Stacy Frederick
@sfederick.bsky.social
Science, Biology, Biochemistry & Enzymes
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Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
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A lengthy rebuttal👇
I generally agree with letting experts do what they’re good at with oversight to monitor integrity, ethics and safety risks.
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
I generally agree with letting experts do what they’re good at with oversight to monitor integrity, ethics and safety risks.
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A lengthy rebuttal👇
I generally agree with letting experts do what they’re good at with oversight to monitor integrity, ethics and safety risks.
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
I generally agree with letting experts do what they’re good at with oversight to monitor integrity, ethics and safety risks.
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
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Jay Bhattacharya is so dangerously stupid I wouldn't let him shadow me on shift. Others probably feel similarly.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Jay Bhattacharya is so dangerously stupid I wouldn't let him shadow me on shift. Others probably feel similarly.
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The new approach is essentially to stick your head in the sand and go to the gym as a model for pandemic preparedness.
Suffice to say, such a model will not work, but I don't want to belabor the point - I have made it many times already. E.g., here:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
Suffice to say, such a model will not work, but I don't want to belabor the point - I have made it many times already. E.g., here:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
I recently gave a talk at Cornell and sat down with Dr. Leifer for her "Immune" podcast. I really enjoyed our wide-ranging conversation, from how I got started in science, how immunity shapes evolution, pandemic risk, and, the current state of US science.
🎧👇
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
🎧👇
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen
Podcast Episode · Immune · 11/11/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The new approach is essentially to stick your head in the sand and go to the gym as a model for pandemic preparedness.
Suffice to say, such a model will not work, but I don't want to belabor the point - I have made it many times already. E.g., here:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
Suffice to say, such a model will not work, but I don't want to belabor the point - I have made it many times already. E.g., here:
bsky.app/profile/kgan...
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AViDD was using a similar approach, but this time focused on developing novel anti-viral drugs, with a focus on broad-spectrum drugs. Similar to ReVAMPP, this would give us new drugs against existing pathogens, as well as a new arsenal for emerging ones.
AViDD was canceled.
AViDD was canceled.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
AViDD was using a similar approach, but this time focused on developing novel anti-viral drugs, with a focus on broad-spectrum drugs. Similar to ReVAMPP, this would give us new drugs against existing pathogens, as well as a new arsenal for emerging ones.
AViDD was canceled.
AViDD was canceled.
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That means that not only would we have new countermeasures against existing, and highly consequential, pathogens, but we'd be able to pivot existing platforms should a novel species within one of those families emerge.
This is extremely prudent, and frankly, a clever way of doing it.
This is extremely prudent, and frankly, a clever way of doing it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
That means that not only would we have new countermeasures against existing, and highly consequential, pathogens, but we'd be able to pivot existing platforms should a novel species within one of those families emerge.
This is extremely prudent, and frankly, a clever way of doing it.
This is extremely prudent, and frankly, a clever way of doing it.
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ReVAMPP is focused on developing novel vaccines and monoclonals for a whole range of high consequence pathogens using a "prototype" approach. In essence, for each key virus family, select a few prototype viruses and develop new countermeasures against those.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ReVAMPP is focused on developing novel vaccines and monoclonals for a whole range of high consequence pathogens using a "prototype" approach. In essence, for each key virus family, select a few prototype viruses and develop new countermeasures against those.
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There were three programs - ReVAMPP, AViDD, and CREID. ReVAMPP is still active, but the other two have been canceled - I was the PI on one of the canceled CREID centers ("WARN-ID").
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There were three programs - ReVAMPP, AViDD, and CREID. ReVAMPP is still active, but the other two have been canceled - I was the PI on one of the canceled CREID centers ("WARN-ID").
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CREID was using a "One Health" approach to perform basic research into all the pathogens out there to gain an understanding of their emergence, spread, and evolution - as well as their pandemic potential, including novel ones.
Again, critically important. And like AViDD, CREID was canceled.
Again, critically important. And like AViDD, CREID was canceled.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
CREID was using a "One Health" approach to perform basic research into all the pathogens out there to gain an understanding of their emergence, spread, and evolution - as well as their pandemic potential, including novel ones.
Again, critically important. And like AViDD, CREID was canceled.
Again, critically important. And like AViDD, CREID was canceled.
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I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I really did not enjoy Jay Bhattacharya & Matthew Memoli’s screed against pandemic & virology research for the flagship blog of a “free-market think tank." Instead of getting mad, I accepted @jeremyfaust.bsky.social's kind invitation to take a factual & scientific blowtorch to it.
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Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds
The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...
www.fiercebiotech.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:
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Of course, I don't know.
I do know that several people who have worked with him directly have commented to me that one should not overestimate either Memoli's intelligence or his tendency to act ethically or in good faith.
I do know that several people who have worked with him directly have commented to me that one should not overestimate either Memoli's intelligence or his tendency to act ethically or in good faith.
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Of course, I don't know.
I do know that several people who have worked with him directly have commented to me that one should not overestimate either Memoli's intelligence or his tendency to act ethically or in good faith.
I do know that several people who have worked with him directly have commented to me that one should not overestimate either Memoli's intelligence or his tendency to act ethically or in good faith.
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Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...
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Jay Bhattacharya has sold out whatever tag ends remain of his mind to RFK Jr., who is utterly addled, vicious, a predator, and ignorant as hell. Public health in America is dead.
Starting my Monday morning with an email to Director Bhattacharya...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Jay Bhattacharya has sold out whatever tag ends remain of his mind to RFK Jr., who is utterly addled, vicious, a predator, and ignorant as hell. Public health in America is dead.
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This makes me feel sooooo old...
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This makes me feel sooooo old...
Old, but still good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZ...
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
YouTube video by UltraMiraculous
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Old, but still good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZ...
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NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
N.I.H. Worker Who Criticized Trump Health Policies Says She Is on Administrative Leave
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
NIH scientist Dr. Jenna Norton was just placed on nondisciplinary leave.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
She led a team who wrote a sign-on letter critical of The Regime.
A person at NIH asked to give a reason for her leave called her “radical leftist”; while the NIH Director has claimed that “dissent is productive”.
A devastating takedown
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A devastating takedown
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According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
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Ebright used his NIH grants to pay his family members and help his kid build a resume so he could get into his alma mater (Harvard) as a legacy. He's a nepotistic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, hypocritical crank.
November 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ebright used his NIH grants to pay his family members and help his kid build a resume so he could get into his alma mater (Harvard) as a legacy. He's a nepotistic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, hypocritical crank.
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🧪 So author of this article thought it was appropriate to quote a random molecular biologist on his misogynistic opinion of Norton’s & her actions.
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🧪 So author of this article thought it was appropriate to quote a random molecular biologist on his misogynistic opinion of Norton’s & her actions.