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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 2h
Lancaster County reports Pennsylvania’s 5th measles-related death To date the CDC has confirmed just 2 measles deaths, as Pennsylvania’s measles cases climb to 943. Read more: bit.ly/4AEltnG
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 6h
Dana Milbank: RFK Jr. Just Exposed a Fraudster — And It Is Him He said he would end “corporate capture.” Now his MAHA movement is for sale.
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RFK Jr. Just Exposed a Fraudster — And It Is Him
He said he would end “corporate capture.” Now his MAHA movement is for sale.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h
“She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor”. “Marris believed she had done her due diligence. She had researched raw milk…” Her baby ended up in the ICU with a life-threatening E. coli infection.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 18h
A note from Dr. Angie Rasmussen:
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@rasmussenretorts)
I was sexually assaulted by another student in my PhD program on campus after a department party in front of multiple witnesses, who prevented sexual assault from becoming full on rape. I complained a...
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AboutPediatrics @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A post from the Independent Medical Alliance is a great reminder about how we have a modern bloodletting problem - bogus COVID treatments pushed by the IMA!
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The Modern Bloodletting Problem
A post from the Independent Medical Alliance is a great reminder about how we have a modern bloodletting problem - bogus COVID treatments pushed by the IMA!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is why my eyes roll when anyone says “MAHA wants to do something about chronic diseases” No, it doesn’t MAHA’s leaders, RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya, run the US health & health research systems & they have DECIMATED chronic disease prevention What MAHA *says* is divorced from what it *does*
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 27/09/2026
Apoorva Mandavilli for NY Times: How the CDC Is Hobbled by Staff Cuts
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How the CDC Is Hobbled by Staff Cuts
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the doctors Children’s Health Defense has cited to blame child measles deaths on medical malpractice and hospital error recently escaped professional liability for the death of his patient. Ironically, Dr. Pierre Kory’s defense rested on a law anti-vaxxers, including CHD, have railed against
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Children’s Health Defense ‘Expert’ Who Blamed Measles Deaths on Medical Malpractice Found to Have Caused Patient Death
A federal appeals court granted Dr. Pierre Kory immunity under a law anti-vaxxers have railed against.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 26/09/2026
🎵 One of these things is not like the others One of these things doesn't belong Can you tell which thing is not like the other By the time I finish this song? 🎵 youtu.be/rsRjQDrDnY8
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The BMJ Is Once Again Providing Fuel for Anti-Vaccine Influencers: the signals it is mentioning were not actual signals, except for myocarditis - which was found and addressed publicly, explains @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...
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The BMJ Is Once Again Providing Fuel for Anti-Vaccine Influencers
The bmj has published yet another piece that anti-vaccine influencers are salivating over, laundering it across their social media accounts and websites.
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Clay Jones @clayjones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of those died. Splenic rupture in a newborn is incredibly rare. It can be caused by trauma during delivery. Measles can increase risk of rupture. The likelihood that this baby would have died without congenital measles infection approaches zero.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/09/2026
Are we getting in our own way? Adam Met from @planetreimagined.bsky.social and I discuss climate hushing, infighting over words and framing, and how a constant focus on what's going wrong can distract us from the solutions already moving forward. Watch: www.talkingclimate.ca/p/are-we-get...
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Are we getting in our own way?
AJR’s Adam Met on climate optimism, infighting, and why the way we talk about climate matters.
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Stephanie Simoes @critikid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pseudoscience looks like science in that it uses technical language and "experiments," but without the safeguards that make science reliable. Like stage magic, it creates a convincing illusion. The difference is that magicians are honest about what they are doing.
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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great work by @joycefr.bsky.social @medpagetoday.com John Gaitanis, MD, who was recently appointed the new chair of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC), co-founded a company that provides leucovorin to families of children with autism.
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New Autism Committee Chair Founded a Leucovorin Telehealth Company
Drug has been promoted as a treatment for autism
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why didn’t the roof get the chickenpox vaccine? It wanted to get shingles
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here it is
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Dr. Heidi Overton supports Wakefield's fraud and wants unvaccinated kids to get sick
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 24/09/2026
The Dangerous Deception of Naturopathic Medicine in British Columbia: Pseudoscience Masquerading as Health Care
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The Dangerous Deception of Naturopathic Medicine in British Columbia: Pseudoscience Masquerading as Health Care
How did a pseudoscientific practice dressed in the language of modern medicine gain sweeping legitimacy across British Columbia—and what will it take to expose the truth and protect public health?
