Adam Gaffney
@awgaffney.bsky.social
Pulmonary & ICU doctor, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, past president PNHP, author "To Heal Humankind", dabbler, tweets my own.
Webpage: https://dradamgaffney.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KChlDTsAAAAJ&hl
Webpage: https://dradamgaffney.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KChlDTsAAAAJ&hl
I feel like this fake big animal sightings are too common!
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I feel like this fake big animal sightings are too common!
It's not clear to me how to respond to this endless stream of unrepentant, shameless lying from unrepentant, shameless liars like this. To be clear: I believe in taking care of everyone no matter where they're from, so I'm not so interested in these distinctions. But for those...
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It's not clear to me how to respond to this endless stream of unrepentant, shameless lying from unrepentant, shameless liars like this. To be clear: I believe in taking care of everyone no matter where they're from, so I'm not so interested in these distinctions. But for those...
So an anonymous billionaire Trump ally is dispersing $130 million in personal cash to US troops.
Truly crossing new rubicons weekly
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Truly crossing new rubicons weekly
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So an anonymous billionaire Trump ally is dispersing $130 million in personal cash to US troops.
Truly crossing new rubicons weekly
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Truly crossing new rubicons weekly
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Once you accept that premise, and then run huge numbers of assays examining average differences in biological parameters, you will find some differences that can then be used to conclude that those with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) have "distinct biological changes,"
August 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Once you accept that premise, and then run huge numbers of assays examining average differences in biological parameters, you will find some differences that can then be used to conclude that those with post-vaccine syndrome (PVS) have "distinct biological changes,"
Here's a link to my contribution, arguing, that governments should have done more not less — that how to save lives should be at the center of our discussions.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
June 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here's a link to my contribution, arguing, that governments should have done more not less — that how to save lives should be at the center of our discussions.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
🚨3 medical journals have received letters from federal prosecutors questioning their editorial processes.🚨
Medscape first covered this — my response below — now in multiple publications.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Medscape first covered this — my response below — now in multiple publications.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
April 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
🚨3 medical journals have received letters from federal prosecutors questioning their editorial processes.🚨
Medscape first covered this — my response below — now in multiple publications.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Medscape first covered this — my response below — now in multiple publications.
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
A new study confirms that Medicaid work requirement take away people's healthcare with zero effect on employment. This confirms earlier studies of Sommers et al. with a much larger survey (ACS).
I put key results for Arkansas in figure below; the DiD results are consistent.
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I put key results for Arkansas in figure below; the DiD results are consistent.
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April 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A new study confirms that Medicaid work requirement take away people's healthcare with zero effect on employment. This confirms earlier studies of Sommers et al. with a much larger survey (ACS).
I put key results for Arkansas in figure below; the DiD results are consistent.
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I put key results for Arkansas in figure below; the DiD results are consistent.
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From reporting I’ve seen, at least 3 essential federal health surveys are at risk of being destroyed by cuts:
(1) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
(2) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
(3) National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Are there others?
(1) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
(2) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
(3) National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Are there others?
April 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
From reporting I’ve seen, at least 3 essential federal health surveys are at risk of being destroyed by cuts:
(1) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
(2) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
(3) National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Are there others?
(1) Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
(2) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
(3) National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Are there others?
Members of the Harvard faculty, we must not mince our words. This is an authoritarian, McCarthyite assault on academic freedom. This is repression & this is blackmail by a thuggish, corrupt, & law-breaking regime. Craven capitulation will only invite more repression. Fight back.
April 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Members of the Harvard faculty, we must not mince our words. This is an authoritarian, McCarthyite assault on academic freedom. This is repression & this is blackmail by a thuggish, corrupt, & law-breaking regime. Craven capitulation will only invite more repression. Fight back.
I do not feel that it is hysterical overreach to label this form of virulent, unhinged xenophobic rhetoric & policy — coming from the very top of the US government — a species of fascism.
March 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I do not feel that it is hysterical overreach to label this form of virulent, unhinged xenophobic rhetoric & policy — coming from the very top of the US government — a species of fascism.
Even after the Covid vaccine was available, I continued to see unvaccinated patients with overwhelming Covid pneumonia in the ICU, some who died.
Vaccine hesitancy is a real and complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Now they are banning NIH from studying it.
Vaccine hesitancy is a real and complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Now they are banning NIH from studying it.
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Even after the Covid vaccine was available, I continued to see unvaccinated patients with overwhelming Covid pneumonia in the ICU, some who died.
Vaccine hesitancy is a real and complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Now they are banning NIH from studying it.
Vaccine hesitancy is a real and complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
Now they are banning NIH from studying it.
Here's a key datapoint when considering the Trump administration's plan to fire 80,000 workers at the VA.
The VA is **already** more administratively lean than the private healthcare sector, with 22.5% of its workforce in administration, vs. 29.3% in private sector.
