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Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka

Professor, @OHSU, CSO, Najit Technologies, Inc. Interests: infectious disease, immunology, vaccines. Open to new ideas, not a fan of dogma. Opinions are my own

Joined February 2020
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Dr. Mark Slifka@MarkSlifka
12 Jul 2023
We thank the editors @NatureComms for featuring our paper, "Campylobacter vaccination reduces diarrheal disease and infant growth stunting among rhesus macaques" on Editors’ Highlights, showcasing the 50 top papers in “Microbiology and infectious diseases” nature.com/ncomms/editorshig…

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E. John Wherry@EJohnWherry
8 Jul 2025
Check out this article: cnn.com/2025/07/08/health/na…

World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN

The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded...

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What is the NIH worth to you and your state? Check out this link to find out unitedformedicalresearch.org…

NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research

Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.

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Two birds with one stone: Keep up with vaccinations and reduce risk of Alzheimer's: thebrighterside.news/health/…

Breakthrough study links vaccines to reduced Alzheimer’s risk

New study finds that certain adult vaccines may significantly reduce your chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

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Gotta keep science, based on science. Multiple peer-reviewed studies performed in multiple countries examining >10 million children prove there is no link between vaccines and autism. The answer is clear
Amesh Adalja@AmeshAA
30 Jan 2025
“RFK Jr.’s performance did not appear to assure Cassidy, who laid out a possible rationale for rejecting the nominee’s confirmation” statnews.com/2025/01/30/rfk-…
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some shocking stats and important information here
Paul Offit
@DrPaulOffit
28 Jan 2025
RFK Jr. rejects the germ theory of infectious diseases.
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For some pathogens to break through, the country’s immunization rates may need to slip quite a bit. But for others, the gap between no outbreak and outbreak is uncomfortably small, @katherinejwu reports: theatlantic.com/health/archi…

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

At first, much the same. But inevitably, dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them.

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Good point - helps cut through the nonsense
Andrea C. Love, PhD@dr_andrealove
4 Dec 2024
New rule: ANYONE that uses the word toxic about a substance or exposure must include at which dose and route of exposure and whether that applies to humans. Yes -every media outlet - I am looking at you too. Example: water is TOXIC if you drink 5.2 liters at once.
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Just passing this along as a public service announcement on vaccine safety pauloffit.substack.com/?utm_…
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Neil Stone
@DrNeilStone
21 Nov 2024
Not just humans. Animal diseases too. The cattle virus rinderpest was eradicated by...guess what..vaccination. Clever things, vaccines
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Offit @DrPaulOffit knows his stuff. It may be hard to spread the word without being throttled, but we need to follow the science and not the pseudoscience. The scientific community will need to step up to help explain how these things work
Paul Offit
@DrPaulOffit
18 Nov 2024
This will be the first of 6 essays I wrote about RFK Jr. In this first piece, I describe a conversation I had with him about 20 years ago, which marked the beginning of his anti-vaccine activism. Is this the man we want to be in charge of our health? My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. open.substack.com/pub/paulof…
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Brian Krassenstein
@krassenstein
17 Nov 2024
People on both sides of the political spectrum need to listen to this. Please!
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This is worth watching
Paul Offit
@DrPaulOffit
16 Nov 2024
RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary!!?
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Craig Spencer MD MPH
@Craig_A_Spencer
14 Nov 2024
RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health. We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come. I recently wrote in @TheAtlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇 theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

How to Lose a Century of Progress

Americans have been too quick to condemn the field of public health, overlooking its massive achievements in the 1900s and, yes, during the recent pandemic, too.

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Kaitlan Collins
@kaitlancollins
1 Nov 2024
Dr. Paul Offit: “There were seven misstatements of fact within three-and-a-half minutes. I’m not sure what the record is, but that has to be close.”
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From a historical paper I read today: "vaccination had controlled smallpox reasonably well during the first one-third of the century; however, during the period of the Jacksonian Democracy, laissez-faire doctrine prevailed and in 1837 the vaccination laws were repealed (1/3).
Howard Lutnick
@howardlutnick
31 Oct 2024
I met with Bobby Kennedy for over two hours and he was the opposite of what the media portrays. Sunlight is the best disinfectant — he wants to study the full data (not what the NIH decides to put out) and let the American people decide.
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Reference: A.M. Kass CID 1993, PMID: 8399883 (3/3)
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Just kind of remarkable how reading older literature will sometimes provide insight into current events
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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD
@EpiEllie
31 Oct 2024
Vaccines work. Vaccine denial kills. It’s that simple.
Table from the CDC. Title: Comparison of 20th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Disease | 20th Century Annual Cases | 2023 Cases | Percent Decrease Smallpox | 29,005 | 0 | 100% Diphtheria | 21,053 | 2 | > 99% Measles | 530,217 | 47 | > 99% Mumps | 162,344 | 429 | > 99% Pertussis | 200,752 | 5,611 | 97% Polio (paralytic) | 16,316 | 0 | 100% Rubella | 47,745 | 3 | > 99% Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 152 | 0 | 100% Tetanus | 580 | 15 | 97% Haemophilus influenzae. | 20,000 | 27 | > 99%

ALT Table from the CDC. Title: Comparison of 20th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Disease | 20th Century Annual Cases | 2023 Cases | Percent Decrease Smallpox | 29,005 | 0 | 100% Diphtheria | 21,053 | 2 | > 99% Measles | 530,217 | 47 | > 99% Mumps | 162,344 | 429 | > 99% Pertussis | 200,752 | 5,611 | 97% Polio (paralytic) | 16,316 | 0 | 100% Rubella | 47,745 | 3 | > 99% Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 152 | 0 | 100% Tetanus | 580 | 15 | 97% Haemophilus influenzae. | 20,000 | 27 | > 99%

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