The anti-vaccine movement carries the seeds of its own demise: when it wins, children are sick, hospitalized and die, and the tide turns.
The problem is the price. Children (and adults) don't deserve to be harmed by anti-vaccine misinformation.
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+ alt text because LOL
Trump got ahead of himself on his promise to bring obesity drugs to Medicare. With United HC and Aetna not committing to participate in his demo by April 20 its unlikely to happen.
But if Trump wants a solution to high GLP-1 prices, Public Citizen has one:
www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...
Next time I find additional issues I'll preface my PubPeer query with an apology because the paper is so riddled with rot.
We're more than a year into the 2nd Trump administration and there's no confirmed Surgeon General. This quiet war raging within the Republican Party is a big reason why. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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#AltCitizen opportunity to get involved in Forest Service R&D.
Probably wise to have this board brimming with R&D advocates.
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Well folks, take your phones out. Call your Congress Critters.
RFK Jr. just said in his Senate hearing (to Sen. Schatz) that they hope to move forward with the (wildly unethical, breaks the Helsinki Accords) Guinea Bissau Hep B infant study.
removal him: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Why I care about other people's vaccination status I see some version of this question a lot across social media: why do you care about my child's vaccination status if you/your loved ones are vaccinated? Here’s my answer. Deplatform Disease
It's been a minute since I've uploaded anything on my blog (I'm sorry—it's been chaos) but here's one that I've wanted to get out for a little bit:
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I need you all to know that @repauchincloss.bsky.social just absolutely obliterated RFK Jr. at this hearing for politicizing FDA decisions with current employee whistleblowers AND EVIDENCE that the psychedelic EO this weekend happened because of a text to Trump from Joe Rogan.
Yeah. They are lying to the American Public on the daily.
RFK Jr held crank-filled Long COVID & #Lyme roundtables.
His HHS promotes pseudoscientific guidelines created by cranks David Putrino & Amy Proal at their Mt. Sinai quack clinic.
The goals: Normalize health scams, feed people to fraudsters, and promote bogus "vaccine injury" and "Lyme" claims.
1. unanticipated adverse effect of Melanotan
2. impending nicotine overdose
3. age-related hearing loss, which he treats w/HBOT & "peptides" NOS, instead of like you know seeing a physician
We've had a lot of questions about why we are leaning into the accessible rallies...this is why.
Our neighbors who are disabled or ~unfit~ according to this evil man are at the front lines of the harm RFK Jr. is causing. When we EMBRACE accessibility and inclusivity, it is an act of resistance.
“iCloud storage is full” scam is back, and now it wants your payment details
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20... US Consumer Affairs has urged users not to click any links and to contact Apple directly if they receive such messages.
Reupping this again because I’m happy to say that some of these positions are also available in the lab that I am in- look into them if you are interested in #immunology #tcell #antigenspecificity
OMG RFK Jr further reiterated his intentions to post a directory of physicians, presumably quacks.
He falsely claimed millions of Americans have Lyme disease, and he recklessly recommended unnecessary testing.
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I dealt with them several times in the 1990's on Iran's nuclear program. They were also very professional (one with a PhD from MIT in nuclear physics) but were tough as nails as they stuck to their (bogus) talking points.
Vance is an amateur with bogus talking points, as his rhetoric proves.
www.energy.gov/person/dr-er... Moniz is a nuclear physicist who left his professorship at MIT to serve our country, including in negotiations over the disposition of Russian nuclear materials after the collapse of the Soviet Union
If freedom is the point, bring back our trans folks and beards....
So anyway, the flu vaccine is a requirement to enter a lot of countries - including our allies and partners. We're just gonna let troops decide deploying is a pain in the ass and not get vaxxed so they don't have to go?
Iranian social media incoming
El Ministerio de @sanidad.gob.es afirma que la homeopatía es un placebo sin validez curativa | Salud y bienestar @efe.com
HHS issues a call for new USPSTF members:
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07845.p...
President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.
Finally dove into the peptides mania. The FDA is set to open up compounding of unproven peptides. What people actually need? Evidence they are safe and actually help. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
(And RIP to my instagram feed after working on this one)
Yeah that will solve all of our problems…..
Good morning ppl! While I wasn’t wrong on the drug API’s running out soon, I’m being told the super immediate need is packaging! Things like Blister packs and single does vials are having companies scrambling for new suppliers. Maybe we will get the packaging as the drugs run out.
Schrödinger's Strait: Is It Open or Closed | Week 7 Strait of Hormuz Recap (April 12 to 19)
🚨This video was filmed prior to the US seizure of Touska on April 19🚨
Video: youtu.be/IjJp306tV94
