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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s an interesting article, I think, from February 2022, discussing the overlap between doctors from Harvard, Stanford, UCSF, Hopkins and cranks like Kennedy.

Now those worlds are totally fused.

Take the quiz and see for yourself.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/provaccine/

“We’re Pro-Vaccine But”

Can you tell the difference between statements made by contrarian doctors and those made by anti-vaccine cranks like Dr. Joe Mercola and RFK Jr.? Find out for yourself.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11h

🙏 Thank for the kind words.

His powerful writing is quoted in both of my books because he tells it like it is.

If only more people had been as willing to clearly call out obviously dangerous disinformation as he has since 2020- and many years before that too.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h

I mean watch this. It’s unhinged. That’s why it was so dangerous to normalize Bhattacharya, Prasad, Kulldorff, and Makary.

They made people paranoid and angry. We are seeing that manifest today.

There is an overwhelming amount of such content. Just watch.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h

For example

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sid...

Jay Bhattacharya paranoid propaganda about a biomedical security state

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h

Anger over Covid mitigations- wrong, but trivial things- is being used to justify raw authoritarianism today.

In Everyone Else is Lying to You, I discuss how the doctors running things today, discussed public health as a totalitarian nightmare.

Yet, they all work for Trump today.

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"Honey, did you post something negative about the regime?"

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h

A reader expressed anger that laptop class doctors, who massively underestimated Covid in spring 2020, later said that frontline doctors killed patients via intubations, despite this being a data free internet rumor.

Listen here and pay attention at 30 seconds or so.

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Laptop class doctor John Ioannidis falsely blames frontline doctors/intubations for COVID deaths

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 19h

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Must watch: RFK Jr wants a statue of Andy Wakefield at HHS. And that's just for starters.

Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 20h

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The lasting damage of vaccine misinformation and the disgraced doctor fueling it

YouTube video by Environmental Working Group (EWG)

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 17h

Ironically, I HAVE stopped trusting the public health establishment...because apparently they trust Vinay Prasad.

Even here in Canada, we hear almost nothing about the need for air filtration, high-quality masks, and ventilation, and our access to covid boosters is being eroded. 1/

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 17h

Demographic Data Supporting FDA Authorization of AI Devices for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Demographic Data Supporting FDA Authorization of AI Devices for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias

This cohort study examines the availability and representativeness of data supporting US Food and Drug Administration–authorized artificial intelligence and machine learning devices to treat Alzheimer...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

Sounds like someone should write a book based on that theme.

STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 19h

"don't trust experts except me, vinay prasad"

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

Correct. The messages of doubt and mistrust were overt and out in the open.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

Well, that’s the reason I chose this book title

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

Correct. The messages of doubt and mistrust were overt and out in the open.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I just emailed my "Silence" essay to the Presidents/Chancellors and Provosts of the 9 Compact universities as well as those from the 4 orgs with which I have been formally affiliated.

The essay can be found here:

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

and here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 21h

I'll be speaking today at Lewes Library Science and Society webcast talk at 4:45 EDT about my just released book, Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics. Registration required. delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event/14650002

Science and Society | Planning Miracles: How to Prevent Future Pandemics

Online Since Covid-19 swept the world, scientists have been grappling with an urgent issue: How do we prepare for the next pandemic—and at a time when science denial and...

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21h

These guys are making medical decisions for you and your family. They don’t trust you to choose for yourself.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if medicine had uniformly and resoundingly rejected these disinformation doctors when we had a chance.

Instead, many doctors became defense attorneys for MAHA, mocking those who warned about it, until it was too late.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/mockies/

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

Stanford, Hopkins, Harvard, Oprah, UCSF

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr, & the 5 MAHA/MAGA MDs & PhDs who he has charged to do his bidding (Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Kulldorff, Oz & Prasad), are joyfully dismantling the US vaccine system brick by brick while spending much time on right wing podcasts & Fox News being anti-vaxx celebrities living their best lives 😔

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.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr, & the 5 MAHA/MAGA MDs & PhDs who he has charged to do his bidding (Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Kulldorff, Oz & Prasad), are joyfully dismantling the US vaccine system brick by brick while spending much time on right wing podcasts & Fox News being anti-vaxx celebrities living their best lives 😔

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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d

"How To Fight Anti-Science Forces w/ Michael Mann" | My conversation earlier today about my (and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social) new book, #ScienceUnderSiege, with @samseder.bsky.social and @emmavigeland.bsky.social on @majorityreport.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7u...

How To Fight Anti-Science Forces w/ Michael Mann | MR Live

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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Humanist Animal @humanistanimal.bsky.social · 1d

"There was literally nothing I could have said to get them to take any of this seriously. It was all just a Twitter game to them, and they couldn’t seem fathom that some of us actually took medicine seriously and cared about the victims of disinformation."

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Several doctors joked about COVID disinformation and mocked those who tried to warn about MAHA.

They aren’t laughing now.

That’s good.

If even these juvenile jokers are concerned today, it may send a signal that something is seriously wrong.

My latest.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/mockies/

Mockies: Doctors Who Mocked My Warnings About MAHA in 2024 are Copying Me Today. Good.

The dangers of Kennedy and crew were blindingly obvious. Yet some doctors sought to bolster MAHA by undermining and discrediting those who warned about it.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Several doctors joked about COVID disinformation and mocked those who tried to warn about MAHA.

They aren’t laughing now.

That’s good.

If even these juvenile jokers are concerned today, it may send a signal that something is seriously wrong.

My latest.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/mockies/

Mockies: Doctors Who Mocked My Warnings About MAHA in 2024 are Copying Me Today. Good.

The dangers of Kennedy and crew were blindingly obvious. Yet some doctors sought to bolster MAHA by undermining and discrediting those who warned about it.

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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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.

open.substack.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

sciencebasedmedicine.org/groupthink/

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

sciencebasedmedicine.org/groupthink/

The “Heterodox” Media: Using Groupthink and Misinformation to Inhibit Free Thought

The Free Press = Unherd = Persuasion = Reason = Tablet

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss and the Free Press published rank covid disinformation and nothing else.

These are the people purging and censoring science today.

She’s not just a fraud, she’s utterly malignant and contemptible, as she lies under the guise of “free thinking.”

• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back-and Won
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Free Speech on Trial
• Dr. Marty Makary: Dr. Fauci's Legacy
• Drs. Tracy Hoeg and Marty Makary: U.S.
Public Health Agencies Aren't 'Following the Science,'
• Dr. Marty Makary: Officials Say, Universities' Covid Policies Defy Science and Reason,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad, Stefan Baral, Lucy McBride: Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos, Talking To Three Doctors Who Have Been Islands Of Reason In A Sea Of Confusion.
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Let Djokovic Play
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: We Have a Tripledemic.
Not of Disease, But of Fear,
• Drs. Vinay Prasad and John Mandrola: The Epidemic of #DiedSuddenly
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: How to Save Science From
Covid Politics
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: What RFK Jr. Gets Right— and What He Gets Wrong,
• Dr. Vinay Prasad: Vinay Prasad: Why Was My Talk at a Medical Conference Canceled?

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