Joshua Weitz
@joshuasweitz.bsky.social
Professor of Biology & Institute for Health Computing, U of Maryland; explores how viruses impact human and environmental health; 'Asymptomatic' (JHU Press, 10/2024) & 'Quantitative Biosciences' (Princeton U Press, 3/2024) & 'Science Matters' substack.
Looks like @nytimes.com may be listening to what folks here have been trying to say... a small edit, but important.
Story now updated to read that autism/vaccines change is
"a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific consensus and bend the health department to his will."
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Story now updated to read that autism/vaccines change is
"a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific consensus and bend the health department to his will."
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Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Looks like @nytimes.com may be listening to what folks here have been trying to say... a small edit, but important.
Story now updated to read that autism/vaccines change is
"a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific consensus and bend the health department to his will."
👇
Story now updated to read that autism/vaccines change is
"a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific consensus and bend the health department to his will."
👇
Calling something "scientific orthodoxy" rather than "established fact" or even "scientific consensus" is so incredibly damaging.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
... that have made American higher education, with all its flaws, the envy of the world."
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
... that have made American higher education, with all its flaws, the envy of the world."
Reposted by Joshua Weitz
It is a disgrace and a lie and we should not stand for it.
Their Sham Standard Science (SSS) is merely a plan to lie about what science is and then lie about what is true.
No. We will stand up for what’s right. And we’ll explain why they are lying.
Their Sham Standard Science (SSS) is merely a plan to lie about what science is and then lie about what is true.
No. We will stand up for what’s right. And we’ll explain why they are lying.
This is a fucking DISGRACE. The Republicans of the United States Congress are permitting a man to spew dangerous and harmful disinformation to the public.
This is dangerous. This will kill infants and children.
Republicans DO NOT CARE about babies after they are born
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
This is dangerous. This will kill infants and children.
Republicans DO NOT CARE about babies after they are born
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
www.cdc.gov
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
It is a disgrace and a lie and we should not stand for it.
Their Sham Standard Science (SSS) is merely a plan to lie about what science is and then lie about what is true.
No. We will stand up for what’s right. And we’ll explain why they are lying.
Their Sham Standard Science (SSS) is merely a plan to lie about what science is and then lie about what is true.
No. We will stand up for what’s right. And we’ll explain why they are lying.