David Gorski, MD, PhD
@gorskon.bsky.social
Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine and deconstructing quackery. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog (sciencebasedmedicine.org). X/Twitter & Threads: @gorskon. (He/him)
No, he can't. At least he can't lead it competently. And WTF is this fawning headline? This man's policies have already started demolishing public health and vaccine infrastructure in the US and will likely lead to many unnecessary deaths.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
No, he can't. At least he can't lead it competently. And WTF is this fawning headline? This man's policies have already started demolishing public health and vaccine infrastructure in the US and will likely lead to many unnecessary deaths.
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. @edyong209.bsky.social went independent and I am glad he did, because this fawning piece about a man who will be responsible for millions of excess #deaths would never be written by a proper #health and #science #journalist
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
. @edyong209.bsky.social went independent and I am glad he did, because this fawning piece about a man who will be responsible for millions of excess #deaths would never be written by a proper #health and #science #journalist
The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism. The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It’s just part of RFK Jr.'s ongoing war on vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cdc-is-l...
The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism
The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It's just part of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s continuing war on vacc
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The CDC is lying to you about vaccines and autism. The CDC webpage about vaccines and autism now misrepresents the science and lies to the public about vaccines and autism. It’s just part of RFK Jr.'s ongoing war on vaccines. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-cdc-is-l...
I wonder what he thinks of amalgam. 😂
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I wonder what he thinks of amalgam. 😂
Oh bloody hell. Ioannidis was arguably the most (previously) respected scientist to politicize public health and COVID science. 🤦🏻♂️
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Oh bloody hell. Ioannidis was arguably the most (previously) respected scientist to politicize public health and COVID science. 🤦🏻♂️
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NEW: I spoke with David Vickrey, the Daily Kos blogger Robert Kennedy Jr. spent the last five years pursuing in court with a dead-end, costly defamation lawsuit.
Here’s what he had to say:
www.importantcontext.news/p/robert-ken...
Here’s what he had to say:
www.importantcontext.news/p/robert-ken...
Robert Kennedy Jr. ‘Absolutely Tried to Silence’ Me: Blogger Sued by HHS Secretary Speaks Out
David Vickrey spoke with Important Context about the legal battle that consumed the last five years of his life.
www.importantcontext.news
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: I spoke with David Vickrey, the Daily Kos blogger Robert Kennedy Jr. spent the last five years pursuing in court with a dead-end, costly defamation lawsuit.
Here’s what he had to say:
www.importantcontext.news/p/robert-ken...
Here’s what he had to say:
www.importantcontext.news/p/robert-ken...
Sadly, Peter Gøtzsche is now clearly in the antivaccine camp.
🧵OMG... This will immediately appear as though the 🤡 Peter C. Gøtzsche is being an apologist to Sec. 🧠🪱 based on the Nov 21st date Brownshit Institute published his crap "How CDC and FDA Defrauded the American Public about Serious Vaccine Harms". Except...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sadly, Peter Gøtzsche is now clearly in the antivaccine camp.
This has always been the case. Back in the 2000s, Dr. Bob Sears suggested in his book on vaccines that parents who don’t vaccinate have their kids “hide in the herd.”
Vaccines themselves are such a metaphor for how the anti-vax demographic views society. If the rest of us didn’t do our part, most of them would be doing a very different risk assessment before declining immunization. They depend on the rest of us getting vaccinated so we stay above herd immunity.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This has always been the case. Back in the 2000s, Dr. Bob Sears suggested in his book on vaccines that parents who don’t vaccinate have their kids “hide in the herd.”
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November 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
MAHA: Its antivax mask has been dropped
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
www.respectfulinsolence.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
We now have concentration camps in the US. Fascism is here and in control.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We now have concentration camps in the US. Fascism is here and in control.
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MAHA Action, the 501(c)(4) dark money group founded to support (and sell) Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda at HHS, is attacking the March for Science and Health.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
With Deep Pockets, the Anti-Kennedy Cabal Wants to Remove the Secretary From Office. They Will Fail.
By Adam Garrie, Contributor, The MAHA Report
www.themahareport.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
MAHA Action, the 501(c)(4) dark money group founded to support (and sell) Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda at HHS, is attacking the March for Science and Health.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
The brain drain that this administration’s policies are resulting in will hobble us as a nation for generation. Say goodbye to our leadership in science. Before you know it, China and the EU will lap us.
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The brain drain that this administration’s policies are resulting in will hobble us as a nation for generation. Say goodbye to our leadership in science. Before you know it, China and the EU will lap us.
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Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
A giant has passed. (I rotated on his surgical service during medical school.) www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...
Robert H. Bartlett, ‘Father of ECMO,’ dies at 86
Known as the 'Father of ECMO', an active emeritus surgeon at Michigan Medicine and a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Bartlett leaves a historic legacy
www.michiganmedicine.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A giant has passed. (I rotated on his surgical service during medical school.) www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...
In these dark times, sometimes schadenfreude is one of my only consolations.
The knives are out for Jay from his former allies.
He rose high enough to become part of the conspiracy.
That’s his future now.
He rose high enough to become part of the conspiracy.
That’s his future now.
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In these dark times, sometimes schadenfreude is one of my only consolations.
Oops, they did it again.🤦🏻♂️ www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Oops, they did it again.🤦🏻♂️ www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of “functional medicine.” She, MAHA, and a new “board certification” will falsely legitimize quackery. sciencebasedmedicine.org/surgeon-gene...
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means and functional medicine: Legitimizing quackery
Surgeon general nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of "functional medicine." She, MAHA, and a new "board certification" will falsely legitimize quackery.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of “functional medicine.” She, MAHA, and a new “board certification” will falsely legitimize quackery. sciencebasedmedicine.org/surgeon-gene...
I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.
I’m almost the same age, and my 40 year old self would never have guessed the same.
My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m almost the same age, and my 40 year old self would never have guessed the same.
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Yep. I wrote in depth how when he’s was at AIER Tucker brought together the three useful idiots who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, one of whom now runs the NIH and one of whom now has a major role determining vaccine recommendations as part of ACIP.
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yep. I wrote in depth how when he’s was at AIER Tucker brought together the three useful idiots who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, one of whom now runs the NIH and one of whom now has a major role determining vaccine recommendations as part of ACIP.
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.