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Bioethist, elder law attorney (retired), elder mediator, professor conflict resolution/ethics. Special intetests: Aging and end-of-life issues
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂🥧

Have some anti-vax family at your table?

Here is a summary of 14 studies that found no association between vaccines and autism.

h/t @drtomfrieden.bsky.social
Fourteen Studies That Find No Association Between Vaccines and Autism Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism 1. Hviid A, Hansen JV, Frisch M, Melbye M. Measles, mumps, rubella vaccination and autism: a nationwide cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(8):513-520. This nationwide Danish cohort study of 657,461 children found no increased risk of autism associated with MMR vaccination, even among children at higher genetic risk for autism. 2. Madsen KM, Hviid A, Vestergaard M, et al. A population-based study of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination and autism. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(19):1477-1482. In a cohort of over 500,000 Danish children, there was no association between MMR vaccination and the development of autism or autistic-spectrum disorder. 3. Taylor LE, Swerdfeger AL, Eslick GD. Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies. Vaccine. 2014;32(29):3623-3629. This meta-analysis of five cohort and five case-control studies (over 1.25 million children) found no relationship between vaccination - including MMR, thimerosal, or mercury - and autism or autism spectrum disorder. 4. Parker SK, Schwartz B, Todd J, Pickering LK. Thimerosal-containing vaccines and autistic spectrum disorder: a critical review of published original data. Pediatrics. 2004;114(3):793-804. A systematic review of epidemiologic and pharmacokinetic studies concluded that thimerosal-containing vaccines are not associated with autism spectrum disorder. Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism 5. Honda H, Shimizu Y, Rutter M. No effect of MMR withdrawal on the incidence of autism: a total population study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2005;46(6):572- 579. This Japanese population study showed that autism rates continued to rise after the withdrawal of MMR vaccine, refuting a causal link. 6. Fombonne E, Zakarian R, Bennett A, Meng L, McLean-Heywood D. Pervasive developmental disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: prevalence and links with immunizations. Pediatrics. 2006;118(1):e139-150. Analysis of autism prevalence in Montreal found no change in autism rates despite a decrease in MMR vaccination coverage, arguing against a vaccine- autism association. 7. DeStefano F, Price CS, Weintraub ES. Increasing exposure to antibody- stimulating proteins and polysaccharides in vaccines is not associated with risk of autism. J Pediatr. 2013;163(2):561-567. A case-control study found no association between the total antigen exposure from vaccines in the first two years of life and the risk of developing autism. 8. Uno Y, Uchiyama T, Kurosawa M, Aleksic B, Ozaki N. The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines and the total number of vaccines are not associated with development of autism spectrum disorder: the first case- control study in Asia. Vaccine. 2012;30(28):4292-4298. This Japanese case-control study found no association between MMR vaccination or the total number of vaccines received and the development of autism spectrum disorder. 9. Price CS, Thompson WW, Goodson B, et al. Prenatal and infant exposure to thimerosal from vaccines and immunoglobulins and risk of autism. Pediatrics. 2010;126(4):656-664. A US case-control study found no increased risk of autism associated with prenatal or early-life exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines and immunoglobulins. Primary Research: Vaccines and Autism 10. Smeeth L, Cook C, Fombonne E, et al. MMR vaccination and pervasive developmental disorders: a case-control study. Lancet. 2004;364(9438):963- 969. This UK case-control study found no evidence of an increased risk of pervasive developmental disorders, including autism, following MMR vaccination. Systematic Reviews: Vaccines and Autism 11. Gidengil C, Goetz MB, Newberry S, et al. Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization in the United States: an updated systematic review and meta- analysis. Vaccine. 2021;39(28):3696-3716. This updated systematic review and meta-analysis for the AHRQ found high- strength evidence that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism. 12. Maglione MA, Das L, Raaen L, et al. Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization of U.S. children: a systematic review. Pediatrics. 2014;134(2):325- 337. A systematic review for the AHRQ concluded that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism, based on high-quality evidence. 13. Dudley MZ, Halsey NA, Omer SB, et al. The state of vaccine safety science: systematic reviews of the evidence. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020;20(5):e80-e89. This review summarized systematic reviews on vaccine safety, consistently finding no evidence of a link between vaccines and autism. 14. Halsey NA, Hyman SL. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder: report from the New Challenges in Childhood Immunizations Conference convened in Oak Brook, Illinois, June 12-13, 2000. Pediatrics. 2001;107(5):E84. This expert panel report reviewed available evidence and concluded there is no credible evidence supporting a causal relationship between MMR vaccination and autism spectrum disorder.
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The law school’s Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents

hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
hls.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social
Not sure the point of deporting hard working people who fled awful conditions in their own countries and are caring for the sick, elderly, and paralyzed, not only harming our own economy, but vulnerable people who rely on this assistance.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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joanfbraun.bsky.social
The sandwich trial comes to an end! Many great sandwich puns posted in the thread for anyone looking for late afternoon levity.
November 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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hillaryclinton.bsky.social
One in eight Americans will struggle to put food on the table if the Trump shutdown extends through next week.

Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found.

Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us:
indivisible.org/campaign/sto...
October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸 #NoKingsInAmerica

(From @billbramhall.bsky.social )
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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I ❤️ Congressman Vindman!!!!

#GOPShutdown
#GOPShitdown
repvindman.bsky.social Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · Oct 15
I’ve directed the U.S. House to withhold my pay during the shutdown. 
  
If federal workers are missing paychecks because of Washington’s dysfunction, Members of Congress certainly shouldn’t be cashing theirs. 
  
My bill with Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick would make that the rule, not the exception.
October 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):
October 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Questions about vaccines for children? There's a free, virtual town hall with CDC alumni @drdemetre.bsky.social this week:
September 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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joanfbraun.bsky.social
Many experts view the Canadian legal response to elder abuse as being ineffective. Some have argued that we should adopt mandatory reporting laws similar to the US. A new study is relevant to that argument. This study found mandatory reporting to be ineffective.

www.forbes.com/sites/ninako...
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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drruth.bsky.social Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · Sep 17
I just learned about the new US Measles Tracker from
@johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social.

#medsky #IDsky #episky 🛟😷
graph of cumulative measles in US by year. Top is 2025 in blue and is just above 2019 outbreak in gray. US map showing measles cases. Blue is local measles spread and red is measles imported after international travel. 1474 Measles cases this year so far.
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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scotinus.bsky.social
Please amplify Sen. Patty Murray's comments. Unless you're cool with all this, and haven't had enough yet.
www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
Senator Murray Calls for Immediate Firing of RFK Jr., Commends CDC Director Monarez’s Stand for Science and Public Health - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the...
www.murray.senate.gov
August 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Via @standupforscience.bsky.social

Join us in pressuring all in the House to IMPEACH AND REMOVE RFK Jr. We'll hand-deliver a rubber ducky with your IMPEACH THE QUACK message to YOUR House Rep.

Of course I did it. $3 well-spent.

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Donate now to help mobilize the fight for science and democracy. Every contribution matters!
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August 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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thelancet.com
“The world cannot afford another crisis in which lives are lost not for lack of vaccines, but for lack of truth.”

A new Comment on the global cost of US vaccine misinformation: bit.ly/3Uu7b5o
A crisis of credibility: the global cost of US vaccine misinformation
The global health community faces a deepening challenge—not only from infectious diseases but also from a pandemic of misinformation.1 The USA, long a cornerstone of global health leadership, has beco...
www.thelancet.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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sculdiva.bsky.social
Public hearing next week. Please hit the blue comment button at the top here to oppose rescinding this rule (public comment ends Sept 15): www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...
#ArmchairResistance #EPA #PublicComment
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August 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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artcap.bsky.social
Not only do we have a fascist regime akin to 1938 Germany we have the bogus eugenics and race hygience to go with it. www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...
Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies
Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.”
www.wsj.com
August 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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bermaninstitute.bsky.social
Berman Institute #Bioethics Bulletin - This Week - Living a Moral Life in a Catastrophic World, 'Healthocide', AI Ethics, Health-Equity Research Being Disappeared, Cells Across Borders Crackdown, New Guardrails, Losing Protection, + More mailchi.mp/jhu/bioethic...
August 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Texas Advance Directives Act - Annual Report on Potentially Inappropriate Treatment
The Texas Advance Directives Act was enacted in 1999. But only in the past two years did the law require hospitals to report when they use TADA dispute resolution sections. The latest report from the Texas Health & Human Services Commission shows very low usage. Only two ethics or medical committee meetings were held. One patient was transferred. Zero patients died because life-sustaining treatment was withheld or withdrawn after expiration of the time period.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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A Tribute to Tom L. Beauchamp (1939–2025) - By James Childress & Jeffrey Kahn | American Journal of Bioethics www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Tribute to Tom L. Beauchamp (1939–2025)
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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joanfbraun.bsky.social
A professor created assignments that required students to use AI. The article describes what his class discovered.
July 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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umnbioethics.bsky.social
Please attend our August clinical ethics webinar on Zoom: “To Suffer What We Can’t Evade: What is Medicine’s Role in Responding to Suffering?” with tylertatemd.bsky.social

🗓️: Tuesday, Aug. 26
⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT)

Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/ai5l

Learn more and register at: z.umn.edu/ai5m
Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar featuring speaker Tyler Tate, MD, MA, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, from 12-1 p.m. CDT.
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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joanfbraun.bsky.social
An interesting article with information on recent research on interpersonal partner violence and dementia. The article also identifies areas where future research is needed.
dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social · Jul 7
Did you know that intimate partner violence (IPV) significantly increases a woman’s risk of Alzheimer’s disease by causing hidden brain injuries that go undiagnosed and untreated? Learn more in the BrightFocus Foundation's feature story on Dr. Cheryl Wellington's research.
A Hidden Path to Alzheimer’s Disease for Women
Women who survive intimate partner violence may face long-term brain health risks—including a higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s.
www.brightfocus.org
July 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM