Bob Morris, MD, PhD
@rdmorris.bsky.social
Epidemiologist/physician/award winning writer. University of Washington Environmental Health Sciences Misinformation researcher https://drbobmorris.substack.com Founder https://scienceaccountability.org
Breaking: The dumbing down of America's scientific infrastructure continues. Dr. Quay, a conspiracist w/ zero training in infectious disease is in "final vetting" to lead NIAID, Tony Fauci's former institute. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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In 2024 before the election, I was talking to a former senior HHS/NIH official. They said they weren’t *that* worried about a second Trump admin (wrong in retrospect), but said (paraphrase): “If they clean out and replace the Institute directors, well, THAT will be a disaster.” That’s 👇👇 this. 🧵
A lab-leak proponent is in line for Fauci’s old job
Steven Quay is in final vetting to run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
politico.com
With the Fauci circus, the COVID lab leak is back with a vengeance. Proponent’s objections to zoonotic origins seem to come from a Chinese menu. But none of it holds together when you try to lay out the recipe for a pandemic. 🧪 #episky #medsky #covid open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
The Lab Origin Menu
The COVID lab leak is back with a vengeance, but the story doesn't hold together when you try to lay out the recipe for a pandemic
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Incredible The director of the CDC & NIH, who has a massive public platform, is *still* saying his feelings are hurt cuz scientists, health workers, & public health experts rejected his kooky Covid ideas Dude, you won—Trump & RFK Jr appointed you to punish the libs by dismantling public health 😢
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d agoLet’s unpack this post by NIH and CDC Director and self-made victim Jay Bhattacharya. 1. This was not misreporting. This is what RFK Jr. said in his interview. 2. Free speech was not “suspended”. If it had been no one would know who Bhattacharya is.
Which did you like better? Her telling people not to fear covid right before vaccines came out? Or her saying the pandemic was over right after they came out? 1,000 more examples available.
Yesterday RFK Jr. claimed that the measles outbreak arose from kids not getting vaccinated during “lockdowns”. As the Secretary of Health and Human Services, he has had the power to roll out a massive vaccine program to fill the alleged gaps since February 13th, 2025. He has failed to do so.
Just submitted my comment on the disingenuously named proposed "Promoting Employee Accountability" rule. Please add yours! www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... I focused on how civil service protections exist to protect all Americans. They aren't really for us feds at all. A quick history lesson:
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RFK Jr. throws around the word "lockdowns" as if it has a specific meaning. Public Health measures included a broad range of interventions that, collectively, prevented an estimated 850,000 US COVID deaths. How do we know? 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Estimating the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID mortality using reductions in influenza mortality as an effect indicator - Journal of Public Health Policy
This study uses influenza mortality reduction (IMR) as an indicator of the aggregate effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI’s) on the spread of respiratory infections to assess their impact o...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d agoThe diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
As I said repeatedly during Trump 1.0, Trump sees the U.S. Treasury as his personal piggy bank. But back then, he couldn’t find a way to siphon it to himself. This time around, he has: shakedowns, crypto, and the slush fund. With the added bonus of paying off his own shadow army.
Stand up for Fauci
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 4d agoFrum: The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
Just heard as a part of a political speech: "Florida has become the center of the common sense." 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
So, after the reflecting pool was filled and algae bloomed and just as crews began to pour in peroxide, a paint stripper, vandals waded in and sliced a 350 ft "gash" in the coating in a way that made it separate in huge sheets from the concrete to which it was bonded. No photographs. No witnesses.
Regular reminder that Katherine Eban wrote this lab-leak piece, which has multiple substantive errors www.propublica.org/article/sena...
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab
The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica giv...
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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d agoAnd here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.
This is horrifying. Cruelty is the point. And it's being done in our name.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 5d agoA LOT OF UPDATES to the Third-Country Removal Tracker. New entries for Belize and Dominica, and new removals added for Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Sierra Leone. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
Under Trump: -There are 18,000 cyclospora cases across 45 states -Millions have lost ACA & Medicaid coverage -Measles cases are at a 35-year high -New "forever chemical" pesticides are in our food supply -Crucial public health agencies like the CDC & NIH are gutted "Make America Healthy Again."
And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d agoThe conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”
@rdmorris.bsky.social I hope you’ll enjoy this rebuttal to that awful Atlantic article www.panaccindex.info/p/you-cannot...
You Cannot Break Bread With MAHA
Stop Doing Free Marketing for Your Enemies
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Given the recent COVID-19 origins revival and Fauci witchhunt, just a reminder that I have written a book that answers to the best of our knowledge the question; and dismantles the many disinformation campaigns around the various lab leak narratives. Free access: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
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*UEFA BOYCOTT TO HAPPEN IF FIFA PROCEEDS WITH SALE PLANS:SOURCE Full reporting here: www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off
European governing body takes decision at crisis meeting in move that would essentially kill Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in tournament to private investors
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The State Department can’t draw a map?? Incompetence is part of the Trump brand apparently apple.news/AGru6eJC0QyC...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference — Guardian US
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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This story ran 14 months after the pandemic hit NYC www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/u...
Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC | CNN
The bodies of New York City coronavirus victims are still being stored in refrigerated trailers converted into makeshift morgues during the height of the pandemic one year ago, according to the medica...
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You can tell a lot about a leader by listening to the people who worked for them. Those who worked for Tony Fauci uniformly respected him. Today’s congressional hearing was a witch hunt, part of a larger effort to undermine science and scientists. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-led US Senate COVID hearing
Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, declined to answer questions at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination and accusing R...
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The administration has dragged NIAID scientists to court falsely accusing them of putting the public at risk for carrying inactivated diagnostic samples. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH scientists plead not guilty to smuggling monkeypox viruses into U.S.
Defendants face prison time for criminal charges but samples may all have been inactivated and used for routine diagnostics
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There are so many videos on TikTok promoting these black market peptides. Apparently someone who uses TikTok for just this purpose was on the advisory panel at the FDA that allowed them to be sold through compounding pharmacies, despite a paucity of research on their safety and effectiveness
Bob Morris, MD, PhD@rdmorris.bsky.social · last wk.If you thought the CDC Advisory Council on Immunization Practices was bad, buckle up. RFK Jr. takes conflicts of interest to a whole new level with peptides. #episky #fda #medsky 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...
If it’s a hoax, it’s one hell of a hoax
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last wk.2026 summer: Welcome to Oops.
