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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social

I spoke briefly with Marks, who said he was particularly worried about the nation’s worsening measles outbreak — and the lack of a full-throated endorsement by RFK Jr and HHS leaders for measles vaccines.

Reached on Friday night, Marks confirmed that he was leaving the FDA but declined to comment on the circumstances. Kennedy, who in his years as an anti-vaccine activist criticized measles shots and boosted vitamin A as a treatment, is now using his government position to tout the vitamin’s accepted benefits. He has also said that receiving the measles vaccine should be a personal choice. Experts acknowledge that vitamin A can be beneficial after someone has become sickened, but they say it is not a replacement for vaccination to prevent measles. “It is unconscionable with measles outbreaks to not have a full-throated endorsement of measles vaccinations,” Marks said.
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Nancy Harris @nancyimagines.bsky.social

😥

mar 29, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
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butterfly260.bsky.social @butterfly260.bsky.social

theplotagainstamerica.com

mar 29, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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@elleyk @elleyk.bsky.social

I imagine the measles outbreak will be followed by many others we thought we’d beat years ago 💔😡

mar 29, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
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Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social

Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble and can build up to toxic levels if overconsumed.

mar 29, 2025, 1:52 am • 27 0 • view
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eric2718.bsky.social @eric2718.bsky.social

There are already reports of children having problems with that.

mar 29, 2025, 2:31 am • 5 0 • view
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Gwen Kerr @pensgwen.bsky.social

I learned that fifty years ago 😔 it should be common knowledge that they aren’t water soluble

mar 29, 2025, 2:55 am • 5 0 • view
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karenelizabeth60.bsky.social @karenelizabeth60.bsky.social

Isn't it amazing? These rubes will listen to people with zero knowledge, but the experts with years of education and experience, they will not listen.

mar 29, 2025, 1:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Detroit Diva @thedetroitdiva.bsky.social

We're focused on measles but just beyond the next hill, Bird Flu is heading our way

mar 29, 2025, 2:09 am • 3 0 • view
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vehementsack.bsky.social @vehementsack.bsky.social

Sore throated, more like it.

mar 29, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 0 • view
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vehementsack.bsky.social @vehementsack.bsky.social

I mean, it’s painful to hear RFKjr speak.

mar 29, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view
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humblehal.bsky.social @humblehal.bsky.social

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Cranky Masshole @crankymasshole.bsky.social

😂😂😂. “Full throated”, that’s not happening! 😂😂😂👍

mar 29, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
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zaziepoo @zaziepoo.bsky.social

Thank you for using alt text for your images 🙂

mar 29, 2025, 3:52 am • 4 0 • view
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DebN @debnewton.bsky.social

Now, there is an increase in Vitamin A toxicity cases and liver failures being reported, because the dolt RFK Jr doesn’t understand one can overdose on Vit A—and neither do his dumb followers. This is horrible and so unnecessary.

mar 29, 2025, 2:00 am • 14 3 • view
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Dan Jago @dj1au.bsky.social

Stop your normalization of RFK and he's misinformation. He's harming people with his lies. Vitamin A is not a treatment for measles. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

mar 29, 2025, 2:39 am • 8 3 • view
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Vibr84Me @vibr84me.bsky.social

Come on - only fat and lazy unhealthy people get the measles, same with cancer, the flu, covid, stds, hemorrhoids and alike - simply eat some road kill do some push ups in jeans and you'll be fine

mar 29, 2025, 7:30 am • 0 0 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

A lot of people are going to die during the next four years because RFK Jr. is essentially practicing medicine without a license. Likely no more Covid or flu vaccines.

mar 29, 2025, 2:54 am • 5 0 • view
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Andy Hall @maritimetexas.bsky.social

And now there are hospitalizations of kids in West Texas because their parents dosed them up on loads of Vitamin A instead of getting them vaxxed. It would be funny except it's kids with impaired liver function. www.tpr.org/public-healt...

mar 29, 2025, 1:27 am • 284 59 • view
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Don Noble @donek311.bsky.social

So now their little bodies have to fight the Measles virus and liver damage. Absolutely child abuse.

mar 29, 2025, 2:12 am • 5 2 • view
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melomys @melomys.bsky.social

It’s too bad the parents aren’t dying instead.

mar 29, 2025, 1:29 am • 129 3 • view
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Deb. I DISSENT ❌👑 🌊🌊💙🫘 @medic1983.bsky.social

The parents are likely vaccinated

mar 29, 2025, 1:33 am • 121 1 • view
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Christine @nova123.bsky.social

Because their parents weren’t idiots

mar 29, 2025, 1:40 am • 129 2 • view
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DkKoba @dkkoba.bsky.social

