Carmen Mikacenic

@lungdrc.bsky.social

I had a hypothesis that vitamin D prevents cancer. I worked on this for > 10 years, had 3 NIH-funded grants, and published >30 papers on this topic. Based on our work and that of my esteemed colleagues, I concluded that the evidence does not support the hypothesis. RFK Jr., we are not the same.

CDC plans to waste time and taxpayers’ money chasing windmills in the midst of one raging epidemic (and on the precipice of several others) that would not have existed except for people who claimed fraudulently there was such a link in the first place (which there isn’t) Bit longer headline but…

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This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

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