Danielle de Barbarac
@danielledebarbarac.bsky.social
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I do biomedical research to help people. When people come in this space making things up, it makes it harder for people not in the field to trust the extensive studies that we do and distinguish fact from fiction. Baseless claims reduce future cures. Willful ignorance drives us backwards.
October 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I do biomedical research to help people. When people come in this space making things up, it makes it harder for people not in the field to trust the extensive studies that we do and distinguish fact from fiction. Baseless claims reduce future cures. Willful ignorance drives us backwards.
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A climatologist
told me it’s not normal
for it to be this hot
right now
An epidemiologist
told me it’s not normal
for so many to be sick
right now
A historian
told me it’s not normal
for the government to be shutdown
right now
It’s not normal,
my friends,
it’s not normal.
told me it’s not normal
for it to be this hot
right now
An epidemiologist
told me it’s not normal
for so many to be sick
right now
A historian
told me it’s not normal
for the government to be shutdown
right now
It’s not normal,
my friends,
it’s not normal.
October 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A climatologist
told me it’s not normal
for it to be this hot
right now
An epidemiologist
told me it’s not normal
for so many to be sick
right now
A historian
told me it’s not normal
for the government to be shutdown
right now
It’s not normal,
my friends,
it’s not normal.
told me it’s not normal
for it to be this hot
right now
An epidemiologist
told me it’s not normal
for so many to be sick
right now
A historian
told me it’s not normal
for the government to be shutdown
right now
It’s not normal,
my friends,
it’s not normal.
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Violet Affleck is to the Covid movement what Greta Thunberg is to climate. Both represent the next generation, are articulate, focused, & grounded in science. That scares people. And there's a gendered aspect to all the vitriol they face
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Violet Affleck is to the Covid movement what Greta Thunberg is to climate. Both represent the next generation, are articulate, focused, & grounded in science. That scares people. And there's a gendered aspect to all the vitriol they face
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I pay my taxes and I don’t get healthcare.
I pay my taxes and schools are four days a week.
I pay my taxes and my road is gravel.
I pay my taxes and they close my hospital.
I pay my taxes and then pay for college tuition.
I pay my taxes and don’t have access to a library.
Red state blues.
I pay my taxes and schools are four days a week.
I pay my taxes and my road is gravel.
I pay my taxes and they close my hospital.
I pay my taxes and then pay for college tuition.
I pay my taxes and don’t have access to a library.
Red state blues.
September 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I pay my taxes and I don’t get healthcare.
I pay my taxes and schools are four days a week.
I pay my taxes and my road is gravel.
I pay my taxes and they close my hospital.
I pay my taxes and then pay for college tuition.
I pay my taxes and don’t have access to a library.
Red state blues.
I pay my taxes and schools are four days a week.
I pay my taxes and my road is gravel.
I pay my taxes and they close my hospital.
I pay my taxes and then pay for college tuition.
I pay my taxes and don’t have access to a library.
Red state blues.
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Oooof an acquaintance just described her kid having COVID, then “three more episodes of fevers but nothing else. Probably just bugs”.
No, lady, that’s COVID rebound and if it is still happening after a month that is very likely long COVID.
I hate what we’re doing to children.
No, lady, that’s COVID rebound and if it is still happening after a month that is very likely long COVID.
I hate what we’re doing to children.
September 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Oooof an acquaintance just described her kid having COVID, then “three more episodes of fevers but nothing else. Probably just bugs”.
No, lady, that’s COVID rebound and if it is still happening after a month that is very likely long COVID.
I hate what we’re doing to children.
No, lady, that’s COVID rebound and if it is still happening after a month that is very likely long COVID.
I hate what we’re doing to children.
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Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained.
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
September 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained.
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
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This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
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RFK Jr. likes to wax nostalgic about how “healthy” America was in the 1960’s. He bases this on one datapoint, the prevalence of obesity.
But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
August 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RFK Jr. likes to wax nostalgic about how “healthy” America was in the 1960’s. He bases this on one datapoint, the prevalence of obesity.
