Charles Correia Lawrence
@charleslawrence.bsky.social
A believer in Science Based Medicine, The Scientific Method, Natural and Social Science. The King James Bible is my go to!
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Potentially spicy take but the basics of the philosophy of science (i.e., the epistemology) should be a mandatory part of education because people don’t understand the weight of terms like “scientific consensus.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Potentially spicy take but the basics of the philosophy of science (i.e., the epistemology) should be a mandatory part of education because people don’t understand the weight of terms like “scientific consensus.”
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One more post re: Vaccines and Autism-gate.
CDC's webpages are a mixed bag. Some are maintained by programs -- people who follow science and evidence are updating.
But political cronies seem able to alter them without approvals.
So: check them against other reputable sources.
CDC's webpages are a mixed bag. Some are maintained by programs -- people who follow science and evidence are updating.
But political cronies seem able to alter them without approvals.
So: check them against other reputable sources.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
One more post re: Vaccines and Autism-gate.
CDC's webpages are a mixed bag. Some are maintained by programs -- people who follow science and evidence are updating.
But political cronies seem able to alter them without approvals.
So: check them against other reputable sources.
CDC's webpages are a mixed bag. Some are maintained by programs -- people who follow science and evidence are updating.
But political cronies seem able to alter them without approvals.
So: check them against other reputable sources.
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I saw film in early 2024 that made clear that RFK Jr‘s longterm goal was end of vaccination, didn’t guess then he’d get power to try to do that, step by step, since doing it in one fell swoop is hard.
bsky.app/profile/john...
bsky.app/profile/john...
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
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I saw film in early 2024 that made clear that RFK Jr‘s longterm goal was end of vaccination, didn’t guess then he’d get power to try to do that, step by step, since doing it in one fell swoop is hard.
bsky.app/profile/john...
bsky.app/profile/john...
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No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
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Thanks for this thorough and substantive rebuttal. As a data scientist, suggest citing "hazard ratio" rather than "rate": "Children who received MMR vaccine had an autism [hazard ratio] of 0.93 compared to unvaccinated children" and "autism [hazard ratio] was 0.93 per milligram of aluminum".
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thanks for this thorough and substantive rebuttal. As a data scientist, suggest citing "hazard ratio" rather than "rate": "Children who received MMR vaccine had an autism [hazard ratio] of 0.93 compared to unvaccinated children" and "autism [hazard ratio] was 0.93 per milligram of aluminum".
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I discuss the evidence on both sides here: jakescottmd.substack.com/p/the-cdc-re...
The CDC Rewrites Its Guidance on Vaccines and Autism
On November 19, 2025, the agency altered decades of clear messaging, but the evidence hasn't changed.
jakescottmd.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I discuss the evidence on both sides here: jakescottmd.substack.com/p/the-cdc-re...
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Not your level of education nor social status. Black women in the U.S have 4-5x higher maternal mortality compared to any other racial group. The systemic bias &racism baked into the system ensures that this dark trend continues. As health professionals we must continue to call this out & do better
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Not your level of education nor social status. Black women in the U.S have 4-5x higher maternal mortality compared to any other racial group. The systemic bias &racism baked into the system ensures that this dark trend continues. As health professionals we must continue to call this out & do better
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That the fossil fuel industry needs to hijack a TV show and have Billy Bob Thornton slur through garbage boomer Facebook-post decades-old wind farm disinfo is a marker of deep-set systemic corporate anxiety, not of confidence.
@markgongloff.bsky.social -->>
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@markgongloff.bsky.social -->>
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
That the fossil fuel industry needs to hijack a TV show and have Billy Bob Thornton slur through garbage boomer Facebook-post decades-old wind farm disinfo is a marker of deep-set systemic corporate anxiety, not of confidence.
@markgongloff.bsky.social -->>
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
@markgongloff.bsky.social -->>
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination
Another confirmation: like many pathogens, the inflammation required to clear SC2, can put strains on heard and vasculature
www.nature.com/artic...
1/10
Another confirmation: like many pathogens, the inflammation required to clear SC2, can put strains on heard and vasculature
www.nature.com/artic...
1/10
Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination
Nature Communications - Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. Here, the authors investigate...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination
Another confirmation: like many pathogens, the inflammation required to clear SC2, can put strains on heard and vasculature
www.nature.com/artic...
1/10
Another confirmation: like many pathogens, the inflammation required to clear SC2, can put strains on heard and vasculature
www.nature.com/artic...
1/10
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JAMA study: NIH grant terminations disrupted 3.5% of active clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 patients and resulting in a $1.81 billion funding loss. More than 115 active cancer trials were disrupted. www.ajmc.com/view/nih-gra...
