Skeptical veterinarian promoting science-based pet health
Joined November 2009
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SkeptVet retweeted
Jun 14
The resurgence of measles, whooping cough, rotavirus, bacterial meningitis, and severe pneumonia is an abject failure of health policy.
We are relearning the lessons we have already paid the price for.
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SkeptVet retweeted
Dr. @AnnieAndrewsMD is a fierce advocate for evidence-based patient care and public health.
She’s a thorn in the side of anti-science movements.
Giddy-up.
Jun 10
NEW: Dr. Annie Andrews has won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in South Carolina!
Congrats, Annie! Together, we will defeat Lindsey Graham and flip the Senate.
ALT A graphic featuring an image of Dr. Annie Andrews. Text on screen reads, "Midterm news: Dr. Annie Andrews wins South Carolina Democratic primary for U.S. Senate."
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I was privileged to be asked to speak at this event on the subject of using biomarkers to support a more proactive, preventative approach to pet health.
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SkeptVet retweeted
Take it from the movies: when scientists start organizing, testifying, protesting, and speaking out as one, we have definitively crossed the threat threshold.
I’ve never seen anything quite like what’s happening now and I’m so incredibly proud of the scientific community.
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Soviet-style censorship of scientists- washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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SkeptVet retweeted
Jun 5
The A-Word: The Future of Aging premieres tonight at the 25th @Tribeca Film Festival. An independent documentary about growing old well and the founders and scientists working to add life to years. It's honest, hopeful, and our founder @celinehalioua is one of the voices in it.
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If this proposal goes through, Donald Trump personally will decide which scientists get grants and what science is funded.
Want to cure cancer? Not unless—and I quote—it 'advances the president’s policy priorities'.
There's a word for this: dictatorship
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SkeptVet retweeted
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service at USDA helps prevent threats like screwworm from ever reaching US livestock.
In 2025, it lost 1,300 employees due to cuts and firings.
That’s the thing about prevention: you don’t notice it when it works, only when it is gone.
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SkeptVet retweeted
Trump science policy is Lysenko 2.0, in which ideology, not scientific promise and rigor, dictates federal grantmaking. The proposed rules deemphasizing peer review and placing political appointees in charge of final grantmaking decisions do Lysenko proud. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the…
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RT @DrNeilStone: No one should die of diphtheria because it's vaccines preventable.
What a tragedy
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SkeptVet retweeted
May 29
Woah. A profound shift in American science is coming.
Every federal research grant could soon require sign-off from a political appointee.
Scientific progress depends on funding decisions grounded in merit and public health need, NOT ideological approval.
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RT @PeterHotez: The evaporation of critical thinking among the American people is truly shocking. How our nation substituted going to the l…
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SkeptVet retweeted
May 22
When will it end? The unexplained removal of key experts (again) is incredibly concerning and risks undermining trust in evidence-based preventive medicine.
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The USPSTF is a critical organization helping doctors and regular people make evidence-based decisions about healthcare. RFK is way beyond stupid here and this will add to the deaths he is responsible for. usnews.com/news/health-news/…
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"Maternal Tdap vaccination helps protect infants from whooping cough during the first months of life, which is the period when babies are at highest risk of severe illness but are still too young to get vaccinated."
-Elise Holmes, Program Manager at CIDRAP
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SkeptVet retweeted
May 21
No increase in cancer risk following mRNA Covid vaccines in large data sets from Norway 🇳🇴 and Sweden 🇸🇪
They don't cause cancer
It's a myth invented by anti vaxxers to scare you off vaccines
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RT @PeterHotez: The risk is low, and historically travel restrictions are ineffective. The last time we did this was in 2020 with China tra…
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