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Breaking: Dewormer and scabies drugs being sold as cancer treatments, BBC investigation finds
Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment
A terminally ill patient was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.
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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”
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7h agoTaking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Bad news: Congressman John James is a chronic Lyme cult member who is now Republican nominee for Michigan governor. Good news: James is giving up his seat in Congress. Conspiracy-mongering with RFK Jr, he claimed his wife Elizabeth & all 3 kids had Lyme disease. And he said his son had parasites.
LymeScience@lymescience.org · 2mo agoDisturbing: Michigan Congressman John James and his wife Elizabeth James are part of the chronic #Lyme cult, where Medical Child Abuse runs rampant. Congressman James endorsed bizarre beliefs and predatory lab IgeneX. He claims his wife & kids have Lyme despite negative standard tests.
Highly recommended book: Invisible Rulers
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · yesterdayThe paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today! To celebrate I dropped audio of the Twitter Space where Mike Benz first groomed Matt Taibbi into believing there'd been "mass censorship" of "hundreds of millions of tweets"—something he'd then testify before Congress. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
Epic takedown 👇
Angie Rasmussen@angierasmussen.bsky.social · yesterdaySunday: I’ll do a quick fact check of this insane RFK Jr interview Monday: Up to 40 lies & it was only a 3 min clip! Tuesday: Ready to defend my 2nd PhD thesis on fascist quackery That's why @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & I are holding him accountable rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...
Antimicrobial resistance threatens far more than the treatment of infections. It puts routine surgeries, cancer care, organ transplants and neonatal care at risk, stressed IDSA member Vera Luther, MD, FIDSA, during today’s Finance Committee hearing. #PASTEURAct
We spend more on health care than any other country yet still reward treatment more than prevention and keeping people healthy. This new @nam.edu report identifies 12 levers to better align financing with prevention, outcomes, and population health. doi.org/10.31478/202...
Anchoring Health Financing on Better Outcomes: System Drivers and Opportunities for Reform
The National Academy of Medicine convened an expert working group to review the landscape of health system financial incentives, identify key drivers of misalignment, and take stock of policy and prog...
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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health threat that demands action. Thank you @hassan.senate.gov for your leadership and for recognizing the importance of investing in new antibiotics so physicians can continue providing lifesaving care. #PASTEURAct
triple j hack reports on the death of Lauren from quack hyperthermia treatment in Malaysia: Lauren believed she had chronic Lyme disease. Scientists have not found the bacteria that carry Lyme disease in Australian ticks.
My cousin was sucked into a fatal alternative therapy 'wormhole', says author
Author Hannah McElhinney spent years investigating after her cousin Lauren died seeking controversial medical treatment overseas.
abc.net.au
Dr. Fauci knows what he's talking about. Same with his comments about Henry Heimlich's quack claims of treating AIDS, cancer, and "chronic Lyme" by injecting people with malaria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhyR...
Renee DiResta@noupside.bsky.social · 3d agoSentient tomato Paul Thacker called "totally weird person" by Anthony Fauci. 😂😂
He’s unhinged. Hard to believe he’s running the US health system. He expresses “excitement” over ending infectious disease research. Along with Bhattacharya, he ended federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D. Bhattacharya ended pandemic prevention research. When the next pandemic hits, we’re in trouble😢
LymeScience@lymescience.org · 3d agoWorse, RFK Jr only partially restated his BS from a crankfest in 2023 when he suggested mainstream science (e.g. vaccine research) caused HIV, COVID, Spanish flu, RSV, & Lyme. He said it'd be cool to blackball ACIP scientists. And he was "most excited about" terminating grants to ID scientists.
Transcript of today’s RFK Jr lie-fest and Dr. Ashish Jha’s response docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2026-08-02 State of the Union with Dana Bash - RFK Jr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview, Dr. Ashish Jha responds
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/politics/rfk-jr-fauci-medical-misinformation Youtube versions [timestamps consistent with official CNN video, not youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-FVCCLsZnQ ...
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RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim
Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show
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Terrific threat by @benecal.bsky.social That Atlantic MAHA piece will be taught in public health school for generations, along with the “new Tuskegee” (the deeply unethical trial in Guinea Bissau that MAHA’s leader RFK Jr funded) There’s a question many of us keep coming back to…. 1/3
Bénédicte C@benecal.bsky.social · 5d agoThis post by Brinda Adhikari and Tom Johnson is something else. Sure sounds like these podcasters with no expertise in health have morphed into self-styled consultants to the MAHA movement & its political masters. Good to know. whyshoulditrustyou.substack.com/p/why-dr-cra...
Hmmmm...who might be right? 30 years of solid science showing that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck....or a bunch of real quacks? maggiefox.substack.com/p/about-that...
