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Jonathan Howard

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I love vaccines, animals, and my wife, who set up this profile. sciencebasedmedicine.org/we-want-th…

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 7h
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Messianic
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 7h
"Stop beating up on libertarians and OWN YOUR FAILURES, populist conservatives!" @robbysoave.bsky.social from @reason.com
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 9h
Well, we sure saw a lot of clots. I wrote about having to decide whether or not to amputate a man’s leg- a former hospital employee- in 2020. I think I made the wrong choice. But this didn’t matter at all to some people. Not one bit. They worried about “doom and gloom.”
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CaffeineIsLife @caffeineislife.bsky.social · 9h
I still remember when that quoted article came out... And so many of us were like "Well, we TOLD YOU SO!" It really wasn't a surprise, it just hadn't really been covered much in mainstream media.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
In 2024, a UCSF oncologist deliberately minimized Kennedys role in Samoa in order to curry his political favor. We should remember doctors who did such things. Read more by @gorskon.bsky.social
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Gaslighting RFK Jr.’s role in the deadly Samoan measles outbreak
One of many shameful incidents in the life of antivax activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his promotion of anti-MMR fear mongering during a measles epidemic in Samoa. Now that he could become HHS Secre
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
Kennedy though, that guy was alright.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
These guys never paused and thought “maybe I could learn from something from doctors who worked in hospitals.” The thought never occurred to them and they had contempt and scorn for those of us who occasionally wrote about that experience. The insults flew freely!
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
And what we are witnessing now- with MAHA incomplete and grifting- is what happens when COVID content creators, utterly disinterested in hearing anything from frontline doctors, got in power.
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The Fox News Stars Got in Charge
When it comes to issues related to SBM, our fierce, mighty Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth isn't doing so well.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
This was a MAGA/MAHA conference at @stanfordpress.bsky.social in 2024 about the pandemic featuring people like Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and John Ioannidis. Notice there was no speaker to report on what it was like in hospitals in 2020. That perspective didn’t interest them.
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Remarks at Pandemic Policy Conference
Following is the text of remarks by Stanford President Jonathan Levin, as prepared for delivery at “Pandemic Policy: Planning the Future, Assessing the Past.”
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
I was no hero in 2020. I am sure I saved 0 lives. But I saw how covid could overwhelm hospitals and hurt young people too. This experience didn’t matter at all to laptop class doctors. I was just a grifter with no domain experience. What happened in hospitals was not his concern.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10h
I wrote an article criticizing this & was later told I took it out of context. Here’s the context. There was a proinfection movement led by laptop class disinformation doctors and this lead to MAGA 2.0 and MAHA. Things are going poorly. Read my noxious blogs & silly books to learn more.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17h
Of course the big MAHA Summit would kick out an actual reporter who does real journalism - but they'll surely admit MAHA bloggers who will write glowing puff pieces on beef tallow, peptides, & testosterone & who will stay on message when it comes to peddling kooky anti-science, anti-vaccine tropes!
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11h
It wasn't hidden.
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Is it “Natural and Healthy” When Children Get Sick With COVID?
The notion that society and children benefit when they contract vaccine-preventable diseases used to be relegated to the fringes of the anti-vaccine movement. It is now embraced by doctors at prestig
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h
He plays dumb to please his paying Substack suscribers.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 12h
Vinay Prasad speculated that avoiding viruses could cause cancer.
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I am going to mask because I want to get fewer colds & other flawed ideas
A new form of arrogance
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pinkprincessinthehauntedcity •🌸🌃🧳•👩🏻‍🎨👩🏻‍🔬🕵🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🏫👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🍳•🏮🧧🎍• @pinkprincess.bsky.social · 14h
He can say whatever he wants about this, for logically it doesn't matter. Statistically, half of med students will finish in the bottom half of med school. What is more important is that the overwhelming majority of them at least have the decency and common sense not to become conniving grifters.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 16h
Even the cranks see through MAHA now.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h
This is now true.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h
Yes. It’s what happens when I beg people to let me know what I got wrong in my books or @sciencebasedmedicine.org articles.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h
The end result of the EBM gurus and RCT zealots.
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The Men of Data and Science Who Enabled the Quackery of MAHA and the Scientific Sabotage of MAGA
To paraphrase the famous movie line, if the EBM you followed brought you to this, of what use was the EBM?
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h
Discussed here
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Jay Bhattacharya, October 2020: “Let People Face the Risk of the Disease.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sought to spread a deadly pathogen. Does he belong in the HHS Hall of Heroes with legends who tried to contain them?
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17h
Jack Smith and Fauci get the same treatment. They are being attacked and threatened for doing the right thing. It's the plot of Atlas Shrugged, brought to you by fans of Atlas Shrugged.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18h
And on the literal peak of the deadliest part of the pandemic, when 3,000 Americans died daily, he mocked people who didn’t meet his personal standards of cheerfulness at that moment. Typical laptop class behavior.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18h
I’d vanish too if I said this.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18h
Yes. He said I was “threatening” him when I said I was going to write this article.
