Anne Fallon, MD

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.

1/3 of Americans think it is A-ok to send US citizens to foreign prisons.

Really can’t believe the dumbness of the moment we are in.

Let’s remove info that will keep people safe and replace it with claims that have no bearing on public health right now.

Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.

I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.

As someone who is on call 24/7, I call BS on the idea that 930 is too early in the day for them to have done anything

RFK Jr.’s Autism Bombshell RFK Jr. claims that he will find the cause of autism by September.

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RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.

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lol jinx.

We know what the results will be. And it’s terrifying.

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.

THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.

Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

I suspect that RFK Jr.’s claim that he will know the cause of autism by September is driven by a rigorous protocol of policy-based evidence making, a term I first learned from @joho.bsky.social.

He’s just gonna make shit up to “prove” he was “right”.

This is not how science works. You can’t promise you’re going to find an answer to a question unless you don’t follow the scientific method & rig it to get the answer you want, which i am sure is exactly what is happening.

No matter the findings of this “study”, vaccines cause adults, not autism

The four women on SCOTUS dissented. I think that's very indicative of why we are here today.

The fact that they’re making bold statements like this when we know terrible things are happening there makes me think whether he’s alive or dead, they don’t want him coming back as evidence.

From Nov 7:

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

It’s a recalibration of economic control.

Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way.

When the dust finally settles, they will own more.

The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

In a world of Pete Hegseths be a Pete Buttigieg

Sign of the day…

Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸

Full disclosure. I missed the memo on yesterday’s protests happening. I imagine I’m not alone, so the resistance is even bigger than those who marched yesterday.

When do we march again?

NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.

The website to check linked in the reply.

www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

More examples of how we are clearly not “winning” and all signs point to these stats getting a lot worse in coming yrs as US biomedical research infrastructure is dismantled and the economy collapses from tariffs.

“They're getting in their motorized wheelchair to go into their primary care appointment,” he said. “I’m thinking, ‘What are the programs that keep this person living in the community, keep them mobile, with assistance, with whatever problems they have, with walking, with other health issues, keeping them in outpatient medical care?’” He said such deep cuts to essential public health programs are “playing with fire.

"A local ER physician was in the break room Thursday when he heard Gov. Ned Lamont announce “devastating” federal cuts of more than $150 million to Connecticut public health programs"
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This is an important 🧵🧵 🧵

We had to be there in the hospital because people would die if we weren’t.

Well same thing is true if the rampage of the Trump agenda continues unchecked

Thanks Wisconsin!

Very relieved that Musk wasted $25 million. Granted it is a pretty meaningless sum of money to him and he’s going to make it all back, and the some, with Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.

But oligarchs can’t win if the rest of us stand up. Keep going.

Don’t get me wrong, what Cory Booker did was great and we need more of that energy.

But also I can’t help but think about all the 28hr calls I did in residency.

What if the Senate Dems treated the next 4 yrs like residency and did 24hr call and just didn’t stop talking 24/7/365