Edward Nirenberg
@enirenberg.bsky.social
Views my own, but you can borrow them if you feel so inclined. Anti-disease. Negentropy hunter. Kosmotropophile. Big Nerd Energy. “A homework person.” Fun at parties. Antibody hoarder. “Problematically literate.” he/him
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1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
I just... what?
Exclusive | Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I just... what?
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Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."
Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.
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NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
National Academies - Statement on CDC’s Updated Vaccine Guidance
National Academies respond to CDC’s updated vaccine guidance, offering scientific context and clarity on vaccine safety.
www.nationalacademies.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
NEW: The National Academies release statement saying the revised language on @CDCgov web page on links between vaccines and autism, which cited some of the academies work, did not provide the full context. 1/2
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...
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I have many friends & colleagues who will NOT come to the United States for this reason
Great article by @drjudystone.bsky.social about the impact cuts to government agencies are having on global health.
It was also noted that some international scientists refused to attend this conference because of ICE and racial profiling.
I am so deeply ashamed of our government.
It was also noted that some international scientists refused to attend this conference because of ICE and racial profiling.
I am so deeply ashamed of our government.
Reminders Of What Our Losses From CDC And USAID Mean
With the loss of USAID and much of CDC, our ability to respond to pandemics is at risk. Global health issues are a growing threat.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I have many friends & colleagues who will NOT come to the United States for this reason
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
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My thoughts on ABC news- Scientists, not political appointees, should be who advises the public on clinical guidance. RFK needs to meet with CDC career leaders and learn about the agency's responses to outbreaks and overall programs vs directing CDC website changes based on ideology not science
Video Former CDC chief on agency webpage saying autism, vaccines link ignored
Dr. Debra Houry, who resigned from her position as chief medical officer of the CDC in 2025, called the change on the CDC’s website "disturbing."
abcnews.go.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My thoughts on ABC news- Scientists, not political appointees, should be who advises the public on clinical guidance. RFK needs to meet with CDC career leaders and learn about the agency's responses to outbreaks and overall programs vs directing CDC website changes based on ideology not science
Potentially spicy take but the basics of the philosophy of science (i.e., the epistemology) should be a mandatory part of education because people don’t understand the weight of terms like “scientific consensus.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Potentially spicy take but the basics of the philosophy of science (i.e., the epistemology) should be a mandatory part of education because people don’t understand the weight of terms like “scientific consensus.”
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
Yes, this is indeed a problem, but no manufacturer should even be entertaining setting up expensive studies to see what can replace alum in vaccines when there is literally no scientific evidence to justify the change. It is insane to even contemplate this.
Trump and RFK Jr. are mulling their most disruptive vaccine policies yet — alarming manufacturers
Trump and Kennedy are considering removing aluminum from vaccines and breaking up shots that protect against multiple diseases.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Yes, this is indeed a problem, but no manufacturer should even be entertaining setting up expensive studies to see what can replace alum in vaccines when there is literally no scientific evidence to justify the change. It is insane to even contemplate this.
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I spoke yesterday at #NFIDCVC via nfidvaccines.bsky.social about RSV vaccines, and there's a vaccine safety article just published I missed.
The TL;DR version is the bivalent RSV vaccine during pregnancy isn't associated with adverse outcomes - #MedSky.
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
The TL;DR version is the bivalent RSV vaccine during pregnancy isn't associated with adverse outcomes - #MedSky.
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I spoke yesterday at #NFIDCVC via nfidvaccines.bsky.social about RSV vaccines, and there's a vaccine safety article just published I missed.
The TL;DR version is the bivalent RSV vaccine during pregnancy isn't associated with adverse outcomes - #MedSky.
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
The TL;DR version is the bivalent RSV vaccine during pregnancy isn't associated with adverse outcomes - #MedSky.
journals.lww.com/greenjournal...
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I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
(Source: GAVI)
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
TIL about the Humean theory of causality and oh my god where is the meteor
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
TIL about the Humean theory of causality and oh my god where is the meteor
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I know Rosenhan's study has been discredited but really feeling the whole "being sane in insane places" vibe lately
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I know Rosenhan's study has been discredited but really feeling the whole "being sane in insane places" vibe lately
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
1/4
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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New review paper describes how disinformation in public health is often created by powerful industries to protect profits, not people. One simple step to help: create content that names the tactic (“this mixes truth with omission") because once people can spot the tactic, it loses its power.
The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health
Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...
www.annualreviews.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New review paper describes how disinformation in public health is often created by powerful industries to protect profits, not people. One simple step to help: create content that names the tactic (“this mixes truth with omission") because once people can spot the tactic, it loses its power.
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We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
My pal @bryce-allen-bagley.bsky.social is doing really important work on AI safety, particularly in neurotechnology like brain-computer interfaces. Check out his new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
Approximating the Mathematical Structure of Psychodynamics
The complexity of human cognition has meant that psychology makes more use of theory and conceptual models than perhaps any other biomedical field. To enable precise quantitative study of the full bre...
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My pal @bryce-allen-bagley.bsky.social is doing really important work on AI safety, particularly in neurotechnology like brain-computer interfaces. Check out his new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05580
This would be my pandemic preparedness plan if my explicit goal were to ensure as many people as possible died when we had the next pandemic.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This would be my pandemic preparedness plan if my explicit goal were to ensure as many people as possible died when we had the next pandemic.
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The fact of the matter is that there is no one path to improved health. When, however, we stigmatize, criminalize, & defund services for people w/substance use disorders, it creates a clear path for worsening health. We must stop the erosion of harm reduction. @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The Erosion of Harm Reduction | NEJM
The U.S. administration has continuously chipped away at public health interventions
addressing substance use disorders and the opioid crisis, including vital harm-reduction
activities.
www.nejm.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The fact of the matter is that there is no one path to improved health. When, however, we stigmatize, criminalize, & defund services for people w/substance use disorders, it creates a clear path for worsening health. We must stop the erosion of harm reduction. @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...