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Should An Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Comment on Child Vaccination?
Yes!
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 18h
No. He hurled temper tantrums at anyone who disagreed.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h
Prof Francois Balloux C @BallouxFrancois
I'm not sure how to convey this message in a half-acceptable way.
But, if the objective were to send SARCoV2 into endemicity, then healthy kids have to be exposed to the virus, ideally earlier than later. This is not 'eugenism'; it is bog-standard infection disease epidemiology.
21:22 • 26/01/2022 • Twitter Web App
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Atomsk's Sanakan @atomskssanakan.bsky.social · 19h
It's weird because Balloux tone trolls, but then lashes out with a harsh tone when people correctly and substantively criticize his claims. He apparently thinks I'm a 'fascist' because I corrected misinformation from someone he likes. 🤷 x.com/AtomsksSanak... archive.is/KMqLk
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h
No answer? I’ve been waiting years for people mentioned in this book to explain why it was “silly.” Go ahead. Lay into it and expose me as a fraud.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h
Here’s his calm, mature professionalism.
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Atomsk's Sanakan @atomskssanakan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a long history of tedious misinformation from Balloux, along with him tone trolling when others correct him. I don't get why he's still taken seriously x.com/AtomsksSanak... t.co/2FRo28413V
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h
BIG MAHA SUMMIT today at Waldorf-Astoria. Vance and RFK Jr. will speak. I was denied a press credential due to. “limited space. “Here I am getting turned away. I’m 5 feet tall. I don’t take up that much space.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 21h
In October 2020, Jay Bhattacharya looked into a camera and said he wanted to “let people face the risk of the disease.” Does his pro-virus advocacy merit inclusion amongst the giants of infectious disease prevention?
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Jay Bhattacharya October 2020: “Let People Face the Risk of the Disease.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sought to spread a deadly pathogen. Does he belong in the HHS Hall of Heroes with legends who tried to contain them?
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22h
I mean @reason.com literally gave an award to MAGA doctors and now they claim they warned about it. 😂
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Reason’s Next “Flame of Freedom” Winner Should be Someone Who Stood Up to Their Past “Flame of Freedom” Winner, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Reason staff and donors richly deserve to listen to a thorough, honest appraisal of everything their past "Flame of Freedom" winner is doing to free speech today. Perhaps it will dawn on some of the
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 22h
After enabling the return of MAGA by promoting Covid disinformation superspreaders, @reason.com now claims they were actually warning about it the whole time. That’s a nice story they tell themselves.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yep
Jay Bhattacharya C @DrJBhattacharya
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The Ministry of Truth arrived with the virus and until it is dismantled, it is here to stay. Authorized censorship is a tremendous and corrosive power.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Covid revisionist history helped MAGA return to power. That’s a major theme of this.
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Everyone Else Is Lying to You: A Damning Archive of Science Denial
“Future generations will know that at least some of us tried to resist the intrusion of quackery into medicine, and they’ll gain some semblance of insight into a confounding reality.” Thus ends the da...
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently, MAHA is fighting with MAGA. Good.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do it, Donald, take Twinkies off the shelves and double the price of bread a month before the midterms. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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RFK Jr.’s Push to Revamp American Food Runs Into White House Resistance
Concerns about whether Kennedy’s ideas on food are even feasible have prompted clashes within the administration, casting uncertainty over a once potent political agenda.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pro cancer.
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In 2014, Dr. Kelly Brogan and Sayer Ji Told People Natural HPV Infections Were “Beneficial, Not Deadly.” What’s Happened Since?
Pseudoscience requires apathy about its victims, and that's the most grotesque part about it.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, some doctors treated vaccine side effects more seriously than literal death.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As MAGA 2.0 was brewing at the end of 2024, Conor was there to alert Americans to the real threat.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Behold his brilliant intellect
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Hypoautonomic, BS @hypoautonomic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
they didn't name themselves the urgency of caring for children now did they
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@joho.bsky.social I simply don't understand how this isn't the biggest scandal in the nation. www.panaccindex.info/p/wakefield-...
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Wakefield in Love?
The F.E.A.R. of the Computer
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Why Doctors Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love MAHA
Sensible Medicine is proud to host this opinion piece from cardiac electrophysiologist Dr Joseph Marine
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And just for the record, one my articles 5 years ago did misquote someone. I immediately fixed the error and acknowledged the it as soon as I learned about it. That’s how I respond.
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Contrarian Doctors: The Pandemic is Over, Again
I can’t help but wonder if one of the reasons the pandemic isn’t over yet, is because contrarian doctors repeatedly said it was.
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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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