I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR. The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-monovale…

"Electromagnetic hypersensitivity" or "wifi allergies" are fake diagnoses. They're diagnosed in the alternative medicine community to sell you pieces of metal or “detox” diets to protect (scam) you from getting sick from electromagnetic fields (EMF). For example, Joseph

mRNA COVID-19 vaccines don’t cause cancer. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t understand immunology, vaccinology, or how to interpret studies. Hope this helps!

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday digital communications and computing. Read more: abcnews.link/1SKFOa6

🚨 The older the sperm, the more likely it is to cause autism Sequencing sperm using nearly error-free sequencing → measure % sperm carrying disease-causing mutations: 2% at age 30 → 4.5% at 70 Most were autism genes New paper in nature today 🧵

A new Lancet study finds that children reinfected with COVID have more than double the risk of long COVID, including increased heart inflammation, blood clots, kidney injury, and more. These results come as HHS has ended its vaccine recommendation for otherwise healthy children

When humans compete for attention, they get louder, angrier, and more extreme. Turns out, LLMs do the same. A new paper - “Moloch’s Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences” - shows what happens when AI models start fighting for engagement instead of

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan and healthspan of any rodent, nearly 40 years? A 30-year long mystery unraveled Science Magazine today! Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing

Jordan Peterson claims he has CIRS, a pseudoscience condition supposedly caused by “toxic mold” This is a “diagnosis” of the wellness industry. His daughter, Mikhaila, has a history of the same claims. I wrote about this last year in Skeptical Inquirer: skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/toxi…

The ONS have released the full mortality data for 2024. Big fail for turbo cancer.

A non peer reviewed pre-print is not gold standard science. That is little more than a glorified social media post. Let’s see what happens once this is peer reviewed.

'I feel guilty': Former anti-vaxxers horrified by RFK Jr disaster via Alexandria Jacobson Raw Story rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days. nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Sec. Kennedy holds up this non-peer-reviewed preprint as a "rigorous scientific framework that substantiates" his interpretation. But it is not a mechanistic paper, but an explicitly biased narrative review that evaluates studies primarily by agreement with its hypothesis and

Calley Means is a wellness grifter who doesn’t know science. Chimps DO get cancer. Chimps have different expression of genes like p53, that play a role. MOSTLY: They die before they’d get cancer. Captive chimps that live longer? They sure do. Watch ⬇️ youtu.be/TtB3OyuRqs4?si…

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to Save America Movement for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-of…

I took my time reading and writing about the Swedish Tylenol-autism study because I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t just rubber-stamping some results I liked. And now I can confidently say: this paper is very well-done and very well-written. Here's my review.

Cindy and I were joined by Dr Jonathan Howard Jonathan Howard MD discuss his new book, Everyone Else is Lying to You, which explains how the pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders weaponised doubt to normalise quackery and undermine public health. youtu.be/4xgP5Fa_6_8

Dr. John Ioannidis made that false claim about intubation. More...

Snake oil salesmen never went away. Now they're called "wellness coaches," "alternative/integrative/functional medicine practitioners," "energy medicine physicians," etc. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…