Anne Fallon, MD
@annefallon.bsky.social
clinical informaticist | pediatric hospitalist | CDS, usability/human-centered design, data/analytics
healthcare is a human right | science is real |
vaccines save lives
views are my own, not my employer’s
healthcare is a human right | science is real |
vaccines save lives
views are my own, not my employer’s
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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.
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.
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.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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.
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.
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.
Let’s remove info that will keep people safe and replace it with claims that have no bearing on public health right now.
April 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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.
Let’s remove info that will keep people safe and replace it with claims that have no bearing on public health right now.
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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.
April 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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.
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I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
April 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have this radical lefty belief that voting should be easier than buying a gun.
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open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.
RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.
RFK Jr.’s Autism Bombshell
RFK Jr. claims that he will find the cause of autism by September.
open.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.
RFK Jr. is set to derail progress on the causes of autism.
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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.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
Reposted by Anne Fallon, MD
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”.
He’s just gonna make shit up to “prove” he was “right”.
April 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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”.
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
No matter the findings of this “study”, vaccines cause adults, not autism
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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
No matter the findings of this “study”, vaccines cause adults, not autism
Reposted by Anne Fallon, MD
The four women on SCOTUS dissented. I think that's very indicative of why we are here today.
April 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The four women on SCOTUS dissented. I think that's very indicative of why we are here today.
Reposted by Anne Fallon, MD
Reposted by Anne Fallon, MD
Reposted by Anne Fallon, MD
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?
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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?
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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.
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.
April 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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.
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.
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Sign of the day…
April 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Sign of the day…
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Is this who we are? 😳🇺🇸
April 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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?
When do we march again?
April 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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?
When do we march again?
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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...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
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.
The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe.
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM
Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...
www.nejm.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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.
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"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"
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
April 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"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"
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
This is an important 🧵🧵 🧵
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This is an important 🧵🧵 🧵
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.
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.
Really hoping the folks of the great state of Wisconsin get out and vote today to send a message that oligarchs can’t just buy elections
April 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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.
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
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
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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
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
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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Really hoping the folks of the great state of Wisconsin get out and vote today to send a message that oligarchs can’t just buy elections
April 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Really hoping the folks of the great state of Wisconsin get out and vote today to send a message that oligarchs can’t just buy elections