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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17h

Re-upping this since lies and conspiracy theories run rampant in the fever swamps of today's "right".
#ScienceUnderSiege

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 9d

Comment from @upenn.edu Provost John Jackson here:
www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Provost John Jackson told The Daily Pennsylvanian that Mann was neither fired nor “driven-out” of the position.

“I think his position has been that it’s more and more difficult for him to do the kind of public intellectual work he wants to do while also being a University administrator at an institution that says we pride ourselves on institutional neutrality,” Jackson added.

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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 22h

Fun fact: Monica Gandhi was once affiliated with the dark money funded group called "The Urgency of Normal" w now current Trump appointees Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth-Hoeg. Great little article about all of that.

synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/202...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 14h

I discussed this “science” here.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/pbem/

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA doctors and their MAGA science.

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Dr. Susan Winters ☕️ @docwinter.bsky.social · 19h

💉 New study: 2024–25 COVID vaccines cut ER visits by 29%, hospitalizations by 39%, and death by 64%.

➡️ Protection was seen across ALL age groups — not just the elderly.
➡️ Benefits held even if you’d had COVID or prior shots.

#COVID19 #VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #MedSky #COVIDVaccine #TrustScience

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.

Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?

- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans

Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0

www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org

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Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 21h

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New post at Science Matters, reviewing "The War on Science" a collection of 30+ essays that views the war as having a single source - the left - while neglecting to reckon with longstanding (and accelerating) corporate and political threats from the right.

joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/not-all-wa...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement | Had a fantastic conversation with Major Garrett about my new book w/ @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, on @cbsnews.com #TheTakeout:
www.cbsnews.com/video/examin...

Examining the rise of the anti-science movement

Critics say Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump administration have been pushing an anti-science agenda. The new book, "Science Under Siege," argues it's not just the federal governme...

www.cbsnews.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

This was about a single YouTube video in 2021.

"For science to work, you have to have an open exchange of ideas...If you're going to make an argument that something is misinformation, you should provide an actual argument. You can't just take it down and say, 'Oh, it's misinformation' without actually giving a reason...Let's hear the argument, let's see the evidence that YouTube used to decide it was misinformation. Let's have a debate.
Science works best when we have an open debate," said
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 3d

I am half way through reading @joho.bsky.social ‘s new book and it should be included as historical evidence in national science libraries & archives. I really hope down the road we read this and find ways to ensure none of what we saw during the pandemic is ever repeated. Riveting read.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s an interesting article, I think, from February 2022, discussing the overlap between doctors from Harvard, Stanford, UCSF, Hopkins and cranks like Kennedy.

Now those worlds are totally fused.

Take the quiz and see for yourself.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/provaccine/

“We’re Pro-Vaccine But”

Can you tell the difference between statements made by contrarian doctors and those made by anti-vaccine cranks like Dr. Joe Mercola and RFK Jr.? Find out for yourself.

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

🙏 Thank for the kind words.

His powerful writing is quoted in both of my books because he tells it like it is.

If only more people had been as willing to clearly call out obviously dangerous disinformation as he has since 2020- and many years before that too.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

I mean watch this. It’s unhinged. That’s why it was so dangerous to normalize Bhattacharya, Prasad, Kulldorff, and Makary.

They made people paranoid and angry. We are seeing that manifest today.

There is an overwhelming amount of such content. Just watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sid...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

For example

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sid...

Jay Bhattacharya paranoid propaganda about a biomedical security state

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Anger over Covid mitigations- wrong, but trivial things- is being used to justify raw authoritarianism today.

In Everyone Else is Lying to You, I discuss how the doctors running things today, discussed public health as a totalitarian nightmare.

Yet, they all work for Trump today.

Will Tanner &
@Will Tanner_1
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Newsom arrested people for fishing on the beach, alone, during Covid
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"Honey, did you post something negative about the regime?"

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

A reader expressed anger that laptop class doctors, who massively underestimated Covid in spring 2020, later said that frontline doctors killed patients via intubations, despite this being a data free internet rumor.

Listen here and pay attention at 30 seconds or so.

youtu.be/RLK2ZAvyrx8?...

Laptop class doctor John Ioannidis falsely blames frontline doctors/intubations for COVID deaths

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 2d

@joho.bsky.social @gorskon.bsky.social @doritreiss.bsky.social
Must watch: RFK Jr wants a statue of Andy Wakefield at HHS. And that's just for starters.

Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOZ...

The lasting damage of vaccine misinformation and the disgraced doctor fueling it

YouTube video by Environmental Working Group (EWG)

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 2d

Ironically, I HAVE stopped trusting the public health establishment...because apparently they trust Vinay Prasad.

Even here in Canada, we hear almost nothing about the need for air filtration, high-quality masks, and ventilation, and our access to covid boosters is being eroded. 1/

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Demographic Data Supporting FDA Authorization of AI Devices for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Demographic Data Supporting FDA Authorization of AI Devices for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

This cohort study examines the availability and representativeness of data supporting US Food and Drug Administration–authorized artificial intelligence and machine learning devices to treat Alzheimer...

jamanetwork.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like someone should write a book based on that theme.

STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 2d

"don't trust experts except me, vinay prasad"

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Correct. The messages of doubt and mistrust were overt and out in the open.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that’s the reason I chose this book title

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2d

Correct. The messages of doubt and mistrust were overt and out in the open.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be speaking today at Lewes Library Science and Society webcast talk at 4:45 EDT about my just released book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics. Registration required. delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/14650002

Science and Society | Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics

Online Since Covid-19 swept the world, scientists have been grappling with an urgent issue: How do we prepare for the next pandemic—and at a time when science denial and...

delawarelibraries.libcal.com

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