And I quoted this in my CDC ACIP public comment.
Tag: disinformation
I don’t trust Paul Offit.
I wouldn’t recommend looking to Paul Offit for leadership on vaccines, because what the Trump administration is doing he was lobbying for in the Biden administration all along. This is from a thread I posted on social media after becoming concerned that people might think this is the guy to lead up championing vaccine access. If you […]
Shadowbanning is happening and communities are definitely messed with on social media.
This is not just about shitposting. Do not rely on one platform for communicating with people who you would like to stay in touch with. Will Sam Altman and His AI Kill Us All? The Bulwark May 23, 2025 Karen Hao: “she consistently felt like she was being shadowbanned and when I talked with um researchers […]
AI is shoddy, and it’s used as a shadowbanning assist.
I decided to read this book “Empire of AI” after an interview with the author Karen Hao on the Better Offline podcast, which covers the technical and financial no there there of AI. And in this interview by Tim Miller at the Bulwark with Karen Hao, they talk about environmental impacts, but I think this […]
Free market capitalist Republicans… oh wait – they want to deny your choice of dental health too.
I hope everybody understands now that this was never about choice.
Wow. FDA VRBPAC meeting public comments. Not great. More people need to step up.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 024
Anti-vax bullshit is the same old hat.
There was the same anti-vax propaganda spreading last century. It was overcome. Don’t wait for everybody before speaking up. Chloe Humbert Aug 08, 2023 The polio campaign in the U.S. was successful because of a concerted effort to do a door to door campaign that started before the vaccine was even available. The idea that […]
RFKJr connected anti-vaxxers have been profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak.
WIRED – By David Gilbert Apr 17, 2025 11:35 AM Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health […]
Pseudoscience eugenics conspiracy theory is what’s driving the push to keep vaccines from American children.
I really hope people voice support and interest in vaccines for children specifically to elected representatives and to the FDA VRBPAC in public comment.
RFKJr called chronic illness “injuries” to invoke what has become a conspiracy anti-vax right-wing buzzword term.
David Pakman played a clip of RFKJr making inappropriate statements as usual, and noted the word “injury” being used being odd, but didn’t spell out why he used that word, when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention anti-vax misinformation and the online milieu of anti-vax activists.
Conspiracy theories about immigrant truck drivers based on the MCMIS database similar to VAERS database anti-vax conspiracy fictions.
This story is about a right-wing conspiracy about CDLs based on misinterpreting things on the MCMIS database. and it really reminds me of how anti-vax conspiracy fictions use the VAERS database to mix up data that doesn’t show anything like what they say.
Cancer treatment books shouldn’t be written with a chatbot.
This shouldn’t even have to be said.
Signs it’s a scam.
“Don’t respond to unexpected calls, emails, texts, or social media messages that ask for money or personal information.”
Tech tycoon guru Curtis Yarvin repeats false conspiracy fiction covid denial at Harvard event.
Curtis Yarvin in the past has advocated for using covid style “lockdowns” in order to institute a forcible regime change to make America a monarchy.
Don’t take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 023
This David Grier person belongs nowhere near the health records of anyone.
The data mining that RFKJr wants to do with the health insurance records of Americans is going to go to a guy who chemically castrated autistic children and called it treatment.
More people marked dead in the Social Security system by doge than previously known.
How are we supposed to even know if we were marked dead by DOGE in Social Security if we’re not yet receiving Social Security?
The covid dot gov website url leads to some kind of lab leak truther propaganda.
Hopefully once and for all people will understand that lab leak trutherism is far right-wing covid contrarianism, and stop letting red-pilled horseshoe lefties push that propaganda in disabled and public health advocacy spaces.
Bonkers quack anti-vax conspiracy social media research pseudoscience stuff floated as legislation.
Politics controls governance. Governance influences every aspect of life, including healthcare. And the crackpot opposition is crowding out the legitimate reasonable experts enough to get bills introduced that are poo circus nonsense.
Scare tactics in online ads.
Online marketing is a mess. I’ve been seeing a lot of scammy commercials online.
No, half of Americans are not actually so attached to Donald Trump.
Stop repeating MAGA troll propaganda that’s not true about half of Americans as hopped up Trumpies. Think of all the toddlers who don’t follow politics – they’re Americans too! I was listening to Conspirituality Podcast from very recently about Curtis Yarvin, and they ended the episode saying something that’s absolutely not true, and is actually […]