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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · 16h

Why I never joined AARP.

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/u...

UnitedHealth paid AARP $9 billion to sell branded health coverage

The disclosure sheds more light on a partnership dating to the 1990s.

www.axios.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22d

A picture is worth 1000 words:

At what I think was one of the most extreme, kooky, anti-science press conferences in history, you see Trump & RFK Jr’s henchmen—3 medically trained men doing their anti-vaxx bidding, Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, & Oz

The damage these MDs are doing is incalculable

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 22d

@apapsychiatric.bsky.social
#medsky

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Breaking Mews/Ruff Translations @breakingmews.bsky.social · 22d

This is the only way to shoot wildlife.

(Photo courtesy of photojournalist Trevor Hughes)

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24d

Martin Kulldorff is a real crank. Just a fringe guy all around.

Fell from Harvard Medical School to the anti-vax, conspiracy-promoting Brownstone Institute.

And now he’s the chair of our CDC’s vital vaccine advisory group.

Shame for our country. Embarrassing, frankly.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

theonion.com/nation-grate...

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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · Sep 14

Dr Glaucomflecken as HHS Secretary, RFK Jr

youtube.com/shorts/z4CMT...

HHS Ignores Science

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the Trump administration wants a cut of revenue generated by patents that universities developed with federal funds.

www.axios.com/2025/09/10/h...

Exclusive: U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says

The administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.

www.axios.com

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 7

People ought to start noticing that MAHA ignores three major killers ...

Alcohol, cigarettes, and guns

Why?

It's fine to have a goal to make people healthy, but shouldn't we emphasize what is really killing them?

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 7

Federal Report on Drinking Is Withdrawn

The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...

Federal Report on Drinking Is Withdrawn

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 5

> @rollingstone.com

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Aug 31

One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 31

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 31

How much protein should you consume?
erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake

The data on high protein diets, bars, supplements, and powders will surprise you

erictopol.substack.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH?

Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe.

Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · Aug 31

He needs to be prosecuted and locked up.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics.

RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

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Glitter Jedi Fellina @glitterjedi.bsky.social · Aug 26

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 25

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

www.newyorker.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21

I really do not understand it. There are few Democratic leaders who have risen to this moment. There is no serious opposition party in the US right now. It's frigthening.

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Aug 21

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · Aug 14

I wrote about how the NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya can assuage his concerns about public trust in mRNA vaccine technology by not lying about them anymore.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

mRNA Vaccines Can't Be Trusted, Says Known mRNA Vaccine Prevaricator

No matter how elegant the lies, an NIH Director who lacks credibility among the public he serves cannot fulfill his public health mission

open.substack.com

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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · Aug 13

once again, New Yorker cartoon hits the mark.

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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · Aug 12

action.consumerreports.org/nb-20250609-...

Demand the tracking and reporting of extreme weather events

action.consumerreports.org

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · Aug 9

@greenhousemd.bsky.social

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Aug 9

One day after a man who reportedly believed that the COVID vaccine had injured him shot up the CDC, HHS announced that a doctor with a history of casting doubt on the safety of the mRNA vaccines is being reinstated as the FDA’s top vaccine regulator.

www.importantcontext.news/p/vinay-pras...

Vinay Prasad Returns to FDA

Within two weeks of his unceremonious departure, the COVID vaccine skeptic is back as the nation’s top vaccine regulator.

www.importantcontext.news

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Aug 7

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Cassidy, a physician, pledged to work closely with Kennedy, presumably to stop him from doing stuff like this. In fact he had no power to do so and rarely speaks up about Kennedy at all. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Bill Cassidy’s Failure on Vaccines

America is facing the consequences of the senator’s readiness to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the benefit of the doubt.

www.theatlantic.com

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Clinpathman @clinpathman.bsky.social · Aug 7

Jonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs

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