Benjamin Mazer
@mazer.us
Doctor, pathologist, and medical journalist. This is a personal account.
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Who could argue with RFK Jr’s slam dunk evidence of supplemental figure 4.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Who could argue with RFK Jr’s slam dunk evidence of supplemental figure 4.
I'm sure Senator Cassidy is very satisfied that his agreement with RFK Jr is being executed in good faith.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm sure Senator Cassidy is very satisfied that his agreement with RFK Jr is being executed in good faith.
She is almost certainly going to win her inevitable lawsuit. When an HHS official calls you a "radical leftist," it's pretty clear you're being punished for political speech.
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
She is almost certainly going to win her inevitable lawsuit. When an HHS official calls you a "radical leftist," it's pretty clear you're being punished for political speech.
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
I’m starting to think that his MAHA movement might be anti-vax.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I’m starting to think that his MAHA movement might be anti-vax.
Just a regular reminder that our top health leaders, including the heads of the NIH and CDC, have been absorbing an online stream of insane pseudoscience and conspiracy theories for years.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Just a regular reminder that our top health leaders, including the heads of the NIH and CDC, have been absorbing an online stream of insane pseudoscience and conspiracy theories for years.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
My contrarian take: giving obese people GLP1s is better than giving them a steak.
Meanwhile, the former Surgeon General is off doing his guru schtick. I actually don’t think it’s my job as a doctor to tip the world’s scales from fear to love.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Meanwhile, the former Surgeon General is off doing his guru schtick. I actually don’t think it’s my job as a doctor to tip the world’s scales from fear to love.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
MAHA has self-righteously taken up the cause of Americans’ poor health. It’s purely a political movement though.
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
October 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
MAHA has self-righteously taken up the cause of Americans’ poor health. It’s purely a political movement though.
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Chronic diseases, obesity, etc. matter. But you won’t hear about the inconvenient causes of our life expectancy gap:
guns, cars, drugs, and infections
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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.
But like everything else, Kennedy will ask you not to believe your own eyes and ears.
October 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
But like everything else, Kennedy will ask you not to believe your own eyes and ears.
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.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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.
So who is to blame for the ongoing decline in trust of our public health infrastructure? The data speaks for itself.
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.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
October 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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.
I take the bold position that not every single doctor on earth is paid off by Big Pharma.
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.
September 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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.
Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱
September 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yeah it would be pretty weird to take a medication you don't need just for political reasons. 🐴🪱
So are we still pretending to do this whole conflicts of interest are a problem thing?
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
So are we still pretending to do this whole conflicts of interest are a problem thing?
Wow, individual case reports AND mechanistic data?! Christmas came early.
September 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Wow, individual case reports AND mechanistic data?! Christmas came early.
My theory of medical evidence is simple: observational studies for me, RCTs for you.
September 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My theory of medical evidence is simple: observational studies for me, RCTs for you.
Amazing quote. Jay Bhattacharya, the self-proclaimed King of Dissent, is “obligated” not to criticize the government now that he is in power himself.
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Amazing quote. Jay Bhattacharya, the self-proclaimed King of Dissent, is “obligated” not to criticize the government now that he is in power himself.
A vaccine myocarditis researcher at ACIP is now complaining that his research grant was abruptly canceled last spring. Ironic!
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A vaccine myocarditis researcher at ACIP is now complaining that his research grant was abruptly canceled last spring. Ironic!
ACIP is now pushing the Covid vaccine "turbo cancer" conspiracy using small case reports. Both cancer and vaccination are common. Can you spot the problem?
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ACIP is now pushing the Covid vaccine "turbo cancer" conspiracy using small case reports. Both cancer and vaccination are common. Can you spot the problem?
CDC is defending their COVID hospitalization numbers at the ACIP meeting. They used multiple methodologies to look at whether hospitalizations were "with" or "for" COVID and find most hospitalizations are being categorized correctly.
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
CDC is defending their COVID hospitalization numbers at the ACIP meeting. They used multiple methodologies to look at whether hospitalizations were "with" or "for" COVID and find most hospitalizations are being categorized correctly.
RFK Jr “won’t take sides” on 9/11. He also equates the tragedy to a government coverup of UFOs.
September 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
RFK Jr “won’t take sides” on 9/11. He also equates the tragedy to a government coverup of UFOs.
Somehow the "natural remedy" and "holistic medicine" people always seem to end up on a bunch of drugs and supplements.
www.thecut.com/article/peop...
www.thecut.com/article/peop...
September 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Somehow the "natural remedy" and "holistic medicine" people always seem to end up on a bunch of drugs and supplements.
www.thecut.com/article/peop...
www.thecut.com/article/peop...
Current CDC director implying an ivermectin coverup conspiracy. Among other bullshit.
(Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid. These guys are kooks.)
(Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid. These guys are kooks.)
September 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Current CDC director implying an ivermectin coverup conspiracy. Among other bullshit.
(Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid. These guys are kooks.)
(Ivermectin doesn’t work for Covid. These guys are kooks.)