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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson

@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Molecular biologist, industry scientist, debunker of anti-vaccine nonsense.

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Jon Cohen @cohenjon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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After pulling vaccine study, Bhattacharya criticizes long-running CDC publication
Agency’s temporary director says Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report needs external reviewers
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
No randomized placebo controlled trials they say? Hahahaha
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Preview for my “An inconvenient study” debunking video. 😉 Go watch and like the whole thing on YouTube!
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I debunked the “An Inconvenient Study” documentary. It was bad. I had a bad time. But the video turned out great. May my sacrifice help you in your fight against anti-vaccine influencers. youtu.be/KhRZFw2DCBI?...
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An Inconvenient Study | DEBUNKED
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 03/04/2026
@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass
Excerpt from article interview of Paul Offit where he describes an interaction from 2005nwuth RFK Jr. 

"He made me a bad guy" Offit told The Philadelphi a Citizen last fall. "But I honestly don't think anybody is going to kill me. I certainly don't think they'll give me a heads-up first. They just want me to shut up." "And," he added, “fuck them."
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My March reading month. One big stinker, lots of enjoyable reads, and some fantastic standouts!
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The MAHA Institute is currently holding an event, MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, @weldeiry.bsky.social, a prominent oncologist-scientist, is lending his scientific respectability to it. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-de...
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RFK Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines (part 8): “Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury,” ACIP, and a prominent oncologist
The MAHA Institute is holding an event called MEVI Roundtable: Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury to fear monger about vaccines. Unfortunately, Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, a prominent oncologist-scientist, wi
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Sam Gregson @badboyofscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Science Counterpunch just landed! We chat to Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) about how anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream, how journos and politicians ask ineffective questions to cranks, and how to Debunk with Funk! Check it out! Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2... ⚛️🧪
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Sam Gregson @badboyofscience.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Dr Dan Wilson ( @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social ) is suprised by how rapidly anti-vax misinfo has become mainstream and politically acceptable in the US. 🗣️ "Now they are our leaders. I didn't think it could get that far." Clip: youtube.com/shorts/8XWBClHPnXQ Full: youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2HGVBaeA ⚛️🧪
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Anti Vaccine Sentiments Are Now Mainstream ( @DebunktheFunkwithDrWilson )
#covid19 #vaccines #publichealth Today we’re joined by Dr. Dan Wilson — molecular biologist, science communicator, and the creator behind ‘Debunk the Funk’, one of the most reliable ‘receipts factor...
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 27/03/2026
New episode of #ScienceCounterpunch is out with resident vaccine misinfo debunker Dan Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social talking Covid contrarians, grifters, RFKjr and why journalists keep asking the wrong questions. Dan´s brilliant, polite and hard working. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJB2...
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Ep7: Dan Wilson: Funky Debunking of Anti-Vaccine Misinformation ( @DebunktheFunkwithDrWilson )
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 25/03/2026
Next episode of #ScienceCounterpunch airs Friday, 5pm UK. We sat down with former conspiracy-curious teenager turned most meticulous debunker @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social We discuss how fringe anti-vaxxers moved from fleecing online communities to the highest halls of power & how to fight back.
