The cruelty is the point as Adam Serwer 🍝 of The Atlantic accurately observed during Trump's 1st term. And that was just the warm-up.

Took the The Times Of India to ask the obvious question. Maybe because so many Indians know what #polio looks like since it wasn't declared eradicated there until 2023. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/hea…

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism | my interview with Rivka Galchen in ⁦The New Yorker⁩ re: ⁦Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance⁩ and the tragic globalization of antivaccine activism newyorker.com/science/elemen…

Established autism researchers who have been doing the work for 30 years point out that Kennedy is ignoring the work done, repeating debunked claims, and undermining actual research into autism, explain John Donvan and Caren Zucker in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/… A recent resignation at the CDC came with a frightening warning.

For those catching up, David Armstrong's #ProPublica piece about #Revlimid is stunning reporting. In the mid-50s, some of #JonasSalk's peers accused him of basing his polio vaccine, which he never patented, on earlier research. Now building on earlier work nets companies &

#Virulent is now available for classroom use with a study guide created at CUNY Grad School of Public Health & Health Policy to help get the conversation rolling and a shorter running time. Bullfrog Films offers low-cost licenses to high schools and community colleges. educationworld.com/teachers/what-…

An effective antidote to disinformation is the nonprofit The Public Good Projects #TrustedMessenger program led by tireless communicator & humanitarian Dr. Todd Wolynn. Follow them on LinkedIn and help spread the word. linkedin.com/company/truste…

There are days, okay, weeks, when we just feel like burying our heads in the sand. Fortunately, there's Paul Offit. His substack is always worth reading, but today's is particularly insightful.

To paraphrase one of our experts, Dr. John Williams, chair of #pediatrics at UW–Madison, the big money's in drugs like #Viagra or those for chronic conditions. Any physician administering vaccines for profit was likely at the bottom of his/her math class.

Oh, the irony! Watch #VaxWar movie on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=pgj6sD… cnn.com/2025/07/22/hea…

#RFKJr grabbing headlines over synthetic dyes is low-hanging #MAHA fruit. Remove them & the foods containing them are still ultra-processed junk. Faded Froot Loops and Dull Doritos: Is Big Food Losing the War on Dyes? nytimes.com/2025/07/28/pod…

RFKJr. doesn't know what he doesn't know including that he is rarely the smartest one in the room. Another great piece by Paul Offit. Grateful to Paul and Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) for their relentlessness despite a never-ending tsunami of lies.

What would Jonas Salk say if he could see us now? | Opinion sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/18/wha…