Ginger Smith
@gingerms.bsky.social
Postbac fellow | neuroglia 🌟 | future PhD student 🤞🏻🧠 | uva alum
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RFK Jr. admits he instructed the CDC to alter its website to hint at a vaccine–autism link. That’s an extraordinary breach of scientific norms. This is not how evidence-based public health works, and it’s not “gold standard” anything.
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
RFK Jr. admits he instructed the CDC to alter its website to hint at a vaccine–autism link. That’s an extraordinary breach of scientific norms. This is not how evidence-based public health works, and it’s not “gold standard” anything.
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How the CDC was destroyed from the publication of a fraudulent page.
open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
The CDC’s Autism Page Shows Something Is Very Wrong Inside the Agency
Something is deeply broken inside the CDC, and the agency’s newly revised autism and vaccine page is the clearest evidence yet.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
How the CDC was destroyed from the publication of a fraudulent page.
open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
open.substack.com/pub/drrubin/...
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I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
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Y’all are cutting HBCU funding, dismantling civil rights offices, slashing Medicaid and SNAP, over-policing Black communities—yet want us to believe you’re helping poor Black people?
September 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Y’all are cutting HBCU funding, dismantling civil rights offices, slashing Medicaid and SNAP, over-policing Black communities—yet want us to believe you’re helping poor Black people?
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This New Yorker cover sort of sums it up
July 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This New Yorker cover sort of sums it up
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I received this from a wide range of sources.
HHS-wide memo entitled "DEI whistle-blower questionnaire" looking for those who have been harmed by DEI policies.
I guess they are trying to build their case about why DEI policies are harmful since they have repeated claimed that they are...
HHS-wide memo entitled "DEI whistle-blower questionnaire" looking for those who have been harmed by DEI policies.
I guess they are trying to build their case about why DEI policies are harmful since they have repeated claimed that they are...
July 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I received this from a wide range of sources.
HHS-wide memo entitled "DEI whistle-blower questionnaire" looking for those who have been harmed by DEI policies.
I guess they are trying to build their case about why DEI policies are harmful since they have repeated claimed that they are...
HHS-wide memo entitled "DEI whistle-blower questionnaire" looking for those who have been harmed by DEI policies.
I guess they are trying to build their case about why DEI policies are harmful since they have repeated claimed that they are...
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Are we great yet?
July 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Are we great yet?
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Keith says what we are thinking.
July 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Keith says what we are thinking.
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya used sickle cell disease research as an example of something he would not call DEI and cut. It's being cut.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
July 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya used sickle cell disease research as an example of something he would not call DEI and cut. It's being cut.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...
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8/ And, as someone who oversees #StructuralRacism research, I can tell you that every👏 single 👏 study 👏 in my portfolio that addressed structural racism was both rigorous and set up with testable hypotheses. And every single one was terminated.
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
8/ And, as someone who oversees #StructuralRacism research, I can tell you that every👏 single 👏 study 👏 in my portfolio that addressed structural racism was both rigorous and set up with testable hypotheses. And every single one was terminated.
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6/ Jay made similar claims at the #NIH town hall: that research on redlining could be rigorous but research on #structuralracism is not, as if structural racism research doesn’t operationalized the concept via measurable components like redlining.
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
6/ Jay made similar claims at the #NIH town hall: that research on redlining could be rigorous but research on #structuralracism is not, as if structural racism research doesn’t operationalized the concept via measurable components like redlining.
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4/ He calls for a program to ensure grants go to researchers across the country (not just on the coasts), acknowledging the importance of having different perspectives in science. But he fails to realize the program he describes IS #DEI, & a similar program exists www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/DRC...
Institutional Development Award | National Institute of General Medical Sciences
www.nigms.nih.gov
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
4/ He calls for a program to ensure grants go to researchers across the country (not just on the coasts), acknowledging the importance of having different perspectives in science. But he fails to realize the program he describes IS #DEI, & a similar program exists www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/DRC...
