Category: Public Health
Our Medical Establishment is Flailing
It's impossible to keep track of it all.
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“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...
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.
David Geier, Mail Order Pharmacist
David Geier was in the drug business. What was he selling before the FDA stepped in?
HHS is weaponizing evidence-based medicine to falsely portray vaccines as unsafe
Last week, HHS announced that all "new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials." Sounds good? Not so fast. This is really a deceptive weaponization of evidence-based medicine to undermine confidence in vaccines and eliminate at least some of them.
Hello measles, my old friend: The return of previously vanquished vaccine-preventable diseases
A study published last week suggests that, if vaccine uptake continues to decline, measles will soon be endemic again in the US. It's just part of how RFK Jr. is making America sicker again.
MAHA and “soft eugenics” revisited: The “autism tsunami,” Dr. Oz, and your “patriotic duty” to stay healthy
Two weeks ago, I referred to the "soft eugenics" of RFK Jr. and MAHA. This week, he and Dr. Oz provide new examples, one about autism, the other about public health.
How bad is it? RFK Jr.’s extinction-level threat to science-based federal health policy and public health is here
Five months ago, I called RFK Jr. an "extinction-level" threat to US biomedical science and public health. That extinction is under way.
Measles, MAHA, and “soft eugenics”
I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Now that a second child has died of measles, it's time for me to take a look at the "soft eugenics" of the antivax movement and, more generally, the MAHA movement.
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