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How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right
Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.
www.theatlantic.com
This is exactly why we started The Sequoia Institute. This is why disinformation is a dangerous problem that needs to be addressed. Instead of adding safeguards, we took the guardrails off completely, and are suffering the consequences as a society now.
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Straight from the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social:
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Do Unvaccinated Kids Make You Horny?
Don't settle for being the scourge of CBER and the COVID ward at the children's hospital when you can also be the scourge of Hinge
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Straight from the inimitable @angierasmussen.bsky.social:
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/do-unvacci...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/do-unvacci...
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"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
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RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
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Some lofty critics claim it is not worthwhile to discuss juvenile behavior online by MAHA doctors and their volunteer defense attorneys.
Here’s why they are very wrong- featuring the must read work of @noupside.bsky.social
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
Here’s why they are very wrong- featuring the must read work of @noupside.bsky.social
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as well.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Some lofty critics claim it is not worthwhile to discuss juvenile behavior online by MAHA doctors and their volunteer defense attorneys.
Here’s why they are very wrong- featuring the must read work of @noupside.bsky.social
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
Here’s why they are very wrong- featuring the must read work of @noupside.bsky.social
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Remember, Prasad began his campaign against the pediatric COVID vaccine months before there was a pediatric COVID vaccine.
Here he is spreading fake numbers about the death rate and treating vaccine side effects worse than death.
More...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROy...
Here he is spreading fake numbers about the death rate and treating vaccine side effects worse than death.
More...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROy...
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Remember, Prasad began his campaign against the pediatric COVID vaccine months before there was a pediatric COVID vaccine.
Here he is spreading fake numbers about the death rate and treating vaccine side effects worse than death.
More...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROy...
Here he is spreading fake numbers about the death rate and treating vaccine side effects worse than death.
More...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROy...
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I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
www.pbs.org
January 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
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RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
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Oh, so it's a global far right power grab
“The Far Right doesn’t stay within borders. It’s at work everywhere and it works in sync. The strength in one area magnifies the strength in another. It’s a global threat.”
The Far Right Hits The BBC
The assault on free media gathers pace
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Oh, so it's a global far right power grab
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In October, Prasad decided to withdraw the paper, which examined health outcomes among patients with private health insurance who received Covid vaccines from 2023 to 2024. The paper
concluded that there were no new safety concerns following Covid-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months to 64.
concluded that there were no new safety concerns following Covid-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months to 64.
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In October, Prasad decided to withdraw the paper, which examined health outcomes among patients with private health insurance who received Covid vaccines from 2023 to 2024. The paper
concluded that there were no new safety concerns following Covid-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months to 64.
concluded that there were no new safety concerns following Covid-19 vaccination for people aged 6 months to 64.
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Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe.
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe.
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
If you work at the FDA, CBER or CDER, we want to hear from you!
DMs open.
DMs open.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you work at the FDA, CBER or CDER, we want to hear from you!
DMs open.
DMs open.
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We placed podcasters in charge who got famous not because they accomplished anything, but because they “called for” and “argued for” others to do things.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We placed podcasters in charge who got famous not because they accomplished anything, but because they “called for” and “argued for” others to do things.
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Thank you everyone for your support! It's been so incredible to see your generosity!
If you're new to my content, here's a representative essay about how right-wingers base their political marketing strategy on pretending to be liberals. It's critical to their support from many people.
If you're new to my content, here's a representative essay about how right-wingers base their political marketing strategy on pretending to be liberals. It's critical to their support from many people.
The ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ and the long history of right-wing rebranding
For nearly a century, Republicans have been pretending to be the ‘real liberals’
plus.flux.community
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Thank you everyone for your support! It's been so incredible to see your generosity!
If you're new to my content, here's a representative essay about how right-wingers base their political marketing strategy on pretending to be liberals. It's critical to their support from many people.
If you're new to my content, here's a representative essay about how right-wingers base their political marketing strategy on pretending to be liberals. It's critical to their support from many people.
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These men claimed the ability to bend COVID to their will.
Now that we’ve had some time to assess their competency leading the NIH and ACIP, we should all now recognize these were delusions of grandeur.
It was a bad idea to elevate people based on imagined feats of glory.
Now that we’ve had some time to assess their competency leading the NIH and ACIP, we should all now recognize these were delusions of grandeur.
It was a bad idea to elevate people based on imagined feats of glory.
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
These men claimed the ability to bend COVID to their will.
Now that we’ve had some time to assess their competency leading the NIH and ACIP, we should all now recognize these were delusions of grandeur.
It was a bad idea to elevate people based on imagined feats of glory.
Now that we’ve had some time to assess their competency leading the NIH and ACIP, we should all now recognize these were delusions of grandeur.
It was a bad idea to elevate people based on imagined feats of glory.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A note:
Peter Attia is *not* a physician.
He is not a scientist.
He graduated medical school.
He didn’t complete residency.
He is not board certified.
After dropping out of residency, he worked for McKinsey.
He then founded a private “longevity clinic” to hawk pseudoscience and grift.
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Peter Attia is *not* a physician.
He is not a scientist.
He graduated medical school.
He didn’t complete residency.
He is not board certified.
After dropping out of residency, he worked for McKinsey.
He then founded a private “longevity clinic” to hawk pseudoscience and grift.
1/
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A note:
Peter Attia is *not* a physician.
He is not a scientist.
He graduated medical school.
He didn’t complete residency.
He is not board certified.
After dropping out of residency, he worked for McKinsey.
He then founded a private “longevity clinic” to hawk pseudoscience and grift.
1/
Peter Attia is *not* a physician.
He is not a scientist.
He graduated medical school.
He didn’t complete residency.
He is not board certified.
After dropping out of residency, he worked for McKinsey.
He then founded a private “longevity clinic” to hawk pseudoscience and grift.
1/
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NEW: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, accepted an award over the weekend from an old ally who, just weeks earlier, had been the subject of a Politico story revealing how he’d left his previous job amid sexual harassment allegations.
NIH Director Accepts Award From Anti-Vax Dark Money Group Founded By Accused Sexual Harasser
Jay Bhattacharya reunited with his old ally Jeffrey Tucker weeks after the political operative was revealed to have faced a sexual harassment scandal.
www.importantcontext.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
NEW: The Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, accepted an award over the weekend from an old ally who, just weeks earlier, had been the subject of a Politico story revealing how he’d left his previous job amid sexual harassment allegations.
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I think the USAID cuts and anti-vaccine stuff gives Trump a higher body count, but the Bush guys internalized the idea that right wing media could insulate them from normal electoral accountability and the second Trump term is directly downstream from that.
This NYT Obit of VP Cheney mentions something that seems impossible in retrospect: That he and GWB were re-elected *after* it was proved there were no WMDs in Iraq.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think the USAID cuts and anti-vaccine stuff gives Trump a higher body count, but the Bush guys internalized the idea that right wing media could insulate them from normal electoral accountability and the second Trump term is directly downstream from that.
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Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
Right-wing content creators managed to successfully brand the Portland police as ‘antifa.’
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November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
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Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.
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Do not miss this stunning investigation that reveals how a Koch-funded machine and Silicon Valley's new found interest is behind the dangerous advanced nuclear hype in the US.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again
A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...
www.bloomberg.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Do not miss this stunning investigation that reveals how a Koch-funded machine and Silicon Valley's new found interest is behind the dangerous advanced nuclear hype in the US.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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I sure hope the Jews who went all in on "the MAGA movement will help us fight campus antisemitism" are happy with themselves right now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I sure hope the Jews who went all in on "the MAGA movement will help us fight campus antisemitism" are happy with themselves right now. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...