If you constantly feed people misinformation and they start to believe that does not turn it into truth.
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If you constantly feed people misinformation and they start to believe that does not turn it into truth.
If we are now basing public health recommendations on their popularity with the general public, I’d like to know what the cutoff is. These people are all a danger to every person in the United States.
Hypothetically, could Pritzker call up the Illinois national guard to defend the state against the Texans send in by the federal government? Or ask, say, New York, to send guardsmen to his aid? When does it become civil war?
Our media should do a better job conveying what groups like Heritage, the America Enterprise Institute, and other right-wing think tanks really represent: a policy agenda that overwhelmingly benefits entrenched wealth, protecting it from the reach of democracy, at the expense of the people.
Have they given any reason for this?
I love looking at this graph, showing it to my students, and sharing it on social media, even though it unerringly brings out the trolls. This is the efficacy curve of Pfizer's mRNA COVID vaccine. This, people, is what ended the emergency phase of the COVID pandemic. Despite what RFK Jr says.
“Prasad’s comments still appeared on anti-vaccine social media accounts, suggesting Prasad was directing his removal demand only at a critic and not anti-vaccine influencers. In the past, Prasad has complained about censorship by social media companies.” Yeah, cause he is an antivaxxer and a fraud.
Same here. That and ad hominem attacks are my red line. AI or human? US or foreign?
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Sandy Hook? Seriously?
So, you have not done your homework, you don’t understand the science, and you posted a vile conspiracy theory video about Sandy Hook.3 strikes and you’re out.
Which of Koch’s postulates is violated?
I saw that. I very rarely block. At this point as to the species of troll.
There are three possibilities here: 1. You have not done your homework and gone through the overwhelming evidence 2. You went through the evidence and couldn't or didn't understand it. 3. You are a troll. Until you convince me it's 1 or 2, I will assume it's 3.
One word. Smallpox.
No. He should be a pariah.
That POS Robert Redfield is the only one who didn't sign.
By William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher, Jeffrey Koplan, Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky and Mandy K. Cohen 👇🏻
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
Can we just tell them we've changed our minds about that whole secession thing? We'll even throw in the border states to sweeten the pot.
He posted videos that Prasad had made without any additional commentary. That made it a copyright violation
The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.
Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/go-ahead/
Rewriting history is hard work. Reality is stubborn
He even looks a bit like Himmler.
Apparently, censorship is only a problem when someone else wants to take down your misinformation. Vinay Prasad forced a takedown of @joho.bsky.social 's YouTube channel which was posting the receipts for the flood of misinfo from Prasad and pals. Shameless www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Good morning! MAGA/MAHA dude Jay Bhattacharya will forever be remembered as RFK Jr’s biggest champion (he campaigned for him/spoke at his rallies) & the NIH director who presided over the destruction of US health research—including childhood brain cancer research 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
The assault on expertise is driven by an agenda to place uniformed, ill-conceived, often politically-motivated antiscience from charlatans on an equal footing with scientific consensus. Please read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & me: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
Thank you @jeremyfaust.bsky.social Demetre, Dan, and I ("D3") using our voices to raise the alarm for public health
Dumber than stumps
The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer. This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
We need a lot more Dr. Jessica Steiers to pull a body of evidence together like this @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social 👏 theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/how-a-gove... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
FIRE RFKJr Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/demand-rfk... CC: @jessicamalaty.bsky.social
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Please sign our petition to demand HHS Secretary Kennedy’s resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
As predicted, as COVID surges, we’re left with incompetent, vindictive leadership that endangers lives. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Today we’re launching our nonprofit Nature.Health.Global. @naturehealthglobal.bsky.social to help build a future that is resilient to emerging disease threats, supports healthy ecosystems & our own communities, & one in which we make decisions based on science naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...
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Vaccines have one of the highest reward to risk ratios of any medical intervention in human history. This sociopathic conspiracy theorist is literally killing people, causing the deaths by vaccine-preventable diseases of people who could have lived.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
"Once MAGA brands you as an enemy, your fortunes shift. No amount of strategic silence will change your new identity, so you may as well lean into it." I wrote about why I chose—and keep choosing—to speak up and fight back. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/on-resisti...
They misspelled "fuck".
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
Bill Cassidy took heavy fire for voting to confirm RFK but he at least considered a no vote. The 3 other MD's in the senate, John Barrasso (WY), Roger Marshall (KS), and Rand Paul (KY) never hesitated to vote for the charlatan and are embarrassments to medicine. SHAME www.notus.org/health-scien...
There is more to come.
