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Opinion | Casey Means' Cringey Senate Hearing Should Sink Her Surgeon General Bid The nominee revealed her fundamental confusion between individual healthcare and public health

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πŸ“£ Casey Means is fundamentally not qualified for Surgeon General. Call your Senator today - Vote NO on her confirmation. πŸ“£

Why?

There’s simply too many articles to choose from!
Check out πŸ”—πŸ‘‡

www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

06.03.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly It’s all about supplements and β€˜good energy.’

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly

06.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

The unabashed nerdiness of @altmetric.com is always a delight

05.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This was great πŸ‘‡

05.03.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Map of the STAND UP FOR SCIENCE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION events on March 7th.

Map of the STAND UP FOR SCIENCE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION events on March 7th.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON SATURDAY??

#standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social

04.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | I Grew Up Unvaccinated. Now I’m an Immunologist.

Great essay from @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social.

Liz’s story resonates with me. I also grew up unvaccinated.

I know my mom made the choice not to vaccinate me and my sisters out of love, misguided as it was.

I got myself vaccinated when I turned 18.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/o...

05.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

It was predictable that the COVID quacks would become anti-vax Lyme cranks.

Crank magnetism in action.

04.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This post may or may not be referencing Robert Malone’s slop:

04.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Twitter mentions Friday 6 February: 17,947 posts
Bluesky, same timeframe: 24,512 posts

Twitter mentions Friday 6 February: 17,947 posts Bluesky, same timeframe: 24,512 posts

Since we have 2 months of 2026 data now, we can see if the trend we saw last year holds up: does research from the current year get shared more on Bluesky or X-Twitter?

As you can see here, we still see days regularly where Bluesky's volume of research sharing is markedly higher than Twitter.

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04.03.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brian H Mathison PhD (@allthingstox) Scary Headlines …about DNA fragments, formaldehyde, radiation, or chemicals in food spread faster than facts, but real toxicology lives in the details of exposure, mechanism, and probability. Risk is...

Cancer risks from DNA fragments in vaccines, formaldehyde, radiation, or chemicals? I saw all of these this morning. A critical thinker might ask how and how much. Exposure, mechanism, & probabilities matter. Quantitative risks by numbers not nouns.
substack.com/@allthingsto...

04.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Steven Novella on Dr. Mike’s podcast

youtu.be/Nv1ZaJ9mL1k

04.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Merriam Webster defines Gish Gallop as "a rhetorical technique or strategy by which a debater puts forth too many false arguments for their opponent to be able to refute in the allotted amount of time."

In 2026, cranks can use AI to generate Gish Gallops on steroids.

04.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Occasionally posts from science commutators are targeted by toxic Facebook groups.

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Was shocked that it wasn't a Waldorf/Steiner school.

04.03.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Risks Associated With Undisclosed Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is widespread among American adults, with the National Health Interview Survey reporting use in 36.7% of patients in 2022. Most patients using CAM do n...

New: Paper, video, and CME by Dr. Ryan Kessel

Risks Associated With Undisclosed Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Clinical Practice

It's important to talk about it!

#FOAMed #quackery

doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...

04.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas anti-vax doctor calls for Covid shots to be scrapped, claiming vitamins are better than vaccines Paediatrician made a series of misleading claims during a TV debate

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Meet Dr. Angelina Farella, RFK Jr.'s new ACIP member. Texas pediatrician, decades of practice… and a noted anti-vaxxer. As if ACIP's credibility weren’t already flushed down the toilet 😬🩺

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Influence of mRNA Covid-19 vaccine dosing interval on the risk of myocarditis - Nature Communications Dosing interval has been suggested as a modifier in the risk of myocarditis associated with Covid-19 mRNA vaccination. Here, the authors show that longer intervals between each consecutive dose, inclu...

In addition to the population immunity, is there evidence to suggest delaying the second vaccine dose reduced the already-low risk of myocarditis?

e.g:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

03.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the update! :)

03.03.2026 07:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you- Love your posts!

03.03.2026 05:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Report for: Bilateral femoral neck fractures and 11 rib fractures unmask tumour-induced osteomalacia caused by a phosphaturic mesenchymal tumour In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

@altmetric.com FYI: This account has 494 followers, not 9 followers

03.03.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bilateral femoral neck fractures and 11 rib fractures unmask tumour-induced osteomalacia caused by a phosphaturic mesenchymal tumour Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumours (PMTs) are rare benign tumours that secrete fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), leading to phosphate wasting, disordered vitamin D metabolism and impaired bone minera...

Fake chronic #Lyme diagnosis & needless antibiotics/IVIG!

"7 years of progressive muscle weakness and diffuse pain, resulting in inability to walk."

Real Diagnosis: A rare hormone-secreting tumor that was wreaking havoc. Tumor removal helped a lot!

BMJ Case Reports: doi.org/10.1136/bcr-...

03.03.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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He Didn't Know He Broke 11 Ribs. This Surprise Condition Was to Blame. Case report highlights challenges of tumor-induced osteomalacia

7 years of symptoms!

Fake chronic #Lyme diagnosis & needless antibiotics/IVIG!

Real diagnosis: "tumor-induced osteomalacia caused by a 15 x 9 mm phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor lodged in his left femoral neck β€” a small, slow-growing lesion that had been silently dismantling his skeleton for years."

03.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Evergreen: The Once Promising Journalist Who Became a Sadistic Troll
www.keithkloor.com?p=14917

02.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Rates Plunge, Reversing Years of Gains National data show rates dropped more than 10 points in 2 years after 2023 peak

U.S. birth-dose hepatitis B vaccination coverage has dropped sharply more than a 10-percentage-point decline in ~2 years, reversing several years of progress.
Approximate numbers reported:
~83–84% coverage (2023)
~73% coverage (2025)
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

02.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Case in point: The dishonesty of Casey Means and Calley Means about her inactive medical license.

Jerome Adams: "To serve as a physician in the Corps, you MUST hold an active medical license."

Calley Means gaslights and asks Adams for an apology!
x.com/calleymeans/...

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02.03.2026 07:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Do not forget that it was Yale scientists Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz who worked with anti-vaxxers to legitimize highly dubious claims of β€œvaccine injury” and β€œpersistent spike.”

02.03.2026 07:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

ACIP will be taking up the issue of COVID-19 vaccine injuries at the upcoming meeting March 18-19. Meanwhile, the vice chair of ACIP, Robert Malone, continues to publicly spread misinformation about vaccine injuries. 🧡 1/9

02.03.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1