Rachel Adelson
@rka.bsky.social
Editor and writer; science & health literacy.
There is no such thing as "unbiased science," only the use of informed methodology to minimize the contributions of various types of bias in the study process and interpretation of results. For this author to imply that some or other scientific efforts are "biased" and she is not is wrong/pointless.
January 19, 2026 at 4:38 PM
There is no such thing as "unbiased science," only the use of informed methodology to minimize the contributions of various types of bias in the study process and interpretation of results. For this author to imply that some or other scientific efforts are "biased" and she is not is wrong/pointless.
Reposted by Rachel Adelson
Direct link to the research mentioned in the post above:
The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history (Dec 4, 2025)
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
[ FREE PDF available ]
The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history (Dec 4, 2025)
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
[ FREE PDF available ]
The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has drawn global attention to post-acute infection syndromes
(PAIS), with millions affected by post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC, or Long COVID).
While Long COVID is newly ...
www.cell.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Direct link to the research mentioned in the post above:
The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history (Dec 4, 2025)
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
[ FREE PDF available ]
The lingering shadow of epidemics: post-acute sequelae across history (Dec 4, 2025)
www.cell.com/trends/immun...
[ FREE PDF available ]
Reposted by Rachel Adelson
2/ a new medication:
➡️1. Ask your doctor when it was FDA approved. If it's new:
➡️2. check online to see whether approval was expedited. If it was;
➡️3. have a discussion with your doctor about benefits & risks (weigh them more carefully than you have, in the past), & about possible alternatives.
➡️1. Ask your doctor when it was FDA approved. If it's new:
➡️2. check online to see whether approval was expedited. If it was;
➡️3. have a discussion with your doctor about benefits & risks (weigh them more carefully than you have, in the past), & about possible alternatives.
January 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
2/ a new medication:
➡️1. Ask your doctor when it was FDA approved. If it's new:
➡️2. check online to see whether approval was expedited. If it was;
➡️3. have a discussion with your doctor about benefits & risks (weigh them more carefully than you have, in the past), & about possible alternatives.
➡️1. Ask your doctor when it was FDA approved. If it's new:
➡️2. check online to see whether approval was expedited. If it was;
➡️3. have a discussion with your doctor about benefits & risks (weigh them more carefully than you have, in the past), & about possible alternatives.
Reposted by Rachel Adelson
This is Canada's equivalent to the RFK/Bhattacharya/Kulldorf/Prasad fringe burning the health sciences to the ground in the US right now. Ours aren't as publicly bombastic, but behind the scenes they're pushing to replace science with the same algorithmic EBM/GRADE slop as their US counterparts.
🧵This looks a lot like the anticipated expansion to the NSF of the roadmap to destroy the NIH laid out by the administration's pseudoscience wing last spring.
This is just the start. These people explicitly claim entitlement to control all of science.
Thread of what's to come:
This is just the start. These people explicitly claim entitlement to control all of science.
Thread of what's to come:
The roadmap for turning the NIH into an EBM slush fund and shutting down real science. Kulldorf, in the new public health blog ("journal") co-founded by Bhattacharya.
1: Fund based on who applies 🤔, rather than ideas
2: Give ECR grants. But only to "medical, dental and public health school".
1: Fund based on who applies 🤔, rather than ideas
2: Give ECR grants. But only to "medical, dental and public health school".
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This is Canada's equivalent to the RFK/Bhattacharya/Kulldorf/Prasad fringe burning the health sciences to the ground in the US right now. Ours aren't as publicly bombastic, but behind the scenes they're pushing to replace science with the same algorithmic EBM/GRADE slop as their US counterparts.
Reposted by Rachel Adelson
One anonymous CDC official described the proposed study to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social this way: "This is another Tuskegee." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:15 PM
One anonymous CDC official described the proposed study to @jeremyfaust.bsky.social this way: "This is another Tuskegee." substack.com/home/post/p-...