🚨 NEW PROFILE: Joseph Marine, Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine On the shortlist of nominees for the next CDC Director, Marine's only "qualifications" is public displays of fealty to RFK Jr. - he cannot be confirmed. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE WIDELY: www.panaccindex.info/p/patient-be...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ebiomedicine.bsky.social

Good coverage of new "Scientific Freedom Lecture" series at NIH from @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/science/2026... 1/2

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Testing the performance of polygenic scores for multiple traits to explain cerebral palsy risk in two independent cohorts genemappers-2026.p.asnevents.com.au/days/2026-03...

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

The #economics of avoided effort is funny: we often pay #money to outsource physical activity ...and then pay again to do the activity ourselves. Want more examples? In this post, I elaborate, propose solutions, answer objections, etc. Which experiments you have tried? How did it go?

NIH is “…the largest government-funded biomedical research agency in the world, and until recently was the envy of scientists across the globe. The president’s attacks on this legacy have been relentless and all-encompassing…” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

This piece by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social is one for the ages. The damage Donald Trump (under the guidance of Russell Vought) has done to biomedical research is profound and will be long-lasting. It is a national tragedy to be measured in the sick and the dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Nailed it.

"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it. bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com

I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore abcnews.com/Politics/wir... via @mikestobbe.bsky.social

There hasn’t been a food pyramid in 15 years. What they’ve done is paint a thin patina of well established and long recommended advice over a giant pile of harmful bullshit that does nothing to address the core problems with American diets.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

Found this 9 or 10 years ago. Wish I knew who to credit.

What could possibly go wrong? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

Weekend reads: Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted; a paper mill detector for cancer research articles; infant opioid poisoning report flagged

Prasad is even more of a piece of shit now than when I mocked him about his pandemic disinformation a year ago. www.knudsensnews.com/post/vinay-p...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

"NIH has terminated or frozen 116 cancer research grants ($273 million), 65 Alzheimer's research grants ($94 million), 68 diabetes grants ($83 million), and 71 heart disease grants ($111 million)..." www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Jay's passion for replication famously only applies to research he doesn't already agree with.

A journal has retracted the largest leucovorin trial in people with autism—one of just five randomized clinical trials assessing this treatment in autistic people. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

“This is so dangerous as to approach criminality” is my opinion about RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan’s statements. Instead of seeing the measles outbreak as the preventable tragedy it is, he views it as an opportunity to see how many kids die. Another great piece by @melodyschreiber.com.

Judge stands up to the Ministry of Truth. www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-...

In this video, Podcast Jay says doctors lied about COVID killing patients. Today, he blames "elites" for breaking public trust.

A sad day at NIH... The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH. Many important stories published there over the years. nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power. a 🧵 www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

The Panda et al (2024) paper on leucovorin treatment for autism that we raised concern about in our PubPeer comment in September has been retracted. #autism #leucovorin #folinicacid link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... 220 studies in 132 million people- similar in multiple countries and *no* safety concerns. But why let facts get in the way of blind ignorance and determined dogma

Bovino pricing flights to Buenos Aires.

I don't think you're supposed to talk about the discombobulator outside of the cone of silence. www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/p...

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

New video just moments before...he was filming ICE and they were harassing him. Source: www.reddit.com/r/law/s/vPGa...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"