Janet Golden
@jgolden08.bsky.social
Retired, mom, historian, political activist, perpetual piano student
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After Marty Makary claimed, with no evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic.
Now Prasad is making the same claims.
These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Now Prasad is making the same claims.
These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Scientific evidence shows no link between COVID19 vaccines and child deaths | Defend Public Health
In response to claims by the Trump administration that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric deaths, Defend Public Health reviewed the scientific evidence from rigorous vaccine safety surveillance syst...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
After Marty Makary claimed, with no evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic.
Now Prasad is making the same claims.
These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Now Prasad is making the same claims.
These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.
Hegseth issued an illegal Caribbean strike order: “Kill them all.”
SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.
Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.
Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.
#WarCrimes
SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.
Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.
Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.
#WarCrimes
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.
A brain injury specialist on science denialism and anosognosia (brain injury). Similar presentations, different causes and responses: elizabethsandelmd.com/insights/fly...
Flying in the Face of Facts: Denialism, Anosognosia, and the Human Brain - Elizabeth Sandel, M.D.
When someone refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality, they call upon irrational thought processes and behaviors that produce denialism. People sometimes process information to reach conclu...
elizabethsandelmd.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A brain injury specialist on science denialism and anosognosia (brain injury). Similar presentations, different causes and responses: elizabethsandelmd.com/insights/fly...
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This is it for me. I'm not interested in whether she's a good writer (she's not) or *why* she's a trainwreck (yes, sketchy older men conditioned this behavior, sure; also she was 31 in 2024) or what she *thought* she was doing ($). This is the actual impact.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is it for me. I'm not interested in whether she's a good writer (she's not) or *why* she's a trainwreck (yes, sketchy older men conditioned this behavior, sure; also she was 31 in 2024) or what she *thought* she was doing ($). This is the actual impact.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
newrepublic.com/article/2035....
A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
newrepublic.com/article/2035....
A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
Ministry of Truth strikes again.
Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89
Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Ministry of Truth strikes again.
Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89
Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89
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For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement.
You can read it below.
You can read it below.
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement.
You can read it below.
You can read it below.
How to increase HIV deaths through budget cuts: billypenn.com/2025/11/18/h...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
Funding cuts threaten people in Philly living with HIV
Organizations that provide services like HIV education and living recommendations are being forced to cut programming after funding cuts
billypenn.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How to increase HIV deaths through budget cuts: billypenn.com/2025/11/18/h...
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
My cousin had this board game. It did not have squares for “buy a pardon,” “bypass Congress,” or “answer to billionaire donors.” Needs updating.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My cousin had this board game. It did not have squares for “buy a pardon,” “bypass Congress,” or “answer to billionaire donors.” Needs updating.
apnews.com/article/nih-...? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
apnews.com/article/nih-...? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
apnews.com/article/abor...? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.
South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
apnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
apnews.com/article/abor...? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.
THIS WEEK'S WHOPPER:
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. SAYS HE GETS FAN-MAIL FROM DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS, THE LETTERS SENT TO CONGRESS ACTUALLY ASK FOR HIS RESIGNATION
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
Earlier this year, visitors to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg, noticed something missing. Two panels honoring Black American soldiers who fought and served in World War ...
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
@swingleft.bsky.social @swingleftphl.bsky.social A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
@swingleft.bsky.social @swingleftphl.bsky.social A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!
Truly Orwellian www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov
In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information
available on US government websites. We conducted a content analysis of the website
womenshealth.gov between Janu...
www.thelancet.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Truly Orwellian www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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We are urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” without discernible qualifications to be Surgeon General & who seems to make most of her living peddling unproven products
Senate Must Reject Casey Means as Surgeon General, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
With her confirmation hearing scheduled for this morning, Defend Public Health is urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” with...
www.defendpublichealth.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We are urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Casey Means as U.S. Surgeon General. Means is a “health influencer” without discernible qualifications to be Surgeon General & who seems to make most of her living peddling unproven products
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Why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by @drjudystone.bsky.social and Dr. Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...
Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
The vaccination status of health care workers under 65 has profound implications for millions of Americans.
www.statnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Why ALL HCWs should be vaccinated against Covid--by @drjudystone.bsky.social and Dr. Judith Feinberg. www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/c...
Our scary public health environment gets scarier every single day. We have to keep fighting the lies. abcnews.go.com/US/video/tex...
Video Texas attorney general sues makers of Tylenol over alleged autism claims
Last month, President Trump claimed that Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to an increased risk of autism, despite limited evidence to suggest an association.
abcnews.go.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our scary public health environment gets scarier every single day. We have to keep fighting the lies. abcnews.go.com/US/video/tex...
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Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey y’all! NEXT THURSDAY, in lieu of our usual SFS general meeting, we will be having an info session for ANY STUDENT interested in science advocacy! High school, undergraduate, and graduate students welcome. ANY SCHOOL, ANY STATE, ANY MAJOR!
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