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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 32m

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that.’ That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 19h

I'll keep writing about the hypocritical “tenets of Gold Standard Science” that federal health folks brag about. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Try to fool me with every action you take - well, my momma didn’t raise no fool. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...

Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 1d

If this is the “Gold Standard Science” touted by an Executive Order to restore trust to American health policy, it’s doing just the opposite. Trust is looking more battered, broken and rusty by the day. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/gold-stand...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 3d

RFK Jr. "is dead wrong" claiming vaccines are ineffective. They "have saved lives, reduced severe impairments like paralysis, brain damage, & hearing loss, and saved us billions of dollars. Enough of the dangerous deceptions on vaccines." www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/m...

RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 4d

“He picks things that seem designed to get clicks on the internet. He gravitates toward magical-seeming, spectacular explanations like Tylenol and circumcision,” said Peter Hotez. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

'Absurd': Hotez responds to RFK Jr. claims of autism-circumcision link

RFK Jr.'s statements about autism are “increasingly untethered to reality,” says Peter Hotez.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 6d

How numbers help patients more than vague terms. Lessons for physicians, patients, journalists or anyone who communicates about health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/how-number...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 6d

6 former Surgeons General said, "We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 8d

It’s Think Before You Pink time again. Not all fundraising promotions are the same - or legit. Some do more for companies & their products than for “the cause.” open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 12d

Trump called it “one of the biggest medical announcements that this office has ever made.” But experts questioned whether the moves will change the status quo much. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/w...

Will the White House drug-pricing deal lower costs for Americans? Experts are skeptical

Will the White House drug-pricing deal lower costs for Americans? Experts are skeptical.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 13d

Time to turn the Tylenol temperature down. Social media’s wild claims of a “liberal” pregnant woman dying of overdose, mass hospitalizations and organ failures. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/turn-the-t...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 14d

Trump health follies: fake video on "historic new health care system," a post promoting hemp-derived CBD, his FDA banning a dye that hasn't been used for decades & FDA Commissioner double-talk on acetaminophen & autism. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 20d

Regulators in Europe have issued new statements backing the safety of Tylenol use in pregnancy, effectively repudiating claims from the Trump administration that the medicine can cause autism in children. www.statnews.com/2025/09/23/t...

Countering Trump, European health officials stress that acetaminophen is safe to use during pregnancy

Regulators in Europe have issued new statements backing the safety of Tylenol use in pregnancy, effectively repudiating claims from the Trump administration.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 20d

Collection of quotes from & about this strange event: "At times, I had to remind myself that, no, this was not a Saturday Night Live skit." garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/a-strange-...

A strange Presidential autism news conference

“the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous advice"

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 21d

Who writes this stuff for him? “It’s too much liquid,” Trump said of pediatric vaccines. “Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number.” Please pronounce acetaminophen again for me! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

He’s Not a Doctor. But He Did Stay at the White House Last Night.

In retrospect, maybe the era of bleach-injection speculation wasn’t so bad.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 21d

Trump reveals lack of knowledge of what he’s talking about & his insensitivity to women who “can’t tough it out.” youtube.com/shorts/UDMHZ...

Donald Trump Tells Pregnant Women To 'Tough it Out,' Avoid Tylenol

YouTube video by Newsweek

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 21d

President Donald Trump on Monday used the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence. apnews.com/article/tyle...

Trump promotes unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without new evidence

President Donald Trump is using the platform of the presidency to promote unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without giving new evidence.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 22d

Sign up for The Patient Revolution Town Hall on issues of trust in health care. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 23d

“Members were unprepared, misunderstood or ignored key data and highlighted flawed or inconclusive research often trumpeted by vaccine critics.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Vaccine panel that limited covid shot scrutinized after chaotic meetings

Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices showed a tenuous grasp of process and cited flawed research as they revisited covid, hepatitis B and MMRV shots.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 23d

Has the nation’s largest health care company exploited incentives in the federal insurance program for seniors? www.startribune.com/why-unitedhe...

Why UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage program is under attack

Has the nation’s largest health care company exploited incentives in the federal insurance program for seniors?

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 24d

How can anyone go to work at CDC any more? open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 websites are down.

The Trump administration's HHS is back to its old habits of targeting public health resources deemed too woke.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 24d

“Taking steps where it has no impact.” apnews.com/article/fda-...

FDA proposes ban on Orange B, a food dye not used for decades

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to remove the food dye Orange B from the U.S. food supply.

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 25d

Must-see TV, before it, too, is banned. youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 25d

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 27d

Association ≠ causation. So don’t talk about “effect” if cause-and-effect hasn’t been proven. garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/you-could-...

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Gary Schwitzer @garyschw.bsky.social · 28d

“Most governments are trying to fight vaccine hesitancy with science and investment, while the United States heads in the opposite direction.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/w...

Turning Against Vaccines, America Is a Global Outlier

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