@njerdoc.bsky.social
ER/ICU Doc in NYC area. Lover of music, science and sports. Hater of misinformation and ignorance. You can probably guess my thoughts on Trump, Fox and religion.
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As was I, mainly by my physician colleagues. In fact, I was told that deconstructing quack claims in general was a poor use of my time. And guess what? One of the physicians who criticized my activities in this sphere is currently in charge of FDA CBER.
I was told for many years that criticizing the antivaccine movement was a waste of time and “a liability” for science communication in general
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
As was I, mainly by my physician colleagues. In fact, I was told that deconstructing quack claims in general was a poor use of my time. And guess what? One of the physicians who criticized my activities in this sphere is currently in charge of FDA CBER.
Nice investigative journalism, but all of this has been out in the wide open for a long time now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Nice investigative journalism, but all of this has been out in the wide open for a long time now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
I love the "missionaries" angle. I'm sure the native people of the Americas were so appreciative that these people came over and enlightened them on which invisible overlords they were supposed to praise.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love the "missionaries" angle. I'm sure the native people of the Americas were so appreciative that these people came over and enlightened them on which invisible overlords they were supposed to praise.
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Also, can someone, ANYONE, directly ask him if he personally signed the pardons of all 1500+ capitol rioters/traitors?
This is barely even a headline. A sitting president openly declaring null and void the pardons of his predecessor. The fact that this won’t pass legal muster is irrelevant. This is a five-alarm fire for our democracy and no one is talking about it.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen, a move that legal experts doubted wo...
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Also, can someone, ANYONE, directly ask him if he personally signed the pardons of all 1500+ capitol rioters/traitors?
This is barely even a headline. A sitting president openly declaring null and void the pardons of his predecessor. The fact that this won’t pass legal muster is irrelevant. This is a five-alarm fire for our democracy and no one is talking about it.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump says he's terminating any Biden pardons signed with autopen
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden had signed using an autopen, a move that legal experts doubted wo...
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is barely even a headline. A sitting president openly declaring null and void the pardons of his predecessor. The fact that this won’t pass legal muster is irrelevant. This is a five-alarm fire for our democracy and no one is talking about it.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
So…medical insurance for all then, right?
Holy crap, why does NO ONE in the press nail these imbeciles down and ask for specifics of HOW THEIR PLAN WILL WORK!!!!
Holy crap, why does NO ONE in the press nail these imbeciles down and ask for specifics of HOW THEIR PLAN WILL WORK!!!!
Chip Roy: "We need to give freedom options for the average hardworking American family so you can afford a catastrophic plan, go get health sharing, be able to have something that you can be able to go to the doctor of your choice rather than enriching insurance companies."
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So…medical insurance for all then, right?
Holy crap, why does NO ONE in the press nail these imbeciles down and ask for specifics of HOW THEIR PLAN WILL WORK!!!!
Holy crap, why does NO ONE in the press nail these imbeciles down and ask for specifics of HOW THEIR PLAN WILL WORK!!!!
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The Times argued the rules that restricted news organizations’ communications with military sources were a violation of its First and Fifth Amendment rights.
New York Times Sues Defense Department And Hegseth Over New Pentagon Press Rules
The Times argued the rules that restricted news organizations’ communications with military sources were a violation of its First and Fifth Amendment rights.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Times argued the rules that restricted news organizations’ communications with military sources were a violation of its First and Fifth Amendment rights.
The tragedy of this is that the babies who go on to develop cirrhosis/cancer won’t do so for another 10-15 years from now. Trump/RFK will be long gone.
Yet they will still probably blame it on Biden somehow.
Yet they will still probably blame it on Biden somehow.
A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer. https://to.pbs.org/4aAvyau
WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr.’s CDC panel to debate whether newborns should get lifesaving hepatitis B shot
A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.
www.pbs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The tragedy of this is that the babies who go on to develop cirrhosis/cancer won’t do so for another 10-15 years from now. Trump/RFK will be long gone.
Yet they will still probably blame it on Biden somehow.
Yet they will still probably blame it on Biden somehow.
The January 6 traitors alone are over 1500.
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The January 6 traitors alone are over 1500.
