Lauren
@browniecurls.bsky.social
Public health professional, proud Marylander, mom.
“There is nothing permanent or unalterable about health inequities.” - John Green
“There is nothing permanent or unalterable about health inequities.” - John Green
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
File this under “things you, Mark Cuban, don’t need to worry about because there are literal experts that already exist on this topic.”
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
File this under “things you, Mark Cuban, don’t need to worry about because there are literal experts that already exist on this topic.”
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
An absolute hero. Oh my god.
December 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
An absolute hero. Oh my god.
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"There is no significant evidence of horizontal transmission" because I can't read the article and can't evaluate the data is not, actually, a good argument, inexpert #ACIP.
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
Vaccines. Work.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Vaccines. Work.
Love this on World AIDS Day. The White House may not commemorate it this year, but the public health community will never forget.
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Love this on World AIDS Day. The White House may not commemorate it this year, but the public health community will never forget.
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
presented without comment
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
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Just this week alone.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Just this week alone.
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And people wonder why I freak out when they put TMI in unsecured email…
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
And people wonder why I freak out when they put TMI in unsecured email…
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The corrupted CDC website refers to a Danish study (Andersson et al) and "a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger's syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018 (Supplement Figure 4)." It's worth putting this into context. Short 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The corrupted CDC website refers to a Danish study (Andersson et al) and "a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger's syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018 (Supplement Figure 4)." It's worth putting this into context. Short 🧵
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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“If those of us in public health and medicine keep pretending those pushing to end vaccines are fringe conspiracy theorists running around in tinfoil hits, we risk underestimating the intentions and ambitions of a movement that is exceptionally organized, disciplined, and determined”
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it’s up against.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“If those of us in public health and medicine keep pretending those pushing to end vaccines are fringe conspiracy theorists running around in tinfoil hits, we risk underestimating the intentions and ambitions of a movement that is exceptionally organized, disciplined, and determined”
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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New polling finds that 90% of U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, and about half (51%) say they generally find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not when they get news.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true
Those who report often encountering inaccurate news are more likely than those who rarely or never do to say it’s hard to know what is true (59% vs. 31%).
www.pewresearch.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New polling finds that 90% of U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, and about half (51%) say they generally find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not when they get news.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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🧵People like to characterize MAHA as "stupid," but the people running it aren't stupid - they're talented, successful pitchmen; folks working for "food brands, investment banks, supplement sellers and other companies."
🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling
apnews.com/article/maha...
🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling
apnews.com/article/maha...
Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?
Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are profiting from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.
apnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
🧵People like to characterize MAHA as "stupid," but the people running it aren't stupid - they're talented, successful pitchmen; folks working for "food brands, investment banks, supplement sellers and other companies."
🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling
apnews.com/article/maha...
🔹️"Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling
apnews.com/article/maha...
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October 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Oh my god, the baby is IN her placenta?!? She better get that checked out!!
RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Oh my god, the baby is IN her placenta?!? She better get that checked out!!
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look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists
October 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists