Catholic, PhD neuroscience, husband to a wonderful wife, loves to chat about science and history, opinions are my own

Joined February 2022
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I wonder if he thinks bleeding from your eyes and vomiting blood from Ebola is actually healthy. Mother Nature doesn’t give a crap about you. Life is an evolutionary arms race.
Measles is HEALTHY to catch, helps fight off Cancers. Mother Nature created it for a reason & we've already proven we do NOT know better, since we've screwed things up. 1:02:40 - Vaccines have compromised the innate Human Immune System that's been developing since our existence
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Siri during Senate hearing: Vaccines are the only medical product that you can sue for liability. I consider a vaccine any product that has blanket immunity. Also Siri: Here is a lawsuit against vaccines that I financially benefit from.
Deadline approaching!
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COVID lab leak conspiracy theorists get really mad when you debunk their claims.
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Calling out a scam is a crime? Only in the eyes of the scammer.
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Dan Wilson (aka Debunking the Funk) put together a long video extensively debunking the Henry Ford study dubbed by ICAN as “An Inconvenient Study” and the propaganda video of the same name. It’s a cutting critique of both the study, its purported conclusions, its framing in the video, and the many other anti vaccine talking points present in the video. And one in which its points are quite well explained for the general public. I don’t personally subscribe to some of the personal shots against vaccine skeptics and prefer to focus on the substance, but he gets the massive substantive flaws of the paper right, explains them well, and correctly characterizes them as fatal flaws that prevent the paper from answering the questions it is purported to answer, and correctly states the framing and conclusions are not at all scientifically substantiated. I agree with almost all of the statistical points he makes. I recommend anyone who has watched the video or seen ICAN or other proponents pump up this study to watch this video than accurately conveys many of its key limitations as well of many of the misleading or even fallacious arguments made in the video.
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Replying to @AaronSiriSG
The paid propagandist strikes again! It's true that some parents in the 1970s–80s reported developmental problems, including autism, after vaccination. But anecdotal reports are not evidence of causation. Many conditions, especially autism, which is typically diagnosed in early childhood, naturally become apparent around the same time vaccines are given. That timing overlap led to suspicion, not proof. The 1986 act was created (and partly written by anti-vaccine advocates!) because there were multiple lawsuits against a vaccine we no longer use (the earlier version of the DTP vaccine) and because pharma companies weren't profiting much off vaccines anyways, they threatened to stop producing them. This would have had a devastating effect so the government stepped in. Immoral paid ambulance chaser lawyers like yourself used unproven anecdotes to claim the vaccine was causing neurological harm. Later studies disproved these claims as unrelated conditions like Dravet Syndrome, severe genetic epilepsy starting in infancy (often with prolonged seizures around 6 months.) A 2006 study found that 11 of 14 children previously labeled with "DTP vaccine-induced brain damage" actually had SCN1A gene mutations causing Dravet syndrome, not vaccine-caused injury. Later research (2010 Lancet Neurology) confirmed vaccines like whole-cell DTP can trigger earlier onset of seizures in genetically predisposed kids (peak within 2 days post-vaccination), but do not cause the syndrome, worsen long-term outcomes, or increase intellectual disability. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… The Institute of Medicine did not “throw out” supportive evidence arbitrarily. It evaluated the quality of available studies. A study without an appropriate unvaccinated comparison group cannot determine whether a condition occurs more often in vaccinated versus unvaccinated children, so it cannot establish causation. Excluding such studies is standard epidemiological practice, not bias. Finding that vaccinated children develop autism tells you nothing meaningful without knowing the baseline rate in unvaccinated children! Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent 1998 paper is significant not because it invented parental concern about a possible link, but because it was the first high-profile publication to claim a causal link in a medical journal, claims that were later shown to be fraudulent and were fully RETRACTED!
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When anti-vax try to use big numbers to try to make things scary but just show their scientific illiteracy.
A single dose of the hepatitis B vaccine contains approximately 12,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules (1.2 × 10¹⁹) of aluminum hydroxide.