The VA is **already** more administratively lean than the private healthcare sector, with 22.5% of its workforce in administration, vs. 29.3% in private sector.
March 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Here's a key datapoint when considering the Trump administration's plan to fire 80,000 workers at the VA.
The VA is **already** more administratively lean than the private healthcare sector, with 22.5% of its workforce in administration, vs. 29.3% in private sector.
The VA is **already** more administratively lean than the private healthcare sector, with 22.5% of its workforce in administration, vs. 29.3% in private sector.
The people responsible will never have to see, with their own eyes, the suffering and deaths this will inflict.
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The people responsible will never have to see, with their own eyes, the suffering and deaths this will inflict.
You let an anti-vaccine zealot take charge of our nation’s leading health agency.
February 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
You let an anti-vaccine zealot take charge of our nation’s leading health agency.
The big ticket items on the House Budget committee's "menu" of cuts for Energy and Commerce were all from Medicaid, like reductions in ACA Medicaid funding or per capita caps.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The big ticket items on the House Budget committee's "menu" of cuts for Energy and Commerce were all from Medicaid, like reductions in ACA Medicaid funding or per capita caps.
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Trump has said he will "love and cherish" Medicaid but the just released House Budget resolution calls for enormous, $880 billion cuts from the Energy and Commerce Committee, which would seem to require giant Medicaid cuts .
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February 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Trump has said he will "love and cherish" Medicaid but the just released House Budget resolution calls for enormous, $880 billion cuts from the Energy and Commerce Committee, which would seem to require giant Medicaid cuts .
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Very believable, these people are only invested in fighting antisemitism at Harvard Medical School, they are of course not trying to quash dissent about US support for atrocities committed by the Israeli military, they only care about fighting bigotry, of course, of course.
February 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Very believable, these people are only invested in fighting antisemitism at Harvard Medical School, they are of course not trying to quash dissent about US support for atrocities committed by the Israeli military, they only care about fighting bigotry, of course, of course.
Bill Ackman plays an important role in our society: he is a testament to mankind's capacity for staggering stupidity and malicious gullibility.
February 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Bill Ackman plays an important role in our society: he is a testament to mankind's capacity for staggering stupidity and malicious gullibility.
Meanwhile, for years, there was a major push in the general
medicine / health policy community, e.g. this influential op-ed by Ezekiel Emmanuel in the New York Times, arguing that the real problem was that annual doctor visits were a waste — a form of “low value” care that should be eliminated.
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medicine / health policy community, e.g. this influential op-ed by Ezekiel Emmanuel in the New York Times, arguing that the real problem was that annual doctor visits were a waste — a form of “low value” care that should be eliminated.
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February 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Meanwhile, for years, there was a major push in the general
medicine / health policy community, e.g. this influential op-ed by Ezekiel Emmanuel in the New York Times, arguing that the real problem was that annual doctor visits were a waste — a form of “low value” care that should be eliminated.
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medicine / health policy community, e.g. this influential op-ed by Ezekiel Emmanuel in the New York Times, arguing that the real problem was that annual doctor visits were a waste — a form of “low value” care that should be eliminated.
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Make America Healthy Again by exposing people to toxic air pollution.
MAHA is nothing but smokescreen to conceal Trump’s toxic kleptocratic policy agenda.
That is the purpose of RFK Jr. and his health charade.
MAHA is nothing but smokescreen to conceal Trump’s toxic kleptocratic policy agenda.
That is the purpose of RFK Jr. and his health charade.
February 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Make America Healthy Again by exposing people to toxic air pollution.
MAHA is nothing but smokescreen to conceal Trump’s toxic kleptocratic policy agenda.
That is the purpose of RFK Jr. and his health charade.
MAHA is nothing but smokescreen to conceal Trump’s toxic kleptocratic policy agenda.
That is the purpose of RFK Jr. and his health charade.
“move the people out”
February 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
“move the people out”
From the place where I went to medical school, a contemptible betrayal of clinicians' primary duty to our patients.
February 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
From the place where I went to medical school, a contemptible betrayal of clinicians' primary duty to our patients.
CNN’s chief media analyst thinks that the US president explicitly endorsing ethnic cleansing is a time to crack a joke.
February 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
CNN’s chief media analyst thinks that the US president explicitly endorsing ethnic cleansing is a time to crack a joke.
They will make this man rich to reward him for murdering a mentally-ill person on a subway and these ghouls cannot conceal their glee.
February 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
They will make this man rich to reward him for murdering a mentally-ill person on a subway and these ghouls cannot conceal their glee.
These are extraordinary, dangerous times.
Solidarity with doctors facing repression.
Solidarity with doctors facing repression.
January 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
These are extraordinary, dangerous times.
Solidarity with doctors facing repression.
Solidarity with doctors facing repression.