
SkeptVet
@SkeptVet
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Skeptical veterinarian promoting science-based pet health
Joined November 2009
Could President Trump really use the U.S. military against Americans? https://t.co/4pkCjE8E7V
npr.org
National security scholar Tom Nichols argues that Trump has taken control of the nation's intelligence and justice systems and is now testing the military's independence.
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The CDC has been gutted. I'm telling you now. The US will NOT be ready for the next pandemic
Friday night massacre. The CDC just lost dozens of its top scientists and its entire D.C. office. This isn’t streamlining the government - it’s dismantling our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks before they spread. You can’t cut your way to safety.
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What we die from vs what we hear in the news. Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.
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They are building a Propaganda State. They are cooking the books on job creation. Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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Friday night massacre. The CDC just lost dozens of its top scientists and its entire D.C. office. This isn’t streamlining the government - it’s dismantling our ability to detect and respond to outbreaks before they spread. You can’t cut your way to safety.
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Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle): The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
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Science Under Siege - a rallying cry against the 'forces of darkness' | Great review of my new book with @PeterHotez, #ScienceUnderSiege, by @clivecookson for the Financial Times (@FT) (paywalled):
ft.com
Two scientists go where many fear to tread in the fight against far-right disinformation on climate and vaccines
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A reminder that the media thrives on emotional response, and this skews the topics covered in a misleading way. Heart attacks are "boring" compared to terrorism, but this coverage bias drives inaccurate understanding of risk.
How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles. In the
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The current state of science in the US is happening because science is bad for tyrants. It always has been. A populace that has a better understanding of the world around it is a populace that is much harder to rule by fear. And that is why the scientific infrastructure in the
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Today, SiX Surgeon Generals in keeping with those oaths, have felt compelled to speak against the actions of HHS and RFK Jr.
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“We’ve watched with alarm as the foundations of our nation’s public health system have been undermined. Science and expertise have taken a back seat to ideology and misinformation. Morale has plummeted in our health agencies, and talent is fleeing.” 👇🏽 https://t.co/CSw6TPHn7N
washingtonpost.com
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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Overstating vaccine risks, and now calling for splitting MMR into three separate shots for no medical reason whatsoever. It’s why every single medical society and major state collaborations like the West Coast Health Alliance are ignoring this CDC.
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Those who received SARS-CoV-2 vaccination showed a substantial reduction in all-cause mortality. You can’t get cancer when you’re already dead. It’s called survivor bias - the longer you live, the more likely you are to be diagnosed with something. https://t.co/rxnwt0ePzg
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I knew it. ACIP will deschedule the MMR in favor of monovalents that don't exist and won't get approved because the FDA will require placebo-controlled trials that can't ethically be carried out. The end result is bye bye MMR vaccine, hello measles, mumps, and rubella.
Thank you @POTUS for your leadership. I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the combined MMR and “break up the MMR shot into three totally separate shots.”
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Jim O'Neill, acting director of the CDC, just made an irresponsible announcement about the MMR vaccine. This is a 2-minute rebuttal to his request.
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Grrr... More doubtmongering noise. Acting CDC director calls for MMR vaccine to be broken up into three shots https://t.co/TPJi8Kvllh
@statnews "NO evidence that giving shots separately for measles, mumps, and rubella offers any advantage in terms of safety or effectiveness."
statnews.com
There's no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective.
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It’s wild how people think they’re being “natural” while taking 12 unregulated supplements made in a factory with zero clinical oversight. 🤷🏽♀️
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In women who were vaccinated against HPV, the risk of infection dropped by 98%! HPV causes cervical, anal, throat and mouth cancers. In other words: the HPV vaccines SIGNIFICANTLY reduces your chance of cancer. Amazing! #vaccineswork
https://t.co/VwUHIvjJWZ
jamanetwork.com
This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at...
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