Their parents knew what an iron lung was for

mar 29, 2025, 2:41 am • 25 1 • view
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ethelmonticue.bsky.social @ethelmonticue.bsky.social

I've been predicting designer iron lungs coming soon, for the children whose parents can afford them. Nice touch in the living room.

mar 29, 2025, 3:00 am • 4 0 • view
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MagicalMerlin @magicalmerlin20-0.bsky.social

Never mind the poor parents who are going through hell because RFK Jr. is a monster.

mar 29, 2025, 2:21 am • 4 0 • view
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borisvolkov11.bsky.social @borisvolkov11.bsky.social

They’d still chalk it up to collateral damage just to shield the lies they believe.

mar 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 3 0 • view
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Andy Hall @maritimetexas.bsky.social

I don't want anyone to die, or to get sick. But if the parents of the first child who died are typical, their own tragedy won't change their views.

mar 29, 2025, 1:43 am • 14 0 • view
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DianaTripper @tripperday.bsky.social

They were interviewed. It didn’t. Smh

mar 29, 2025, 3:00 am • 6 0 • view
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rds-level-10.bsky.social @rds-level-10.bsky.social

You meant to say RFK Jr. They’d be alive if he weren’t.

mar 29, 2025, 2:02 am • 5 0 • view
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melomys @melomys.bsky.social

Oh it’s a given I wish he were dead too.

mar 29, 2025, 5:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Gerti Hofbauer @gertihofbauer.bsky.social

People who believe any of the rubbish coming from RFK... That says everything, nothing more needed to know. They would even feed their child with petrol if anybody told them this prevents children from becoming gay.

mar 29, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Jess1234 @jrs81.bsky.social

You might already be following these, but please take a look at these and consider following. I also write this info on small cards and leave them everywhere I go. You can also checkout handsOFF2025.com go.bsky.app/6dCw92a

mar 29, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social

They will kill us all.

mar 29, 2025, 2:20 am • 5 0 • view
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Manel Bertrand @manelbertrand.bsky.social

Well, for the moment, they are harming themselves and their offspring first and foremost 🤷‍♀️

mar 29, 2025, 11:30 am • 2 0 • view
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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social

Perhaps, but there’s far too much collateral damage. And their kids didn’t vote for this sociopath.

mar 29, 2025, 11:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Manel Bertrand @manelbertrand.bsky.social

Oh I agree, my heart broke for this poor girl whose parents did not mind one second she died. Especially when the journalist asked the father how she was, what she liked. Brainwashed moron had no idea, he finally mustered some non-sense "she liked what all girls like" 😭

mar 29, 2025, 12:18 pm • 4 0 • view
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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social

😔

mar 29, 2025, 12:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Shifty Cow @supergoofnz.bsky.social

Unfortunately there are plenty of people who either genuinely can't receive certain vaccines, or who don't get the full benefit from them (and of course those who are too young to be fully immunised). They are all being put at risk regardless of who voted for whom.

mar 29, 2025, 2:58 pm • 4 0 • view
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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social

Exactly.

mar 29, 2025, 3:01 pm • 3 0 • view
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Trish @trishinohio.bsky.social

It’s child abuse.

mar 29, 2025, 2:04 am • 9 1 • view
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Brooke Hayes @brookeelyse.bsky.social

I’m afraid this is what has to happen before these people wake tf up. Or die off, whichever.

mar 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 5 0 • view
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Terri Glass @grizeldatee.bsky.social

Very sad for children to suffer the consequences of their parents failing an intelligence test.

mar 30, 2025, 10:45 am • 1 0 • view
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Emergency Motown System @motown.bsky.social

Sadly, this is a Darwin situation.

mar 29, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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karenelizabeth60.bsky.social @karenelizabeth60.bsky.social

And, child abuse.

mar 29, 2025, 1:08 pm • 3 0 • view
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People FIRST @deeplyindependent.bsky.social

Too bad the parents didn’t listen to the actual use of Vitamin A relative to measles! Measles depletes Vitamin A so low doses when active measles are present prevents the potential for blindness from the virus! Blame the media for not being clear on this bc they were too busy smearing RFK Jr!

mar 29, 2025, 1:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Peter Suwondo, MD MPH @petersuwondo.bsky.social

We desperately need more officials like Dr Marks in office. Unclear who will be left by the end of the week…

mar 29, 2025, 2:24 am • 10 0 • view
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tbeaumont.bsky.social @tbeaumont.bsky.social

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Prehistoric Banana @winterwarpath.bsky.social

🇺🇸 CDC (American) Adult Immunization Schedule www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp... 🇨🇦 PHAC (Canadian) Adult Immunization Guide www.canada.ca/en/public-he... Feel free to save, print it out and share it widely. It's never a bad idea to ask your pharmacist about a booster, even if you had them as a kid!