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3/ Jay either does not understand or willfully mischaracterizes #DEI programs at #NIH. He describes them as only focusing on race, which is simply not true. See the (sadly now rescinded) Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-18-210: RESCINDED - Updated Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: RESCINDED - Updated Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity NOT-OD-18-210. NIH
grants.nih.gov
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
3/ Jay either does not understand or willfully mischaracterizes #DEI programs at #NIH. He describes them as only focusing on race, which is simply not true. See the (sadly now rescinded) Notice of NIH's Interest in Diversity: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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2/ I was disturbed to hear Jay take credit for (or propose as new) things that existed at #NIH well before he got there. Example: he claimed that he set up an appeals process for terminated grants. That process has existed for a looong time - we’ve just never needed to use it as such a huge scale.
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
2/ I was disturbed to hear Jay take credit for (or propose as new) things that existed at #NIH well before he got there. Example: he claimed that he set up an appeals process for terminated grants. That process has existed for a looong time - we’ve just never needed to use it as such a huge scale.
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I finally made it through this @hubermanlab.com podcast with Jay Bhattacharya. It took a while because it’s 4(!!) hours long and I had to take multiple breaks for deep breathing. (Not gonna lie, I played it at 1.25 speed.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Some reactions… 🧵 1/8
Some reactions… 🧵 1/8
Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Podcast Episode · Huberman Lab · 06/09/2025 · 4h 27m
podcasts.apple.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I finally made it through this @hubermanlab.com podcast with Jay Bhattacharya. It took a while because it’s 4(!!) hours long and I had to take multiple breaks for deep breathing. (Not gonna lie, I played it at 1.25 speed.) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
Some reactions… 🧵 1/8
Some reactions… 🧵 1/8
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Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
July 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
This is Washington at its worst.
We need to ban Congressional stock trading.
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Under-appreciated point. I was talking with a friend last week who watches TV news, is active on social media & considers herself politically aware, but had no idea her Medi-Cal coverage is in fact California’s Medicaid.
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Under-appreciated point. I was talking with a friend last week who watches TV news, is active on social media & considers herself politically aware, but had no idea her Medi-Cal coverage is in fact California’s Medicaid.
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Never bet against the Republicans' willingness to sell out after spending weeks feigning concern. It's all an act. They're all self-serving cowards who will put party over country every single time.
June 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Never bet against the Republicans' willingness to sell out after spending weeks feigning concern. It's all an act. They're all self-serving cowards who will put party over country every single time.
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if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here
The most horrific person you can think of (my guess: Ken Cuccinelli) is going to be named as the next president of the University of Virginia, and they will not be prepared for what Charlottesville is like after August 2017. They will not be able to eat in a restaurant or appear in public.
Cville: 3pm today, at the Rotunda. you don’t have to love Jim Ryan, I sure don’t, but Trump’s DOJ forcing his replacement by Youngkin would be an absolute disaster for anyone affiliated with UVA, and honestly for our region at large.
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
if ken cuccinelli is appointed president of UVA all hell will break loose here
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“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”
That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”
That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
June 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”
That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”
That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.
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“The Justice Department has contended to the university that the president, James E. Ryan, has not dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs and misrepresented the steps taken to end them.”
June 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“The Justice Department has contended to the university that the president, James E. Ryan, has not dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs and misrepresented the steps taken to end them.”
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This is very, very bad. For UVA. For public higher education everywhere in the US. And for the nation as a whole. Taking charge of higher ed (then gutting it) is a classic authoritarian & fascist move. via @laprofmme.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is very, very bad. For UVA. For public higher education everywhere in the US. And for the nation as a whole. Taking charge of higher ed (then gutting it) is a classic authoritarian & fascist move. via @laprofmme.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
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Choosing this headline and framing and photo gives the impression that the University of Virginia President is behaving scandalously, not the Trump administration. Hard to conclude that's not what the New York Times believes when they (someone! - who?) make those three decisions!
University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Choosing this headline and framing and photo gives the impression that the University of Virginia President is behaving scandalously, not the Trump administration. Hard to conclude that's not what the New York Times believes when they (someone! - who?) make those three decisions!