Michael Pollard
@kmichaelpollard.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof Scripps Research working on how non-biological exposures lead to autoimmunity.
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"Magical thinking has no place in public health. Every scientist and health care provider has a duty to speak up against these misguided policies and positions".
"... getting up and walking more" is 👍. As a pandemic preparedness strategy, however, a wee bit lacking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"... getting up and walking more" is 👍. As a pandemic preparedness strategy, however, a wee bit lacking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health
For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
"Magical thinking has no place in public health. Every scientist and health care provider has a duty to speak up against these misguided policies and positions".
"... getting up and walking more" is 👍. As a pandemic preparedness strategy, however, a wee bit lacking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"... getting up and walking more" is 👍. As a pandemic preparedness strategy, however, a wee bit lacking.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours"
Storm drain runs under our property and it's busy this morning.
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours"
Storm drain runs under our property and it's busy this morning.
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
"It never rains in California
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours"
Storm drain runs under our property and it's busy this morning.
But girl, don't they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours"
Storm drain runs under our property and it's busy this morning.
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Harnessing antibodies found in patients with lupus, researchers test a new #cancer therapy that turns autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, suggesting similar approaches could be integrated into immunotherapy regimens.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/4plX8MG
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/4plX8MG
A lupus-derived autoantibody that binds to intracellular RNA activates cGAS-mediated tumor immunity and can deliver RNA into cells
Delivery of autoimmune disease–associated antibodies activates the immune system to fight glioblastomas.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Harnessing antibodies found in patients with lupus, researchers test a new #cancer therapy that turns autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, suggesting similar approaches could be integrated into immunotherapy regimens.
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/4plX8MG
Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: https://scim.ag/4plX8MG
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Goodness I believe you have written, contingent upon small changes, the first page of everyone's autobiography.
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Goodness I believe you have written, contingent upon small changes, the first page of everyone's autobiography.
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"What does science matter when the health secretary openly peddles unfounded conspiracy theories?"
"What does research matter when evidence-based medicine is treated as optional, or worse, as ideological opposition?"
Essential reading.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
"What does research matter when evidence-based medicine is treated as optional, or worse, as ideological opposition?"
Essential reading.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | The CDC Shooting Isn't What Broke Me
Continuing to show up to work at an agency I no longer trust is devastating
www.medpagetoday.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"What does science matter when the health secretary openly peddles unfounded conspiracy theories?"
"What does research matter when evidence-based medicine is treated as optional, or worse, as ideological opposition?"
Essential reading.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
"What does research matter when evidence-based medicine is treated as optional, or worse, as ideological opposition?"
Essential reading.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | We Don’t Seem to be Making America Healthy Again
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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RFK Jr is now seeing his dreams come true 😢
I've had some pretty frank conversations with owners who absolutely refuse to have their dogs vaccinated for rabies. I have no power to force them to get their dogs vaccinated other than counselling them to vaccinate their pets. This vaccine hesitancy kills humans and animals, dangerous nonsense!
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
RFK Jr is now seeing his dreams come true 😢
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As @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I sadly predicted, in #ScienceUnderSiege (bookshop.org/p/books/scie...)
U.S. measles cases hit a 30-year high, according to CDC data.
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I sadly predicted, in #ScienceUnderSiege (bookshop.org/p/books/scie...)
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🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like Scrippsmas 🎶
Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
📸: @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer Erik Jepsen
Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
📸: @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer Erik Jepsen
December 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like Scrippsmas 🎶
Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
📸: @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer Erik Jepsen
Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours!
📸: @ucsandiego.bsky.social photographer Erik Jepsen
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CRICK proudly on display at D. G. Wills bookstore in San Diego, where Michael McClure gave a reading in 2000. You can watch it in the link below; Crick appears in the background of the opening shots, his back to the camera. youtu.be/ih0vCt9w8Mw?...
December 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
CRICK proudly on display at D. G. Wills bookstore in San Diego, where Michael McClure gave a reading in 2000. You can watch it in the link below; Crick appears in the background of the opening shots, his back to the camera. youtu.be/ih0vCt9w8Mw?...
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Yup. It has been incredibly painful watching the MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/MAGA/anti-vaxx crew—RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Oz, Makary, Høeg, Kulldorff, Prasad—deliberately dismantle public health, drive the return of deadly yet vaccine-preventable child diseases, & rip apart pandemic preparedness
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yup. It has been incredibly painful watching the MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/MAGA/anti-vaxx crew—RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Oz, Makary, Høeg, Kulldorff, Prasad—deliberately dismantle public health, drive the return of deadly yet vaccine-preventable child diseases, & rip apart pandemic preparedness
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"China will have abundant amounts of renewable energy for data centers, with fossil fuels as a backup. Meanwhile, the US marches boldly backward toward the past," writes H. Holden Thorp on Science's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year highlighting the rise of renewable energy. https://scim.ag/459EZKv
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"China will have abundant amounts of renewable energy for data centers, with fossil fuels as a backup. Meanwhile, the US marches boldly backward toward the past," writes H. Holden Thorp on Science's 2025 Breakthrough of the Year highlighting the rise of renewable energy. https://scim.ag/459EZKv
San Diego County Public Health Officials Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccine for Newborns
County Public Health Officials Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccine for Newborns
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine, routinely provided to newborns since 1991, remains a safe and effective way of preventing serious illness of the liver. The incidence of pediatric HBV has decrease...
www.countynewscenter.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
San Diego County Public Health Officials Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccine for Newborns
I'm only through the first couple of chapters but the first few sentences were enough to make me want to read it.
December 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm only through the first couple of chapters but the first few sentences were enough to make me want to read it.
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Marty Makary was asked this question the other week: "Where did AIDS come from?"
His answer: "It may very well have come from a lab in Africa"
How is this not a national scandal?
His answer: "It may very well have come from a lab in Africa"
How is this not a national scandal?
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Marty Makary was asked this question the other week: "Where did AIDS come from?"
His answer: "It may very well have come from a lab in Africa"
How is this not a national scandal?
His answer: "It may very well have come from a lab in Africa"
How is this not a national scandal?
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In June 2023, in an interview with New York Magazine, RFK Jr said “There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS” (H/T @drdemetre.bsky.social)
2023
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2023
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December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In June 2023, in an interview with New York Magazine, RFK Jr said “There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS” (H/T @drdemetre.bsky.social)
2023
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2023
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Extremely alarming
Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
December 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Extremely alarming
Crispin G, the poodle, and Maggie waiting to go on a walk. She raised him from an 18 week old puppy. He is now almost 4 and obsessed with his dog mum.
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Crispin G, the poodle, and Maggie waiting to go on a walk. She raised him from an 18 week old puppy. He is now almost 4 and obsessed with his dog mum.
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youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
COVID Origins: Debunking the Grift, Pseudoscience, and Politics of the Lab Leak Theory
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
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We are in Medieval times.
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status, which was earned in 2000 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. 🧪
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status, which was earned in 2000 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. 🧪
Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We are in Medieval times.
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status, which was earned in 2000 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. 🧪
16 cases are linked to a church, which followed exposures at four schools last week.
The outbreaks are threatening to cost the country its measles elimination status, which was earned in 2000 after vaccination efforts stopped the virus from spreading continuously. 🧪
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#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a #Nobel Prize (#Physics).
AND
#OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM
AND
#OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM
December 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to win a #Nobel Prize (#Physics).
AND
#OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM
AND
#OTD in 1935, her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in #Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
They're the only mother–daughter pair to have both won Nobel Prizes. #WomenInSTEM