mar 29, 2025, 3:11 am • 12 7 • view
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Prehistoric Banana @winterwarpath.bsky.social

Posting this because I believe RFK Jr may attempt to halt access to vaccinations. If that does happen, you'll be as protected as you can get with currently available vaccines.

mar 29, 2025, 3:13 am • 2 1 • view
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BettyBelle @aloveyeti.bsky.social

Thank you! I’m sure all credible information will soon be scrubbed by our current administration.

mar 29, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
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Prehistoric Banana @winterwarpath.bsky.social

Very welcome! Never a bad idea to get caught up if you're uncertain you're due, or know for sure you are.

mar 29, 2025, 4:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Bill Johnson @counterpoint4.bsky.social

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patchoulimoon69.bsky.social @patchoulimoon69.bsky.social

He lost his father and his uncle both assasinated his life is Full of NON- Sense he lost what he loved he like "musk" has no access to love, only mind and only sense from given conditioned info, everthing can only be make believe he has no care for children suffering and dying he is void.....

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eeeeeeeek.bsky.social @eeeeeeeek.bsky.social

A shame that I won’t read about this diminished institution because I cancelled my subscription to the diminished institution you published in.

mar 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Kathryn H @kathuhy.bsky.social

Marks is absolutely right. JFK Jr obviously lied to get through his confirmation. Makes me so angry!

mar 29, 2025, 2:49 am • 2 0 • view
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sullivantl.bsky.social @sullivantl.bsky.social

Every cabinet member lied to get through their confirmation.

mar 29, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social

“[Kennedy] has also said that receiving the measles vaccine should be a personal choice." Hundreds of things which might be classified as “personal choices” can easily get one thrown in prison. And yet Robert The Lesser apparently feels openly spreading a communicable disease ain’t one of them.

mar 29, 2025, 5:23 am • 0 0 • view
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Susan Brooks ❌👑 @susubrooks.bsky.social

It isn't crazy to think RFK Jr. was a contributing, if not causative factor in the outbreak in the first place.

mar 29, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
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felinesareperfect.bsky.social @felinesareperfect.bsky.social

Yeah, let us put a quack in charge of public health. What can go wrong?

mar 29, 2025, 1:55 am • 6 0 • view
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StephenWLee @gullpondguy.bsky.social

Full throated... You've heard him speak, right?

mar 29, 2025, 2:12 am • 2 0 • view
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We R A Nation At Risk - #RemoveRFK Jr ❌👑🧡 @kdjs-1.bsky.social

Trump regime looking to usher in another pandemic - this one home grown/self inflicted... every harm - every crisis - every death belongs to Trump/Musk & #Republicans 👿☠️ Never forget

mar 29, 2025, 1:30 am • 14 1 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

You get the feeling they want to kill people off with disease. Won't be condemned like they would be if they just started shooting people in the street.

mar 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 3 0 • view
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social

Worth noting that Marks was a career official who navigated several political teams, including the first Trump admin. (Where he helped conceive of Operation Warp Speed.) Two former FDA commissioners under GOP presidents, @ScottGottliebMD and Mark McClellan, on record with praise for Marks tonight.

Two former FDA commissioners praised Marks on Friday night, highlighting his work at the agency. Marks helped conceive of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s program to accelerate the development of coronavirus vaccines, which has been credited with helping end the threat of the covid-19 pandemic. A December 2022 study by the Commonwealth Fund, a health-care foundation, estimated that coronavirus vaccines prevented more than 18.5 million U.S. hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths. As head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Marks led a team of experts who were charged with scrutinizing data on vaccines and other medical products before deciding whether to approve them. “Peter has presided over an extraordinary period of medical progress, spearheading breakthroughs in cell and gene therapy that helped transform the treatment of pediatric leukemia, sickle cell disease, and certain forms of blindness,” said Scott Gottlieb, who served as FDA commissioner during the first Trump administration. “Peter’s commitment to bringing the best science and data to the development and availability of lifesaving biomedical technologies, from gene and cell therapies to the Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed, has saved countless lives,” said Mark McClellan, who served as FDA commissioner during the George W. Bush administration. “His decade-long leadership at the FDA is a big reason why the FDA is the gold standard for advancing the most innovative breakthrough medicines.”
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Jonathan Rosenblum @jsrosenblum.bsky.social

... @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

mar 29, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view
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Digital Soundbath @badamn.bsky.social

"Worth noting"

mar 29, 2025, 8:48 am • 2 0 • view
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counterpunkt.bsky.social @counterpunkt.bsky.social

Oh you mean a career government person came up with Operation Warp Speed?!?? That was one of the few things people give Trump legit credit for! But of course it was one of the career people that he’s now forced out for the quack!

