Tag: vaccines
“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.
“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.
Trump’s Frontal Assault on Vaccines
On Monday, Donald Trump signed an executive order full of antivax goals. It's a frontal assault on vaccines.
Does public health “need” MAHA? No more than medicine “needs” CAM!
Last week, The Atlantic published an embarrassingly contrarian piece about how public health "needs" the "make America healthy again" movement. Public health needs MAHA only if it "needs" to integrate antivax and quackery into medicine and public health. Sound familiar?
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.
“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?
Lysenkoism 2.0 in action: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abuses his power to bully journal editors over a retraction
A journal editor decided to retract and remove a bad study by an antivaxxer named Neil Z. Miller. RFK Jr. publicly demanded to know why. This is Lysenkoism 2.0 in action in 2026.
Antivaxxers vs. the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Here in Michigan, antivaxxers have scored a couple of political victories that are less than is being claimed. What do they mean for public health in the state?
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?
How Unbekoming! The central delusion of MAHA
What do vitamin K shots, vaccines, MTHFR variants, and statins have in common? The answer is what I call the central delusion behind MAHA, which was inadvertently revealed by a blogger with the 'nym Unbekoming.