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Promoting health and science and resistance against pseudoscience, disinformation, and fascism.

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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 13h
Just one example of why patients must be extremely cautious before using GLP-1s that are not the FDA approved versions. There are many more like this, often not following USP standards and using research grade APIs that are not approved formulations.
fda.gov
Empower Clinic Services, LLC dba Empower Pharmacy - 738238 - 09/18/2026
CGMP/Finished Pharmaceuticals/Adulterated/Unapproved New Drug
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 21/07/2026
They lied, of course the did. 🪱 🧠 did indeed push to have MMR removed from the vaccine schedule.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 11): Eliminate the CDC vaccine schedule!
A Reuters news story last week reports that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been trying to go way farther than previously suspected in his quest to eliminate vaccines.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 07/07/2026
YIKES!!! This is truly frightening, an AI does NOT have prescriptive authority nor does it have a professional relationship with patients in order to make we any medical determinationsnfor them.
abcnews.com
Is AI ready to take over your prescriptions? Doctors are wary of Utah's automated refill program
An AI program in the state of Utah has sparked a vigorous debate about the role of the technology in health care
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 25/06/2026
military.com
Veterans’ Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke Fell by Up to 38% With COVID Vaccine
A VA study suggests that COVID vaccines may be broadly cardioprotective.
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John W Cavanaugh, PhD ⭐🇺🇲 🇮🇪 @drjohncav.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@neildegrassetyson.com @standupforscience.net @ucs.org @altnps.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altdoi.altgov.info
static.klipy.com
Ciencia Hora De Aventura
ALT: Ciencia Hora De Aventura
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 24/06/2026
Vive la Résistance!
nytimes.com
Former NOAA Employees Revive Climate Site Shut by Trump Administration
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 18/06/2026
Trust the experts not wellness influencers and quacks.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 17/06/2026
The fall out from 🪱 🧠 's dangerous leadership is affecting trust in public health information and resources all down the line. He needs to go, now!
hsph.harvard.edu
Poll: Trust in CDC has fallen dramatically in the last year | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The poll, "One Year In: Public Views of a Changing Public Health Landscape," was conducted by Harvard Chan School and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Public Health Listening Lab.
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 12/06/2026
I'm behind the scientists and researchers, not the bootlickers running the ADA
the-scientist.com
Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond | The Scientist
The organizers of the American Diabetes Association meeting had a group of researchers removed from the event for sharing an editorial about negative impacts of policy changes to research funding.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 11/06/2026
The medical professionals will not put up with his bull shit!
politico.com
America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.
The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 11/06/2026
Good, need the voices of actual medical professionals over uneducated influencers.
thehill.com
Leading OB-GYN group issues vaccine recommendations, breaks with CDC
The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) released a recommended maternal vaccine schedule Wednesday that for the first time diverges with guidance from the Centers for Disea…
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 10/06/2026
Hmmm, who could have expected that a bunch of child hackers making funding cuts left and right wouldn't have the appropriate experience to know why research on sterile Cochliomyia hominivorax was actually vital research.
forbes.com
Screwworm Is Back In Texas—And Could Raise Beef Prices
DOGE cut funding for the New World screwworm monitoring program and then reportedly ignored ranchers warning the parasite was working its way to the U.S.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Not a fan of this idea at all. It's impossible to cool processors without noise and noise carries itself further underwater. If you care about things like acoustic wildlife, such as dolphins and whales, it kind of sucks. But it's clear the USA is not able to compete at this time either.
theguardian.com
World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
Datacentre off Shanghai coast uses less power and water than land-based equivalent
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 06/06/2026
Fascist regimes always stifling and silencing the voices of the most highly educated members of society. It's how they gain control over the rest, control the supply of information and only allow their version to get out.
drrubin.substack.com
If Scientists Can't Speak at Scientific Meetings, Where Can They Speak?
