@benjaminmateus.bsky.social
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Thanks for a great day in DC marching to call for RFK’s removal. Great photo op with @solnatamd.medsky.social @drericding.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thanks for a great day in DC marching to call for RFK’s removal. Great photo op with @solnatamd.medsky.social @drericding.bsky.social
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Be there… or be square…
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
October 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Be there… or be square…
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Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay
Dr. Halladay is a leading researcher into the causes of autism and an advocate for a science-based approach to this neurodevelopmental disorder.
www.wsws.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Autism and the crisis of science: A conversation with Dr. Alycia Halladay www.wsws.org/en/articles/... via @benjaminmateus.bsky.social
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Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: thank you, Dr. @benjaminmateus.bsky.social, for discussing these issues with me. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: An interview with law professor Dorit Reiss
Dorit Reiss is a law professor specializing in the legality and necessity of school vaccine mandates.
www.wsws.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Mandatory vaccination and democratic rights: thank you, Dr. @benjaminmateus.bsky.social, for discussing these issues with me. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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As we noted in our coverage of the first round of ACIP picks, Robert Malone is a senior advisor to IMA.
www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...
www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...
Kennedy Stacks Critical Vaccine Panel With Anti-Vaxxers
In a move that aligns with his own stance on science, the health secretary fires all 17 experts on an advisory panel in order to appoint fringe ideologues.
www.importantcontext.news
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As we noted in our coverage of the first round of ACIP picks, Robert Malone is a senior advisor to IMA.
www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...
www.importantcontext.news/p/kennedy-st...
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Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. considers critics of coronavirus shots to join key vaccine panel
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary,” noting Jesus touched lepers.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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As this article notes, one of the potential new ACIP members is affiliated with the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, known for promoting the anti-parasitic ivermectin for Covid.
This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.
This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.
Meet the new vaccine panel advisors RFK Jr. is considering
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary” noting Jesus touched lepers
W @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr. considers critics of coronavirus shots to join key vaccine panel
Two urged removal of mRNA coronavirus vaccines. One said physicians “blindly believed” in them. Another said covid isn’t “scary,” noting Jesus touched lepers.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As this article notes, one of the potential new ACIP members is affiliated with the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, known for promoting the anti-parasitic ivermectin for Covid.
This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.
This is the second IMA affiliate apparently headed for ACIP.
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HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is completely melting down and shouting at Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota, accusing her of making stuff up after she confronted him with his bullshit.
America is going great…
America is going great…
September 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is completely melting down and shouting at Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota, accusing her of making stuff up after she confronted him with his bullshit.
America is going great…
America is going great…
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"The bigger picture is that these emerging risks are a product of unchecked economic growth & industrial-scale agriculture that increases viral spillover. If we don’t change those underlying drivers, we’ll remain in the pandemic era.”
Thanks @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thanks @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The ongoing threat of new viral pathogens: An interview with Peter Daszak on a new coronavirus study
Dr. Peter Daszak and colleagues recently published a study on coronaviruses on pig farms in China and Southeast Asia and the threat posed by potential zoonotic spillover events into dense human popula...
www.wsws.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"The bigger picture is that these emerging risks are a product of unchecked economic growth & industrial-scale agriculture that increases viral spillover. If we don’t change those underlying drivers, we’ll remain in the pandemic era.”
Thanks @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Thanks @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Fight back against the undermining of public health - join us in siging the petition cited in this article by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A coup against science: Kennedy tries to push out CDC director, four other public health officials resign
In the starkest expression of his war against science and public health, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demanded the resignation of the director of the Centers for Disea...
www.wsws.org
August 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fight back against the undermining of public health - join us in siging the petition cited in this article by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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I gave a very long interview to @benjaminmateus.bsky.social about my book Lab Leak Fever and the politics surrounding the lab leak controversy.
Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions.
Some highlights in thread ⬇️
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www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions.
Some highlights in thread ⬇️
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www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The origins of COVID-19 and the politics of the “lab-leak” myth: A discussion with science writer Philipp Markolin
The author of <em>Lab Leak Fever</em> has comprehensively exposed the baseless ultra-right campaign to blame COVID-19 on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
www.wsws.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I gave a very long interview to @benjaminmateus.bsky.social about my book Lab Leak Fever and the politics surrounding the lab leak controversy.
Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions.
Some highlights in thread ⬇️
1/
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Benjamin did a great job editing for conciseness and prompting some pretty deep questions.
Some highlights in thread ⬇️
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www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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This is the very definition of anti-science GRIFT!
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with a company selling “spike protein detox”
@walkerbragman.bsky.social lifts the lid again.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with a company selling “spike protein detox”
@walkerbragman.bsky.social lifts the lid again.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...
‘Experts’ Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with The Wellness Company.
www.importantcontext.news
August 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is the very definition of anti-science GRIFT!
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with a company selling “spike protein detox”
@walkerbragman.bsky.social lifts the lid again.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with a company selling “spike protein detox”
@walkerbragman.bsky.social lifts the lid again.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-ci...
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NEW: Earlier this month, HHS announced it was discontinuing mRNA vaccine research.To justify the move, it linked to a document purporting to chronicle COVID vaccine harms.
The document was authored by prominent anti-vaxxers—some with ties to a supplements company that sells a spike protein “detox.”
The document was authored by prominent anti-vaxxers—some with ties to a supplements company that sells a spike protein “detox.”