About That Lab Leak Idea
30 Years of Evidence Points Elsewhere
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Lots of "lab leak" chatter this week, cherry picking from impolite things written in private during a crisis. So, for some contrast, here's something that was hiding in plain sight for years. It disproves a defamatory conspiracy theory that appeared in @vanityfair.com and the book Viral.
We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide
theguardian.com
From the 2007 @abcnewsdesk.bsky.social 20/20, life gratitude to Dr. Anthony Fauci from my wife and me for speaking out against "malariotherapy," my dad's crackpot claim that patients suffering from cancer, Lyme Disease, and AIDS can be cured by infecting them with malaria. youtu.be/EhyR7TbBMxc?...
"Is Dr Heimlich Really A Savior?" ABC 20/20 with Brian Ross, June 8, 2007
YouTube video by medfraud
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Note the role of anti-vax nurse Angela Wulbrecht, who is associated with supercrank Steve Kirsch's "Vaccine Safety Research Foundation". Wulbrecht said that she is a subject in the "Giving Wakefield" Yale study, which was a product of Akiko Iwasaki & Harlan Krumholz's partnership with anti-vaxxers.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A line by line rebuttal of the "Embrace MAHA article by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social : "Name a single important MAHA issue that wasn’t already obvious. Every reasonable idea predated the movement, ...identified, researched, championed, ...by credible factions ..." open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
I didn’t love Craig Spencer’s ‘embrace MAHA’ column in The Atlantic. Instead of canceling my friend, I called him.
Even the sharpest disagreements can be civil. Here's my line-by-line response to Dr. Craig Spencer's argument for embracing MAHA.
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Despite his position at NIH, Anthony Fauci continued treating patients, even Ebola patients in an isolation unit!
Why NIH's Anthony Fauci is treating Ebola patients himself
Spending 2 hours daily with patients has given NIAID chief
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This was a roller coaster of a CDC MMWR Notes from the Field (with a nice write-up by Beth Mole)
College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
arstechnica.com
Mark this well. A public servant who performed admirably in a crisis is being publicly persecuted, maybe prosecuted. Govt websites are being given over to propaganda. Fake medicines are being praised while lifesaving vaccines are lied about. Slanderous grifters cackle their triumph. Despicable.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."
In 2005, young 60 Minutes reporter Anderson Cooper exposed notorious "chronic Lyme" fraudster James Shortt, MD. Shortt killed MS patient Katherine Bibeau with IV hydrogen peroxide. Shortt also defrauded Janet & Michael Bate as Michael was dying of prostate cancer.
The Washington Post inexplicably fired 9 of its 14 health reporters. Great health journalists are available.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction
Nick Bilton is spreading Ross Douthat's lie. Douthat is a member of the chronic Lyme cult. He was quack-diagnosed with "chronic lyme" and "chronic bartonella." As with any cult member, Douthat spent large amounts of money on nonsense and spread the dangerous gospel to others.
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All
I hope everyone has had a great July with loved ones. We have so many stellar pieces in the works for Season 59-thank you for your efforts on those.
Today, I am pleased to share some great news, and the first of many exciting announcements to come. An exceptional lineup of journalists will be joining 60 Minutes, carrying on its tradition of fearless, independent and impartial reporting. I can't wait for them to
get started.
Before I introduce our new colleagues, a word about Norah O'Donnell: Norah is a powerhouse. You've seen her all over the network. She's launched a new podcast. And you'll see much more of her in our halls because Norah will be a correspondent on 60 Minutes. Norah has contributed exceptional pieces to the show for more than a dozen years, including interviews with Pope Francis, President Trump, President Biden and Mohammed bin Salman.
Please join me in congratulating Norah and in welcoming the following new faces to 60 Minutes:
Ross Douthat will join CBS News as a 60 Minutes Correspondent. Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy. A Ross interview-and he's interviewed on camera Vice President Vance, Dario Amodei, Amy Coney Barrett, Hasan Piker and Ben Sasse among others-is a special conversation, expansive and probing and news making. In nearly two decades at The New York Times, and in his work at The Atlantic before that, and in seven books, Ross has tackled politics, religion and culture-and what his own struggle with Lyme disease taught him about suffering. He makes controversial topics approachable and renders characters and points of view with richness and compassion. Ross will bring this big and ranging curiosity to our air. He will be based in New York.
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NEW: on Fauci diaries The story isn't what's in them — it's the method. "Selective disclosure": leak real documents stripped of context, let partisan media run, go viral before the fact-check lands. Don't ask what's in the dump. Ask who it benefits, and why now. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The Fauci diaries are a predictable bust
Rand Paul desperately applies selective disclosure methods in his latest attempt to sustain lab leak fan fiction for personal gain
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