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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT?!

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 17d

Decades of research have found that acetaminophen is safe for children when administered as recommended. Misleading claims link the medicine to autism. These false claims send a dangerous message to parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · 15d

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 15d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: Nature trained AI to predict which NIH grants from 2014 would have been cut if the Trump admin had its way back then — and what science would have been lost to history.

"The results show the damage that cuts in funding can do to research, and the unpredictable nature of the research process."

Nature @nature.com · 15d

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences

go.nature.com/4pBArFH

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

go.nature.com

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

Something devoid of vowels. Scrch or Blrbn.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

Of course there’s a huge population based study from Scandinavia out there:
bsky.app/profile/kinl...

Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 18d

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children

In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

news.ki.se

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18d

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

This is the core of the wellness industry’s and RFK’s philosophy on illness generally. If health is fully within individual control, then the responsibility for disease or disability is our own, so why should the government help?

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

Using their enormous platform to spread misinformation may have very serious results. Now it’s not only risk of vaccine-preventable illness and death, but parents may pivot from using acitaminophen for pain and fever to medications that really are proven to be dangerous. Staggeringly irresponsible.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

Pain relief and fever management is important during pregnancy and for infants. The options for both are limited! Ibuprofen during pregnancy is bad for the baby’s kidneys. Aspirin during infancy can cause Reye’s syndrome.

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

Reye's syndrome - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

Ah yes. The true cause of autism, “liquid”.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 17d

I think so. They chickened out of going all in on vaccines but still needed a parental error of commission, something they could blame moms for.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · 22d

And drug prices by 1500%!

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 7

It must. I’ve been reviewing since I published my first paper as a grad student.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 7

Can confirm. I receive an average of one review request per day. It’s an impossible deluge and sometimes I don’t even get around to declining, which I then feel guilty about.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sure, yeah, quiet part loud. Next let’s make RFK Jr the Secretary of Sickness.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 5

Trump: "We decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense. So we're going to Department of War ... I think it's a much more appropriate name especially in light of where the world is right now."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 4

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Do you agree with me that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?"

RFK: "Absolutely."

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "But you just told Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid?"

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ég held það sé svolítið að byrja á vitlausum enda. Meðan samfélagið kemur fram við fólk á ólíkan hátt eftir kyngervi þá er nauðsynlegt að gögn séu skráð þannig að það sé hægt að sýna fram á það.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 4

Já, en við tölum samt sem dæmi um kynskráningu sem er í rauninni kyngerviskráning. Kannski við þurfum bara að vera duglegri að koma orðinu kyngervi að.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Sep 4

Okkur vantar áþreifanlega mismunandi orð yfir sex og gender. Það myndi ekki koma í veg fyrir þessa hegðun en það er óþolandi að geta ekki bent á það þegar þau þykjast vera að ræða eitt en vísa sífellt í annað.

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · Aug 28

I miss the old brand #CDC

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ég hélt að veislur væru tækifæri til að rækta tengsl við fólk sem mér þykir vænt um en er ekki svo náin að ég droppi mikið í heimsókn. Sé núna að það var rangt og læt af þessari sýndarmennsku hér með.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kennedy today in cabinet meeting: "We’re finding interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we’re going to be able to address those in September."

We already know he's employed grifters to implicate vaccines. Get them while you can.

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Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir @kristjana.bsky.social · Aug 23

If you choose to engage in sexual activity with a clothed partner without reciprocation (the only way it’s not “necessarily discoverable”), well, you may be kinda selfish but you’re still consenting.

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