Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

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Last Notes

2026-04-02 21:32:19 UTC

Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine.
They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal.
A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.

2026-04-01 23:57:48 UTC

The Republican Congress is the reason that Hegseth was allowed to start an unwinnable war.
The Republican Congress is the reason we are having the worst measles outbreak in decades.
The Republican Congress is the reason that people are being terrorized by ICE.

2026-03-30 20:06:57 UTC

RFK Jr. did not come up with idea that diet is important to health. This has been promoted for decades, including, famously, by Michelle Obama.
In fact, he doesn’t even believe it himself.
If he did he’d be busy making sure kids in the U.S. had enough to eat, instead of cutting food benefits.

2026-03-30 19:35:44 UTC

I have never wavered in my position that there can be no compromise with RFK Jr. He is a dangerous fraud who has caused incalculable damage to public health.
It’s extremely disappointing that the President of the American Medical Association was doing a photo op with RFK Jr. this morning.
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2026-03-23 23:28:22 UTC

When I retired only around 25% of Full Professors in STEM were women. I was proud be one of them, and to support the success of fellow women in STEM through mentoring.
This was not an organic process. It took hard work and persistence.
And now The Regime is setting us back decades.
[NIH grant terminations affecte...](https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/nih-cuts-who-lost-funding-women-blacks-young-researchers/ )

2026-03-14 15:54:04 UTC

Casey Means doesn’t have the votes to be confirmed as Surgeon General.
During her confirmation hearing, she wouldn’t answer if she would recommend MMR vaccines in the midst of the measles outbreak.
But in her written comments, she’s changed her tune, because power means more than her convictions.
[Surgeon general nominee now sa...](https://www.ms.now/news/surgeon-general-nominee-now-says-americans-should-get-vaccinated-for-measles )

2026-03-06 23:15:55 UTC

No Means No!
If you don’t want Casey Means to be Surgeon General, you can write to your Senators in 2 minutes or less with @npub1j26…wkt6’s handy form.
A fun Friday night activity for the whole family!
[Oppose Nomination of Casey Mea...](https://actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-nomination-of-casey-means-for-surgeon-general?clear_id=true )

2026-02-27 19:49:22 UTC

Regular reminder that AZAG Kris Mayes won her election by only 280 votes in a state of 7 million people.
One of those votes was mine.
Your vote matters.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3mfubumjxrc2i

2026-02-24 18:37:55 UTC

Republicans in Arizona want voters to get rid of childhood vaccine requirements for school entry.
They are planning to add a ballot proposition for November’s election in the hopes of ending the requirements, which they are framing as an issue of “medical freedom”.
This would be catastrophic.
[Arizona voters could decide fu...](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/02/24/vaccine-mandates-on-arizona-ballot/88743995007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=undefined&gca-ft=0&gca-ds=sophi )

2026-02-21 20:15:07 UTC

Yes, the U.S. is struggling to contain the measles outbreak. And that is because Republicans in Congress voted to confirm a man as HHS Secretary who both leads and profits from the anti-vaccination movement.
Well done, shitbirds.
[U.S. closes in on 1,000 measle...](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-closes-1000-measles-cases-first-two-months-2026-rcna259998 )

2026-02-19 18:57:06 UTC

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
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2026-02-14 23:34:29 UTC

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
[Maryland health officials warn...](https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/mumps-measles-vaccinations-infections-4DQODQEXBFHKTHOJCFP7DJ5EVQ/ )

2026-02-08 22:06:02 UTC

Maybe a good time for this as well with norovirus making headlines.
I made this for our bathroom and a few “lucky” friends also got one as a gift.
As I’ve said before, it’s astonishing that I even have any friends at all.
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2026-02-01 16:00:10 UTC

Supplement makers and other purveyors of snake oil like to add the phrase “clinically proven” to their advertisements.
I’ve read the studies. They are usually:
1. Tiny studies of less than 50 people that examine 100 or more endpoints
2. Studies of actual food falsely conflated with supplements

