RFK Jr. vowed to restore public trust in health. It's not working, a new survey suggests. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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RFK Jr. vowed to restore public trust in health. It's not working, a new survey suggests. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Check out the new stories on virologydownunder.com if you're looking for something different to distract yourself from wars, drones, missiles, domes, or nuclear proliferation.
A study in The Lancet finds that pregnant women in emergency rooms used less Tylenol after President Trump said it could raise their babies' risk of autism. Scientists say there is no proven link. n.pr/4s0ng1Q
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying Trump impulsively acted in Venezuela and Iran, causing global instability, and suggesting spikes in instability coincide with revelations about the Epstein files. Below is a video still of Ocasio-Cortez speaking outside a government building.
Continuation of the same post showing Ocasio-Cortez arguing that if the Epstein files influence Trump’s decisions enough to risk global conflict to protect himself politically, it means he cannot make objective decisions for the American people. The image shows Ocasio-Cortez speaking on a walkway outside a building.
She's right, you know.
They Killed Their Abusers. Should They Spend Their Lives in Prison? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...
They should have been pariahs years ago.
Your data will be used against you. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
Trump’s personality cult: “This spree of self-aggrandizement goes beyond mere vanity… ‘I really have a big ego.’”
— He casts himself King of the Jungle, Superman, Jedi—even pope
— A $300k gold “Don Colossus” statue is commissioned for his resort
— His name is etched 1/2
Sharing conspiracy theories in dating profiles can damage first impressions phys.org/news/2026-02...
From study: "Political orientation moderated these effects—liberals were more critical, while conservatives were more lenient and sometimes favored conspiracy-sharing profiles."
and that is still an understatement...
Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
This is outrageous, and (though it was completely obvious he should never have held this spot), Vinay Prasad needs to go. This vaccine candidate deserves review, not ideologically motivated rejection. Lives are at stake. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...
We’re Cifu and Mandrola right?
Has Vinay rebuilt lost trust?
Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
"...overestimating the proportion of social media users who post harmful content makes people feel more negative emotion..."
Good news: Effects can be mitigated by correcting misperception. 👍
Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
“We won’t take vaccines away from anyone”
MAHA has long told a story about a chronic disease "epidemic" caused by corrupt elites, pharmaceutical products, processed food, and vaccines. It blends some real grievances-ultraprocessed food, environmental degradation, legitimate anger at real misconduct by drug companies-with discredited claims about vaccines causing autism, SSRI antidepressants as a conspiratorial plot, and so on. Now, from its foothold in the administration and perch at the helm at Health and Human Services, MAHA launders misinformation through the federal brand. The National Academies report gestures at "competing interests," "public relations," and "societal forces" as well as wellness influencers and fringe groups corrupting the information environment, but it does not fully conceptualize health populism as a political project with the explicit aim of redefining what "science" the state will endorse. "Misinformation" is the mobilizing content, not the end state; the false claims help build the army, but outside voices are delegitimized. What MAHA produces, what Children's Health Defense and the anti-vaccine movement's influencers and media have long produced, is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project. The term "misinformation" treats this as a knowledge problem. It's a power problem.
I wrote this today: MAHA understands it is playing a power politics game and everyone else countering the movement needs to wake up to that, too. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/misi...
Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person's right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
Parents — you need to organize against the conspiratorial health populist movement that thinks it’s fine to give your kids polio. MAHA came to power screaming unapologetically ab protecting kids. You have both the right & the obligation to do that too.
You don’t have to be polite. Fk these people.
Same thing every time:
1. Reframe the victim as the villain
2. Make the state the injured party
3. Turn critique into complicity (“oh so you side with terrorists”)
4. Expand blame to an entire out-group
5. Fuse to a larger us-against-them story to keep any alarmed within the base from defecting
I would like to NYT explain this as “framing” bc the concept is so key & would be helpful to give a mass audience. Picking the term classifies the event! “Terrorist” and “assassin” are intentional signifiers. A whole lot of the mental picture completes from there.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...
BREAKING: EU Commission launches investigation into:
* Grok spreading illegal content in the EU (including fake sexual images and child abuse material)
* X's recommender systems as systemic risks
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
"What MAHA produces is propaganda: narratives designed to galvanize belief, build identity, and legitimate a political project.
The term “misinformation” treats this as a knowledge problem.
It’s a power problem."
Superb piece on how science can fight, by @noupside.bsky.social
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
