Tag: COVID-19 vaccine

A magical scene with several white unicorns in a vibrant, colorful landscape featuring waterfalls, flowers, a sparkling river, distant mountains, and a grand castle under a glowing sky with birds flying overhead.

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.

/ July 13, 2025
Screenshot showing two news articles: One from The New York Times titled "Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A." with an orange illustration, and another from STAT titled "Inside the staff exodus and tanking morale that threaten Makary's FDA" with a man speaking at a podium.

Go Ahead, Make the Case That Science, Free Speech, and the FDA Are Thriving Under Drs. Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad

Unlike Drs. Adam Cifu and John Mandrola, I do not constantly boast of my "nuance" or claim to be a master of "clinical appraisal." They have so much to teach me.

/ July 10, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson

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?

/ July 7, 2025
Two clear bottles with red caps, filled with raw cow milk, sit side by side on a countertop against a white tile backsplash. Each bottle is labeled “RAW COW MILK FOR CATS & DOGS.”.

Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines

This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, MAHA politics.

/ July 4, 2025
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
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
Extinction-level event. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine committee bloodbath: I hope you’re all up-to-date on your vaccines…

...because the CDC schedule is about to start shedding vaccines the way antivax newly appointed ACIP members think people vaccinated against COVID-19 shed spike protein. Ground zero for RFK Jr.'s extinction-level event with respect to public health is vaccines and the committee that recommends them for the CDC schedule.

/ June 16, 2025
A man in a suit speaks at a podium with the U.S. presidential seal, gesturing with his hands, while another man in a suit stands behind him, listening attentively.

RFK Jr. Sacks Entire CDC Vaccine Committee

I’m sure you are as sick of reading about RFK Jr. as we are of writing about him, but this is the world we live in. We cannot let outrage fatigue cause us to take our eye off the ball. If nothing else, SBM needs to chronicle every anti-science move that this administration makes. As most people, and certainly most readers here,...

/ June 11, 2025
Cartoon character Kirby holding a red sign with large yellow letters that read "STFU." Kirby has a cheerful expression and is set against a blue background.

Dr. Vinay Prasad is Repeatedly Undermining RCTs. Why?

It's quite the journey from "RCT or STFU" to "we will always have a place for controlled clinical studies."

/ June 10, 2025