mar 29, 2025, 3:33 am • 37 2 • view
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Jaec from Tw @jaec.bsky.social

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Maria II @mariadagloriaii.bsky.social

All the big brains’ top-tier leading experts are being fired, and all that is left is some idiots with brain worms.

mar 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 296 23 • view
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pastajoe.bsky.social @pastajoe.bsky.social

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Laura Elliott @lauraelliott3.bsky.social

And the GOP idiots with brain worms who confirmed him.

mar 29, 2025, 11:21 am • 2 0 • view
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ThatYipGuy @thatyipguy.bsky.social

What's left is yes-men who will do whatever the boss tells them, no matter how stupid and ineffective.

mar 29, 2025, 5:15 am • 70 1 • view
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Carolyn Harriston @proppiebay.bsky.social

This is very sad news. The Trump Administration is rotting America.

mar 29, 2025, 7:31 am • 30 2 • view
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Not Going Back @xiswack.bsky.social

Has rotted America.

mar 29, 2025, 10:09 am • 14 0 • view
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Heat and Dust 🕉 @coromandelsunrise.bsky.social

Or Illegal 👀

mar 29, 2025, 8:41 am • 4 0 • view
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RobertGar @robertgar.bsky.social

MAGAts feel threatened by anyone with real intelligence.

mar 29, 2025, 7:19 am • 4 0 • view
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janndc.bsky.social @janndc.bsky.social

Who are willing to let people die. RfraudkJr is a charlatan who should be sued for every fatal or harmful disease outcome.

mar 29, 2025, 5:30 am • 4 0 • view
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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social

All of the physicians in Congress should publicly demand RFK Jr & Marty Makary testify on why Peter Marks was forced out of the #FDA. #science #publichealth #DrainTheSwamp

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Dumb Donald @donald-dumb1.bsky.social

Don’t waste our time. RFK Jr is hopelessly stupid and braindead. Just send him to HELL. America does NOT need a fucking moron like that. The worst kind of shitty idiot!

mar 29, 2025, 7:21 pm • 25 2 • view
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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

Serious (aside) question: if a physician is a Member of Congress or a Senator, isn't that an abandonment of one's calling? You are in a better position than anyone I can think of to ask. Are they still physicians, or are they former physicians?

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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social

No. Dr. Rudolf Virchow stated "Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale”. However, there are physicians on entering politics who choose to give up their professional values for political gain. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19052033/#:~....

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kfunk937.bsky.social @kfunk937.bsky.social

Thank you for the reply. That was my theoretical framework, as well, something to be assumed in good faith. It's reassuring to have confirmation. It seems intuitive to me how peers may be able to prompt one another to recommit to the values that prompted them to take up medicine in the 1st place.

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true-me.bsky.social @true-me.bsky.social

No Republican has the backbone to do that.

mar 29, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
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joyce s. @blueberrijuice.bsky.social

I'm trying to figure out how JFKjr is (mal)practicing medicine without a license.

mar 29, 2025, 2:14 am • 9 0 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

This 👆

mar 29, 2025, 2:58 am • 3 0 • view
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Who Farted @dickknob.bsky.social

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SailorLife @sailorjourno.bsky.social

Maybe through all their trial & errors, they might stumble upon a vaccine that billions of people have found to be an effective preventative measure. Until then, it’s wild to watch their deadly failed attempts.

mar 29, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
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olympic52.bsky.social @olympic52.bsky.social

Unmitigated measles disaster; Signalgate; embarrassment in Greenland; Court TROs for Admin illegal Executive Orders; economic red flags abound, stock market dropping. It's only been 2 months---who knew things could be so bad? How much lower will Admin go before Congress and MAGAs speak up?

mar 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 7 1 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

Congress doesn't seem to have the will to stop Trump and Musk.

mar 29, 2025, 2:56 am • 4 0 • view
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olympic52.bsky.social @olympic52.bsky.social

I'm hearing some rumblings after signal gate and the second 10K termination of HHS employees. Thinking we're getting close to the red line that GOP Congress will not cross to protect them.

mar 29, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
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circlelady.bsky.social @circlelady.bsky.social

Hope so.

mar 29, 2025, 3:14 am • 0 0 • view
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staceyb8.bsky.social @staceyb8.bsky.social

Vitamin A is gonna be the new Ivermectin. 🫣

mar 29, 2025, 2:35 am • 10 0 • view
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joediesattheend.bsky.social @joediesattheend.bsky.social

Ivermectin is still the new ivermectin. They are trying to get it cleared as a cancer treatment (that's why you will hear psychopaths claim cancer is caused by parasites)

mar 29, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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staceyb8.bsky.social @staceyb8.bsky.social

Oh lord, I had not heard about this. 🙄

mar 29, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view