Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Geezus. The CDC has completely lost it's relevance due to this administration. RFK Jr. must go. 040
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Eat cooked food, especially since Trump has cut food inspectors at the USDA and CDC. It is up to us now. Link below: www.cell.com/trends/micro...cell.comPhysiological drivers of pks+ E. coli in colorectal cancerColorectal cancer (CRC) is a significant global health challenge, with rising incidence, particularly among individuals under 50. Increasing evidence highlights the gut microbiota as key contributors ... 010
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Science Monday: Certain strains of E. coli can contribute to colon cancer by producing a toxin called colibactin, which can damage DNA and disrupt cell cycles. This is not a cause-and-effect link for all cases, but a significant risk factor, particularly when exposure occurs in early childhood. 130
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves. Nigeria has natural gas, precious metals and the world's 10th largest oil reserves. It's pretty clear what this administration is doing. 070
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025What a hell hole Seattle is. (Glorious fall is upon us). 020
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Amazon, which got a huge billion dollar tax break from the Big Ugly Bill, is laying off 30,000 people. No, it doesn't trickle down. 031
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 12/06/2025At this rate of RFK Jr.'s destruction of the CDC and FDA, I once again call upon Governor Ferguson, Newsom and Kotek to form the West Coast equivalent to safeguard our public health. We should have our own Cascadia CDC and Cascadia Drug Administration, ones that practice evidence based medicine. 050
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/06/2025After the DoD failed so many audits, Pete Hegseth is worried about the names on Navy ships. These are not serious people. 020
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/05/2025At a House testimony, RFK Jr said “I don't think people should be taking medical advice from me.” That's right. Even he knows he is unqualified. He should resign. 040
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Decades of evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies have shown that Mifepristone is safe and effective. Now these people are quoting a non-peer-reviewed "study" coming out of a right-wing "think tank" to try to justify restricting Mifepristone. This is despicable. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-la...huffpost.comGOP Lays Groundwork To Restrict Abortion Pill With New Junk Science ReportRecent comments from Trump’s FDA commissioner, coupled with an anti-abortion study on mifepristone, are setting off alarm bells among reproductive rights groups. 021
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025As expected, the "lower drug cost" Executive Order has no teeth, and it is literally asking drug companies to "voluntarily" lower drug prices and ask the HHS secretary to "facilitate" direct-to-consumer sales of drugs. We know how this administration interprets "facilitate". Good luck with that. 030
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025He is one step away from selling supplements. 2100
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/05/2025RFK Jr. terminated the program that promote the flu vaccine, leading to the plummeting of flu vaccination rate among American children. Pediatric flu death this season is now 216, the most in 15 years. He is actively killing children. 073
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 03/05/2025The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal kills the whole CDC nutrition division. This is MAHA? 2337
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025NIH may pull all global health funding for foreign researchers, potentially killing 25 million people in the next 15 years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comExclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policyMove by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. 060
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Trump's budget is proposing to cut the Narcan program, the program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives per year from opioid overdose. Are we great yet? 060
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025RFK Jr. said today about fluoride in water: "The more you get, the stupider you are. We need smart kids. We need healthy kids." Fact: Studies show that there is no correlation between IQ and fluoridation of water at the level approved in this country (0.7 mg/L). 151
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Trump's budget is proposing to cut the Narcan program, the program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives per year from opioid overdose. Are we great yet? 033
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 24/04/2025"USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry" Salmonella kills 420 people in the US every year. This is Making America Sicker Again. (The rule was adopted during the Biden Administration). 010
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Tesla profit down 71% and it is still profitable ONLY because of government handout, regulatory credits. Corporate socialism at work. And Musk has the gall to talk about handouts. 040
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 19/04/2025After staff cuts, the FDA is suspending its food quality safety check program, increasing the chance of foodborne illnesses. How does this make America healthier? This literally makes America sick. 040
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Canceling research grants isn’t just a budget cut—it's shutting down projects already deemed valuable by experts. Universities can’t just dip into endowments to cover the loss since those funds are legally restricted. 050
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Currently there is a Hepatitis C outbreak in Florida. They sent blood samples to the CDC. Trump and RFK Jr. shuts down the only CDC lab capable of testing them. This is not efficiency or saving, this is negligence on a national scale. 050
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 17/04/2025www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...npr.orgIn the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could helpAll 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted. 020
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 17/04/2025HHS shuttered the Division of Viral Hepatitis in the CDC's headquarters, saying that it is duplicative, when it is a unique lab with unique capabilities. Ongoing investigations of current hepatitis outbreaks have been stalled nationwide. Now we don't know where we have an outbreak at all. 171
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Reminder: Signalgate. It was just 20 days ago. 040
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 14/04/2025MAHA should note: Trump is up to date on all required vaccinations. 070
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Last night, arsonist(s) attempted to burn down the PA Governor's residence in Harrisburg in a clear act of domestic terrorism. Governor Shapiro and family was evacuated. DOJ: Silence National media: Silence. 070
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025These people have zero strategy. Incompetent at its worst. 1440
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Space Weather Prediction Center Satellite programs (to be privatized by Musk?) Space Traffic program (to be privatized?) Marine habitat research and species rehabilitation programsnytimes.comWhite House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled (Gift Article)A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations. 100
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Gift link: The White House is planning to dismantle NOAA and it is as disturbing as their dismantling of NIH. NOAA is a global premier climate/weather science research institute. They are planning to gut: Oceanic/Atmospheric Research office National Marine Fisheries Service National Ocean Service 191
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 12/04/2025 I am surprised that the American Medical Association hasn't come out to call for RFK Jr.'s resignation and firing. It's time. 062
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Critique of The Bell Curve - Out The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon - Out You tell me what it says about this Administration. 000
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Naval Academy library book purge: Mein Kempf - In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - Out The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail (embraced by white supremacists) - In Memorializing the Holocaust by Janet Jacobs - Out The Bell Curve (argues that Blacks and Women are inferior) - In 131
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025I told my wife not to change her name when she married me. One of the reasons is such that she can keep her white sounding name for her career, and the second reason is the possibility of a SAVE Act. And the SAVE Act is here. The Senate must oppose it. 011
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025RFK Jr. is going to "find the cause in the rise of autism" by September. 4 months? And somehow, he already knows now? Science has never worked like that. It only means that he has already drawn the conclusion and is making up materials to support those conclusions. It's going to be nonsense. 142
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We will soon find out who made a killing with the stock surge right after the announcement. I think we will find a lot of insider tradings but no one will be prosecuted with this DOJ and gutted SEC. 051
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025👋40+ years investor here: What is happening is a large, national-scale market manipulation to benefit a very small billionaire-class, to the detriment of the whole country/world. This "pausing for 90 days" is pre-meditated. 1104
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The Cybertruck is so bad that even Tesla would not take it as a trade-in. 020
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Because of Trump's cut to the CDC funding, the Vessel Sanitation Program that helps the cruise ship industry prevent and control the introduction and spread of gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships has been terminated. Gross... 132
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025A third person, a child has died from measles. The MMR vaccines prevent measles. Get vaccinated. 121
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Instant cash, money, billionaires. It just costs the US all soft power and standing in the world, to enrich the very few at the top. 010
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025As an investor for 40+ years, I am beginning to see that this tariff fiasco is intentionally created for large investors (not tiny ones like me) to cash in. He introduces tariffs, market tanks, institutional investors buy up equity on the cheap, then he rescinds the tariff, and the market recovers. 130
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana. The TDaP vaccine prevents pertussis. 031
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A second child has died of measles in Texas. It is entirely preventable. 033
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Misinformation kills and costs. New study shows that misinformation caused 14% more COVID infections during the pandemic (47 million people) with an economic cost of over $143 B (Billion with a B).nature.comModeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media - npj Complexitynpj Complexity - Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media 042
Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎 @drleolam.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) has been fired today. LIHEAP helps low-income elderly with heating support and air conditioning in hot places like Texas. People will die from this. 075