“Gold Standard Science” on vaccines? More like gold-plated nonsense Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order on vaccines. It's a repackaging of antivax tropes that will make infectious diseases great again.

“Gold Standard Science” on vaccines? More like gold-plated nonsense

Yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order on vaccines. It's a repackaging of antivax tropes that will make infectious diseases great again.

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Yes. Podcast Jay was active CDC Director, and he didn’t even go to the memorial service!

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5d ago

I just noticed that if you look over cardboard Jay’s right shoulder in this shameful tableau, you can see on the video monitor that there is a memorial service for Officer David Rose going on the same day. Officer Rose tried to protect CDC employees from the man shooting at them and was killed.

And Ioanniddis and Atlas....

Delbert Grady Seasons@delbertgseasons.bsky.social · last wk.

JB and Elizabeth Holmes have really done wonders for Stanford’s reputation.

As am I. It’s always a one way street.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s tiring hearing over & over that clinicians, scientists, & public health professionals MUST spend time with MAHA & MUST find common cause & learn from them To quote Mark Crislip, MD: “If you mix cow pie with apple pie, it does not make the cow pie taste better; it makes the apple pie worse”

I’ve often thought the same thing about the “healthy eating” fanatics pushing restricted diets.

Steph@stephy.bsky.social · last wk.

“It doesn’t even seem like this dude even enjoys eating all that much.” We Watched RFK Jr.’s Cooking Show So You Don’t Have To www.weareravenous.com/rfk-youtube-...

JFC, not this nonsense apologia again. Making this argument two years after RFK Jr. co-opted the A MAHA slogan as his personal brand to distract from his antivax history and help elect Trump again is embarrassing…for Spencer and The Atlantic.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w ago

A lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:

“A bit of a crank” is a major understatement, but even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3w ago

This writer is a bit of a crank herself, but this essay is on point. H/t @gorskon.bsky.social

Tell me you’ve never read The Odyssey without telling me you’ve never read The Odyssey. 🤣

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mr. President.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

Yep. “Fraud and waste” have always served as a pretext for slashing benefits and kicking as many people off the rolls as they can.

Derek Beres@derekberes.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Medicaid fraud" is MAHA's version of "election fraud." And people will suffer from it. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The NIH and NASA have entered the chat.

Cato Institute@cato.org · 4w ago

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.

My god. These people. They continuously conflate public health advice with tyrannical mandates and commands. Yes, Metaxas can do whatever he wants. Go jog until you collapse in a coughing heap if you want to, I say! But public health officials have a responsibility to give the best recommendations.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

MAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."

COMMENTS CLOSE TOMORROW: Proposed rule revisions by the OMB will likely limit the ability of journalists and the public to access information about publicly funded science. Learn more: www.nasw.org/article... Log your opposition by July 13: www.regulations.gov/...

Proposed OMB changes would gut science communication — Comment by July 13

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget recently proposed extensive changes to federal grant guidelines that would severely restrict how scientists communicate their research findings to the public and American taxpayers.

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As will I.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

I'm so disappointed in @facs.org, the largest professional society for surgeons. They invited Marty Makary to give a talk on the "Future of Medicine" at the fall Clinical Congress, ignoring all the misinformation he's spread and the damage he did to the FDA. sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-letter-to-...

A Letter to the American College of Surgeons: Don’t Censor Dr. Marty Makary, Amplify His Voice.

We need to remember the doctors who literally stood behind Donald Trump, and we don't need their permission to do so.

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I wish I could somehow block Trump. (As an aside, I have no idea how one of my email addresses got on Trump/GOP mailing lists.)

Gee, who could ever have predicted things like this happening after putting an unqualified crank in charge of all nonmilitary federal health agencies?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away sciencebasedmedicine.org/abolish-the-... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social

“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away

Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Instit

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Discussed here by @gorskon.bsky.social

Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Dismantling peer review at NIH

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant approval at NIH. Lysenkoism 2.0 is in full swing and getting worse.

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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

In fairness, most Trump Cabinet members are evil, corrupt, *and* stupid.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of Trump Cabinet members are evil and corrupt, but Sean Duffy just seems legitimately stupid.

As I've been saying, OMB is trying to formalize Lysenkoism 2.0 in federal grantmaking rules.

Derek Beres@derekberes.bsky.social · last mo.

With so much emphasis on global politics and the World Cup, we focus on the somewhat quieter but intensely important bureaucratic dismantling of expertise occurring in health and science on today's Conspirituality. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/316...

RFK Jr. has no decency and hasn't since the last century, if even then.

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock@warnock.senate.gov · last mo.

RFK Jr. is a danger to our health. If he's not fired, he ought to have the decency to resign.

"Please fire my best friend and heroic freedom fighter Lockdown Jay," says radiologist and cheerleader for pediatric COVID Scott Atlas. By @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/abolish-the-...

“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away

Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Instit

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In the week-long preliminary barrage before the Battle of the Somme in WWI, the Allies fired 1.7 million artillery shells. This is an absurd amount of explosives.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last mo.

Stay indoors, DC! This is INSANE!!!! “The National Park Service included the detail in a draft analysis given to Politico, saying that the 35- to 40-minute program will deploy more than 850,000 fireworks shells. That's more than 100 times what is typically launched on Independence Day.“

No one should be surprised at this. This has always been what the "free market"/"Libertarian" right has wanted. They are honestly deluded enough to think that the free market will step in, just as they are deluded enough to want to abolish the FDA because they think private labs will test drugs.

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.

Right, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

With all that's happening in the world of science and medicine, Dr. John Ioannidis has nothing to say about Kennedy and has only praise for MAHA doctors. In his view, @gorskon.bsky.social and I at SBM are the real problem at this moment. We are "a total embarrassment for science." My latest.

Dr. John Ioannidis Says Obsessive, Self-Anointed “Science-Based” Blamers Are a Total Embarrassment for Science.

The anatomy of a DARVO.

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I do so enjoy a good quack fight.

I was in junior high during the Bicentennial 50 years ago. The celebrations were so much cooler and awesome than the pathetic embarrassment that is the 250th anniversary. There’s no comparison.

Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Maybe we can just pretend the 250th is in a few years and try again...

Well, Jay Bhattacharya once called me a “threat to science.” Now Ioannidis thinks I’m a “total embarrassment for science.” Which is it, you guys?

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

According to John Ioannidis @gorskon.bsky.social myself and other “science based” commentators do nothing but “attack.” Also, we are a “total embarrassment for science.” What are we wrong about exactly? 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

For people who are just hearing about the case now, this relates to an anti-ICE demonstration at an immigrant detention center in north Texas in 2025, and the "similar ideology" the judge is talking about is “antifascism”.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”