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A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
I suspect FDA no longer has qualified people willing to do this job.
"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
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"FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...."
endpoints.news/fda-to-name-... @endpts.com
Breaking: FDA to name Tracy Beth Hoeg, who helped lead Covid shot investigation, as acting CDER chief
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency's drug unit
endpoints.news
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter
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Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
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The reason why he needs to travel the world with his girlfriend on a free government jet with security details is because “he’s entitled to a personal life.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
Kash Patel: "Yes, I'm entitled to a personal life just like my other agency counterparts with their partners. So do I support my girlfriend? Absolutely. And do I take trips with her? Absolutely."
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The reason why he needs to travel the world with his girlfriend on a free government jet with security details is because “he’s entitled to a personal life.” bsky.app/profile/atru...
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71 million views. Another brilliant PR move by the outstanding WH comms team. They owned the libs again by attacking and demeaning Sabrina just because she asked them not to steal her music for one of their sick deportation videos. Thanks for the new voters.
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
71 million views. Another brilliant PR move by the outstanding WH comms team. They owned the libs again by attacking and demeaning Sabrina just because she asked them not to steal her music for one of their sick deportation videos. Thanks for the new voters.
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The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The only reliable data we are going to get on this stuff now comes from the private sector. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Absolutely, positively NO way this happened.
Bondi to Hannity of the doctors treating the injured National Guard member in DC: "She wanted me to tell you this -- they adore you"
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Absolutely, positively NO way this happened.
Today’s edition of, “imagine if Biden, or Obama or Clinton had…”
images of Trump dozing during today's cabinet meeting
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty & Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today’s edition of, “imagine if Biden, or Obama or Clinton had…”
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Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."
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here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
here's Trump's full racist rant about MN's Somali community: "Somalians ripped off that state for billions. And they contribute nothing... Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren't people that work... They come from hell & do nothing but bitch. We don't want them"
What in the hell is a “preventative MRI”?
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What in the hell is a “preventative MRI”?
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The president is a lunatic
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The president is a lunatic
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But he lacks even a basic understanding of how medicine or science or the research process works, believing instead that whatever he reads on the internet has equal weight to everything else. And now here we are.
But, no, nothing intelligent or cunning about him whatsoever. Please stop this!
But, no, nothing intelligent or cunning about him whatsoever. Please stop this!
Why do we keep trying to find an underlying strategy to his actions, like he’s a mad genius? He’s not. He’s not bright at all. What he is is an incredibly skilled politician with no sense of integrity whatsoever. Because he was immersed in politics since birth.
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
What Is RFK Jr. After?
On Washington Week With The Atlantic, Michael Scherer joins a discussion about his story on the HHS secretary’s plans to remake America’s public-health system.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
But he lacks even a basic understanding of how medicine or science or the research process works, believing instead that whatever he reads on the internet has equal weight to everything else. And now here we are.
But, no, nothing intelligent or cunning about him whatsoever. Please stop this!
But, no, nothing intelligent or cunning about him whatsoever. Please stop this!
Why do we keep trying to find an underlying strategy to his actions, like he’s a mad genius? He’s not. He’s not bright at all. What he is is an incredibly skilled politician with no sense of integrity whatsoever. Because he was immersed in politics since birth.
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
What Is RFK Jr. After?
On Washington Week With The Atlantic, Michael Scherer joins a discussion about his story on the HHS secretary’s plans to remake America’s public-health system.
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Why do we keep trying to find an underlying strategy to his actions, like he’s a mad genius? He’s not. He’s not bright at all. What he is is an incredibly skilled politician with no sense of integrity whatsoever. Because he was immersed in politics since birth.
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
www.theatlantic.com/national/202...
The only “calculation” is: what does it say on the Fox chyron + what is trending on my right-wing echo chamber’s social media feed = my understanding of any complex issue.
Markwayne Mullin defends Trump pardoning Honduran president who was convicted of drug trafficking: "What the president is doing is always calculated. I haven't had a direct conversation with the president about it, but I do trust his natural reaction and his approach to foreign affairs."
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The only “calculation” is: what does it say on the Fox chyron + what is trending on my right-wing echo chamber’s social media feed = my understanding of any complex issue.
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.