@pmjmd.bsky.social
Academic primary care pediatrician, now retired. Focus on community peds and advocacy. Perpetually curious about everything. #MedSky #MedicalEducation
ACIP. The person presenting on aluminum adjuvants was at least responsible enough to note that she was not an expert in that field. She also didn't seem to know about the common use of multiple-antigen vaccines, and seemed to imply that each antigen would incur its own dose of aluminum adjuvant.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ACIP. The person presenting on aluminum adjuvants was at least responsible enough to note that she was not an expert in that field. She also didn't seem to know about the common use of multiple-antigen vaccines, and seemed to imply that each antigen would incur its own dose of aluminum adjuvant.
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“I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust [in science] other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost."
~ Dr. Paul Offit
~ Dr. Paul Offit
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
“I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust [in science] other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost."
~ Dr. Paul Offit
~ Dr. Paul Offit
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Great things happen when you read with your baby.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Great things happen when you read with your baby.
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“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.”
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
June 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.”
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
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This is how headlines should read if our news media was actually doing their job.
May 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is how headlines should read if our news media was actually doing their job.
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Trump’s “Pope image” wasn’t just trolling—though it certainly was that. It was also a display of narcissistic power. A message: I can mock your faith, and you’ll still serve me. He’s made his disdain for Christians clear over the years.
May 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Trump’s “Pope image” wasn’t just trolling—though it certainly was that. It was also a display of narcissistic power. A message: I can mock your faith, and you’ll still serve me. He’s made his disdain for Christians clear over the years.
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Chest is a superb scientific journal to which I regular submit some of my best science. This letter is an obvious travesty
I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is
I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is
1. This is so poorly written that the sentence that is -- I think -- supposed to convey a semi-veiled legal threat is incomprehensible.
2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.
2. I'm jealous of whichever lawyer gets to write the response.
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Chest is a superb scientific journal to which I regular submit some of my best science. This letter is an obvious travesty
I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is
I hope @accpchest.bsky.social treats it as the travesty it is
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2025 NCAA - Division 1 NCAA - NATIONAL CHAMP12NS
April 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
2025 NCAA - Division 1 NCAA - NATIONAL CHAMP12NS
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Was sent this article by @iwashyna.bsky.social by a trainee colleague after we diagnosed acute dying
I’d read it before, but the quote in the concluding paragraph still stuns
“A dying person needs to die like an exhausted person needs to sleep”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7640621/
I’d read it before, but the quote in the concluding paragraph still stuns
“A dying person needs to die like an exhausted person needs to sleep”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7640621/
April 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Was sent this article by @iwashyna.bsky.social by a trainee colleague after we diagnosed acute dying
I’d read it before, but the quote in the concluding paragraph still stuns
“A dying person needs to die like an exhausted person needs to sleep”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7640621/
I’d read it before, but the quote in the concluding paragraph still stuns
“A dying person needs to die like an exhausted person needs to sleep”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7640621/
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New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines.
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How Kennedy is already weakening America's childhood vaccine system
The Department of Health and Human Services cut $2 billion from a program that supports vaccines for vulnerable children, forcing public health departments to lay off staff and cancel clinics.
www.nbcnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New: HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said he wouldn’t take away childhood vaccines.
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Then he cut $2 billion from state health programs that helps get them to kids.
Clinics canceled. Nurses fired. Immunizations stalled—all amid a measles outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
propub.li
March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Drs. Bhattacharya and Marshall attempted the same act of disinformation in the hearing today. Did you notice? They each referenced a need to remedy mismanagement at the NIH as an assumption of truth, without offering any proof of such mismanagement. Classic disinformation technique.
March 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Drs. Bhattacharya and Marshall attempted the same act of disinformation in the hearing today. Did you notice? They each referenced a need to remedy mismanagement at the NIH as an assumption of truth, without offering any proof of such mismanagement. Classic disinformation technique.
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.
“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”
@kyivindependent.com
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Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.
February 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.
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The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.
February 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The DHS will use polygraphs to question employees about communications with the media or nonprofit organizations in an effort to root out members of the resistance.
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A historic event will take place later this week: on 8 February, the Baltic states will officially leave the Russian-fed power grid and will synchronize with the grid of Continental Europe.
Congratulations to the great geostrategist Putin.
Congratulations to the great geostrategist Putin.
February 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A historic event will take place later this week: on 8 February, the Baltic states will officially leave the Russian-fed power grid and will synchronize with the grid of Continental Europe.
Congratulations to the great geostrategist Putin.
Congratulations to the great geostrategist Putin.
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SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
The documentary was produced by a filmmaker tied to Russian propaganda efforts.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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You’re going to see some news articles saying THOUSANDS of feds are resigning. Um. Ya. We do data. We know what 1% of 3 million looks like. And it's a damn sight smaller than 10%. Keep it up people! As Trump installs his amoral henchmen the American people need us more than ever. Hold the line.
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You’re going to see some news articles saying THOUSANDS of feds are resigning. Um. Ya. We do data. We know what 1% of 3 million looks like. And it's a damn sight smaller than 10%. Keep it up people! As Trump installs his amoral henchmen the American people need us more than ever. Hold the line.
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Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF
February 4, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF