#Misinformation

#Bhattacharya is a master of misinformation

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Dear Dr. Bhattacharya, We appreciate your candid communications since assuming the role of Acting CDC Director, and we share your conviction that this agency is a reservoir of talent, expertise, and dedication. You took the helm at a critical moment, and your leadership offers a genuine opportunity to move the agency from uncertainty into stability, restore public trust in science and public health, strengthen the workforce, and enable CDC to effectively address the root causes making Americans unhealthy. You have emphasized the need to rebuild trust in science and public health, and we agree. Trust must be built from the inside out. How this agency treats its own employees, particularly its most vulnerable, is the foundation upon which public trust is either strengthened or eroded. It is with that principle in mind that we write to you today about an urgent matter that directly tests it, namely the agency's current handling of reasonable accommodations (RAs) for employees with disabilities. This is not a policy dispute. It is a matter of employee safety, legal compliance, and organizational integrity, and it is causing real, ongoing harm. Employees with disabilities represent an indispensable and growing share of CDC's workforce and have for decades. Since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 first required federal agencies to actively employ people with disabilities, CDC has not merely complied; it has intentionally recruited, pursued, and hired people with disabilities because of the unique value they bring. Employees with disabilities offer lived experience with the very health conditions, systems, and barriers that CDC exists to address, making the agency more effective, more credible, and more reflective of the American public it serves. Reasonable accommodations are not a special advantage; they are the legal mechanism by which employees with disabilities have an equal opportunity to perform their jobs and contribute fully to the agency's mission.

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This letter from #CDC staff with disabilities to #Bhattacharya does more than highlight the latter’s inability to secure #reasonable-accomodations, it gives the entire fuckup of the CDC in concise terms & time frames.
Read all 4 pages in link above.

NIH director launches First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.

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The imaginary chip on the shoulder of #Bhattacharya, the person responsible for the deaths of our loved ones, is evidently just too great for him to bear alone.
Enter #MatthewRidley

NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist https://arstechni.ca #climatechange #Bhattacharya #MattRidley #pandemic #Science #Lableak #Covid #NIH

The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.

As the agency rotates through a cast of leaders, it’s unclear when or if the US CDC & Prevention will get a permanent director under Trump’s second term as president.

Following O’Neill’s departure as acting CDC director last week, NIH director #Bhattacharya will now lead both agencies temporarily.

New CDC Director Has Questioned Vaccine Safety Jay Bhattacharya’s recent new appointment may suggest more changes to the vaccine schedule.

During the pandemic, #Bhattacharya questioned the need for #COVID19 boosters and claimed they were insufficiently tested. He claimed the anti-parasitic drug #ivermectin, which is not effective against COVID, was suppressed to secure #vaccine approval. #CDC

With NIH in chaos, its controversial director is taking over CDC, too https://arstechni.ca #robertfkennedyjr #anti-vaccine #Bhattacharya #vaccine #Health #CDC #NIH

The stats in here are shocking. We can't go back. These senators must be voted out. #vaccines #rfk #rfkjr #bhattacharya

We forget too easily what the world was like before vaccines, and it wasn't really all that long ago. That's why the present backslide is so scary. Let's hold accountable the people responsible. #infectiousdisease #vaccines #bacteriology #rfk #rfkjr #bhattacharya #hhs #nih #pandemicsenators

The long months without stable leadership at the #CDC in the #US look set to continue, as the #Trumpadministration confirms that #NIH Director Jay #Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the agency.

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The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay #Bhattacharya, will take on the additional role of acting director of the CDC, officials said on Wednesday.

Bhattacharya was a featured speaker at NATCON 5 last year. NATCON is known for its far-right, conservative views.

NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution https://arstechni.ca #Scientificrevolution #Pseudoscience #Bhattacharya #Features #Science #science #MAHA #NIH

Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds https://arstechni.ca #Bhattacharya #Health #NIH

Good god. #rfk #rfkjr #bhattacharya #cooking #vaccines

Look out. RFK, Jr. doesn't think germs cause disease. Not good. #RFK #RFKJr #Bhattacharya #disease #vaccines #cooking

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Let's hold accountable the senators who knowlingly put dangerously unqualified health officials in charge of our health. Visit pandemicsenators.com to learn more. #RFKJr #pandemic #pandemicsenators #outbreaks #Bhattacharya #Dr.Oz #publichealth #vaccines

Will US science survive Trump 2.0? President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts f...

The question is an open one and it depends on us. The would-be destroyers of science #Trump #Vought #RFKJr #Bhattacharya #Memoli are just men. Zealots, fools, charlatans, opportunists. There are more of us than there are of them. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Jay #Bhattacharya, current Director of #NIH.
Appointed in 2025 by #POTUS #Trump.
He is a physician-scientist, health economist, & professor.
So? He's supposed to be smart. Right?
Maybe his replacement should be DUMB!!🤪

In Massachusetts visit, Trump’s NIH chief defends move to prioritize funding research in places like Iowa, Nebraska - The Boston Globe Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Globe that he wants "scientists at every institution to be able to compete on the same level playing fields with the brilliant scientists here in Massachusetts."

New national centers for advanced biomedical research to be in Iowa and Nebraska...no crucial research hospitals or universities there...so we give the research edge to China. Farewell, says NIH www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/05/b... #nih #medical_research #china #bhattacharya

Francis Collins is one of the greatest scientists the USA has ever had. A man who separated his religion and science. A man who didn't blink to help find causes, treatments for #AIDS & other diseases. He is a great man. An honorable man. If he called #Bhattacharya fringe , its 💯 true. He is.

Deport kash pastel. Deport #bhattacharya not ian roberts. Educated at MIT.

Quick reminder: #Kulldorff, #Bhattacharya, and Trump 1.0 goon #ScottAtlas got together with #Project2025 proponent Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn in December 2021 to concoct their merchants of doubt "Academy for Science and Freedom". Notice the Galileo drawing(s). 1/2

As #Kulldorff, #Malone, #Prasad, #Hoeg, #Bhattacharya, #RFKJr and #Vought wreak havoc on vaccine policy in the US, these diseases will come roaring back. You don't need a vast collapse in vaccine coverage to open the Pandora's box of infections. 19/

Let’s be VERY CLEAR: both #RFKJr and #Vought will receive these vaccines themselves. As will #Makary, #Bhattacharya. Or least their families.

#fireRFKjr
#standupforscience
#saveNIH
#saveCDC
#savepublichealth
#publichealth

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2,500 Commentators Agree: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Has Failed to Earn the Public’s Trust | Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/nobodytrustsjay/

“While other doctors worked in hospitals, Dr. #Bhattacharya made videos that treated rare, mild vaccine side effects as a fate worse […]

He rose to fame as a Covid contrarian, and Trump wants him to be NIH head Jay Bhattacharya is outspoken about public health restrictions and sees censorship on social media.

#Bhattacharya, like #PeterThiel & most of the other #TechnoFascist sociopaths, is a graduate of the cesspool womb of dystopian, degenerate, anti-democracy thought, #StanfordUniversity
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Suppose Jay #Bhattacharya, the charlatan confirmed by the Senate to be #NIH director, came to the University of #Alabama at #Birmingham ( #UAB ) for a campus-only lecture and Q&A session this week _and nobody showed up_?

I’m just saying… maybe boycotting the clown is “good trouble.”