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 […]
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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.
Politicians say they care about people being harmed by drugs, but drop the life-saving Narcan program.
Whenever a politician mentions fentanyl they should be asked about the Narcan program.
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.
Cancer treatment books shouldn’t be written with a chatbot.
This shouldn’t even have to be said.
Reinstating military personnel who refused orders to get vaccinated for the health of their mission.
There’s something really Orwellian about referring to these ex-soldiers “people of conscience” for refusing vaccination in the middle of a surging pandemic.
Pope Leo XIV throws down the gauntlet against AI hype.
At his first “working meeting”, the pope outlined his priorities to include defending “human dignity” against the threat of AI, citing the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution.
Don’t take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 023
Don’t take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi.
The failed politics of “centrist” corrupt clientelism has infiltrated and corrupted public health and we need to put a stop to this nonsense all around.
Vaccination is far safer than getting covid unvaccinated.
Trump’s FDA full of covid deniers are fear mongering to dissuade people from vaccination possibly because of eugenics ideology aims.
A misconception about the “evolution” of the pandemic is ignoring survivorship bias.
A problematic misconception is that people inappropriately assert that covid isn’t severe anymore (wrong) and it’s because of “immunity” – either because someone suggests natural immunity or indeed vaccine immunity
Workers wearing masks while working with food just makes sense, think about it.
I think everyone who works with food ought to be wearing a mask just like they wear hairnets.
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.
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.
Peddling false cures is nothing new.
It’s perhaps not surprising that a lot of bogus and iffy claims get repurposed for various diseases, including Long Covid.
People who care about public health: stay focused on fundamentals regarding vaccines.
And definitely nobody should be getting medical information from media interviews with RFKJr either because he’s not even a doctor and says stuff he’s pulling out of the air, or somewhere else.
NIOSH certification of N95 masks will shut down in June if Trump admin actions are not reversed at HHS.
This will have ramifications for workers in various fields and the general public.
Average people are not aware of what right wing media people tell their audiences.
The lies being told on social media, where most people get their news, as well as on right-wing news sources, radio shows, cable tv, and youtube, are beyond what most sensible people can fathom.
When government uses “anxiety” as an excuse to not deal with a problem, the term for this is Political Abuse of Psychiatry.
Some in the government used shaming “fear” of sickness and death to try to keep people engaged with the economy despite the threats of covid, and now the Trump administration is using “climate anxiety” to justify stopping research on climate, in order to attempt to hide the public health effects that would come from environmental damage.