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Priest will come to give me last rites and take my final confession and with my dying breath I will declare that vaccines prevent disease, not infection

If it’s possible to describe two middle-aged academic women discussing timely topics in virology as hard af, we totally are.

First show tomorrow at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT.
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It's crucial to remember that RFK Jr isn't just doing all he can to roll back vaccination & drive up childhood infectious diseases in the US but also WORLWIDE & he's especially targeting children in the lowest income countries

He has suspended US funding to Gavi, which supports global vaccination
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We'll see you Wednesday at 2 pm ET again for Professor Bobby's visit to the HELP Committee!

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Join me and @jessicamalaty.bsky.social to take more shots at
Bobby Brainworm getting grilled on the Hill at 5 pm ET/2 pm PT! rasmussenretorts.substack.com

A Requiem for the Ostriches The flock is no more, but there are still more fat pads to render

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A Requiem for the Ostriches The flock is no more, but there are still more fat pads to render

The cull should have ended this for good, but H5N1 is still everywhere in birds, Facebook Live still exists, & the medical freedom Maple MAGAs are still grifting towards fascism.

Last ostrich post (???—I hope but not much of that in these dark times)

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“Purple public health” is a frankly stupid euphemism for “fascist collaborator.”

If you are platforming liars who are trying to kill people for political ideology, you are part of the problem, not part of any solution.

Holy shit…how can this be real?

ON EASTER SUNDAY, US Department of Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins sent out an email titled “He has risen!” to the entire agency.

Ugh, I've been expecting/dreading this

It’s not too late to make sure you are protected against RSV. It's never too late to make sure you are protected against measles.

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

“WEAK on crime”

I know which head of state my money’s on

Have to say when CBC Fifth Estate does a deep dive you know they got the receipts

#biohazard grifters
#cbc #cdn

“I mean, how many people want to be Kristian Andersen?* [..] he doesn’t want to be the guy who gets in front of Congress, he wants to do science”

Oof @ckava.bsky.social, on point 😬😆.

* including me.

Were these raggedy ostrich medical freedom yokels in remote BC about to cure bird flu & dethrone Ozempic? Was the farm really a multi-billion dollar biologics manufacturer disguised as a Maple MAGA convoy separatist squat?

Nah, it was a scam.

🙏🏻 CBC fifth estate and Mark Kelley

“If this makes you angry, yay! My academic rage-baiting worked! Time for more emotionally manipulative toxicity: you aren’t improving or productive if you aren’t normalizing the destruction of our profession & our democracy with the other science quislings.”

Avoid this Lysenkoist shitshow

TAKING SHOTS with Dr. Angela Rasmussen and Jessica Malaty Rivera: April 10, 2026 Coming to you live from the bar in hell to drown our spiritual malaise!

Catch me & @jessicamalaty.bsky.social for another sober, misery-laden episode of our happy hour-themed show, which is thematically on point since it’s about being scientists afflicted with SPIRITUAL MALAISE. Good thing Podcast Bobby is here to save us.

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Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

I wrote about Lysenko’s legacy and our current situation here, including a lengthy section about my husband’s experience with the resulting stagnation when science is overwhelmed by partisan ideology:

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My protein biochemist husband hasn’t won a Nobel prize but he came to the U.S. from the Soviet Union for his postdoc for the same reason. Lysenko destroyed science decades before under Stalin and only the U.S. offered these scientific opportunities.

No place currently offers these opportunities.

Rasmussen Retorts Episode 5: Five Reasons Why We Think It Was Zoonotic Six years later, still no evidence for a lab leak

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I haven’t been quiet in my life, so I’m not about to start now.

Thank you, @microbetv.bsky.social, for giving me a microphone 🗣️

@lizzylawrence.bsky.social reported this last fall. Pretty wild to learn that the nation’s top vaccine regulator abused his power to pull a paper out of peer review because it showed Covid vaccines still work, are safe, and benefit most people. Also scary that’s FDA

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Hey this reminds me of that time CBER Director Vinay Prasad forced FDA scientists to withdraw a manuscript on a similar topic from the journal I edit. Now it’s Podcast Jay’s turn!

The actual standards for Gold Standard Science are unclear besides “vaccines bad, corruption good”

Also please enjoy my first ever interior design critique.

The MAHA Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: April 8, 2026 New stuff! RFKJr has a podcast, ACIP has a charter, Malone has many problems and a lion head, MAGA has budget cuts. Ongoing stuff! Casey Means has a shot, America has measles, Angie has ostrich drama.

The good thing about putting out what was supposed to be yesterday's MMMWR today is that me and @jessicamalaty.bsky.social were able to comment on Podcast Bobby's new venture in government-sponsored anti-vax propaganda. Plus updates on the MAHA shitshow.
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Women are far too unpredictable and irrational to command our armed forces or to have access to a nuclear arsenal.

I've just been asked to share this petition to UCSF, which asks them not to put Vinay Prasad back in his old position, now that HHS has given him the boot.

It seems a good ask, so here you go (the guy is awful):

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