‘Experts’ Cited By RFK Jr. to Justify mRNA Vaccine Funding Cut Have Ties to Anti-vax Supplement Company
Four authors of the non-peer reviewed, anti-vax bibliography cited by Kennedy’s HHS are involved with The Wellness Company.
www.importantcontext.news
August 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
NEW: Earlier this month, HHS announced it was discontinuing mRNA vaccine research.To justify the move, it linked to a document purporting to chronicle COVID vaccine harms.
The document was authored by prominent anti-vaxxers—some with ties to a supplements company that sells a spike protein “detox.”
The document was authored by prominent anti-vaxxers—some with ties to a supplements company that sells a spike protein “detox.”
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The lab leak theory is not a scientific theory, but a poorly thought-out myth.
In my chat with @destiny.gg , I describe the two main challenges any scientific lab leak theory would need to have an answer for.
Spoiler: It has nothing to do with biosafety at the Wuhan lab.
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In my chat with @destiny.gg , I describe the two main challenges any scientific lab leak theory would need to have an answer for.
Spoiler: It has nothing to do with biosafety at the Wuhan lab.
1/
August 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The lab leak theory is not a scientific theory, but a poorly thought-out myth.
In my chat with @destiny.gg , I describe the two main challenges any scientific lab leak theory would need to have an answer for.
Spoiler: It has nothing to do with biosafety at the Wuhan lab.
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In my chat with @destiny.gg , I describe the two main challenges any scientific lab leak theory would need to have an answer for.
Spoiler: It has nothing to do with biosafety at the Wuhan lab.
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Inspirational interview from @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. Christian Frei can't help but show the sensitivity of his approach: "For me, Blame isn’t just about virus origins. It’s about the breakdown of shared reality, & the political consequences of abandoning science when we need it most."
July 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Inspirational interview from @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. Christian Frei can't help but show the sensitivity of his approach: "For me, Blame isn’t just about virus origins. It’s about the breakdown of shared reality, & the political consequences of abandoning science when we need it most."
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Something else: Bhattacharya is transparently ego-driven.
His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD.
Then, it was full steam ahead.
His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD.
Then, it was full steam ahead.
July 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Something else: Bhattacharya is transparently ego-driven.
His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD.
Then, it was full steam ahead.
His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD.
Then, it was full steam ahead.
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Remarkable interview; deep, insightful, thought-provoking.
..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well.
He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well.
He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei, writer-director of COVID pandemic documentary <em>Blame</em>: “I wanted to be a filmmaker guided by curiosity, not ideology”
<em>Blame</em> offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.
www.wsws.org
July 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Remarkable interview; deep, insightful, thought-provoking.
..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well.
He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well.
He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Having your dangerous, unscientific ideas heard and then rejected by the mainstream of public health does not equate to censorship of those ideas.
For media covering NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya:
He was never censored by anyone.
Francis Collins wrote to Fauci calling for a published rebuttal of his fringe Great Barrington Declaration bc the Trump admin was embracing them.
3 days earlier, GBD authors had met with HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
He was never censored by anyone.
Francis Collins wrote to Fauci calling for a published rebuttal of his fringe Great Barrington Declaration bc the Trump admin was embracing them.
3 days earlier, GBD authors had met with HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
July 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Having your dangerous, unscientific ideas heard and then rejected by the mainstream of public health does not equate to censorship of those ideas.
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Everyone needs to watch this essential video breaking down the evidence against the COVID lab leak narrative from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social.
Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.
Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.
COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence
YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
youtu.be
July 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Everyone needs to watch this essential video breaking down the evidence against the COVID lab leak narrative from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social.
Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.
Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.
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The National Academy of Sciences is effectively undermining science by choosing to stay silent and outright platforming anti-scientific agendas.
It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs
Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The National Academy of Sciences is effectively undermining science by choosing to stay silent and outright platforming anti-scientific agendas.
It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The CDC ACIP meeting was not a scientific forum; instead the induction of pseudoscience and antivaccine within the public health edifice-acting like a dangerous festering infection
@peterdaszak.bsky.social
@walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
@peterdaszak.bsky.social
@walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
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Kennedy’s hand-picked ACIP elevates anti-vaccine pseudoscience into US public health policy
The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.
www.wsws.org
June 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The CDC ACIP meeting was not a scientific forum; instead the induction of pseudoscience and antivaccine within the public health edifice-acting like a dangerous festering infection
@peterdaszak.bsky.social
@walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
@peterdaszak.bsky.social
@walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Great Read from @walkerbragman.bsky.social on shambolic ACIP meeting. Republicans agree: Sen. Kennedy asked mtg. to be delayed 'til committee "staffed w/ robust..expertise". One of his picks withdrew. Meanwhile Am. Assoc Pediatrics refused to take part. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel
The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.
www.importantcontext.news
June 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Great Read from @walkerbragman.bsky.social on shambolic ACIP meeting. Republicans agree: Sen. Kennedy asked mtg. to be delayed 'til committee "staffed w/ robust..expertise". One of his picks withdrew. Meanwhile Am. Assoc Pediatrics refused to take part. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
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HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians.
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel
The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.
www.importantcontext.news
June 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians.
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.
It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.
www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
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SAGO Report is out:
1️⃣ No new data in report
2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered
3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis
4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak
5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion
In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.
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1️⃣ No new data in report
2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered
3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis
4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak
5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion
In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.
share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...
WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19
The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...
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June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
SAGO Report is out:
1️⃣ No new data in report
2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered
3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis
4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak
5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion
In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.
share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...
1️⃣ No new data in report
2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered
3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis
4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak
5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion
In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.
share.google/4I8ac1DJMZOM...