2026-01-29 19:47:33 UTC

This thread about HPV-caused cancers is well worth your time.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:evb7ncnoqoans56rlfdaxpe4/post/3mdlkakxpgc2y

2026-01-28 19:52:30 UTC

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

2026-01-23 22:30:46 UTC

California just joined the World Health Organization.
I love it.
[California joins WHO public he...](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/california-joins-who-public-health-network-following-us-exit-marking-a-first-for-any-state/103-07ba6111-1915-44f8-bebf-13b40e43bcd8 )

2026-01-23 14:56:13 UTC

One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
[Moderna curbing investments in...](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-curbing-investments-vaccine-trials-due-us-backlash-ceo-tells-bloomberg-2026-01-22/ )

2026-01-08 01:11:20 UTC

I am sure that Miller Noem Trump and their flying monkeys are right this minute digging into Renee Good’s entire life history and that of every person with whom she’s ever interacted, desperately searching for “justification” for her murder by ICE.

2026-01-08 00:06:56 UTC

The way I see it, we have a few options:
1. General strike
2. Mass protests in DC for as long as it takes
3. Wait for Republicans to protect the country and therefore lose the country
No one is coming to save us.

2026-01-07 15:24:43 UTC

Almost 90% of Greenland’s population is Indigenous, in case you’re wondering why the rich white men in the gilded White House think they can just take their land.

2026-01-04 16:54:10 UTC

All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health.
It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will.
That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.
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2026-01-02 17:34:44 UTC

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to terminate their flu vaccination ad campaign immediately after taking office.
Just in case anyone was curious about his silence in the face of what is emerging as an unusually severe flu season and why he’s not out encouraging vaccines.
[Robert F Kennedy cancels flu v...](https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r389#:~:text=Robert%20F%20Kennedy%20cancels%20flu%20vaccination%20ad%20campaign%20and%20key%20vaccine%20policy%20meeting,-BMJ%202025;%20388&text=The%20new%20US%20health%20secretary,this%20year's%20seasonal%20flu%20vaccine )

2025-12-29 23:36:52 UTC

You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
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2025-12-28 23:10:51 UTC

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.
Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.
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2025-12-21 14:31:29 UTC

Podcast Jay…err…NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya made an appearance at TPUSA to continue railing against public health and COVID19 mitigation.
He and his buds have been destroying US science and public health for a year because their feelings were hurt.
[youtu.be/e9gMZ1sme0k](https://youtu.be/e9gMZ1sme0k )
[🇺🇸 NIH Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Fu...](https://youtu.be/e9gMZ1sme0k )

2025-12-17 23:36:37 UTC

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”.
The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…”
The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.
[American Academy of Pediatrics...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/american-academy-pediatrics-funding-rfk )

2025-12-17 16:27:57 UTC

RFK Jr. has awarded $1.6 million to a group in Denmark to conduct a randomized, single-blind study of the birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) to be conducted in Guinea-Bissau.
In my opinion, this is, quite simply, completely unethical, unacceptable, and predatory.
Here’s why.
1/7

2025-12-17 01:49:37 UTC

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”.
NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC.
ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr.
Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

2025-12-06 02:21:23 UTC

Well, Senators Bill Cassidy and Thom Tillis, you wanted RFK Jr. to “go wild” at HHS.
Congratulations. You’ve achieved your goal. He is well on his way to completely destroying the US vaccine program.

2025-12-06 02:12:06 UTC

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office.
More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases.
As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.
[Fact Sheet: President Donald J...](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-begins-process-to-align-u-s-core-childhood-vaccine-recommendations-with-best-practices-from-peer-developed-countries/ )

2025-12-05 20:04:50 UTC

Malone is now talking about the role of undocumented migrants in spreading measles.
There is no evidence of this. I am disgusted. The measles outbreak is American-grown due to declining vaccination coverage in response to disinformation.