The ADA conference controversy raises difficult questions about scientific discourse, advocacy, and the future of research
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 06/06/2026
On June 3, the White House issued an executive order reclassifying roughly 8,000 federal employees — including epidemiologists, health scientists, and toxicologists — from civil service positions to at-will employment.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 05/06/2026
Getting what they voted for, still sad and the states that most need better medical care access will be the hardest hit.
newsweek.com
Map shows states with hospitals at immediate risk of closing
Becker’s Hospital Review found 720 rural hospitals nationwide are at risk of closure.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
WATCH — @realdlhughley.bsky.social : “I don’t understand why a 4/5 star athlete would go to a school where the state is ushering in a new iteration of Jim Crow… if you can’t run in a state, don’t run in a state.” #Memphis #Louisiana #Tennessee #Alabama @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 08/05/2026
scientificamerican.com
Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said...
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 05/05/2026
More cover ups and corruption
nytimes.com
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thanks to all of us working together, Casey Means will not be Surgeon General. To all of you who wrote to your Senators, I appreciate you!
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 30/04/2026
Excellent news! She's not even qualified to be commissioned as an O-3 medical category officer, let alone a Flag Grade officer.
thehill.com
Trump pulls Casey Means nomination for surgeon general for Fox News’s Nicole Saphier
President Trump on Thursday pulled the controversial nomination of Casey Means for surgeon general, announcing on Truth Social that her replacement would be Fox News contributor and radiologist Dr.…
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 28/04/2026
Here's the COVID-19 immunization paper 🪱 🧠 blocked you from seeing
insidemedicine.substack.com
Exclusive: Here's the Covid-19 vaccine paper the CDC censored.
RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. That’s exactly why you should.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Before ABC considers any action to their late night host...they should take a look at CBS. That network pumped $100M into a show aimed at far left progressives and then they fired their late night guy, resulting in far left progressives canceling their subscriptions and Starfleet Academy failed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Hakeem Jeffries responds to Karoline Leavitt: She wants to lecture us about civility? Get lost. Clean up your own house before you have anything to say to us.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 24/04/2026
Now this coked up, trust fund dependent, ambulance chaser is flat out hiding science that goes counter to his uneducated and ignorant opinions on epidemiology and public health. 🪱 🧠 MUST GO!!!
newrepublic.com
CDC Blocks Journal From Publishing Study Proving Covid Vaccine Worked
The CDC initially delayed the study, but has now blocked its in-house journal from publishing the study entirely.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
We blew a hole in a cargo ship's engine room - Holy Shit! If you want to sink a ship... put the engine under water! Sink a tanker (this is a cargo ship, reportedly) and you've got a massive environmental disaster.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 18/04/2026
Perspective: Policies enacted by the Trump administration, such as defunding social welfare programs, dismantling health agencies, and restricting immunization recommendations, are projected to escalate the US health disadvantage relative to other nations.
jamanetwork.com
When Disregard for Population Health Becomes US Policy
This Perspective discusses the consequences on population health of recent US policies, such as those that limit funding for scientific research or affect vaccine access.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Republican Congress is the reason that Hegseth was allowed to start an unwinnable war. The Republican Congress is the reason we are having the worst measles outbreak in decades. The Republican Congress is the reason that people are being terrorized by ICE.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A prime example of The Regime’s shitbirdery, as relates to the citizenship of Indigenous People: Justice Gorsuch: Are tribal [children], born today, birthright citizens? Trumpy lawyer: Uhhh, I think so? On our test, yeah. I’m not sure. I’d have to think that through. But, but — that’s my reaction
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today, April 1, 2026 marks one year since 2,400 CDC employees were illegally fired without warning and without cause. We continue to fight for public health and the health and safety of all Americans. We stay fired up! We will continue to stand up! We will keep speaking up! #CDC #HHS #PublicHealth
April first
Today, we mourn.

Tomorrow, we get pissed.