But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
But let’s dip our toes into reality. In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now
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Remember: if anyone says, 'we need to live with Covid' but doesn't also talk about vaccines, therapeutics, and mitigations, they're not actually saying we need to live with it, they're saying, 'I want to ignore it'.
August 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Remember: if anyone says, 'we need to live with Covid' but doesn't also talk about vaccines, therapeutics, and mitigations, they're not actually saying we need to live with it, they're saying, 'I want to ignore it'.
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This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is what the audience for a Long COVID conference looked like today. Notice anything? 😷
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mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
August 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
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A study found
“Hamsters with long Covid
present distinct
transcriptomic profiles
associated with
neurodegenerative
processes in brainstem,”
but if you tell people this
they will laugh
for they are not hamsters,
it’s just a coincidence
that their mind
is always foggy these days.
“Hamsters with long Covid
present distinct
transcriptomic profiles
associated with
neurodegenerative
processes in brainstem,”
but if you tell people this
they will laugh
for they are not hamsters,
it’s just a coincidence
that their mind
is always foggy these days.
July 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A study found
“Hamsters with long Covid
present distinct
transcriptomic profiles
associated with
neurodegenerative
processes in brainstem,”
but if you tell people this
they will laugh
for they are not hamsters,
it’s just a coincidence
that their mind
is always foggy these days.
“Hamsters with long Covid
present distinct
transcriptomic profiles
associated with
neurodegenerative
processes in brainstem,”
but if you tell people this
they will laugh
for they are not hamsters,
it’s just a coincidence
that their mind
is always foggy these days.
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Just to reiterate, the FDA director claimed to *personally* know of *multiple* people who died from mRNA COVID vaccines, and nobody has asked him anything else about that. These cases have never been reported in neither the medical and scientific records, nor literal death records.
When people lie this badly it is so easy to just be like “wow, tell me how one of the people you know died from a vaccine,” bc it’s obviously a lie & he won’t be able to answer bc it’s a lie. I’m not sure why nobody does that to these people? The tiniest amount of pushback would make them fall apart
Pure antivaxx propaganda at this point.
July 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Just to reiterate, the FDA director claimed to *personally* know of *multiple* people who died from mRNA COVID vaccines, and nobody has asked him anything else about that. These cases have never been reported in neither the medical and scientific records, nor literal death records.
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I saw a headline which noted:
“Feeling Hoarse?
You Might Have
the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,”
and I will admit that as of late
I have been feeling hoarse
not from the virus
but because I keep shouting
that the pandemic isn’t over.
“Feeling Hoarse?
You Might Have
the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,”
and I will admit that as of late
I have been feeling hoarse
not from the virus
but because I keep shouting
that the pandemic isn’t over.
July 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I saw a headline which noted:
“Feeling Hoarse?
You Might Have
the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,”
and I will admit that as of late
I have been feeling hoarse
not from the virus
but because I keep shouting
that the pandemic isn’t over.
“Feeling Hoarse?
You Might Have
the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant,”
and I will admit that as of late
I have been feeling hoarse
not from the virus
but because I keep shouting
that the pandemic isn’t over.
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the reason they’re so mad about normalizing a genetic condition which cannot be prevented or reversed is because they are eugenicists
Type 1 Diabetes is not reversible but acknowledging that would get in the way of the ableism that allows the organization our Health Secretary founded to grift off parents of sick kids
July 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
the reason they’re so mad about normalizing a genetic condition which cannot be prevented or reversed is because they are eugenicists
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Opinion pages have done so much damage to public health by platforming contrarians, minimizers, and anti-vaxxers. Have editors learned nothing from the damage they did when they made climate change a false debate?
July 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Opinion pages have done so much damage to public health by platforming contrarians, minimizers, and anti-vaxxers. Have editors learned nothing from the damage they did when they made climate change a false debate?
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PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.
July 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
PSA: There’s a difference between wearing a mask or respirator & wearing a gaiter or face covering to disguise identity. It’s important to discern & communicate this nuance because if you don’t, you might encourage elected officials to ban masks for everyone, which would be a public health disaster.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.