Category: Public Health
The Opinion Class: Practicing Focused Protection From Reality
A class of sheltered COVID pundits are eager to conjure an alternate history where we let the virus spread in 2020 and everything turned out just fine.
After ACIP: Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely go from here in his quest to eliminate vaccines
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was on The Tucker Carlson Show last week. It got me to thinking: What's next in RFK Jr.'s crusade against vaccines after he turned ACIP into an antivax committee?
Wearables and Wellness Populism: How Smart Watches Got MAHA’d
Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog that I’ve reflected on many times since. Titled Your Disease, Your Fault, Peter described a central theme that runs through nearly every variant of alternative medicine: That illness is preventable, and therefore, your fault. According to this worldview, disease isn’t a product of biology, inequity, or chance. It is...
RFK Jr.’s reconstituted vaccine committee meets for the first time, and I can’t help but think of clowns…antivax clowns
Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reconstituted Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time. The proceedings reminded me, more than anything else, of an antivax clown car.
HHS explains new vaccine recommendations: Is this the “gold standard science” we were promised?
FAQ sent to Congress looks more like fake gold
RFK Jr.’s remade ACIP meets: And so it begins (in earnest)…the dismantling of US federal vaccine infrastructure
The newly reconstituted CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet this week. Packed with antivaxxers, the antivax-adjacent, and the unqualified, ACIP will begin the dismantling of the US federal vaccine infrastructure.
Anti-Vax America
In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.
The Long Med Con: The Self-Styled Expertise and Expansive Invoices of Mark & David Geier
All it takes is a coming-of-age consultancy and you, too, can morph from an average teenage Joe or Josephine to an instant "vaccine expert"
Our Medical Establishment is Flailing
It's impossible to keep track of it all.
1799
“Give me your E. coli, your polio, your huddled Tuberculosis yearning to kill free.” Statue of Liberty, 2025 Originally I was not going to write a post this month. As this goes live, I am in Adelaide on a trip down under. When I was young, aka in my 50s, I would try and write a blog entry while traveling. It is...