2025-12-04 12:52:45 UTC

Here is the link to the ACIP livestream if you want to follow along with the goat rodeo.
[m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpth...](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpthhPBFAgI )
[Advisory Committee on Immuniza...](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpthhPBFAgI )

2025-12-01 15:28:23 UTC

I don’t know how much y’all have been following the Indiana gerrymandering battle, but it has everything.
Republicans standing up for election integrity (?!?). Trump threats. Swatting. The Gov calling a 9-0 election map “fair”, and a senator who was affected by a Trump slur.
Off we go (1/7)

2025-11-29 17:31:00 UTC

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting on December 4th and 5th.
I believe this is where they will show their alleged data indicating that children died after the COVID19 vaccine.
TBF, based on their past presentations, I am dubious of the quality and rigor.

2025-11-29 16:33:44 UTC

The attack on vaccines by the bad actors who are running amok in the U.S. government will result in the following:
1. Substantial reduction in vaccine access
2. Significantly increased vaccine-preventable disease
3. Significantly increased pediatric deaths
4. A witch hunt for a “cover up”.

2025-11-29 15:22:02 UTC

Arizona is reporting a 16% increase in child fatalities from infectious disease in 2024.
About 1/3 of the deaths were from vaccine-preventable disease.
RFK Jr. wasn’t in office yet, but he’s been a leader in spreading lies for 20 years, and his influence is now wholly unchecked. Trouble ahead.
[Arizona reports increase in va...](https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-11-28/arizona-reports-increase-in-vaccine-preventable-child-fatalities )

2025-11-26 01:03:28 UTC

I’ve just been informed that not permitting scientific misinformation on my feed, including claims that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne HIV, is “tone policing”.
It’s actually fact-checking. I don’t give a shit who is posting misinformation or why. Zero tolerance.

2025-11-23 16:51:00 UTC

Italian researchers did a study where they looked at whether more people would give up their seat on a train for a pregnant passenger if Batman were present.
The answer is yes. People are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior when Batman’s around.
Now. How do we apply this to vaccination?
[Unexpected events and prosocia...](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12583732/ )

2025-11-20 04:53:08 UTC

Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
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2025-11-20 02:53:05 UTC

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
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2025-11-18 03:04:33 UTC

Several Republican state senators in Indiana have blocked Governor Mike Braun’s attempts to gerrymander.
Here is a quote from one them, Spencer Deery. It is a relief to know that some Republicans seem to understand the purpose of elections…albeit rarely.
Trump is furious about it.
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2025-11-16 19:53:31 UTC

ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5.
Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule.
There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.
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2025-11-14 14:25:29 UTC

I have to reiterate that the loss to the United States of so many excellent scientists who were fired by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is catastrophic to the future of the country.
And also to the present of the country.

2025-11-14 13:52:36 UTC

NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
[N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized T...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/nih-trump-jenna-norton.html )

2025-11-01 23:22:57 UTC

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
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2025-10-30 02:25:08 UTC

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.
Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.
[Louisiana officials waited mon...](https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/28/nx-s1-5576494/louisiana-whooping-cough-pertussis-infant-deaths )

2025-10-25 15:29:01 UTC

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

2025-10-24 20:02:01 UTC

Amazon sells a lot of garbage. One of the types of refuse peddled there are books about “herbal remedies”.
Some new work has shown that 82% of these books may have been written by AI.
Many quote Barbara O’Neill, an Aussie naturopath who has been banned from practicing medicine for life.
[Detection firm finds 82% of he...](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/22/detection-firm-finds-82-of-herbal-remedy-books-on-amazon-likely-written-by-ai )

2025-10-11 04:09:33 UTC

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

2025-09-24 15:44:01 UTC

Oh look it’s Oz walking back Trump’s comments on Tylenol during pregnancy.
“Take it when it’s appropriate…[Tylenol is] probably your best option for fighting lower-grade fevers that don’t require hospitalization”.
[Dr. Oz publicly breaks from Tr...](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/dr-oz-trump-tylenol-autism-pregnancy-b2832927.html?utm_source=reddit.com )

2025-09-22 21:53:43 UTC

Trump said today that he heard rumors that people in Cuba are too poor to buy acetaminophen and autism doesn’t exist there. Both of these statements are incorrect.
Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.

