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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 20h

Delighted to be at #WHS2025 in Berlin. Tomorrow, our Nature Medicine Commission on

Quality Health Information for All will official launch at the World Health Summit

Our aim is to provide a framework for innovative solutions to advance quality health information equitably and for all

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to co-chair the ⁦Nature Medicine⁩ Commission on Quality Health Information for All in Berlin today.

Integrity & trust in information is the world’s greatest health challenge. Our Commission explores how quality health info shared through culture, media, & technology can be strengthened.

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 3d

RFK has mounted a full assault on @CDCgov-- slashing funding & staff, & and turned the agency into a political tool that can no longer be fully trusted on public health recommendations, especially vaccines.

Out today in JAMA Health Forum

Peter Lurie CSPI

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Assault on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Budget Cuts, Political Control, and the Erosion of Trust

This JAMA Forum discusses measures the Trump administration has taken against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that include budget cuts and program eliminations, workforce reductions ...

jamanetwork.com

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 5d

The "America First Global Health Strategy" is an oxymoron. Global health requires solidarity & int'l cooperation. Trump's actions have also created mayhem in global health. But the Strategy does identify better ways to conduct foreign aid

@bmj.com

www.bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Promise and gaps in America First strategy for global health

Plans are based on credibility the Trump administration does not have Just before the 2025 UN General Assembly, US secretary of state Marco Rubio released the America First Global Health Strategy .1 ...

www.bmj.com

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 6d

Acting CDC Director O'Neill says "informed consent is back" but COVID vaccines are not mandated in any state.

He implies COVID vaccines are risky. They are not.

CDC halts combined MMRV vaccines. Expect a surge in chickenpox.

None of this is science informed

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | Trusted Vaccine Guidance Has Collapsed — Along With the Rule of Law

Government independence, transparency, and legal integrity must be restored

www.medpagetoday.com

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 19d

NIH launches a $50m in autism research "to unlock causes." How odd. First, the President & HHS Secretary announce with great fanfare the cause of autism. And then they launch a study to find the cause
Isn't research supposed to come first? Chasing hunches a waste of NIH resources

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 20d

Trump and RFK’s advice on Tylenol & autism is cartoonish. Politicians shouldn’t be giving health advice. Their words on vaccines and Tylenol are reckless. It’s impossible to trust anything HHS says. Science & evidence don’t seem to matter.

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 21d

Trump’s plan on autism makes a mockery of science. Vast research shows autism has complex causes. Yet RFK is selling the idea that he knows. No new studies. No peer review. No transparency. That’s not how science works.

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 23d

ACIP's 2 day meeting was a train wreck, riddled with irregularities & devoid of science. In a well functioning government, national uniform recs are based on evidence. We don't want states issuing conflicting recs. But this is not a well functioning govt. And RFK is not a normal HHS Secretary

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · 27d

RFK names 5 new ACIP members

He pledges "transparency", but publishes ACIP's agenda late, w/ no public input

"Evidence-based science" is non-existent

"Expertise" is absent w/ CDC's director & ACIP members unqualified & conflicted

RFK is rushing to restrict access to vaccines

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 12

FDA may link COVID vaccines to child deaths using VAERS data. VAERS reports cannot be used to assess vaccine safety. There is no known causal link to the vaccine. If ACIP were staffed with real scientists, they would reject this out of hand. But science doesn't matter under RFK.

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Please join us tomorrow for the @oneillinstitute Colloquium. We'll explore RFK's attacks on @CDCgov & vaccines

I will moderate the panel featuring leading thinkers in vaccine law and policy

Wednesday, September 10, from 1:20–2:50 ET
Hotung Faculty Dining Room at Georgetown Law

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 9

RFK Jr. Has Declared Full-Blown War on CDC
— The agency needs to be strengthened, not torn down

@medpagetoday.bsky.social @gfriedman.bsky.social

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

Opinion | RFK Jr. Has Declared Full-Blown War on CDC

The agency needs to be strengthened, not torn down

www.medpagetoday.com

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 9

RFK's MAHA Commission out today is a singular disappointment & failure

Yes, we need major investments & regulation to reduce the crushing burden of chronic diseases. But the Report contains no new funding, no regulation, & no innovative thinking

It just capitulates to industry

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 5

RFK’s claim that Tylenol may cause autism is unscientific. He draws broad conclusions from associational studies & doesn’t wait for the careful analysis. He shoots from the hip, goes public with his suspicions, & causes panic in the public

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 3

I can't stress enough that Florida's decision to end vaccine mandates is dangerous
It will pose high risks to children and families in Florida, but the decision will profoundly harm all Americans as Floridians travel the country
Vacations to Disney World will become more perilous

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 3

RFK Jr. to appoint 7 new members to ACIP. This simply is not how science is supposed to work.

You don't get to hand pick unqualified & conflicted scientific advisers & then claim you are following science.

It saddens me but the public cannot trust ACIP and CDC under this Health Secretary

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Florida's decision to end school vaccine mandates is a blaring 5 star alarm. School vaccinations date back a century. This will cause great harm everywhere as unvaccinated kids travel in the US & globally.

We'll see a frightening return of diseases that have long been eliminated

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 29

In a note to CDC staff, RFK says, "We ended the measles outbreak in Texas by surging vaccines" "And we have played a key role in coordinating the federal H5N1 bird flu response"

Facts:
RFK castigated measles vaccines & prolonged the outbreak

The H5N1 response is weak & chaotic

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 28

With Jim O'Neill appointed as Interim CDC director, we're seeing a pattern

First, RFK fires eminent scientists

Then he appoints loyalists without credentials

He then takes the advice of loyalists

Finally he says, "you see, I have restored trust in science."

RFK did the same thing with ACIP

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 28

RFK's selection of Jim O’Neill as Interim CDC Director tells you all you need to know. At today's HHS, loyalty and fidelity to political orthodoxy is the sole criteria for a high level health position. What's not needed are actual qualifications & deep public health experience.

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 28

So, today I finally got an official letter firing me from the scientific board of NIH's Fogarty International Center. The letter read: You "serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As such, your appointment has been rescinded"

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Monarez by law can only be fired by the president who has been silent. RFK fired her & she refuses to go. The sheer chaos is notable in addition to the lawlessness & thinly veiled attack on science & the CDC. Once the shining crown of federal agencies, CDC is now gutted

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 28

RFK’s firing of Susan Monarez with Trump’s blessing shows clearly that science is now a matter of political orthodoxy and blind political loyalty, rather than evidence-based. Make no mistake. Monarez lost her job because she wouldn’t fall in line with RFK’s anti-vaccine agenda

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gostin.bsky.social @gostin.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’ve worked closely w/CDC for decades. CDC is the world’s leading public health agency. The firing of the first Senate confirmed director & resignation of senior officials is a tragedy for public health. Staff morale is plummeting. All this after CDC’s campus came under attack

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