Benjamin Mazer
@mazer.us
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Doctor, pathologist, and medical journalist. This is a personal account. http://www.mazer.us https://www.theatlantic.com/author/benjamin-mazer/
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Can the COVID vaccines cause a cancer to literally grow overnight? Despite a new study that's sure to go viral among vaccine skeptics, I take the bold position that they can't. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...
Coming to an ACIP meeting near you
Expect to see the administration tout a vaccine-cancer link
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If someone at Harvard says it then it must be true. By the way, we are trying to shut it down because universities are the enemy.
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Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱
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I love the chaos-based science of contrarians using elite institutions to support their beliefs when it’s convenient and dismissing elite institutions out of hand when it’s not.
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So are we still pretending to do this whole conflicts of interest are a problem thing?
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"The reason Mr. Kennedy never saw anyone with profound autism when he was growing up is because back then people with autism were sent to institutions. They had no rights to go to school." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...
Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks
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If leucovorin can help hundreds of thousands of people, as the FDA commissioner(!) claims, then running an RCT should be easy, right?
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Wow, individual case reports AND mechanistic data?! Christmas came early.
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My theory of medical evidence is simple: observational studies for me, RCTs for you.
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Today I am issuing a bold recommendation: you should only take a medication when it is truly necessary to treat your medical condition and advised by your doctor.
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The public health establishment is so afraid to admit the truth about autism that the only people raising concerns about Tylenol are obscure figures like the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.
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It is so scientifically taboo to ask tough questions that doctors examining the relationship between Tylenol and autism can only publish in obscure journals like JAMA Psychiatry.
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To summarize: a study showing an autism odds ratio of 1.6-4.1 for Tylenol use in pregnancy finally explains why autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31.
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Amazing quote. Jay Bhattacharya, the self-proclaimed King of Dissent, is “obligated” not to criticize the government now that he is in power himself.
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Liaison members to ACIP are pointing out that we’ve had an entire morning of discussion about COVID vaccines but the committee hasn’t actually revealed what policy they’re voting on. How can you discuss a secret policy?
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The COVID vaccine cancer discussion at ACIP is really unhinged. One member suggests her mom developed an EGFR+ lung cancer because she got the Covid shot two years earlier.
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A vaccine myocarditis researcher at ACIP is now complaining that his research grant was abruptly canceled last spring. Ironic!
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ACIP is now pushing the Covid vaccine "turbo cancer" conspiracy using small case reports. Both cancer and vaccination are common. Can you spot the problem?
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CDC is defending their COVID hospitalization numbers at the ACIP meeting. They used multiple methodologies to look at whether hospitalizations were "with" or "for" COVID and find most hospitalizations are being categorized correctly.