2025-09-22 14:37:53 UTC

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best.
This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.
[A Population-Based Study of Me...](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa021134 )

2025-09-19 16:26:44 UTC

Kirk Milhoan is now describing as “telling” the fact that COVID19 vaccines are unpopular.
What it is “telling” us is that misinformation by people such as RFK Jr.’s ACIP is harming the public.

2025-09-15 22:38:26 UTC

It is infuriating that the Republican Congress sits idly by while RFK Jr. and Marty Makary blithely make provably false statements to the media about vaccines.
This isn’t an abstract concept. The HHS Secretary and the FDA Comissioner are intentionally lying to all of us and it’s beyond dangerous.

2025-09-11 20:16:46 UTC

A child in Los Angeles has just died of measles—years after they were initially infected.
They had measles as an infant and recovered. However, they later developed subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which is rare neurological complication that can arise up to a decade after infection.
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2025-09-10 23:49:17 UTC

It’s Wednesday and that means it is time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week we take on RFK Jr.’s continued false claims about vaccines causing autism spectrum disorder.
@npub1j26…wkt6
[Whopper of the Week: Kennedy c...](https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-kennedy-claims-vaccines-cause-autism )

2025-09-09 01:18:47 UTC

Started/Going in Louisiana
368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants
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2025-09-07 18:44:40 UTC

Jeffrey Epstein had doctors prescribe birth control and sedatives to his victims. They also screened his victims for STDs.
He had dentists work on their teeth.
I’d like to know who these people are and why they have been protected.
[‘When you are in, you can’t ge...](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235247637.html )

2025-09-06 00:14:19 UTC

There is a lot of focus on Tylenol and autism spectrum disorder today, but RFK Jr. is also suggesting that low folate levels contribute.
First, a reminder that genetics are the overwhelming contributor to ASD—up to 90%.
Anything else he pulls out is likely to have minimal impact on ASD rates.

2025-09-04 18:46:52 UTC

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

2025-09-03 18:08:05 UTC

It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms.
It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro.
It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume.
When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

2025-08-30 15:05:26 UTC

Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame?
It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma.
It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.

2025-08-28 19:26:10 UTC

CDC Director Dr. Monarez was allegedly ordered to accept ACIP’s forthcoming recommendations for COVID19 vaccines regardless of what the evidence from scientific data shows.

2025-08-28 16:19:25 UTC

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

2025-08-27 18:50:24 UTC

Here is RFK Jr.’s post about FDA approvals for COVID19 vaccines. Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax are all now approved.
A list of eligible conditions for those under 65 can be found here:
[www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/cl...](https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/clinical-care/underlying-conditions.html )
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2025-08-27 17:22:15 UTC

Pfizer just got FDA approval for 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines for those:
-Aged 65+ years
-Aged 5-64 years with at least one underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19.
[Pfizer and BioNTech’s COMIRNAT...](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pfizer-biontech-comirnaty-receives-u-165000915.html )

2025-08-26 00:51:09 UTC

Canada has fully approved Moderna’s 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccine.
[Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vacc...](https://globalnews.ca/news/11349082/new-covid-19-vaccine-made-in-canada/ )

2025-08-26 00:00:48 UTC

A hearty fuck you to those blaming healthcare workers and scientists for RFK Jr. blocking vaccines.
Thousands of us warned Congress and are doing everything in our power to fight this.
The people with whom you should be angry are Republican elected officials and the people who voted for them.

