Tag: COVID-19

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK Jr.)

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule!

A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines.

/ July 20, 2026
CDC Headquarters

“Learn to love MAHA” vs. “how to make the CDC great again”?

MAHA apologist Dr. Joseph Marine recently wrote an article on how to make the CDC great again. Wait, what? Trump's been in office a year and a half, and the CDC isn't great?

/ July 13, 2026
Scott Atlas and Donald Trump

“Abolish the NIH”? Dr. Scott Atlas gives the antiscience game away

Dr. Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at the right wing think tank Hoover Institution who came to prominence as a COVID contrarian, recently wrote an op-ed advocating the elimination of the National Institutes of health and leaving the funding biomedical research to the "free market." These are the "ideas" animating this administration's science policy.

/ July 6, 2026
Trofim Lysenko

Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Dismantling peer review at NIH

A recent report in Nature describes how the Trump administration is weakening peer review in favor of ideology-based grant approval at NIH. Lysenkoism 2.0 is in full swing and getting worse.

/ June 29, 2026
Censored

Will NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya stand up for scientists censored by the American Diabetes Association?

Last Friday, the American Diabetes Association censored diabetes researchers at its annual meeting who opposed the Trump administration's NIH policies. Will "Flame of Freedom" winner Jay Bhattcharya speak up?

/ June 8, 2026

MAHA vs. the FDA: Dredging up old anti-regulation revisionist history

Recently, I've noticed articles from outlets aligned with MAHA calling for the elimination of the FDA. It's all recycled "health freedom" revisionist history and ahistorical nonsense.

/ May 4, 2026
Why can't we be friends?

MAHA and science-based public health: Can’t we all just get along?

The answer is: Very likely not, at least not as long as MAHA embraces quackery and antivax pseudoscience—not that that didn't stop STAT News from ignoring the elephant in the room, vaccines, in search of a "kumbaya" moment between MAHA and public health.

/ April 13, 2026
Shiny pink balloon numbers forming "2020" with gold confetti falling in front of a light blue background, creating a festive atmosphere.

Since They Won’t Remind You, Here’s What Drs. John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya, and Scott Atlas, Actually Said 6 Years Ago

The next time these doctors claim they were right, let's remind them exactly what they claim to have been right about.

/ April 11, 2026
Steve Kirsch: Misinformation superspreader

Antivax tech bro Steve Kirsch uses AI to rediscover the Jock Doubleday challenge

Everything old is new again, even when AI is involved, as a very old antivax trope is rediscovered for a new generation.

/ April 6, 2026

Dr. Vinay Prasad Said He Would Deliver New COVID Vaccine RCTs. He Failed and Should STFU.

It turns out that Tweeting about RCTs 100+ times is a lot easier than delivering even a single RCT.

/ April 5, 2026