Category: Public Health

Clown Car

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.

/ June 30, 2025
Several gold bars are stacked, but one bar is cut open to reveal a gray, rough interior, indicating that it is not solid gold.
So it begins

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.

/ June 23, 2025
Antivax America

Anti-Vax America

In which Dr. Gorski engages in a little shameless self-promotion for what he believes to be a good cause.

/ June 22, 2025
Two men in white shirts and patterned ties sit side by side against a plain black background, looking toward the camera.

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"

/ June 12, 2025
Two hands are raised above the surface of a body of water, suggesting a person is struggling or in distress, possibly drowning, with a clear blue sky and calm water in the background.

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...

/ May 20, 2025
A man in a suit, labeled as "Secretary KENNEDY," speaks passionately into a microphone at a hearing. He sits between two men in suits, with an audience, cameras, and microphones visible in the background.

Senator Hassan Sets Secretary Kennedy Straight

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's reckless insistence on undermining confidence in vaccines and reckless elevation of the wholly unqualified David Geier to a potentially influential role at HHS

/ May 18, 2025
National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Lysenkoism 2.0 and the dismantling of the NIH

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "make America healthy again" is basically Lysenko 2.0. It's come to the NIH and is destroying the crown jewel of US biomedical research with ideology and cronyism.

/ May 12, 2025
Two men in suits, identified as Dr. Mark Geier and David Geier, appear on a Fox 19 news broadcast. Both are seated indoors in front of a wooden cabinet and bookshelves, with name labels shown at the bottom.

David Geier, Mail Order Pharmacist

David Geier was in the drug business. What was he selling before the FDA stepped in?

/ May 10, 2025