2025-08-17 21:05:43 UTC

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
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2025-08-17 20:19:22 UTC

Oz appears to be saying here that they are gearing up to use digital surveillance of people using Medicaid and Medicare.
“We have trials ongoing of technology solutions to allow us to pretty quickly adjudicate whether you’ve tried to work…”
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2025-08-16 20:46:52 UTC

A woman who was 20 weeks pregnant fed her toddler son raw milk. He contracted Campylobacter and then passed the infection to her; she progressed to sepsis, and had a miscarriage.
She is suing the business that sells the raw milk, saying she didn’t know the risk.
Don’t feed your kids raw milk.
[Florida mom sues dairy farm af...](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/florida-raw-milk-lawsuit-miscarriage-b2808514.html )

2025-08-11 20:36:17 UTC

RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids.
RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.
The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

2025-08-09 13:34:35 UTC

Yesterday on Twitter, RFK Jr. blatantly accused doctors of vaccinating patients solely for money. Earlier in the week, he cancelled $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines.
Then a man who apparently thought his illness was caused by the COVID19 vaccine fired numerous rounds at the CDC, killing a man.

2025-08-08 15:00:52 UTC

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya:
“Science should not be partisan”.
Also NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya:
“Every grant that comes into the NIH will be reviewed by a Trump appointee to make sure it fits the MAGA agenda”.

2025-08-01 23:52:29 UTC

Democrats are going to investigate RFK Jr.’s firing of all 17 members of ACIP.
Bill Cassidy, a man whose integrity couldn’t be seen under an electron microscope, refused a request for a bipartisan investigation. He was never opposed to RFK Jr., he just acted the part.
[US Senate Democrats to investi...](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-senate-democrats-investigate-kennedys-firing-vaccine-expert-panel-2025-07-29/ )

2025-08-01 20:18:05 UTC

Trump firing Commissioner of Labor Statistics Dr. Erika McEntarfer is completely consistent with how he behaves when presented with data he doesn’t like.
He did this with the sharpie hurricane and he did it with the pandemic.
Data are not political, they are data.

2025-07-24 21:27:59 UTC

For whatever it’s worth, I just spoke to someone at Walgreens headquarters who said that they will offer updated 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines.
-They do not yet have a date when they expect to receive them.
-They do not know if insurance will cover them.

2025-07-14 17:43:04 UTC

For those asking, updated flu vaccines were approved by ACIP for everyone aged 6 months and up, and they are being shipped out right now.
COVID19 is a different story. We must get clarity on this.
[Companies start flu vaccine sh...](https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-general/companies-start-flu-vaccine-shipments-ahead-2025-26-season )

2025-07-13 15:12:00 UTC

Pam Bondi has hailed as a hero and dismissed charges against a doctor who:
Injected children with placebo instead of COVID19 vaccine
Destroyed $28,000 worth of taxpayer-funded COVID19 vaccines
Sold fake vaccination cards so people could avoid the vaccine
His license is still active in Utah.
[Attorney General Pam Bondi ann...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pam-bondi-dismissal-charges-against-utah-plastic-surgeon-michael-kirk-moore-faking-covid-19-vaccine/ )

2025-07-12 20:47:52 UTC

A doctor was on trial for selling fraudulent COVID19 vaccination cards to people so that they could avoid vaccination.
Bondi dismissed the charges, saying, “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing”.
[Attorney General Pam Bondi ann...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pam-bondi-dismissal-charges-against-utah-plastic-surgeon-michael-kirk-moore-faking-covid-19-vaccine/ )

2025-07-10 19:58:27 UTC

I’m well and truly tired of Jay Bhattacharya talking about the lack of trust in public health. He and his cronies seeded, watered, and fertilized distrust during the pandemic, so they shouldn’t be surprised that it flowered.
The man has no training, education, or experience in public health.

2025-07-04 01:37:50 UTC

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Republican Party.
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2025-07-01 15:38:26 UTC

Oh nothing nothing just the Vice President of the United States saying aloud the truth.
In the MAGA system, cutting people’s healthcare is mere minutiae as long as you can keep up with your mass deportations and fund your concentration camps.
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2025-06-25 01:42:12 UTC

You know what would encourage people to get more physical activity? No, it is not wearable fitness trackers. It is:
1. A liveable wage so people have time for it
2. Safe parks and other infrastructure for such activity
But that’s too hard.