Allowing for consideration of people’s humanity is such an inconvenience.
The new pick to head HHS.
Bobby must resign. Or be impeached. This can’t be allowed to stand. Geier is an abomination, like his father before him. He will “find” that vaccines “cause” autism, and the multitudes of the credulous will believe him.
Did not expect the Cold War to be won by a handful of American white guys willing to boil this country alive for Putin.
I took this picture myself at the CDC protest today. These are among the hundreds of bullet holes in CDC headquarters windows, visible from the street. I heard today that the admin has no urgent plan to fix these windows. Imagine being a CDC employee going to work under these conditions
I believe we no longer call them slaves. Please refer to them as vocational trainees.
I miss the old brand #CDC
Looking obviously partisan doesn't shake them up much. abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/vid...
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Lawyers for the CDC’s chief, Susan Monarez, insist that the impasse with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can only be resolved by President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for the kind praise for #ScienceUnderSiege! Due out 9/9, by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, courtesy of #PublicAffairs / @hachetteus.bsky.social/ #BasicBooks / #ScribePub: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all he’s done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesday’s loss of its most senior and competent leaders—truly the CDC’s backbone—is the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
When RFK leaves, he needs to put Jay and Marty in his suitcase.
Join some Nobel Laureates and sign this petition to remove RFK Jr. from office. He is a danger to the people of the United States and a national security threat. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
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A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... His hubris and ignorance is a deadly combination. People have already died because of his actions. RFK Jr. must step down or be removed.
Hold on. You mean you can’t???
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
What’s happening at CDC is horrifying and unethical. Forcing out a director who refused to rubber-stamp reckless policies, followed by the resignation of four top leaders, is nothing less than a political assault on science and public health. Lives are at stake. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Stanford gets a special prize here. Anti-science U
“Shit show” scarcely does justice to it. This is a disastrous loss for the CDC, which has already lost so much talent and institutional memory. RFK Jr has placed the country in terrible peril and must answer for it.
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” wrote Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Some of us at Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social are old enough to remember that once upon a time federal troops helped integrate American schools. Now...
George Wallace is somewhere down there smiling
Well this makes sense 🤡
RFK Jr. is setting public health back 70 years. 1000's will die and many more will suffer debilitating illness as a result. Meanwhile he brags about naturally colored Skittles. Join 6 Nobelists and 27 NASEM members and sign to demand he resign. t.co/KiZJrm0Fpe www.rawstory.com/cdc-26739339...
A physician visit to get a COVID vaccine? This is not about science, safety or common sense. Join 6 Nobelists and 27 NASEM members in calling for his resignation. Sign and share. @DrMakaryFDA should resign too. change.org/p/demand-rfk...
Have you seen any justification for this?
With that level of shift, even gerrymandering may not work.
Agreed but a 20 point swing is huge. Even a 10 point swing across all races with current districts would give the Dems >20 seat advantage.
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I think there is some confusion over the wording about clinicians scientists and health care workers and the fact that there are three petitions
Good question. We are putting together some guidance on the various petitions out there.
This suggests all the gerrymandering in the world won’t help the GOP
Wasn’t this justified by declaring a state of emergency?
Tallow fries and bison liver, baby.
I have been waiting for this, wondering why it didn't happen in LA. It's about fucking time.
Because all of those scientists who have been studying the causes of autism for decades didn't know what they were doing until RFK came along. He needs to go.
AJI’s independent scientific advisory board has published a petition calling for Robert Kennedy Jr. to resign. And I’m just delighted about it.
note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator
The MAHA assault on vaccines will kill people & usher in a scientific Dark Age. RFK Jr has got to go. Please join me, my fellow @accountabilityji.bsky.social advisory board members, Nobel laureates, National Academy members, & colleagues calling for his resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
I'm with Trump. Let's get anyone who has been involved in mortgage fraud out of the government NOW!! www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The SAB of the Accountability Journalism Institute in collaboration with Defend Public Health is launching this petition demanding RFK resign for his irresponsible and dangerous disregard for science. Join 6 Nobelists and 27 NASEM members. Sign and share. #episky #medsky 🧪 chng.it/YwPwyMddSm
The rationale is laid out in the first paragraph below. Proud to be part of the organizing group for this petition. Conspiracy-peddling anti-vaxxers should not be in charge of our Nation's health agencies... it's that simple.
Launched today! Join 6 Nobel Laureates, 27 Members of the US National Academies & the Scientific Advisory Board of @accountabilityji.bsky.social in signing this petition demanding RFK Jr.'s resignation. www.change.org/p/demand-rfk...
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...