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Joseph Buxbaum
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Director, Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Shakuhachi student.
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 9d
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It’s awkward posting for something nominally in my honor but this is really an event to support the large, dedicated, compassionate and transformative team at the Seaver Autism Center. Please support our wonderful team! And stop by if you can!
Mount Sinai Health System
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 9d
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 9d
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It’s awkward posting for something nominally in my honor but this is really an event to support the large, dedicated, compassionate and transformative team at the Seaver Autism Center. Please support our wonderful team! And stop by if you can!
Mount Sinai Health System
giving.mountsinai.org
Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 10d
This was certainly not the main point of the post :-) but I see your point and will try to check with the church next time I am on the square. Will edit the post.
Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 11d
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RFK Jr.’s Inaccurate Claims About Tylenol, Circumcision and Autism - FactCheck.org
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. further added to the Trump administration’s problematic claims about Tylenol and autism on Oct. 9, alleging during a Cabinet meeting that circ...
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · 11d
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 @altcdc.altgov.info With statements by former NIEHS Director Birnbaum and others.
Close Friend of JD Vance Skirts Normal Channels to Take Over NIH Environmental Health Institute - Inside Climate News
Despite a federal hiring freeze, the Trump administration just appointed a scientist who calls Vance one of his “closest friends” to head the nation’s key environmental health research arm.
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 12d
If you thought MAHA was going to at least look at environmental risk in an unbiased way. Nope. A close friend of Vance is now head of NIEHS with no process amidst the shutdown: JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
JD Vance officiated the wedding of new head of NIH environmental institute
Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 15d
The bell in First Congregational Church in Falmouth, MA was forged in 1796 by Paul Revere. It has been rung over 30,000,000 times. Today the congregation rang it especially for the No Kings event.
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 17d
Nine years ago I was honored to be inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. But the president of NAM has been so muted about the devastating impact of the current administration on health sciences. I look forward to working with Dr Bertagnolli, the incoming president of NAM, from July 2026.
Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 19d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/h...
A Furious Debate Over Autism’s Causes Leaves Parents Grasping for Answers
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 22d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 24d
For the big 65, I am raising money for the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai. What can I say, I think it is a fantastic organization! And we can use your support!

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Celebration: Dr. Joseph D. Buxbaum Ph.D. - Mount Sinai Health System
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 25d
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Six former US surgeons general warn RFK Jr is ‘endangering nation’s health’
Former top doctors condemn health secretary’s vaccine, research policies, saying ideology replaced science at HHS
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Oct 3
Fantastic reporting on autism - youtu.be/E-yaxqDsfgY?...
Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (It’s Not What You Think)
YouTube video by Be Smart
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Oct 3
Appropriate clinical testing of leucovorin and evaluating the role of antibodies to the folate receptor as a biomarker are straightforward studies and could have easily been carried out since the underlying hypotheses were first suggested by Dr. Richard Fry. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exc...
Exclusive: Meet Richard Frye, who studies leucovorin for autism
Frye has led two placebo-controlled trials of the folate supplement in autistic people; the first was suspended by regulators, and the other has yet to be published.
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Oct 3
It is shocking how HHS is trying to obscure the definition of cerebral folate deficiency to push for approvals for an unproven treatment with *no data on long term safety*. www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/exc...
Exclusive: The 23 studies the FDA based its expanded leucovorin label on
The studies include 46 people, mostly toddlers, who have cerebral folate deficiency due to variants in a folate transporter.
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Oct 1
To those I may have wronged

I ask forgiveness.

To this I may have helped,

I wish I could have done more.

To those I neglected to help

I ask for understanding.

To those who helped me

I thank you with all my Heart.

-G’mar Hatimah Tovah
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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 30
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice
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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 30
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Sep 30
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What You Should Know About Autism and Medications | Mount Sinai Today
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COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · Sep 28
Medically
Dubious
Predatory
Institutions

publish anything by anyone (who’s willing to pay) with no editorial oversight—and even less peer review. Paper mills are not the way forward.

I see one of MDPI’s 426 journals? I pass.

We need hard science, flawless methodology, rigour. Now more than ever.
Predatory Journals - Is MDPI Predatory
Is MDPI Predatory?
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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · Sep 28
The Tylenol during pregnancy-autism myth is a disinformation campaign. Here is my full analysis to help.
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The Tylenol–Autism Panic Is a Disinformation Campaign. Here’s How It Works and What the Evidence Actually Says
A burst of claims linking acetaminophen (Tylenol) use in pregnancy to autism looks like a textbook disinformation campaign: cherry-picked studies, political amplification, and confident conclusions th...
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Sep 23
No, Tylenol does not cause autism. And there is no compelling evidence that leucovorin reduces symptoms. A consensus summary is found here - www.coalitionofautismscientists.org
Coalition of Autism Scientists | "autism scientists"
The Coalition of Autism Scientists formed in 2025 and is comprised of the leading autism researchers across the United States. The website includes statements made by researchers and science-based edu...
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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · Sep 4
www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/h...
Kennedy said there will be autism answers this month. With public health agencies in upheaval, autism advocates are alarmed | CNN
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged in April that there would be answers on the causes of autism this month. Since then, he has ousted public health officials, publicl...
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