Need facts about #COVID19? Want to verify that claim people keep sending you about gargling salt water? Start here 👇 snopes.com/collections/coron…

youtube.com/watch?v=i0q_Oj42… A brilliant, thoughtful takedown of RFK Jr. by Dr. Mike Varshavski.

Please take the time to read this article & please do whatever you can to vaccinate yourself if pregnant & to vaccinate your kids. "This logic, that a few kids are expendable to preventable disease in order to 'get one over' on actual experts is really grotesque."

RFK Jr’s COVID vaccine rollback will kill people—including kids. Read my latest: news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-j… Unlike RFK Jr., my citations are not only real, they are relevant and rigorous data.

RFK Jr is mandating vaccines get tested against placebo as if this is some bold new idea. The truth is we do test vaccines against placebo. But when you have a working vaccine, it is seriously ethically fucked up to continue to withhold it from kids who might otherwise die.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist

I am getting a lot of DMs from Vets about the fear of having their guns taken away if they talk about suicide, so I’d like to bring back this thread I wrote at the tail-end of the 2023 suicide season:

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘cerulean.’ ow.ly/EWP350UznN4

I love how every scientist on my feed immediately made the same joke about "I have a concept of a plan"

*sigh* npr.org/2024/07/31/nx-s1-505…

Thank you so much, automated phone service. It means a lot to hear that I am "Number. One!" 😂

If guided visualizations are your thing, this post guides you through a mindful moment in the form of a walk in the forest. I hope this helps you feel at peace 🕊️ resiliencymentalhealth.com/2…

Every time I turn on my phone from Shabbat, I hold my breath out of fear of bad news. Every time I read about a soldier killed, I hold my breath out of fear that it’s a family member or a son of a close friend. It’s selfish of me. What does it matter if I know them? But I have such deep trauma from my brother, that this is my body’s response, holding my breath. Till today, I was able to exhale. Tonight I’m not. Tonight I lost someone special. A neighbor and a close friend’s son. This kid was a special one. The entire neighborhood here is in shock. No one has any words. The family obviously knows as do the close friends. His name has not been released yet, so I won’t write it but I am just devastated. The community email just hit my inbox. I haven’t cried this hard since Ari was murdered. I want to be strong and say how important this war is and how badly we need to win at all costs but the costs are becoming unbearable. This kid’s parents are some of the best people I know in the world. They are raising a downs syndrome kid and the love they show this kid is just, no words. And now this. They lose their other son. Honestly even before I got the call from my son to tell me what had happened, I had a very bad feeling. I told a friend that I need to disconnect, that I was having a moment. And then I got the call. Tonight, I can’t exhale. The tears are flowing and honestly, I can’t take much more of this. No one can. I want to give a positive message here but honestly, I can’t. I’m all out right now. I’m devastated and heart broken. I guess all I have left in me is to ask Hashem to make it end. The suffering is too painful. Please Hashem, make it stop. Someone once told me that we lose the good ones because Hashem wants them near him. This definitely feels like the truth tonight. What a tragedy. What a loss. It’s impossible.

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There should be a page like this for psychology! (....is there?)