2025-06-23 14:59:30 UTC

Paloma Shemirani was diagnosed at 23 with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a disease with a 75% survival rate if treated.
Her mother is an anti-vax, anti-science nurse who lost her license for spreading dangerous health misinformation.
She discouraged her daughter from getting chemotherapy. Paloma died.
[Our sister died because of our...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crenzwyvpn1o )

2025-06-18 23:41:58 UTC

One of the most spectacular tricks that the “wellness” grift has managed to pull off is convincing people that their industry is untainted by money. That they are all doing it out of their deep concern for their customers’ health.
Yet the global supplement industry alone is worth $177 billion.

2025-06-14 16:11:34 UTC

Some #NoKings signs with Tucson flair.
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2025-06-13 23:36:54 UTC

There is another problem looming with RFK Jr.’s stable of anti-vaxxers now on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
ACIP only makes recommendations on which vaccines to approve and for whom. The CDC Director is the one who signs off.
And currently, there is no CDC Director.
[Questions swirl over who's run...](https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/cdc-director-leadership-vacancy-rfk )

2025-06-13 14:57:37 UTC

There’s an overwhelming number of awful things happening.
My gentle suggestion is to consider attending a protest tomorrow if you can.
In addition to exercising your rights, it can be helpful to be in a sea of people who share your values.
MAGA has exploited this, and now it’s our turn.

2025-06-13 02:27:19 UTC

I just learned from a podcast that the last morning on the Titanic, Captain Smith decided to cancel a lifeboat drill in order to have an extra-long church service instead.
And fam that is kind of similar to what it’s like to be a scientist under the rule of RFK Jr.

2025-06-11 23:44:47 UTC

Please make sure you do the following as quickly as possible, especially if you are immunocompromised:
1. Get every vaccine you need
2. Buy some high-quality masks (KF94, KN95 or N95).
These fools that Kennedy just appointed are going to cause the reemergence of vaccine-preventable disease.

2025-06-09 14:08:54 UTC

“An antivaccine activist recently hired by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has started hunting for proof that federal officials hid evidence that inoculations cause autism, according to people familiar with the matter”.
[www.wsj.com/health/healt...](https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/vaccine-opponent-hired-by-rfk-jr-scours-official-records-for-link-to-autism-a1091eb4?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAiHU31E1SOUTByJPaNetCepkOkVYJ7ItQXrbPkOSzGu0qtYkkYeHMA8NZATtCc%3D&gaa_ts=6846ee4b&gaa_sig=RaGejgSlpGYroOoK16irgZ5EjRfyga1iwlPaP1wgpH3N6mRQAR-0Ywh3vmlMyElPAOYJeHEzveovoAShlEFH0g%3D%3D )
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2025-06-07 23:54:55 UTC

Grace Schara was a 19-year old with Down Syndrome who was hospitalized and died of COVID19.
She was not vaccinated because her mother said “she believes the COVID-19 vaccine is a bioweapon and young vaccinated men, once vaccinated, became sterile”.
Her parents are now suing the hospital.

2025-06-06 02:16:09 UTC

Just looking through some of my old posts from Threads, wishing I’d been wrong about this.
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2025-05-28 15:39:30 UTC

The US just canceled all international student visa interviews so The Regime can scour their social media.
This seems…inconsistent.
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2025-05-27 23:44:29 UTC

On average, 300 Americans are still dying each week from COVID19.
A major part of the reason is that they are not vaccinated.
Another is they’ve been led to believe that COVID19 isn’t serious and don’t seek care or test for it.

2025-05-22 21:40:27 UTC

Another quote from the MAHA Report that should set off alarm bells all over the U.S.:
“Unlike other pharmaceutical products, vaccines are unique in that all 50 states enforce some form of vaccine mandate for public school enrollment”.
This is because they PROTECT CHILDREN FROM CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.

2025-05-08 19:07:07 UTC

“It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses [sic] gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment”, say RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya.
They say it’s of no benefit to Americans.

2025-05-08 15:32:39 UTC

A kidney transplant recipient died from rabies because the donor was infected with it before they died. It’s only the fourth time this has happened since 1978, and immediately after the death occurred, the CDC helped ensure that the other donated organs were intercepted.