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Are there real life astrophages? Sort of! #projecthailmary youtu.be/r97z1UOs_z4
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Biologist breaks down the REAL Astrophage - Project Hail Mary
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Autism is primarily caused by genetics. Can some environmental factors play a role? Yes! ✅ Have we identified any of these environmental factors? Yes! ✅ Is RFK Jr.’s HHS doing anything about them? No! ❌
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
RFK Jr. recently repeated his administration’s announcement that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism on the Joe Rogan podcast. The response isn’t even ambiguous, it’s dead wrong. The strongest available evidence rejects that idea convincingly. youtu.be/QF5x5t5qmwI
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The final verdict on Tylenol and autism
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I love this guy and he works his butt off on making amazing videos so I sponsored this video he made about the* cure for cancer**. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOu... *a **a cancer
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The cancer cure that almost didn't happen
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Major media FINALLY starts paying attention to the Brownstone Institute. I’ve been covering this group for years and Jeffrey Tucker’s influence in this administration. This Politico story adds new layers like sexual harassment allegations against Tucker and Heritage Foundation sponsoring a retreat
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Meet the man who built RFK Jr.’s kitchen cabinet
Jeffrey Tucker, who elevated Covid contrarians now working for the health secretary, is building support for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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Science Accountability Institute @scienceai.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
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Kennedy Debunked (dot org) @kennedydebunkedorg.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social you should tell Steve he owes you a million dollars. I can’t believe he has the nerve to act like nobody has the guts to debate him after you wiped the floor with him.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
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Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
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Frank Visser @reusvisser.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Covering the vaccine/virus conspiracies around Kirsch here: www.integralworld.net/visser600.ht...
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'Do Vaccines Really Cause Autism?, Two Substack Papers by Steve Kirsch Debunked, Frank Visser / Grok
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 25/09/2025
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr. We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV
Poster-style graphic with bold text reading “TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: THE QUACK RFK Jr. HAS TO GO!” A large photo of RFK Jr. is overlaid with a yellow biohazard sign, while a man’s shoe is about to kick him out. At the bottom, logos and text say “Stand Up For Science” and “Fuel the fight: standupforscience.net.”
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Travis Pangburn @travispangburn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The Greatest Vaccine Debate In History. ProfessorDaveExplains Dave Farina & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social Dr. Dan Wilson go HEAD-TO-HEAD with Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory on VACCINES! youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA?...
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Greatest Vaccine Debate In History | Dave Farina & Dr. Dan Wilson vs Steve Kirsch & Dr. Pierre Kory
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This is what happens when anti-vaxxers debate people who can call them out. One side gives you sob stories and speeches while the other gives you facts. youtu.be/hV3qDAzcQkA
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Greatest Vaccine Debate In History | Dave Farina & Dr. Dan Wilson vs Steve Kirsch & Dr. Pierre Kory
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Travis Pangburn @travispangburn.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
The most exciting discussion we've ever produced. Thank you so much  ‪@ProfessorDaveExplains‬ ​ & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social  ​ ! The vaccine debate video will be out soon.
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Microbetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ladapo said what? Comparing vaccines to slavery is just BEYOND insulting. A comment like that doesn't just miss the mark, it is diabolically ignorant & a slap in the face. Slavery is a REAL historical trauma, not a metaphor for vaccinations. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social and Vincent discuss
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Travis Pangburn @travispangburn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The Biggest Intellectual SLUGFEST in History on VACCINES is happening on September 13th in NYC! Dave Farina & Dan Wilson vs Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory! We hope you join us LIVE! Tickets here: pang-burn.com/tickets
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Many thanks to @skepticalinquirer.bsky.social for featuring our new book #scienceundersiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social for your Sept/Oct issue devoted to the attacks on science and the scicomms response
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Travis Pangburn @travispangburn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This will be the most important discussion we've ever produced. ProfessorDaveExplains & @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social go HEAD-TO-HEAD with Steve Kirsch & Pierre Kory on VACCINES! September 13th in NYC! LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE! ACT FAST! Tickets here: pang-burn.com/tickets
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Stat News is giving advice to Prasad like he’s an overtired toddler. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/v...
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Dear Vinay: Please embrace dissent and fade into the background
Vinay Prasad is back at the FDA, and in a position in which grappling with nuance — not always his strong suit — will be the key to his success.
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 07/08/2025
"What happens is Mr. Kennedy continues to use words that make it sound like he knows what he is talking about but he doesn't."👇🏻
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Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
mRNA vaccines do not cause “antigenic shift.” Antigenic shift is a term used for flu viruses when they shuffle their segmented genomes. mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives and continue to be effective in preventing severe outcomes of COVID. So far, mutations have never changed that fact.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
NEW: There’s another COVID contrarian working in the Office of the Director at NIH. Kevin Bardosh has staked out a number of fringe positions on mRNA vaccines and other pandemic mitigation measures. He was recruited out of a UK-based anti-lockdown group Jay Bhattacharya was affiliated with.