NIH Grant Terminations Disrupt 1 in 30 Clinical Trials, Impacting Over 74,000 Participants | AJMC
Infectious disease was hit hardest by funding cuts to NIH grant for clinical trials that did not align with the Trump administration's priorities.
www.ajmc.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
JAMA study: NIH grant terminations disrupted 3.5% of active clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 patients and resulting in a $1.81 billion funding loss. More than 115 active cancer trials were disrupted. www.ajmc.com/view/nih-gra...
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I've got a bad feeling about the upcoming flu season, given the fact that there are a bunch of subtypes at this party with the potential to wreak varying amounts of havoc. So I broke it all down here.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
The Real Subtypes of the 2025 Flu Season
Have you ever been to a party where you sensed the messiness before it happened?
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I've got a bad feeling about the upcoming flu season, given the fact that there are a bunch of subtypes at this party with the potential to wreak varying amounts of havoc. So I broke it all down here.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Today, there are a huge number of BAD observational studies coming out because of the predatory publishing industry.
Basic demographics aren’t even corrected for.
Major factors of a health outcome, like age & cancer, or age & neurodegenerative disease —aren’t adjusted for.
6/
Basic demographics aren’t even corrected for.
Major factors of a health outcome, like age & cancer, or age & neurodegenerative disease —aren’t adjusted for.
6/
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Today, there are a huge number of BAD observational studies coming out because of the predatory publishing industry.
Basic demographics aren’t even corrected for.
Major factors of a health outcome, like age & cancer, or age & neurodegenerative disease —aren’t adjusted for.
6/
Basic demographics aren’t even corrected for.
Major factors of a health outcome, like age & cancer, or age & neurodegenerative disease —aren’t adjusted for.
6/
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OBSERVATIONAL studies do this as a rule.
They don’t control for variables.
They look at data & make guesses about what might be related to each other.
But they *cannot*, by definition, make claims that one causes the other.
Because it’s just passively observing.
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They don’t control for variables.
They look at data & make guesses about what might be related to each other.
But they *cannot*, by definition, make claims that one causes the other.
Because it’s just passively observing.
3/
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
OBSERVATIONAL studies do this as a rule.
They don’t control for variables.
They look at data & make guesses about what might be related to each other.
But they *cannot*, by definition, make claims that one causes the other.
Because it’s just passively observing.
3/
They don’t control for variables.
They look at data & make guesses about what might be related to each other.
But they *cannot*, by definition, make claims that one causes the other.
Because it’s just passively observing.
3/
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You’re absolutely right, Calley.
So, by your logic:
Organic food causes autism.
(That includes the organic supplements you sell as a wellness profiteer)
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So, by your logic:
Organic food causes autism.
(That includes the organic supplements you sell as a wellness profiteer)
1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You’re absolutely right, Calley.
So, by your logic:
Organic food causes autism.
(That includes the organic supplements you sell as a wellness profiteer)
1/
So, by your logic:
Organic food causes autism.
(That includes the organic supplements you sell as a wellness profiteer)
1/
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This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.
This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.
Abortion is healthcare.
How many more women have to die?
🧪
This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.
Abortion is healthcare.
How many more women have to die?
🧪
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.
This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.
Abortion is healthcare.
How many more women have to die?
🧪
This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.
Abortion is healthcare.
How many more women have to die?
🧪
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This is bananas & has been accomplished entirely via propaganda turbocharged by negative polarization.
A majority of U.S. adults (59%) say they don’t want to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. This is roughly identical to the share who said in October 2024 that they probably wouldn’t get the updated vaccine.
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is bananas & has been accomplished entirely via propaganda turbocharged by negative polarization.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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“The draft was never considered for submission to journals because it did not remotely come close to meeting the rigorous scientific standards the system demands.”
Statement from @henryfordhealth.bsky.social on the unpublished vaccine study
www.henryford.com/news/2025/09...
Statement from @henryfordhealth.bsky.social on the unpublished vaccine study
www.henryford.com/news/2025/09...
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“The draft was never considered for submission to journals because it did not remotely come close to meeting the rigorous scientific standards the system demands.”
Statement from @henryfordhealth.bsky.social on the unpublished vaccine study
www.henryford.com/news/2025/09...
Statement from @henryfordhealth.bsky.social on the unpublished vaccine study
www.henryford.com/news/2025/09...
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This is false.
Based on extensive scientific evidence and comprehensive reviews by health authorities, vaccines do not cause autism.
Based on extensive scientific evidence and comprehensive reviews by health authorities, vaccines do not cause autism.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is false.
Based on extensive scientific evidence and comprehensive reviews by health authorities, vaccines do not cause autism.
Based on extensive scientific evidence and comprehensive reviews by health authorities, vaccines do not cause autism.
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Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
“Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website.
So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:
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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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They need to show the evidence they do believe shows an association between vaccines and autism. I can guarantee that they’re flawed (and many have been retracted because of flaws and sometimes outright fraud).
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They need to show the evidence they do believe shows an association between vaccines and autism. I can guarantee that they’re flawed (and many have been retracted because of flaws and sometimes outright fraud).
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.