aka vicka
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aka vicka
@werpiper.bsky.social
neuroscientist, horseback riding instructor, writer, and freak. very short. it/she/they or neopronouns; i'm not super fussy. citations to my peer-reviewed publications should use "she".
.... this doesn't help; it's just the same person making the same claim, without further references.

what i want is actual data about how suppressing the immune response affects or doesn't affect vaccine efficacy in immune-competent people.

provide or don't, but don't play silly buggers.
May 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Reposted by aka vicka
Even though CBS News plagiarized my first scoop in this series, the fact that Trump's nominee for surgeon general lied for years about every relevant aspect of her qualifications is getting relatively little attention—and her confirmation hearing is on Thursday:
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open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...
Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Distorted Key Parts of Her Résumé
Nesheiwat falsified, misled, selectively omitted, or lied about her medical education, board certifications, and military experience
open.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
but we're not talking about lc here? we're talking about whether or not pre-vaccine diphenhydramine is good advice. i quote you:

>I HAVE A CONCLUSIVE PAPER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO WHINE AT ME ABOUT MY FUCKING DIPHENHYDRAMINE PRE-VACCINE ADVICE NOW

i don't think that's justified by that paper.
May 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reposted by aka vicka
Trump's budget proposal calls for a 40% cut to NIH because it has not disproven the lab leak hypothesis! The language is very similar to Vought's Center for Renewing America budget proposal from a couple of years ago.

Nothing about the actual science that NIH is producing!
May 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i'm concerned re this line from the paper:

> MCs function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).

which implies that benadryl would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
i'm concerned re this line from the paper:

> MCs function as sentinels to recognize invaded pathogens and regulate the innate and adaptive immune responses (1, 6–8).

which implies that benadryl would inhibit the immune responses that vaccines are *for*. would this reduce efficacy?
May 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM