and the new Vaers report coming from the fda undark.org/2025/12/19/i...

My paper summarizing the multi-component US vaccine safety monitoring system has just posted online. The key components of the system include: 1. pre-licensure clinical trials 2. passive monitoring (VAERs) 3. active monitoring (VSD, PRISM) 4. clinical analysis (CISA).

Last month I gave a webinar for AAAS (publisher of the journal Science) entitled: "Seeing Through Epidemiologic Fallacies: How Statistics Safeguards Scientific Communication in a Polarized Era" AAAS posted the webinar on their YouTube page -- link is below. youtu.be/GQtA9N_Dwog?...

I’ve written an article for The Conversation about the so-called “Inconvenient Study,” described as a landmark study demonstrating vaccines cause chronic health conditions in children, highlighting its major design flaws and statistical problems that prevent it from showing what its promoters claim

ACIP voted to drop the MMRV combo shot for kids <4 due to seizure risk. But strangely, they blocked coverage under CMS/private plans while still allowing it under VFC. No explanation given — even panelists seemed puzzled. End result: parents lose an option, but only for a random subset of kids.

A US senate subcommittee was told this unpublished vaccine study was 'the most important ever.' Henry Ford Health now confirms why it was never published: it failed scientific standards. Here's what's actually wrong with the study: jakescottmd.substack.com/p/why-the-senates-most-important-vaccine

1/12 Senate hearings highlighted a Henry Ford Health System study, billed as “An Inconvenient Study,” touted as proof vaccines raise childhood chronic-disease risk and allegedly suppressed. I reconstructed details from public sources; here are findings + concerns.

Jake Scott published his critique of the Henry Ford vaccine study presented at the senate hearing yesterday. www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/a...

I extensively contributed to this fact check on RFK’s critiques and calls to retract a recent Annals of Internal Medicine paper by Danish researchers showing dose of vaccine aluminum adjuvants does not increase risk of any of 50 chronic diseases including autism www.factcheck.org/2025/09/rfk-...

Deborah Fuller, a microbiologist from UWash, wrote this article pointing out many of the false statements made by RFK in his senate hearing yesterday and explaining why they were false.

Personal attacks to try to neutralize those not supporting his agenda and twisting and misrepresenting the truth As he continued to disassemble the CDC, he misrepresented their top 10 medical achievements to claim their priorities were wrong to justify his vicious attack www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

This is extraordinary — to attribute a >600-fold risk increase, from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 15, to one set of interventions is quite a claim...

“Sneakflation”: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers - CNN

People claim all kinds of things on social media. But how do we decide what is true, false, or uncertain — and how much should those judgments depend on the scientific evidence in the available literature?

Good description by Paul Offit -- I encourage you to listen to the entire video.

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This morning, the Atlantic published an article on David Geier, highlighting his history of publishing papers that claim associations between various vaccines and chronic conditions, including autism. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

New York Magazine just published an in-depth article about Mark and David Geier, tracing Mark’s professional journey—from his emergence as a prominent anti-vaccine advocate to the controversy that led to the loss of his medical license nymag.com/intelligence...

In this thread, Lauren Lee outlines what she believes is RFK Jr.’s strategy: to compile a large dossier of studies that appear to support his claims against vaccines, with the ultimate goal of this material being used in legal action against pharmaceutical companies... x.com/sheislaurenl...

RFK is fast to accuse others of financial conflict of interest with pharma to discredit and silence them. How can he refuse to commit to not financially benefit on the order of many of millions of $$ from urging people to sue pharma companies for vaccine injuries,

With important decisions on HPV vax coming to ACIP soon, does the fact that RFK been involved in lawsuit against it constitute a conflict of interest? Is his pledge to give any payments he receives if his case wins “to his son” sufficient to manage that conflict? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/h...

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, editor-in-chief for journal Vaccines, wrote this article on her views and concerns of changes on the ACIP panel, and her views on the specific members, why she thinks they were chosen, and what she sees about their potential biases rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/meet-the-a...

The 17 recently dismissed members of ACIP have written a letter do JAMA expressing their concerns about the abrupt dismissal and replacement 2 days later of 8 individuals. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The report HHS sent to congress to justify changes in vaccine recommendations for healthy non-elderly & pregnant people has all kinds of misrepresentations/errors as outlined by this report & clearly does not accurately reflect the state of the scientific literature kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

Wow. Now CDC has no interim director and no scientific advisory committee for immunization practices Is RFK de facto CDC director? Who will the new ACIP members be who will advise him & determine what recommendations come out of CDC for immunization practices? www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

Niall Ferguson, a conservative historian, was interviewed in this article about the state of our republic. The part I really see is the modern polarization and elimination of a common public sphere, which to me is the greatest threat to our republic and society www.noemamag.com/america-is-i...

Article in JAMA talking about the potential impact of the proposed focus on biomedical research funding based on current actions. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Promoting more transparent,  reproducible, rigorous research with carefully justified conclusions and uncertainty quantification is a great idea… www.science.org/content/arti...

The elimination of USA funding for global health initiatives will have devastating consequences for many in the world www.science.org/content/arti...

Major with this MAHA report with >500 purported references Numerous publications cited appear to not exist at all; others are blatantly mis-quoted/represented Is it possible someone used LLM AI write the report and it includes hallucinated papers that did not exist? www.notus.org/health-scien...

@saratalpos.bsky.social published a really nice article in MIT’s UnDark on Jay Bhattacharya undark.org/2025/05/27/j...

ASPPH has released Broken Lifelines: The Economic Consequences of Defunding Academic Public Health, a new report detailing how 2025 federal funding cuts are destabilizing the academic public health system and harming the broader US economy.

New policy for Covid-19 boosters from FDA executive leadership www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Increasing politicization of science is a terrible idea, and threatens to destroy the scientific leadership role of the USA in the world. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My Penn Biostatistics colleague Mingyao Li & two of our Biostatistics PhD students, Kyle Coleman & Shunzhou Jiang, have helped co-lead a new article published in Nature presenting spatial single cell transcriptomic characterization of brains of developing fetuses www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So proud of my little girl, Now Dr. Taylor Morris, DPT!!!

RFK claims “70% of pharmaceutical products in the world are sold to our country” but this is a false misrepresentation. His 70% number is exaggerated and is based on sale $ not number of products sold, which ignores the fact that USA pays more for prescriptions than other places in the world

I was interviewed for this USA Today article discussing COVID-era missteps, and their continuing impact on attitudes and beliefs on vaccines today.

Great article clarifying false statements by RFK on autism with evidence and studies www.factcheck.org/2025/04/rfk-...

The answer to the question "What diet works best to prevent obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer & Alzheimer’s?" is critical but remains elusive BMJ paper by colleague Mary Putt demonstrates how the problem may be rooted in poorly designed nutrition research www.bmj.com/content/389/...

This article written by @cremieux.bsky.social explains why they do NOT think there is an autism "epidemic" but that the clearly broadened diagnostic criteria and educational/financial incentives to diagnose can explain the increase. www.cremieux.xyz/p/whats-the-...