David Gorski, MD, PhD
@gorskon.bsky.social
Surgeon/scientist promoting science-based medicine and deconstructing quackery. Editor, Science-Based Medicine blog (sciencebasedmedicine.org). X/Twitter & Threads: @gorskon. (He/him)
Reposted by David Gorski, MD, PhD
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
MAHA: Its antivax mask has been dropped
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
www.respectfulinsolence.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
We now have concentration camps in the US. Fascism is here and in control.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We now have concentration camps in the US. Fascism is here and in control.
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MAHA Action, the 501(c)(4) dark money group founded to support (and sell) Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda at HHS, is attacking the March for Science and Health.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
With Deep Pockets, the Anti-Kennedy Cabal Wants to Remove the Secretary From Office. They Will Fail.
By Adam Garrie, Contributor, The MAHA Report
www.themahareport.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
MAHA Action, the 501(c)(4) dark money group founded to support (and sell) Robert Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda at HHS, is attacking the March for Science and Health.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
In its “report,” it calls @accountabilityji.bsky.social “a pro-censorship group.”
And I think that’s objectively hilarious.
The brain drain that this administration’s policies are resulting in will hobble us as a nation for generation. Say goodbye to our leadership in science. Before you know it, China and the EU will lap us.
A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The brain drain that this administration’s policies are resulting in will hobble us as a nation for generation. Say goodbye to our leadership in science. Before you know it, China and the EU will lap us.
Reposted by David Gorski, MD, PhD
Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Rather than trying to read entrails of some vaccine move by RFK Jr, just ask:
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
a) Does it encourage vaccination? OR
b) Is it one more step towards vaccination elimination?
(Ex: MMR=> solo M, M, R.)
Meanwhile, follow @gorskon.bsky.social & @joho.bsky.social,
who've dissected RFK Jr actions for years.
A giant has passed. (I rotated on his surgical service during medical school.) www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...
Robert H. Bartlett, ‘Father of ECMO,’ dies at 86
Known as the 'Father of ECMO', an active emeritus surgeon at Michigan Medicine and a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Bartlett leaves a historic legacy
www.michiganmedicine.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A giant has passed. (I rotated on his surgical service during medical school.) www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release...
In these dark times, sometimes schadenfreude is one of my only consolations.
The knives are out for Jay from his former allies.
He rose high enough to become part of the conspiracy.
That’s his future now.
He rose high enough to become part of the conspiracy.
That’s his future now.
October 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In these dark times, sometimes schadenfreude is one of my only consolations.
Oops, they did it again.🤦🏻♂️ www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Oops, they did it again.🤦🏻♂️ www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of “functional medicine.” She, MAHA, and a new “board certification” will falsely legitimize quackery. sciencebasedmedicine.org/surgeon-gene...
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means and functional medicine: Legitimizing quackery
Surgeon general nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of "functional medicine." She, MAHA, and a new "board certification" will falsely legitimize quackery.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means is an advocate of “functional medicine.” She, MAHA, and a new “board certification” will falsely legitimize quackery. sciencebasedmedicine.org/surgeon-gene...
I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.
I’m almost the same age, and my 40 year old self would never have guessed the same.
My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m almost the same age, and my 40 year old self would never have guessed the same.
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Yep. I wrote in depth how when he’s was at AIER Tucker brought together the three useful idiots who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, one of whom now runs the NIH and one of whom now has a major role determining vaccine recommendations as part of ACIP.
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yep. I wrote in depth how when he’s was at AIER Tucker brought together the three useful idiots who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration, one of whom now runs the NIH and one of whom now has a major role determining vaccine recommendations as part of ACIP.
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Not secret in the UK, I know, but little known in the US.