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Another COVID Contrarian Working For the NIH Director
Kevin Bardosh, who argued COVID boosters do more harm than good for young people, has been working in Jay Bhattacharya’s office for months.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We’d be funding courses at universities to teach students about right-wing disinformation. We’d be running info/public service ads about groups like the Heritage Foundation and PragerU to inoculate people to their billionaire-funded propaganda… Speaking of, if you want to help us:
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Donate — AJI
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
After talking such a big game, the guy couldn’t last longer than a pregnancy.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This interview from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social of @peterdaszak.bsky.social is essential viewing. Conspiracy theorizing about a COVID lab leak is creating dangerous conditions for scientists. But misinformers spread bullshit with reckless abandon. It’s sickening. youtu.be/XTGM4u-l_YY?...
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Talking COVID origins (w/ Dr. Peter Daszak)
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Instead of endless conspiracy theories it's better to focus on the evidence of this Q instead. Three 🌟 recent lay-resources 👇 @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0?... @gidmk.bsky.social gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I remember when folks were suggesting Makary was maybe not as terrible a pick as Trump could have made. Not us tho. Our Important Context story about this self-promoting anti-vax charlatan really did nail it. (If I do say so myself) www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...
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Everything You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s FDA Pick
Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary has spent years promoting fringe pandemic views and attacking the U.S. government.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogen released a report last month that evidence still points to COVID-19 having natural origins. This week, we revealed that 3 lab leak enthusiasts with ties to a fringe biosafety group are working in the NIH director’s office.
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Promoters of Unproven COVID Lab Leak Narratives Join NIH
Virologists expressed concern over under-qualified ideologues joining Director Bhattacharya.
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Lots of people still feel strongly that COVID came from a lab. Conspiracy theorists say that this has even been confirmed. And still many believe things about this story that just aren’t true. Here is the truth as best we know it. youtu.be/eTlur4YIAo0
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COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A citation I missed because I filmed this video a few months ago. Tl;dr - it also destroys the anti-vaxxer’s blog posts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Quantification of objective concentrations of DNA impurities in mRNA vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the benefits and advantages of mRNA technologies in combination with lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems …
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This has been a fun topic for me to cover because anti-vaxxers responsible for it hide behind jargon and the illusion of real data, but when you go in with expert eyes it becomes clear that it’s all just slop. COVID vaccines are not contaminated with DNA. youtu.be/Z8lzxHoejAo
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Update on DNA contamination
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I’m going to keep saying this: COVID contrarians and anti-vaxxers weren’t censored. By anyone. It’s just a marketing ploy for their bullshit.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Here’s my full write-up of this week’s ACIP meetings. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...
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Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel
The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.
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Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
So this is who RFK Jr. just nominated as an ACIP member. If this isn’t an anti-vaxxer then wtf is?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’ll probably never really get over people on the “left” attacking me for warning that Jay Bhattacharya was just a right-wing operative who wanted people back to work for the economy. Dude was a favorite with business-aligned right-wing dark money groups, but I was the sellout. Well, now look…
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...
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NIH Workers Demand Changes In New ‘Bethesda Declaration’
The public letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya was signed by hundreds of agency personnel.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Tomorrow morning, we have a really big story coming out at www.importantcontext.news You’ve been warned!
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya. The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science. www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I'm glad this article is making the rounds, but here's the thing: they've been doing this for years. I've identified dozens of instances on the Children's Health Defense blog. @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social found similar errors in RFK's book on Fauci. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Evasion of peer review is a hallmark of pseudoscience. But even more insidious is the obviation of scientific scrutiny by publishing in pseudoscientific journals that exist to provide an illusion of scientific legitimacy. There’s nothing new about MAHA’s propaganda tactics.
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