After Secretary Kennedy brought up Cod Liver Oil I said it's not a treatment for measles (it really isn't) Of course, his twitter supporters & antivaxxers brought up a study that shows cod liver oil works! Its from 1932! But in some ways, that proves my point 🧵1/3

Culling America’s scientific talent and capacity to fund illegal impoundment.

The Texas-New Mexico #measles outbreak has claimed a second life. Unvaccinated adult. Measles is not a benign ailment. The only way to prevent it is vaccination. nmhealth.org/news/alert/202…

Demographic and health surveys have been the foundation of almost all global health work. Now gone. Great explanation by Apoorva Mandavilli nytimes.com/2025/02/26/hea…

RFK Jr is not a trustworthy source about vaccine efficacy or zoonosis, particularly for H5N1 in chickens. His claim that poultry vaccination will "turn those birds into mutant factories" is incorrect & I've got receipts 👇 h/t Alexander Tin cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-va…

Brilliant reporting by Stephanie Nolen on how TB programs all over the world are collapsing because of the sudden dismantling of USAID. nytimes.com/2025/03/11/hea…

Pete Marocco and the Trump administration still owe Congress answers on their dismantling of USAID and undermining of US foreign assistance.   Read the letter House Foreign Ranking Members sent to Marocco on their outstanding questions:

I just watched the whole RFK Jr—Hannity interview where they discuss measles. I don't know what to say. I'm really just speechless. Listening to health leadership bungle basic facts at best—and tell outright lies about long-settled science at worst—is just SO disappointing.

Whoa—sometimes speaking up actually works! axios.com/2025/03/13/whi…

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

“I work for the president. I need to do what the president tells me to do,” Dudek said, according to the recording obtained by ProPublica. “I’ve had to make some tough choices, choices I didn’t agree with, but the president wanted it and I did it.” propublica.org/article/record…

Illegal impoundment, looking for retroactive justification that doesn’t exist, is still illegal impoundment. Requests to NOT SPEND appropriated funds must go to Congress. Exclusive: Inside USAID's postmortem program review devex.com/news/exclusive… #Devex via @Devex

“The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens” 🐢🐢🐢John Green🐢🐢🐢 outlines why the U.S. withdrawal of foreign aid for fighting diseases like tuberculosis will haunt us Gift link for ⁦The Atlantic⁩ ⬇️ theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The author John Green on how Trump cuts to aid will kill TB patients — and what we can do about it. vox.com/future-perfect…

Live Science spoke with author John Green about his latest book, which explores both the history and current realities of tuberculosis. livescience.com/health/viruses…

On Tuesday, prominent author and personality John Green published his new nonfiction book "Everything Is Tuberculosis." Carole Mitnick, professor of global health and social medicine, calls the disease the "quintessential marker of inequity." #Harvard harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/future…

Even in 2025, some things still shock. Like the apparent selection of a long-time vaccine opponent who was disciplined & fined for practicing medicine without a license to conduct a new HHS study into whether there's a link between vaccines and autism. statnews.com/2025/03/26/rfk…

I don't write about this in The Feather Detective, but once while hanging around Smithsonian's Feather ID Lab, I noticed a book about Bong Joon Ho's "Snowpiercer." Seemed out of place but turns out Roxie Laybourne inspired the costume for Minister Mason, played by Tilda Swinton

Universities ranked by research output...look closely. Now that Harvard University has been kneecapped, there will be no U.S. university left in the top ten. Hats off to China. nature.com/nature-index/i…