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Fire RFK
BREAKING: RFK Jr. gets publicly HUMILIATED as over 40 current and former CDC employees spill the beans on exactly how disastrous the agency has become under his leadership. It's so much worse than we even thought... “I’m an E.R. doc, so I handle stress pretty well. But this was like being in a mass disaster nonstop for eight months,” Debra Houry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s former chief medical officer, told The New York Times. "I’ve never seen an agency that is responsible for the health of 340 million Americans be so willy-nilly," stated Daniel Jernigan, the former center director for infectious diseases. "I don’t think it is well understood that we’re not going to see the outcomes of all of this until Trump is long gone," said Abby Tighe, a former public health adviser for overdose prevention. She's a founding member of "Fired but Fighting" an alliance of terminated CDC employees and public health advocates. According to the Times' bombshell reporting, Kennedy's tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services has been an unmitigated catastrophe for the CDC. Roughly 18% of the center's staff have been fired or have chosen to resign since January 2025. In speaking to those 40 or so former or current employees, the Times discovered that "agency scientists are being sidelined, political appointees are taking charge and a vital public health institution is being remade into a vehicle for ideologues." The ideology in question is a noxious soup of conspiracy theories and anti-vax beliefs that plays well with the MAGA base while endangering the rest of us. The Times report revealed that there are major concerns that a "century's worth of expertise is being lost" as Kennedy guts the agency. One unnamed material HIV specialist revealed that CDC staff stopped putting their work in writing because they were worried that DOGE was spying on them and began leaving their laptops in their garages because they thought that they were being used to record them. A profound strain of paranoia has wormed its way into the organization, deeply damaging the staff's ability to perform their crucial duties. Under RFK's leadership, the political appointee responsible for the CDC's public communications slashed away the “stringent scientific process" used to vet information for the CDC's website. The information is no longer closely checked and double-checked, raising the specter that blatant misinformation could be slipping through. “For political appointees to take over the means of communication is devastating, and also dangerous. Now, some things are correct and some are not, which means that you can’t trust any of it," stated Susan A. Wang, a former senior medical adviser in the global immunization division. "We would have divisionwide meetings and centerwide meetings," added Wang. "And the staff would ask a series of questions. But none of our managers or leaders could get answers. It was like being in 'The Wizard of Oz' and discovering that there is no man behind the curtain." Of course, some Republicans still insist that Kennedy is doing his best to make the agency more efficient and reliable. They somehow still think that his "Make America Healthy Again" movement is a well-intentioned endeavor rather than an exercise in cynical branding. Kennedy revealed himself as a total fraud when he backtracked on his years-long opposition to the herbicide ingredient glyphosate after Trump signed an order to boost its production. He threw out his supposed principles in service of power, proving that doesn't truly believe in anything. In that context, his anti-vax efforts should be seen as nothing more than an effort to pander to brainwashed Trump supporters. "It’s not a coincidence that the high number of measles cases and the fact that we may lose our measles-elimination status coincide with the first year that a leader of the anti-vaccine movement has been overseeing the nation’s health agencies," said Fiona Havers, former medical epidemiologist in the respiratory viruses division. "They’re out there talking about the often spurious harms of vaccines while saying nothing at all about the very real dangers of the diseases that vaccines prevent." Please ❤️ and share to demand that RFK be fired immediately!
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Ridley ignores the fact that there are beta coronaviruses that have a single virus in their subgenus with a furin cleavage site. Hibecovirus and Sarbecovirus. Just having one virus with one in a subgenus is not unusual. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Even quite intelligent and well informed scientists repeated this line. Plenty of coronaviruses have furin cleavage sites. No sarbecovirus has one out of many hundred. Except sars cov 2. Why don’t people think before they tweet?
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Matthew D retweeted
We were told NIH funding cuts were about eliminating DEI. But the data now shows grants are down across nearly every field of medicine: cancer, diabetes, mental health, brain disorders. With the greatest cuts hitting Alzheimer’s research, down more than 50%.
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Woah. This is a bleak outlook. Excellent analysis by @Jori_health shows the NIH grants being hit hardest are the very ones designed to bring new scientists into the system - small R, R21s, and K awards. Dismantling the system one generation at a time.
The cuts aren’t random. They’re targeting on-ramps. When we zoom into 2026 funding decline by mechanism, the deepest cuts land on new ideas entering the system: ▪️Small R (R03 / R15) ↓81% ▪️R21 exploratory grants ↓73% ▪️Other high-variance mechanisms ↓70% If you want to stall science, this is exactly how. Meanwhile, among other news: ▪️R01s ↓47% ▪️R37 MERIT ↓40% In other words, the earliest-stage bets are being starved first. When the on-ramps close, the damage shows up later: ↓ pilot data ↓ resubmissions that mature into R01s ↓ new labs surviving their early years ↓ shared cores that support entire departments ↓ discoveries that ever reach trials So much remains unanswered. This week we’re digging deeper: -which disease areas rely most on these mechanisms -which institutions are most exposed -where the first downstream breaks appear (trials, screening, imaging, prevention, survivorship) If you run a lab, grants office, or cancer center, tell us what cut you want. Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health
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Replying to @DrJBhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay Care to explain this? This is on you. Now you are temporarily head of CDC. Why half-ass one institution when you can quarter-ass two institutions. Be better. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

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Liver for you; $300 rack of ribs for him (on your dime, of course)!
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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Replying to @SenBillCassidy
@SenBillCassidy Are you going to let this slide? A person who ignores scientific evidence and collaborates with Paul Thomas, a anti-vax grifters.
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The Means siblings were on a podcast with Tucker Carlson where they pushed huge amounts of conspiracy theories about medical science and vaccines. This is what Means had to say about hepatitis B vaccines.
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Means also recommends other anti-vaccine books in her newsletter.
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