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On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an “aluminum working group.” Among the “scientists” there are antivax scientists about whom I’ve been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines, part 4: Aluminum edition (or: Everything old is new again…again)
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an "aluminum working group." Among the "scientists" there are antivax scientists about whom I've been writing for
sciencebasedmedicine.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Last week, news stories reported that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had convened an “aluminum working group.” Among the “scientists” there are antivax scientists about whom I’ve been writing for over a decade. Everything old antivax is new again. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
Also, the content.😏
There are two differences between Science Based Medicine and Sensible Medicine.
The quality and the cost.
Our site is free.
Here’s what we were saying this time last year. @gorskon.bsky.social
The quality and the cost.
Our site is free.
Here’s what we were saying this time last year. @gorskon.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Also, the content.😏
Sigh. Looks like I’m going to have to write an SBM post to educate people who these antivax cranks are, as I’ve been writing about Christopher Shaw and Christopher Exley for many years.
Jay Bhattacharya funding antivaxx cranks @gorskon.bsky.social taught me about 10 years ago.
www.etpnews.com/breaking-ken...
www.etpnews.com/breaking-ken...
Breaking: Kennedy brings the “Aluminum Family” back as an “Aluminum Working Group”
NEW YORK - Secretary Kennedy brought back members of the “aluminum family” as an “aluminum working group“ which is being led by Lyn Redwood, according to a member of the group who spoke on the conditi...
www.etpnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Sigh. Looks like I’m going to have to write an SBM post to educate people who these antivax cranks are, as I’ve been writing about Christopher Shaw and Christopher Exley for many years.
Oh, bloody hell.🤦🏻♂️
@joho.bsky.social @gorskon.bsky.social @doritreiss.bsky.social
Must watch: RFK Jr wants a statue of Andy Wakefield at HHS. And that's just for starters.
Must watch: RFK Jr wants a statue of Andy Wakefield at HHS. And that's just for starters.
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Oh, bloody hell.🤦🏻♂️
In a seven-minute video RFK Jr. posted last week, he demonstrated that he is truly antivaccine, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn’t do that much to improve global health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines
People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves the RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows th
sciencebasedmedicine.org
October 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In a seven-minute video RFK Jr. posted last week, he demonstrated that he is truly antivaccine, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn’t do that much to improve global health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...
Absolutely she’s right. It’s even worse than she reports.
“I fear for public health in our country.”
Former CDC Chief Medical Officer @drdebhoury.bsky.social says that the national US public health system has been subjected to a “hostile takeover” and she’s right. We should all share her fears. Kennedy must go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Former CDC Chief Medical Officer @drdebhoury.bsky.social says that the national US public health system has been subjected to a “hostile takeover” and she’s right. We should all share her fears. Kennedy must go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A ‘hostile takeover’: ousted CDC official raises alarm over RFK Jr approach to infectious disease
Debra Houry speaks after testifying on eight months under Kennedy, who critics say shuns science and spreads falsehoods
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Absolutely she’s right. It’s even worse than she reports.
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During Covid, when @gorskon.bsky.social & I coauthored a piece for @bmj.com on the links between right-wing climate denialist billionaires, anti-vaxxers, & the Great Barrington Declaration, some physicians felt it was "uncollegial" to be critical of the GBD
Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔
Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔
Not being a physician, what I see is a toxic push for collegiality among medical professionals that has people not calling out bad actors, or as here, going out of the way to praise them, hoping they’ll reform and fly straight, when what they needed was to be called out and disempowered.
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
During Covid, when @gorskon.bsky.social & I coauthored a piece for @bmj.com on the links between right-wing climate denialist billionaires, anti-vaxxers, & the Great Barrington Declaration, some physicians felt it was "uncollegial" to be critical of the GBD
Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔
Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔
So far, the incompetence is the only thing saving us. So far.
"Let's just hope that the pushback is strong enough and fast enough to save us all." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
An Autocracy of Dunces
How stone-faced generals, Wall Street pushback, and a government shutdown may save America’s quickly declining democracy
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
So far, the incompetence is the only thing saving us. So far.
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped