Timothy Caulfield (@caulfieldtim) 's Twitter Profile
Timothy Caulfield

@caulfieldtim

Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and TV host. #GoScience #ScienceUpFirst
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RFK Jr.’s stance on Covid vaccines for pregnant women is profoundly unethical statnews.com/2025/06/03/cov… via STAT "Covid vaccines in pregnancy offer an established benefit to pregnant women and their babies." "Millions of pregnant women have received Covid mRNA vaccines in

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Misinformation does harm. Doubtmongering does harm. Junk "science" does harm. Measles Vaccination Rates Are Plummeting Across the U.S. time.com/7290450/measle… We must push back against the darkness.

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Very, very obviously MAHA ain't interested in tackling chronic disease. BS "science" & political grandstanding ain't a health strategy. Dismantling CDC’s chronic disease center ‘looks pretty devastating’ to public health experts statnews.com/2025/06/04/cdc… by Elizabeth Cooney via

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"Natural" ≠ Better! The Caveman Skin Trend on TikTok is Clean Beauty at its Worst  thekit.ca/beauty/skin/ti… b Carli Whitwell Me: "...that idea of ‘caveman,’ returning to this mythical past where allegedly things were better—where we died at age 22 from an infectious disease…”

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Removing recommendations that pregnant women & kids get #Covid shots by secretarial fiat rather than a science-based consultation process is "both absurd and dangerous," lawyers Sara Rosenbaum & Richard Hughes argue in STAT.com. statnews.com/2025/06/04/rfk…

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Google searches for information about cancer lead to targeted ads from alternative clinics theconversation.com/google-searche… by Sandro Marcon (AR Marcon) Marco Zenone via The Conversation Canada "It’s imperative that Google take action to restrict its ads mechanism from being used in this exploitative manner."

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How to destroy a country’s knowledge base, damage science, slow efforts to combat chronic disease, and worsen public health? 👇👇👇👇

How to destroy a country’s knowledge base, damage science, slow efforts to combat chronic disease, and worsen public health? 

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Kennedy Says ‘Charlatans’ Are No Reason to Block Unproven Stem Cell Treatments nytimes.com/2025/06/05/hea… by Christina Jewett Me: “For him to say, ‘There are problems with Big Pharma, so we want our opportunity to be bad actors too,’ it doesn’t make any sense.” ISSCR: "It is critical

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The antivaxx / anti-science / anti-health agenda rolls forward... Rewriting of Covid vaccine recommendations has doctors & other experts worried statnews.com/2025/06/05/rfk… by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 via STAT It "will make the effort to get vaccine doses into arms exponentially more

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In 2020 & 2021, I was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT working on COVID vaccines. I was also pregnant. I was in one of the early waves of essential workers to recieve the COVID vaccine. I was safer, and my baby (now 3.5yo daughter) was safer, as a result. I'd do it again in ...

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Syphilis is currently increasing alarmingly fast in Canada and raising your awareness on syphilis is one of the things you can do to help prevent it. Read the full post to learn all the basics on syphilis 👇 scienceupfirst.com/sexual-health/… #ScienceUpFirst

Syphilis is currently increasing alarmingly fast in Canada and raising your awareness on syphilis is one of the things you can do to help prevent it.

Read the full post to learn all the basics on syphilis 👇
scienceupfirst.com/sexual-health/…

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Next up: deporting Big Foot & ensuring Medicaid coverage for alien abductees. Just kidding. They're taking away their coverage too. Seriously tho... This? 👇 Louisiana lawmakers push to ban ‘chemtrails’, citing conspiracy theory aol.com/louisiana-lawm…

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Yep. Race a social construct. Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih… Lead author: “all communication related to the paper is under review by HHS, and we do not have approval to participate in press interviews.” Sigh.

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Yet more longevity hype debunked... Taurine, a darling of longevity seekers, is found to be unreliable biomarker for aging statnews.com/2025/06/05/tau… via STAT "The data are a reminder of just how messy and complicated longevity studies can be, and how elusive treatments, or

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So many fake reviews... Why fake online reviews still fool consumers eurekalert.org/news-releases/… "Even when told in advance that half the reviews were fabricated, participants consistently classified the majority of reviews as real." “This illustrates the power of truth bias..."

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Detoxing? De-Alkalised? So much harmful bunk. Cancer ‘influencers’ using social media to spread misinformation thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/… by Poppy Koronka "...doctors were 'losing the battle for information', leaving patients to fall prey to bogus treatments advertised online."

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#Meow! 😻 How 'therapy cats' can reduce stress and teach emotional regulation abc.net.au/news/2025-06-0… "Cats can have a really calming and gentle presence in the therapy room..." #TeamCats!

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Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ nature.com/articles/d4158… via nature Retraction Watch "I don’t think anything is more of an immediate threat to people than bad medical research."

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RFK Jr. acknowledges receiving unproven stem cell treatment statnews.com/2025/06/06/rfk… by Paul Knoepfler via STAT "Even with arguably careful agency regulation of cell and gene therapies to date, we have seen some new approaches lead to serious adverse events..."