S. Schmidt, MD
@esssquared.bsky.social
Emergency Physician, husband, father
Fascists tell Nazi “jokes.” And fascists excuse them as well.
Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
October 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fascists tell Nazi “jokes.” And fascists excuse them as well.
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If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
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RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”
PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…
…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”
PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…
…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
RFK Jr: “Research on vaccines and autism has been suppressed.”
PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…
…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”
PubMed: “Here’s over 1200 research papers on vaccines and autism…
…including this first one which is a meta-analysis showing that vaccines are not associated with autism.”
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The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
Couldn’t say it any better.
September 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Couldn’t say it any better.
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AUTISM and TYLENOL
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
AUTISM and TYLENOL
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
A study of 2.5 million children showed a small association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism—but this finding DISAPPEARED when full siblings were compared.
“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism…”
Full article:
Truth.
Those of us who said Trump was a fascist got scolded for overreacting, catastrophizing, exaggerating, taking him too seriously.
But we were right.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
But we were right.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-were-ri...
We Were Right
The savvy scolds said lefties were overreacting to Trump a year ago, and calling him "fascist" was crazy. How's that looking now?
paulwaldman.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Truth.
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Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.
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Of course, many reports of ICE thugs grabbing American citizens, brutalizing them & throwing them into detention ignoring their pleas that they are citizens. One can imagine this from Kavanaugh: “There is no problem requiring Jews to wear yellow stars. It’s just to identify them. No harm no foul”
This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:
September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Of course, many reports of ICE thugs grabbing American citizens, brutalizing them & throwing them into detention ignoring their pleas that they are citizens. One can imagine this from Kavanaugh: “There is no problem requiring Jews to wear yellow stars. It’s just to identify them. No harm no foul”
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I’ll be blunt: no respectable media outlet should be providing a platform for Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
He is nothing but a factory for anti-science propaganda. He has nothing of worth to convey to the public.
He is nothing but a factory for anti-science propaganda. He has nothing of worth to convey to the public.
September 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I’ll be blunt: no respectable media outlet should be providing a platform for Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.
He is nothing but a factory for anti-science propaganda. He has nothing of worth to convey to the public.
He is nothing but a factory for anti-science propaganda. He has nothing of worth to convey to the public.
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1. There are a few things I would like normal people to bear in mind tomorrow after they follow news coverage of congressional testimony by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Kennedy to testify before Congress next week amid CDC tumult - Roll Call
Kennedy to testify before Congress next week amid CDC tumult - Uncategorized HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify in Congress amid key CDC departures
rollcall.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
1. There are a few things I would like normal people to bear in mind tomorrow after they follow news coverage of congressional testimony by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr.
rollcall.com/2025/08/28/k...
rollcall.com/2025/08/28/k...
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Florida’s decision to end school vaccine mandates is devastating for children.
They have no agency. They’re relying on adults to protect them.
Many will end up disabled, chronically ill or dying from completely preventable diseases.
It’s eugenics and it’s targeting the most vulnerable
They have no agency. They’re relying on adults to protect them.
Many will end up disabled, chronically ill or dying from completely preventable diseases.
It’s eugenics and it’s targeting the most vulnerable
September 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Florida’s decision to end school vaccine mandates is devastating for children.
They have no agency. They’re relying on adults to protect them.
Many will end up disabled, chronically ill or dying from completely preventable diseases.
It’s eugenics and it’s targeting the most vulnerable
They have no agency. They’re relying on adults to protect them.
Many will end up disabled, chronically ill or dying from completely preventable diseases.
It’s eugenics and it’s targeting the most vulnerable
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Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
www.thenation.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Caroline Kennedy warned us about her cousin #RFKJr, "a predator" presiding over "perverse scenes" of "despair and violence." His youth was the origin story of a new American Psycho. Now he is the position to inflict pain and suffering on millions. He has to go now. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
Shameful.
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RFK Jr.'s shameful betrayal of the world's children.
RFK Jr.'s shameful betrayal of the world's children.
RFK Jr.’s Cruelest Cut of All
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just eliminated U.S. vaccine funding for the world’s children. Why?
open.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Shameful.
Must be Trump Derangement Syndrome 🤨
July 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Must be Trump Derangement Syndrome 🤨
This is insane. Predictable, but insane. The Republican Party cowards who enabled this now own it.
Learned some more about a few of these dangerous new ACIP people
June 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
This is insane. Predictable, but insane. The Republican Party cowards who enabled this now own it.
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You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.
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RFK Jr has created distrust around vaccines & legitimate scientific experts for DECADES to build his multi-million dollar empire.
Firing ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies won’t fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
Read my latest & share:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
Firing ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies won’t fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
Read my latest & share:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
RFK Jr. destroyed vaccine trust for decades and now claims he is going to restore it?
RFK Jr has made millions targeting vaccines. Firing CDC’s ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies will not fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
news.immunologic.org
June 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
RFK Jr has created distrust around vaccines & legitimate scientific experts for DECADES to build his multi-million dollar empire.
Firing ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies won’t fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
Read my latest & share:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
Firing ACIP to install anti-vaccine allies won’t fix anything: it will allow him to finish the job.
Read my latest & share:
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-des...
Anti-vaxxers in charge attempting to kill pregnant women and their babies. At least ACOG and actual doctors continue to do the right thing.
Despite CDC’s recent update, ACOG continues to strongly recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in any trimester and during lactation. The vaccine is safe, effective, and protects parents and infants, especially in the first six months of the infant’s life. Learn more: bit.ly/3RWsM3z
June 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Anti-vaxxers in charge attempting to kill pregnant women and their babies. At least ACOG and actual doctors continue to do the right thing.
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I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
June 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n