Anti-vaxxers have long weaponized VAERS, which, as this article notes, is just a repository of *unverified* reports. An adverse reaction found in VAERS is not necessarily indicative of anything, but anti-vaxxers prey on low health and information literacy to sow doubt.

this needs to be a bigger story — RFK is rushing to appoint SEVEN more anti-vaccine extremists to his phony vaccine panel so it’s packed with quacks. my read? he’s panicking and accelerating his plans to take away all of our vaccines. free to read: wapo.st/3JStzDh

More work with @pallipsych.bsky.social is out today! We asked nursing home staff about their perceptions of palliative care, their engagement with advance cafe planning and which components of pall care are most valuable to them. doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

RFK Jr. just implied that antidepressants cause suicide. This is false.

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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

Latest Gallup poll data reveal, once again, that the main obstacles to unions in the the US are broken labor laws and employer aggression Two-thirds of the US public approves of labor unions, but unions only represent about 11 percent of the workforce

Major update: As of this morning, CVS says it's decided it can offer the vax in 13 of the 16 states IF you get a prescription. Still a big new barrier for many people, but a change from its "no vaccines at all in these states" position yesterday. The three remaining absolute-nos are MA, NV and NM.

My latest paper is out!! In Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), we investigated areas that clinical staff identified needs for palliative care support. www.jamda.com/article/S152...

the expression "never the twain shall meet" is about how Mark Twain will never hear Man! I Feel Like A Woman

If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

I will never understand why the media feels the need to whitewash RFK Jr constantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"

tl;dr- egotistical edgelord intoxicatingly enamored with the (false) idea that he's far smarter than everyone else and therefore superior

As others have commented, this requirement has ethical problems. It would unethical to use a placebo as a control if an effective vaccine exists.

There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%. Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below). Vaccinate.

"If you look at a long period of time, a lot of our increase in living standards seems to be coming from public investment in scientific research." The devastating cuts to science funding aren't just academic, they threaten our livelihoods and wellbeing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

6/ HHS Sec.'s job is to oversee med. product safety (e.g., FDA) & ensure public trust. Thus, RFK Jr. shld be saying, "HHS is here to protect your kids. Instead, he's saying the opposite: Parents (Moms): don't trust us to do this technical work. It's your parental responsibility to do it yourself.

4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers. ...

“Do your own research” also implies that research cannot be a collective enterprise, that there is no purpose to funding actual scientific research, and that you should just manage your child’s healthcare with no guardrails.

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

Who needs data when you can have vibes like "the COVID-19 vaccine made people more hesitant about other vaccines" "the US is an outlier in its vaccination policy" Wanna guess what else we're an outlier in? Healthcare accessibility. Burden of comorbidities. COVID-19 death toll.

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

Rural health care providers are staring down existential threats from both cuts to Medicaid and the elimination of HRSA initiatives www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

A preliminary budget draft leaked to the Washington Post outlines plans by the Trump administration to cut: - the NIH budget by 40% - the CDC budget by 44% - the HHS budget by 33% This will not make America healthy. It will make Americans sicker and more vulnerable to disease outbreaks.

You mean this data—health data—where Medicare beneficiary privacy is of the utmost importance and researchers go to enormous lengths to protect it? And get like fined massive amounts for disclosure? That’s the data that is being shared with immigration?

tfw you're sitting right on top of a giant blaring cautionary tale

Are you ready to get spicier - cages are not good solutions to human problems - profiteering and power hoarding are destructive - land should not be privately owned and the violent maintenance of this colonial system is the actual root of our problems (not republicans or the supreme court etc)

To all my new followers, hello, welcome! Here are some things I believe: - you deserve to be treated with respect & dignity - you deserve democracy in your workplace - you deserve time to rest - you deserve care - you deserve clean air and water - everyone else deserves these things too. Everyone

Respectfully, do they know how vaccination works?

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

I was recently asked by BU’s Public Health Post to write up a short reader-friendly summary of a paper I published last year in @jmirpub.bsky.social! Here’s a link to my PHP article for those interested! publichealthpost.org/mental-behav...

I cannot express to you in words how funny the fifth sentence in this first screenshot is. I completely lost it.

RFK Jr.: "Pharmaceutical drugs are the third-biggest killer of Americans." This is straightforwardly false. The original claim is that MEDICAL ERROR is the third leading cause of death in the US. That is also a lie, based on terrible science: gidmk.substack.com/p/medical-er...

deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong even if they are in a gang or have a criminal record deporting people is wrong

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego

So, for any universities who are not paying attention or thinking they will be spared, here it is, as plain as day. Pushing back individually and as a group is the only rational strategy.

So, yeah. According to the Atlantic article (link below), it was RFK Jr. who revealed to the public the full name of the 8-year-old girl who died from measles, without the parents’ permission or even awareness. He also posted photos of the family at their child’s funeral without their knowledge.

Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

not meant to dig on anyone. but quotes like this are a reminder that a lot of people are two or three stages removed from having the slightest idea of what's going on. that's not an invitation to feel superior to other people but to see the value of political organizing, good media over bad etc.