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Its frustrating that anyone would have to explain something so obvious, but its good to have it in print. We need a societal elevation in status for primary care and pediatrics in particular. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

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.

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

At face, the lack of an ACIP board seems like a DC red tape thing, but this is a sneaky eugenics effort. When vaccines are not recommended by ACIP, they are not covered by insurance or available for free through Medicaid…meaning the most physically and financially vulnerable don’t have access.

Conspiracy influencers turn everything into a conspiracy: Plague edition

I regret to inform everyone that The Telepathy Tapes podcast has metastasized into a documentary, which will be released on February 24th of next year. I'm so tired....

Pseudoacademic conferences, predatory journals, would-be clinics, sham professional associations & official-sounding medical boards. Welcome to the parallel world of fakery. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

"Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections" a useful review link.springer.com/article/10.1... #MicroSky

CDC COCA call materials from 10/22/2026 (slides etc)-- What Clinicians Need to Know about Dengue in the United States bit.ly/48difKI

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The unethical study that RFK Jr. funded in Guinea-Bissau “will not go forward”. That’s great news. But I don’t plan to sleep on it. RFK Jr. will continue doing this kind of thing until the Republican Congress is either swept out of office or remembers what serving their country means.

LymeScience is back up- Thanks to the PHP and Ubuntu teams for the quick release of updated software

The LymeScience web site is temporarily disabled until a fix for critical "PHP2Shell" security issues in all PHP applications can be released and applied. Static assets such as doctor disciplinary documents will continue to be available during the outage.

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

Holy cow. The Guinea-Bissau offices of the two Danish researchers who were funded by RFK Jr. to conduct an unethical experiment with the HepB vaccine just had their offices raided and vaccines seized by the police. Great work on reporting this story once again by @melodyschreiber.com.

Inside Medicine: The President's 2027 Budget wants to destroy the CDC again. Here's why nobody cares and how the Trump administration is responding. by Jeremy Faust @jeremyfaust.bsky.social bit.ly/4k7zggA

Dr. KJ Seung on the measles epidemic in Bangladesh that has killed 1,147 people, 94% of whom are children under 5 years old Furious Doctors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj9h...

Haven't seen any social media posts from the CDC about measles for a while now. They have posted about other vaccines.

RFK Jr’s CDC funded Hep B vaccine experimentation in Guinea Bissau is an arm of his anti-vax crusade. His unethical “research” is coming to a university near you, if we don’t stop this study PERMANENTLY, and remove him from power. STOP THE STUDY HERE: www.standupforscience.net/petition-to-...

As part of Fielder Day for @wired.com we asked @jetjocko.bsky.social to grapple with how WIRED initially fell for, and covered, Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. He over-delivered with this spectacular piece:

Stella Immanuel, MD gets a lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons!

Looking forward to listening

Experts: Misdiagnosis of "chronic Lyme disease" will lead the patient not only into a diagnostic dead end, but also a therapeutic one. Depression, fibromyalgia, or fatigue are not treated with antibiotics.

Not mentioned about this unethical study is "why Guinea-Bissau"? The trial is not to test efficacy - we already know it's effective - it's to test non-specific effects. There is *zero* grounds to do that in a country with high risk of HepB - if UoSD is hell-bent on doing a study, do it in Denmark.

Angela Wulbrecht was also a subject in the "Giving Wakefield" Yale study, which was a product of Akiko Iwasaki & Harlan Krumholz's partnership with anti-vaxxers. This study was cited by RFK Jr's NIH in its zeal to legitimize unsubstantiated allegations of vaccine injuries. bsky.app/profile/lyme...

It's particularly shameful how "Lyme literate" quacks exploit and abuse ALS patients. Lyme disease does not cause ALS, and antibiotics do not treat ALS.

Prescriptions dangereuses, diagnostics erronés… Olivier Bernard dévoile le calvaire subi par des patients québécois dans son podcast “Dérives”, sur Radio Canada. Cette enquête remarquable a fait évoluer les pratiques face au “Lyme chronique”.

This👇 is such a good example of how on top of her game Helen was. While she was keeping us all updated on Ebola, MERS, flu, and so many of all the other infectious diseases out there, she immediately grasped the gravity of the first warning sign of what we now remember as SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19.

How terribly sad. There's no one more respected in health journalism than Helen. I learned so much from her, just by reading her work and sharing the same press calls. Rest in power, without pain. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...

THIS 👇

At least four members of the Danish ethics committee have resigned after this project was pushed through. One told me that the babies who contract hepatitis B while they are part of this research will, in effect, get sick “by design”. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

You might be asking yourself, "who are these RFK Jr-funded Danish researchers?" Well, here you go [yes it's in Danish] "Vaccine researchers sought to clear their names. Now, their own university has concluded there are reasonable grounds to suspect misconduct" www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/kritik...

Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯

I’ve seen a few folks comment that “Guinea-Bissau is a low income country and cannot afford the hep B vaccine birth dose, so why is this study unethical?” It’s a good question. Let me have a go at answering it. In a nutshell, researchers cannot ethically exploit poverty & scarcity to do a trial

I'm still processing how I feel about all this. But for now, this will be my home base for writing as I figure out the next thing. Follow and subscribe. The plan for now is to keep posts un-paywalled until Election Night. Then time to pay. thepoliticalspectrum.substack.com/p/eric-garci...

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is moving forward -- and here are the details on how it will take place: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

This whole webinar that was run by @tarahaelle.bsky.social is great but the section on measles by Paul Offit is a must watch. Link starts with that segment: youtu.be/cQU790LT-4g?...