I’m just a boy standing in front of the world asking people who have already won the @npr.org Sunday Puzzle to stop entering and give the rest of us a chance at that lapel pin.
It’s always satisfying to poke an abscess was with a lancet.
Group photo of doctors more qualified than Casey Means to be Surgeon General
just read a story about a little boy in SC who just learned to ride a bike but he was unvaxxed and got measles and got really sick and got a spinal tap and then pumped with medicines and then his brain swelled anyway and now he won't ever walk or eat on his own and he definitely won't ride a bike
Whoa! I am assuming that was not in Iowa.
One of the things frustrating me most about reading about the decline in trust for public health and medicine institutions is that most of the things cited are principally evidence of how effective propaganda has been in getting people to embrace a fabricated history of events that incriminate...
"Harsher scrutiny." This isn't that.
I'm thinking of a word that means scrutiny.
It is something that Prasad and the FDA is refusing to do with the trial data.
It starts with R, has 2 syllables, and rhymes with Detoo.
It’s surprising to me, honestly. It’s a big swing that the governor didn’t have as a goal in her address. We just have way too many antivax and anti science representatives.
Iowa's HF2171, a bill to end all vaccine requirements for K-12 students, has passed a subcommittee & committee. It's now eligible for debate in the Iowa House. My friend Dr. Nathan Boonstra @pedsgeekmd.bsky.social is quoted in this piece on why vaccines are vital 🧪
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In which I warn
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Oh great, I’ve been doing this for so long that I already have memes for this.
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Iowans, heads up. Here we go again. Are you ready to see diseases gone for decades come roaring back? Because the MAGA party of this state is ready to make that happen. The science denial and anti-science factions in this country are stronger than ever and we're going to suffer for it.
This is the best
Rest in peace, Decorah native Dr. Bill Foege, a legend who was instrumental in eradicating smallpox in the 70s, & CDC director in ‘77-‘88. I had the pleasure of meeting him in 2013. Put his book “House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox” on your list.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the initial approval of the HPV vaccine, and January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Sadly, 2026 is going to be a year of disinformation about the HPV vaccine.
If yes, I will write it presently.
Can we get Gerard Butler to read my script for "ACIP Has Fallen"
It’s a good day for a fajita bowl with American Families for Vaccines Red Habanero Hot Sauce. @familiesforvaccines.org
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
You can complain if you want, but
i'm afraid my condition has left me cold to your pleas of mercy
Good morning, friends. But an especially good morning to all those hearty, courageous, incredible Minnesotans who are out in this scarily frigid weather to stand up for their communities.
Great, so not only is measles going to become endemic again in the US, we are apparently going to single handedly save polio (down to single digits of cases most years) from global eradication.
It also looks like they are out in the cold on a dreary windy day and only there for photos and none of them look happy, so pretty much all parents fear this.
Guys they gave pronouns to, um, He… Man.
Look the guy gets his flu shot every year and gets a medical condition less than a year from a flu shot and you call that coincidence?
Also willing to bet his retelling of the chronology is… massaged at best
I love how I spent hours upon hours in med school neurology learning how to localize brain lesions based on things like symptoms and nerves involved, and grifter docs just get on a mic and pretend any kind of paralysis was polio.
I remember!
