David Morens' name should be trending. A 78-year-old doctor who worked in the NIH and has no criminal record was abducted from his home by armed federal agents and *stripped* before being transported away--all because the DOJ now works to validate right-wing conspiracy theories like the lab leak.

1/8 A 78-year-old scientist faces 51 years in prison. His crimes? Gmail. Informal emails. Two bottles of wine. The DOJ's case against Dr. David Morens is a political witch-hunt. @peterdaszak.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social #DavidMorens #COVID19

1/8 A 78-year-old scientist faces 51 years in prison. His crimes? Gmail. Informal emails. Two bottles of wine. The DOJ's case against Dr. David Morens and others is a political witch-hunt. @peterdaszak.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social #DavidMorens #COVID19

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... Face of social murder inc. @doritreiss.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @peterdaszak.bsky.social @joncohen.bsky.social #RFKjr #publichealth #nih

The lab leak bullshit has only ever been a tool of politically motivated right-wing operatives and politicians looking to undermine public health and doctors and scientists. And why? Because big business didn’t like shutdowns. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

“The agencies have been pummeled down”: A conversation with Dorit Reiss on the state of American public health www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social @wswsrss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy

Daszak speaks on Mat Ridley and the NIH freedom lecture. @philippmarkolin.bsky.social @peterdaszak.bsky.social @kgandersen.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Science is not neutral: The rubella vaccine and the attack on public health www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

Looking back at this after a couple weeks, it's amazing that this "20% divergent viruses" data point was the very first point in Matt Ridley's summary of his case for a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2. Here's a figure folks can use who run into this argument in the future. 20% divergence is the norm.

"The question is not whether another spillover is coming. It is whether the world will have destroyed the very people and systems capable of detecting it before it arrives." This is such a good quote.

"Politically, the “lab leak” narrative is not a legitimate scientific controversy; it is a manufactured, state-aligned propaganda campaign." The monumental injustice against virologists and Peter Daszak meticulously recounted here

@peterdaszak.bsky.social @philippmarkolin.bsky.social @kgandersen.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Deviousness with no bounds! Kennedy secretary of death and disease! @peterdaszak.bsky.social @walkerbragman.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social @doritreiss.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

1/ "The pandemic revealed, with terrible clarity, the incompatibility of capitalism with the most basic requirements of public health": @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

CDC slashes vaccine schedule: Trump-Kennedy atrocity against children’s lives and health www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

Prof @doritreiss.bsky.social puts the Trump admin’s decimation of public health into context: historically, building on past anti-vaccine attacks & legally, by showing us that vaccine mandates are well thought out reasonable norms for civilized societies. Great interview @benjaminmateus.bsky.social!

CDC-funded study in Guinea-Bissau exposes character of Kennedy’s vaccine agenda: the study lacks clinical equipoise and will intentionally expose babies to harm. www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

Vaccine policy, class and the erosion of public health protection: An interview - Kennedy has been dismantling both good governance and expert agencies, which previously required substantial accomplishments from members. www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social @WSWS.org

Thanks for a great day in DC marching to call for RFK’s removal. Great photo op with @solnatamd.medsky.social @drericding.bsky.social

Be there… or be square…

Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: thank you, Dr. @benjaminmateus.bsky.social, for discussing these issues with me. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

As we noted in our coverage of the first round of ACIP picks, Robert Malone is a senior advisor to IMA. www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...

Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

As this article notes, one of the potential new ACIP members is affiliated with the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, known for promoting the anti-parasitic ivermectin for Covid. This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is completely melting down and shouting at Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota, accusing her of making stuff up after she confronted him with his bullshit. America is going great…

"The bigger picture is that these emerging risks are a product of unchecked economic growth & industrial-scale agriculture that increases viral spillover. If we don’t change those underlying drivers, we’ll remain in the pandemic era.” Thanks @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Fight back against the undermining of public health - join us in siging the petition cited in this article by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

I gave a very long interview to @benjaminmateus.bsky.social about my book Lab Leak Fever and the politics surrounding the lab leak controversy. Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions. Some highlights in thread ⬇️ 1/ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

This is the very definition of anti-science GRIFT! Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with a company selling “spike protein detox” @walkerbragman.bsky.social lifts the lid again. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...

NEW: Earlier this month, HHS announced it was discontinuing mRNA vaccine research.To justify the move, it linked to a document purporting to chronicle COVID vaccine harms. The document was authored by prominent anti-vaxxers—some with ties to a supplements company that sells a spike protein “detox.”

The lab leak theory is not a scientific theory, but a poorly thought-out myth. In my chat with @destiny.gg , I describe the two main challenges any scientific lab leak theory would need to have an answer for. Spoiler: It has nothing to do with biosafety at the Wuhan lab. 1/

Inspirational interview from @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. Christian Frei can't help but show the sensitivity of his approach: "For me, Blame isn’t just about virus origins. It’s about the breakdown of shared reality, & the political consequences of abandoning science when we need it most."

Something else: Bhattacharya is transparently ego-driven. His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD. Then, it was full steam ahead.

Remarkable interview; deep, insightful, thought-provoking. ..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well. He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Having your dangerous, unscientific ideas heard and then rejected by the mainstream of public health does not equate to censorship of those ideas.

Everyone needs to watch this essential video breaking down the evidence against the COVID lab leak narrative from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social. Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.

The National Academy of Sciences is effectively undermining science by choosing to stay silent and outright platforming anti-scientific agendas. It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The CDC ACIP meeting was not a scientific forum; instead the induction of pseudoscience and antivaccine within the public health edifice-acting like a dangerous festering infection @peterdaszak.bsky.social @walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Great Read from @walkerbragman.bsky.social on shambolic ACIP meeting. Republicans agree: Sen. Kennedy asked mtg. to be delayed 'til committee "staffed w/ robust..expertise". One of his picks withdrew. Meanwhile Am. Assoc Pediatrics refused to take part. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...

HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians. The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week. It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...

SAGO Report is out: 1️⃣ No new data in report 2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered 3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis 4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak 5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later. share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...

WHO SAGO report is out. Nothing unexpected, they say all hypotheses must remain on the table but weight-of-evidence supports zoonotic origin. About as vanilla statement as it gets with little appetite to upset politics and organize a proper consensus assessment share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...

One of the organizers of The Bethesda Declaration 👇👇

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

Part of @benjaminmateus.bsky.social's series of articles reviewing COVID-19's implications for public health and its intersection with politics

Comprehensive review of Blame by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social "Blame is not just a documentary. It is a field report. A case study. A moral reckoning. Blame is not merely a defense of scientists; it is a defense of the very idea that truth still matters." Must read: www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Amazing analysis - selective interpretations, conflicts of interest with supplement selling, undisclosed AI content.. and to top it all, this report is a rehash of an earlier Children’s Health Defense diatribe. Is this the best we can do for health leadership here in the USA???

🧵New from me: MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD infoepi.substack.com/p/maha-plag...