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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 8h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 4h

I would add that the plan to get approval for three monovalent shots would be a Potemkin trial. A clinical trial would be unethical and not feasible, but would satisfy the Emperor and his court by adding doubt to the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

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The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 1d

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In the midst of a measles epidemic that killed 3 people, RFK Jr. reminds us that vaccines don't save lives.

RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives”

In a recent post on X, RFK Jr. said that vaccines are overrated.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 1d

But they just want to make vaccines go away.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 1d

Even a non-inferiority trial would be stupid. Each child could get 3 shots per visit - M,M,R vs MMR, placebo, placebo. No company would do this and even if a company did this, recruitment would be impossible - if the trial got past an IRB. RFK=No clue.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

open.substack.com

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 1d

I was so glad to see him address the importance of a diverse workforce. If a couple of old white guys can see this, it should be obvious to those in power.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important essay about the attacks on efforts to diversify the scientific workforce, and the capitulation by universities to anti-diversity efforts.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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Brian Ettling @bgreenettling.bsky.social · 1d

For our #democracy, good opinion @davidfrum.bsky.social originally published @theatlantic.com. Donald Trump is losing his race to be a dictator because he is a weak and failing President, plus a total loser. He is desperate to be a tyrant to hide how weak he is. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters

Opinion: Trump might be losing his race against time

The president is gambling that he can consolidate authority before the public turns too sharply against him.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 2d

Yay! It’s nice to see something positive these days. I keep thinking about how you started this just before the holidays. Took quite a bit of courage!

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 3d

This is embarrassing. We used to be a country that welcomed foreign scholars and that did cutting-edge research into health equity. As a multiracial country with economic inequality, it was even more important that we study reasons for health disparities/

University Affairs | Affaires universitaires @universityaffairs.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Academic freedom in jeopardy. Yukiko Asada resigned from the NIH and calls on Canada to support at-risk scholars.

➡️ Read her open letter: http://bit.ly/4mG7UMb

#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #ResearchIntegrity

Help scientists ousted by America’s attack on knowledge - University Affairs

An open letter to leaders of higher education in Canada.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 3d

Who can forget that?

David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 3d

One more study showing the benefit of COVID vaccination.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 7d

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women.
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Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed

Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 4d

Isn’t there still CK Remembrance Day coming up?

David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

NIH Program staff worked really hard to make sure that the ADSI would fund good science.

Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: What's it like to be an autism scientist funded by the Trump administration? The government is funding respected scholars to study autism's causes, experts say, while also sowing misinformation. In the wake of *that* press conference, I talked to the grantees. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

What It’s Like to Be an Autism Scientist Funded by the Trump Administration

The government is funding respected scholars to study autism’s causes, at a time when experts say it’s also sowing misinformation about the same topic.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

There was so much misinformation during that press conference, including on vaccines, and they just stood there.

Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 5d

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

And they just stood there, even during the vaccine rant.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

As a child in the ‘60s, whooping cough was the last illness in my annual now-vaccine-preventable disease of the year. I felt I was coughing out every last breath. I did ask them to add pertussis when I was due for my last DT shot.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

Also disbanded are the intramural labs that some led.

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After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

The Council meeting is publicly available.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5d

Our officials statement on the Compact.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 5d

READ ⬇️ Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

10/2/2025: Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.

Washington, D.C. — Today, the administration has unveiled their proposed "compact" for higher education. This document is antithetical to the free academic inquiry that forms the foundation of American excellence in higher education. Further, while the compact is framed as a way to promote fairness in higher education, this compact runs counter to the scientific method by prioritizing federal grant funding to go to universities who have signed, rather than proposals that have been selected by experts.
We call on university leaders to unite and reject this overreach of executive power by the White House.

The compact lies in the context of an ongoing and multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the American scientific ecosystem, but this also tangibly represents the President seizing control of public spaces and higher education. Each university represents a beacon of free thought, vibrant educational empowerment, and public enrichment, and we must demand President Trump stay out of dictating universities.

"Trump's compact is yet another form of attack on the American institutions that provide evidence that counter's the core belief of MAGA — racism, misogyny, and regression of the human race to name a few. If universities agree to these terms, academic freedom in America will be over," says Colette Delawalla Founder and Director of Stand Up For Science. She continues "when the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation. Universities must understanding the seriousness of this moment and respond accordingly."

Stand Up For Science will reliably sound the alarm when science and scientists are under attack, and our platform empowers scientists to speak out and organize against corruption of American science. The proposing of this document represents an extreme authoritarian escalation for American higher education. It is crucial that university leaders, congress and the public stand together to protect higher education from this attack.

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 5d

At the NIAID Council meeting last week, Bhattacharya stated that one priority of the Institute would be to look at vaccine injury. Huh?

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David Cassatt, PhD @cassattdr.bsky.social · 6d

This just over a week after that ridiculous “autism” press conference. The media are also amplifying the voices of a lone Democrat and some unnamed sources, leading the usual suspects, right and left, to blame Democrats.

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