Friday onwards, we fight back harder.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 01/04/2026
This is not an April Fools joke and is fantastic news. From the Washington State Secretary of Health, Dennis Worsham. Washington has been officially accepted into the World Health Organization's Global Alert and Response Network (WHO GOARN) as the 5th state to to apply and be accepted. goarn.who.int
goarn.who.int
GOARN
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 31/03/2026
Good, she's not even qualified to be commissioned as an O-3 medical officer.
thehill.com
Trump says it’s ‘possible’ Means will be withdrawn as surgeon general nominee
President Trump on Sunday indicated he was open to withdrawing his nomination of Casey Means, sister of White House senior adviser Calley Means, to be U.S. surgeon general, as reports indicate she …
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 27/03/2026
esquire.com
The CDC, Once the World’s Most Important Public-Health Organization, Is Now the Church of Medical Woo-Woo
Secretary Roadkill couldn’t have caused more wreckage if he’d simply carpet-bombed its campus in Atlanta.
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Curious Earthling @curiouserth2-9b.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#BrainWorm #NoKingsMarch28 @voices4vaccines.bsky.social @hmpxvt.bsky.social @who.int @standupforscience.net @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @thelibertypear.com @alt-hhs.altgov.info @nejm.org @duh4healthcare.bsky.social @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social @apnews.com
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Curious Earthling @curiouserth2-9b.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#BrainWorm #NoKingsMarch28 @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social @who.int @altnih4science.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info @duh4healthcare.bsky.social @standupforscience.net @aaas.org @nejm.org @meidastouch.com
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 18/03/2026
There are many reasons we moved to pasteurization, this is one.
apnews.com
E. coli linked to cheddar cheese made with raw milk sickens 7 in the US
Health officials say seven people in three states, including children, have been sickened by E. coli food poisoning linked to cheddar cheese made from raw milk. The U.S.
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thank you, Judge Brian Murphy‼️ www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
pbs.org
Judge blocks RFK Jr. from scaling back childhood vaccine recommendations
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal health officials from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child, and said U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. likely viol...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
RFK Jr.’s fraudulent ACIP is not permitted to meet this week via a successful preliminary injunction in the lawsuit filed against him by AAP and APHA. The membership is not “appropriately appointed”. GREAT NEWS!!
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 08/03/2026
kffhealthnews.org
Six Federal Scientists Run Out by Trump Talk About the Work Left Undone - KFF Health News
Cancer treatments, disease outbreaks, addiction science: Scientists say an exodus from the National Institutes of Health will harm the nation's ability to respond to illness.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 07/03/2026
It is imperative that this unlicensed wash out not be confirmed. Confirmation of an individual, at a flag grade to boot, who doesn't even meet the basic standards is a slap in the face to every USPHS Officer, acting, separated, or retired.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 06/03/2026
RSV vaccines are recommended as a one-time dose for all adults 75 and older, and for adults 50–74 with increased risk for severe disease (e.g., chronic heart/lung disease, nursing home residents).
academic.oup.com
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Hospitalizations in Adults ≥50 Years of Age and Those with Congestive Heart Failure or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations, 2018-2020
AbstractIntroduction. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute respiratory illness (ARI) in older adults and those with comorbidities.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 28/02/2026
Lancet writes about what a failure RFK Jr has been.
thelancet.com
Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure
In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 27/02/2026
Basic standards for a commission into the medical category of the USPHS requires an active license to practice. This quack never finished residency so wouldn't even qualify to come in as an O-3, let alone the leader of the entire Corps as an 0-9.
npr.org
Surgeon general nominee Means questioned about vaccines, birth control and financial conflicts
During a confirmation hearing, senators asked Dr. Casey Means about her current positions and her past statements on a range of public health issues.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 26/02/2026
This is what MAHA is really all about. Dangerous, ignorant, and uneducated people.
theatlantic.com
‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’
Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 24/02/2026
Remember that the supplement industry is, for the most part, unregulated unless there is some sort of sentinel event that causes significant harm. Otherwise the industry is largely a cash grab.
fredhutch.org
Supplements don’t prevent cancer, studies show
Dietary supplements are wildly popular, but large clinical trials and other research by Fred Hutch Cancer Center shows many common dietary supplements offer little proven benefit for cancer prevention...
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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 23/02/2026
A black and white image from Seven Samurai that has the text, "By protecting others, you save yourself."
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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 24/02/2026
Second senior official to resign this month. I feel so badly for everyone at CDC, including people I have deployed with and others I have had the great fortune to know and respect.
cidrap.umn.edu
Senior CDC official resigns abruptly
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