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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 16h

Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Vaccine Policy Changes Require More Than Weak Secondary Findings From Underpowered Trials -a Reanalysis of Randomized Trials on Nonspecific Vaccine Effects

Introduction: Non-specific effects of vaccines (NSEs) have been suggested to influence overall health beyond protection against tar

papers.ssrn.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 1d

“When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the United States, they were welcome to go elsewhere.”

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

www.the-scientist.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 2d

The FDA commissioner suggested Lyme disease was a bioweapon and it’s not even news anymore.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 4d

RFK Jr and his MAHA crew say public health needed to be gutted because of lack of trust. Yet trust has only declined since Kennedy took over.

But like everything else, Kennedy will ask you not to believe your own eyes and ears.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 4d

The American public continues to trust doctors far more than RFK Jr.

So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 4d

This is the kind of stuff our new top vaccine policy makers are choosing to read.

I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 11d

Weirdly reasonable Daily Mail article on the new COVID vaccine-cancer study that quotes my Substack (without linking to it...thanks). www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Covid jabs 'might raise the risk of cancer', contentious study claims

The link between Covid jabs and cancer has previously been dismissed by academics and oncologists after claims it had led to 'turbo cancers'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 14d

Can the COVID vaccines cause a cancer to literally grow overnight? Despite a new study that's sure to go viral among vaccine skeptics, I take the bold position that they can't. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

Coming to an ACIP meeting near you

Expect to see the administration tout a vaccine-cancer link

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 16d

Some thoughts on a new study purporting to show an increased risk of cancer from the COVID vaccines. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

Coming to an ACIP meeting near you

Expect to see the administration tout a vaccine-cancer link

mazer.substack.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 18d

If someone at Harvard says it then it must be true. By the way, we are trying to shut it down because universities are the enemy.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 18d

Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 18d

West Virginia’s success in keeping children safe from vaccine-preventable illnesses highlights the singular power of immunization. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A New Era of Vaccine Federalism

As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.

www.newyorker.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 19d

I love the chaos-based science of contrarians using elite institutions to support their beliefs when it’s convenient and dismissing elite institutions out of hand when it’s not.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 19d

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.

arstechnica.com

Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

So are we still pretending to do this whole conflicts of interest are a problem thing?

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid to give evidence against drug maker

The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’

www.thetimes.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

"The reason Mr. Kennedy never saw anyone with profound autism when he was growing up is because back then people with autism were sent to institutions. They had no rights to go to school." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | ‘This May Be the Most Difficult Day in My Career’: Experts React to Trump’s Autism Remarks

www.nytimes.com

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

If leucovorin can help hundreds of thousands of people, as the FDA commissioner(!) claims, then running an RCT should be easy, right?

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

Wow, individual case reports AND mechanistic data?! Christmas came early.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 20d

My theory of medical evidence is simple: observational studies for me, RCTs for you.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 21d

Today I am issuing a bold recommendation: you should only take a medication when it is truly necessary to treat your medical condition and advised by your doctor.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 21d

The public health establishment is so afraid to admit the truth about autism that the only people raising concerns about Tylenol are obscure figures like the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 21d

It is so scientifically taboo to ask tough questions that doctors examining the relationship between Tylenol and autism can only publish in obscure journals like JAMA Psychiatry.

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Benjamin Mazer @mazer.us · 21d

To summarize: a study showing an autism odds ratio of 1.6-4.1 for Tylenol use in pregnancy finally explains why autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31.

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