Jonathan Howard

Counterpoint: MAGA/MAHA doctors can't redeem themselves by... posting a YouTube video.

Out of curiosity, what’s your calculus here? How many dead kids would it have to be for Prasad’s collaboration with MAGA to produce a net negative? Did you bother to count?

You're going to bat for the "drunken shitposter" who insisted that getting COVID-19 would confer "15-30 years" of "natural immunity?" Who later insisted that people becoming bedridden & wheelchairbound by COVID-19 "didn't matter in the grand scheme of things?" www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-pr...

The medical community needs to do some serious introspection and acknowledge our role in allowing RFK to rise to power.

If I wanted @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social to defend me, I’d just call people “dickhead”. This is the maturity and professionalism he respects.

I don’t know the parties but that quote about RFK is utterly damning. To have written that serious is to expose at best such a failure of judgment that I think it’s appropriate to leave public life over it.

According to @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social, there is a context in which this is correct. So now, @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social is going to explain all the ways Kennedy is "intelligent, well read, and fundamentally honest." I am so excited. We are all going to learn so much!

According to Balloux and @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social, doctors who witnessed this👇 lack "domain expertise" to comment on the pandemic. Only those who experienced it from their couch have any wisdom to share.

Anyone who feels my book was “silly”and my blogs “noxious” has to make the case I overstated the dangers of medical disinformation and MAHA. A month ago I begged @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social to review my writing make that case. He refused.

SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving. Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months. More with @lenasun.bsky.social.

Actually (as an academic surgeon myself) he started as an academic surgeon at a prominent university.

RFK in Michigan: "Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood. That's something I can talk about…Islamism, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, took over…That's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel."

The real threat according to these guys came from GMO papayas and covid vaccines. That’s what they wanted everyone to worry about.

We should never forget how Dr. Oz got his start. He’s been lying to Americans and making us dumber for years. He doesn’t get a free pass from this just because it was a long time ago. He’s always been Americas quack as @gorskon.bsky.social put it.

And @theatlantic.com has some of the best writers and some of the worst.

Yes. She wrote several horrible articles there and elsewhere.

This is absurd. The constant, consistent insistence that democracy persists merely because institutions continue to operate flies in the face of both her own evidence and 250 years of American history. This is how a conservative political culture protects itself.

Correct. They called this “nuance.”

We “have to” accept it.

Sheltered frauds like Conor have one goal- to numb people to dangerous things and to make them fear harmless things.

This 🤡

According to Marty Makary, anyone who doubted we had herd immunity to COVID in May 2021 did so because they *wanted* the pandemic to stretch out longer. Disinformation doctor spread messages of doubt and mistrust for years...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS says it wants better evidence on vaccine injuries. It’s building a system that will produce the opposite. Read full Op-Ed by @jakescottmd.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4yDSw9n

This is the guy who thought the delta variant was 😂 for kids.

“The Amish are our control group" pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-co...

If things don’t fall apart it will be because of resistance from these institutions. Frances Lee will be taking a victory lap precisely because of the resistance she minimizes. American democracy is in good shape to the extent we ignore voices like hers, who seek to numb us to real threats.

This is what Jay Bhattacharya said in the fall of 2021. Why is he not treating covid as one of 200 diseases? Why is he talking about it still?

And John Mandrola said Jay Bhattacharya was “apolitical” after this. 👇

See.

People like John Mandrola repeatedly tried to numb people to risks that were dangerous and obviously dangerous- namely Covid and MAHA. Under the guise of being “apolitical” he argued that people were overreacting to Covid and MAHA. Don’t worry. Relax. It will all be fine.

Here’s the maturity and professionalism I received from UCSF professors for warning about Kennedy and the normalization of anti-vaccine ideology. This is the wisdom and sophistication they brought to the table.

She proposed mass infecting kids with COVID.

Herd immunity 😆 insiderpaper.com/uk-covid-19-...

Kulldorff and Bhattacharya were anti-vaccine for young people because older people had more risk. They even wrote that down!

Research indicates that #vaccines for shingles, flu, COVID, and RSV significantly reduce cardiovascular disease risk by preventing infections that lead to heart complications. This matters for seniors and people with pre-existing health conditions. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

Discussed here:

Yes, they called me out the "vituperative tone" of my "attacks" on John Ioannidis without providing a single example or quoting me at all. 100% content-free. #feelingsbasedmedicine

If you have not followed the latest news about the proposed RFK Jr-funded trial that Danish researchers wanted to conduct in Guinea-Bissau, this new piece by @sorenhough.bsky.social & Josh Abbott is astounding—& breaks additional news (Disclosure: they quote me) www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/b...

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And now, we are doing Hitler was a leftist.

Where were you in April 2020, @joho.bsky.social? Here was the front lines for brave Harvard keyboard warrior Martin Kulldorff:

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