Tag: Podcast Jay

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Metabolic Psychiatry

On a rare occasion that Jay Bhattacharya recommended a qualified candidate for a position, he was overruled by his boss Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who chose a a "metabolic psychiatrist" to head the National Institute of Mental Health.

/ October 28, 2026
National Institutes of Health (NIH).

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 13): The NIH “Vaccinology and Immunology Center”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new "vaccine injury" clinic finally has a name, but its purpose hasn't changed: To generate "evidence" to justify eliminating vaccines.

/ October 26, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and company

RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 12): The new NIH vaccine injury clinic is likely a sham

Last week, RFK Jr. and his minions opened a "vaccine injury clinic" at the NIH. With no budget, structure, or leadership announced, the program appears to be a sham in service of RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines.

/ October 12, 2026
Wendy Weber

Wendy Weber, a naturopath, now leads NCCIH. Let the quackery flow (even more)!

Not-A-Doctor Wendy Weber, a naturopath, has been appointed Director of the NCCIH. Will this mean more MAHA quackery on top of the usual quackademic medicine?

/ August 31, 2026
MAPS Medical Board

“Autism biomed” is now in charge of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

The NIH announced that Dr. John Gaitanis, who has served as expert witness for plaintiffs of "vaccine injury" cases and is affiliated with the autism biomed quackery group MAPS, will lead the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Lysenko marches on.

/ August 24, 2026
Trofim Lysenko

The opposite of “transparency”: Sneaking Lysenkoism into NIH peer review

On Friday, the NIH released an RFI (request for Information) on a proposed new format for reporting the scores of grant applications determined by study sections. If implemented, this new system will make it easier to hide political manipulation of grant funding.

/ August 17, 2026
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“I’m Not Talking About 2020. I’m Talking About 2026.”

2020 is more than just a security blanket for MAHA/MAGA disinformation superspreaders, it's an indispensable tool for them. It is a distraction and a reflexive excuse for their current failures.

/ August 14, 2026
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
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