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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.

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The Monovalent Mirage

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

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 5d

This ostentatious Christian with the big cross around her neck is really saying that people who cannot prove their citizenship in an emergency room should be left on the sidewalk to die. And that's what she believes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 15d

I think discrimination based on “karyotype” is just baseline for them. And prob extends to all other karyotype variations.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 15d

Emergency Caturday — so much medical disinformation, dumbness and meanness.

Sloopy the cat wonders why anyone thinks that RFK Jr or Trump know anything worth knowing about autism vaccines or Tylenol

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 19d

Another great analysis of what is likely coming out of ACIP. Must read (also, RFK Jr. must resign.)

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19d

Another ACIP meeting, another opportunity to stamp out vaccination and sicken and kill American kids
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Cross the MMRV and HBV Vaccines Off the Schedule

Anti-vax ACIP kicks off another two day assault on disease and death prevention

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 20d

I’m nostalgic for the days when Americans lectured other countries about violations of civil liberties.

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 20d

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”

That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken

Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28d

I am not aware of any gun violence that happened when I was a kid.

by RFK Jr.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28d

RFK Jr: We had lots of guns when we were kids. Kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so. And nobody was walking into schools and shooting people. There are many things that could explain this. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 28d

First of all, renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy. Second of all, let me introduce you to the humble battery

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28d

Burgum to CNBC: "The intermittent sources, the unreliable and expensive sources like solar and wind -- you don't know when the wind's gonna blow, we do know when the sun is gonna shine and it's not 24 hours a day."

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 28d

I mean

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 28d

Missing the days of potatoe.

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 29d

Considering the decimation of cdc, nih grants halted, embrace of pseudoscience, and antivax actions that will leave the US unprepared for an H5N1 pandemic and may lead to the robust return of preventable childhood diseases, have you considered that grade inflation is a problem here?

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 3

Get it as soon as you can!

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 3

As a Baltimore resident I just hope he doesn’t ever want to visit again

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Sep 2

He's an antivaxxer. People don't say things or do things like this if they aren't antivaxxers. He is not a skeptic, he just wants children to get polio.

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Sep 2

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that?

RFK JR: “I never said that.”

KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.”

RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 29

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns

“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 30

I mean, it is still the worst that they all worked together to end US leadership in S&T but 1. They will forever be tarred by it and 2. They are unhappy — so that’s something. 🫠

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s hilarious that they have all have certainly heard that “if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog” and somehow didn’t think that would apply to them. And all the public whining? It’s not done and will continue to bite them in the future. So funny. Terrible people.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 28

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 27

Normally, I track how Trump, RFK Jr. et al deny facts about biology and how that will kill a lot of people. But, reading about climate today and it's the same, getting fringy scientists on board to make money/destroy our planet-- and, kill lots of people. Fun times! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/c...

Inside the ‘Radical Transformation’ of America’s Environmental Role

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 26

Looking at the landmark 1978 publication for synthetic insulin. The Genentech website says there were 12 employees in the company but there are only 10 people on the paper. Ah yes-- the ladies in the acknowledgements thanked for their "excellent technical assistance." 😒
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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 25

The whole article is damning, including the unscientific HHS push to include vitamin A into measles communications. “If pregnant women took too much vitamin A during the outbreak, their babies could be profoundly disabled. We haven’t seen those babies born yet.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News

Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...

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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · Aug 24

Research saves lives.

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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 21

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery.

Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 21

White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Привет, товарищи! It’s another glorious day in which Trump’s America is increasingly indistinguishable from Stalinist Russia, so I thought an armchair comparative analysis was in order.

Specifically about Jay Bhattacharya's twin from times past, Trofim Lysenko.
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Bhattacharya is the New Lysenko

Starving the NIH through ineptitude, bitterness, and thirst for revenge

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