We trust pilots to fly us. We trust taxi drivers to drive us. We trust influencers selling detox recipes. But when scientists speak about vaccines, chemistry or pesticides, suddenly people reject expertise and think their internet search is equivalent to 20 years of research.

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the ‘do your own research’ crowd discovered hantavirus 14 minutes ago and already cured it with ivermectin 😭

Of course Robert Malone has already arrived to explain that the outbreak, the WHO, the cruise ship quarantine, the Dutch containment transfer teams, and decades of hantavirus literature are all “theater.” One suspects that if Yellowstone erupted tomorrow, he’d explain magma was a Pfizer marketing strategy. The awkward problem with this performance is that the Andes strain of hantavirus was documented to have limited human-to-human transmission long before COVID, long before mRNA vaccines, and long before Substack became a retirement village for men who confuse contrarianism with expertise. Scientists are not alarmed, because now nine people are infected. They are paying attention because a virus with a 15–40% mortality rate is demonstrating behavior we already knew was possible, but hoped would remain limited. That is called epidemiology, not theater. And unlike internet personalities, viruses do not care about branding. They mutate whether or not someone can monetize distrust from a beachside newsletter branded “Curativa Bay.” The truly exhausting part of modern medicine is not the viruses. It is the cottage industry of men who mistake reflexive cynicism for intellect. Every outbreak becomes a screenplay in which they alone possess “the real truth,” while thousands of virologists, intensivists, epidemiologists, and public health workers are apparently extras in the conspiracy.

The rate of newborn deaths is surging as American babies bleed to death from vitamin K deficiency, which is preventable with a single shot at birth. Widespread medical disinformation has caused more parents to refuse vitamin K shots for their children.

The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times. We fed billions, cured diseases and powered nations - yet people ran toward conspiracies instead.

RT @JeromeAdamsMD: Ultimate irony?: The parents now skipping vaccines for their kids are almost all fully vaccinated themselves. They’re t…

Convincing the rank and file to worry about the 1% of trans people that barely ever touch their lives instead of the 1% of the wealthy making most of the decisions that impact them every single day in dozens of ways is the evil genius of conservativism

Un hombre cegado por una bandera que le tapa los ojos. No ve que avanza hacia el vacío. Banksy ha captado la esencia de la ultraderecha en el mundo. Es un maldito genio.

I read Trump's surgeon general nominee @NBSaphierMD's book. She had some choice words about the viral 2020 anti-vaxx film Plandemic—"a video full of hoax theories"—and its star, Judy Mikovits, "a disgraced former researcher." Hmm who made that one was it, oh yes

“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections… The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave, than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.” - Donald Trump But sure, it’s the left pushing hateful, divisive rhetoric. Yep. 100%.

Climate scam' is what you call it when you can't understand basic atmospheric physics. The real scam is pretending 97% of climate scientists are all in on some conspiracy while you're just a free thinker who happens to parrot oil company talking points from the 1990s.

🚨WHAT A SCAM "but hes not taking his presidential salary"

Math illiteracy in the White House! These guys couldn't get a job as elementary school teachers. Any student knows that when something has fallen 100 percent it has fallen to nothing.

The South African journalist and public should ask a few more critical questions about @geordinhl, the newly elected DA leader, and his allegiances. In 2017 the @Our_DA delegation travelled to Israel and met with @netanyahu and @Isaac_Herzog — both now responsible for the genocide in Gaza. They stood shoulder-to-shoulder, arms around each other, smiling. Could this be why @geordinhl is reluctant to call out the Israel for the treatment of the Palestinians? In the photo: -Alan Fischer – Representative/accompanying member of South African Jewish organisations - Michael Bagraim – DA MP and former National President of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies - Isaac Herzog – Israeli opposition leader at the time (now President of Israel) - Mmusi Maimane – then DA Leader - John Steenhuisen – recent DA leader, and current minister of agriculture - Geordin Hill-Lewis – then DA spokesperson on trade & industry, now the DA leader @geordinhl

RT @geoffreyyork: Almost all "refugees" arriving in the US these days are white people from South Africa. None from war zones, famine zones…

Trump: “I thought it was me as a doctor” Trump’s doctor:

Thoughts and prayers for Kallie and Ernst.