Geoff Holm
@ghholm.bsky.social
Virologist and undergraduate educator
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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 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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...
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One of several reasons we are moving forward with impeachment instead of continued toothless calls for resignation: we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of harm caused by this man.
Sign you name to endorse the articles and pester your reps here: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Sign you name to endorse the articles and pester your reps here: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One of several reasons we are moving forward with impeachment instead of continued toothless calls for resignation: we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of harm caused by this man.
Sign you name to endorse the articles and pester your reps here: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Sign you name to endorse the articles and pester your reps here: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
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It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
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Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism
A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...
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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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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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A brief bluetorial about VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)
Self-reported data about adverse effects occurring contemporaneously with vaccinations are useful but have many limitations
Self-reported data about adverse effects occurring contemporaneously with vaccinations are useful but have many limitations
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A brief bluetorial about VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System)
Self-reported data about adverse effects occurring contemporaneously with vaccinations are useful but have many limitations
Self-reported data about adverse effects occurring contemporaneously with vaccinations are useful but have many limitations
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My latest commentary with the Baker Institute @riceuniversity.bsky.social
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...
New COVID-19 Vaccine Restrictions and Their Impact | Baker Institute
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines to protect against the latest strain. Unlike earlier rollouts, this authorization comes with added restrictions. In ...
www.bakerinstitute.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My latest commentary with the Baker Institute @riceuniversity.bsky.social
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/new...
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“I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.”
If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp.
www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp.
www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
Opinion | Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me
I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.
www.wsj.com
September 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“I was told to preapprove the recommendations of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.”
If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp.
www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
If ACIP recs are approved without reviewing evidence, it’s not an advisory panel. It’s a rubber stamp.
www.wsj.com/opinion/robe...
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Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery.
Florida parents, pushback is on you.
Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Florida parents, pushback is on you.
Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so
Florida Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo criticized school vaccine mandates, which every state has, and likened them to slavery.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Preventing polio in schoolchildren is slavery.
Florida parents, pushback is on you.
Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Florida parents, pushback is on you.
Freedom measles. Freedom polio, now. Get mad — you don’t have to be polite with extremist nutjobs like this.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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I've held conversations with skeptical parents. I've fielded questions about mRNA vaccines during COVID. I will do so again and again. They deserve my time.
These Merchants of Death -- politicians and grifters who exploit anxiety for their own profit and ideology -- get NONE of my grace.
These Merchants of Death -- politicians and grifters who exploit anxiety for their own profit and ideology -- get NONE of my grace.
September 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I've held conversations with skeptical parents. I've fielded questions about mRNA vaccines during COVID. I will do so again and again. They deserve my time.
These Merchants of Death -- politicians and grifters who exploit anxiety for their own profit and ideology -- get NONE of my grace.
These Merchants of Death -- politicians and grifters who exploit anxiety for their own profit and ideology -- get NONE of my grace.
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For all the attn to RFK Jr. as HHS Sec, FL SG Joseph Ladapo was the canary in the coalmine/early test case of what happens when antivax/anti-sci types get appointed in positions of power. Desantis appointee that legitimated his policies, but I still wldn't have guessed DeSantis wld go this far.
Florida surgeon general says state will eliminate all vaccine mandates
"Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery," Joseph Ladapo said. "Who am I to tell you what your child should put in [their] body?"
www.nbcnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
For all the attn to RFK Jr. as HHS Sec, FL SG Joseph Ladapo was the canary in the coalmine/early test case of what happens when antivax/anti-sci types get appointed in positions of power. Desantis appointee that legitimated his policies, but I still wldn't have guessed DeSantis wld go this far.
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September 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
We're hiring! We are offering a tenure-stream assistant professor position in Genomics! Come join our engaged, collegial department and teach and mentor some fantastic undergraduates on our beautiful campus in central New York! Applications are due October 10: apply.interfolio.com/173010 #genomics
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False.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
September 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
False.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
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RFK Jr will testify before the Senate Finance committee on Thursday.
Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
False.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
Early post-dose adverse events are not wholesale reassigned to the unvaccinated group; they are tracked explicitly (often as partially vaccinated or by days since dose).
This man is either dumb or lying. You tell me.
September 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
RFK Jr will testify before the Senate Finance committee on Thursday.
Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
Should be interesting. Hopefully the Senators are ready to hold his feet to the fire and flatly call out his lies.
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“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.”
-almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
-almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield
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 2:53 PM
“This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings.”
-almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
-almost every former living CDC Director with the conspicuous exception of lab leaker-turned-anti-vax fabulist Robert Redfield
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills
Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy, one of the world's foremost experts on public health, is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization committed to the scientific method
August 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills
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Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Write members of Congress - Will COVID-19 vaccines be available this fall?
It is clear that HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is on a dangerous and fast-moving path to make COVID-19 vaccines totally unavailable here in the U.S. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in many parts of the US an...
actionnetwork.org
August 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
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This is RFK Jr.'s doing. He must go. He's coming for your children's vaccines next. The US is going to be one, big Petri dish soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This is RFK Jr.'s doing. He must go. He's coming for your children's vaccines next. The US is going to be one, big Petri dish soon enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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#RFKResign
RFK Jr is corrupt. He’s paid by law firms that sue vaccine companies. It’s a conflict of interest for him to blow up vaccines: he profits from that. Resign or be impeached and removed.
RFK Jr is corrupt. He’s paid by law firms that sue vaccine companies. It’s a conflict of interest for him to blow up vaccines: he profits from that. Resign or be impeached and removed.
Massive walkout underway at CDC.
RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
August 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#RFKResign
RFK Jr is corrupt. He’s paid by law firms that sue vaccine companies. It’s a conflict of interest for him to blow up vaccines: he profits from that. Resign or be impeached and removed.
RFK Jr is corrupt. He’s paid by law firms that sue vaccine companies. It’s a conflict of interest for him to blow up vaccines: he profits from that. Resign or be impeached and removed.
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Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and @blumenthal.senate.gov, Connecticut native, constituent, and Yale public health professor here: this is the right moment. I will literally do anything. Make me wait 10 hours for a 2 minute walk and talk meeting with your lowliest intern, and I will make the case.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...