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The MAHA grifting, conflicts of interest, peddling of fake remedies, and corruption never ends www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
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New Autism Committee Chair Founded a Leucovorin Telehealth Company
Drug has been promoted as a treatment for autism
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 24/09/2026
Last times the CDC has posted on social media about measles: September 7 on LinkedIn September 4 on Facebook & Instagram August 27 on X [Regarding refusing to count Pennsylvania's measles-associated deaths]
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
exclusive from @lenasun.bsky.social and @rachelroubein.bsky.social: states will be able to order Covid vax for kids as soon as next week, through the CDC program that serves half of American children www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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States can soon order covid vaccines for low-income children, after delay
The Vaccines for Children program, which serves nearly half the nation’s youths, had been in limbo for almost a month, with doctors unable to obtain the shots.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Harvard Crimson article on the Bhattacharya-Vought feud, especially over funding to Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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NIH Director Bhattacharya Refuses Trump Demand to Cut Harvard Funding, Politico Reports | The Harvard Crimson
National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, a former Stanford University colleague of Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76, refused a directive from U.S. President Donald Trump to cut Har...
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 23/09/2026
Jefferson Health scams patients by operating a quack clinic called the Marcus Institute Of Integrative Health and an associated supplement store. Integrative, functional, and naturopathic medicine have largely superseded complementary and alternative medicine as the marketing terms for quackery.
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Marcus Institute of Integrative Health
The institute embraces modern medicine, lifestyle modification, preventive medicine, and cutting edge therapies. Integrative Nutrients complement our model.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: The HHS is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one territory. And it's not clear when - or whether - the shots will be available. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Delays in Covid shots for kids is latest bid by Trump officials to restrict vaccines
Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
IDSA/HIVMA: Keep politics out of medical research bit.ly/4rn1wgU @idsainfo.bsky.social @hivma.bsky.social
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those interested in medical history, I really recommend, if you have not read it yet, that you read Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green. It's written like a story, it's gripping, and it will teach you a lot about tuberculosis. It's definitely going to affect how I teach public health law.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 19/09/2026
52 US senators voted for this
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“In Lancaster, Devers’ clients are not talking about the political debate. Rather, their conversations center on the spread of measles — did she hear about the recent baby deaths, what should they do if they were exposed, does she have a vaccine with her?” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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‘Babies are dying’: How Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak changed the vaccine mindset of this Amish country midwife
While top officials publicly spar over whether Pennsylvanians are dying of measles, a midwife in Amish country believes the outbreak is so bad she wants to be able to carry the MMR vaccine herself.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wait so is my math right? Last month, his EO demanded the MMR be broken up into 3 separate shots. Now in his wisdom he wants to break those up. So instead of one shot at 12 months, Dr Trump is “demanding” babies get FIFTEEN SHOTS, given at 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 and 48 months. Amazing. It’s so stupid.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026
The people had received IV drips containing glutathione, which is sold—without evidence—for purposes like detoxification, immune support, increased energy, and skin brightening.
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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Nation has just published an in-depth article on Defend Public Health, featuring the incredible @benecal.bsky.social, who is the leader of the Whopper of the Week project. They have pulled no punches. 🔥
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Trump Is a Runaway Train—and Nobody’s Pulling the Brakes
Everywhere you look, the president is causing chaos and destruction.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/09/2026
Kennedy only addressed the measles outbreak once in his 1.5-hour speech. “In our country we care about rare illnesses and deaths,” he said. “I’d ask you to care about children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now with updates: Among Kennedy's new appointees to USPSTF are at least three (including the chairman) who have denounced gender-affirming care for trans teens or work with organizations that oppose that care. At least two have criticized Covid shots or said fewer people should get them.
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RFK Jr. Names New Members to Powerful Health Panel Whose Work He Has Blocked (Gift Article)
The selections suggest the Trump administration may be trying to move the United States Preventive Services Task Force in a direction that serves its political ideology.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 18/09/2026
Beth Mole: Over 30 people across four states have been poisoned by bacterial toxins after getting intravenous (IV) drips at wellness clinics, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 18/09/2026
One thing about MCAS is that *real* MCAS can cause life-threatening anaphylaxis. So when quacks fraudulently diagnose and treat MCAS (like the chiropractor recommending sunlight and reducing (other?) EMFs), it's a mountain of bad advice.
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Dr Zack MD on Instagram: "Mast cell activation syndrome is a complex immune disorder, not a cellular frequency deficiency. MCAS involves inappropriate mast cell degranulation releasing histamine, leuk...
149 likes, 19 comments - drzackmd on September 11, 2026: "Mast cell activation syndrome is a complex immune disorder, not a cellular frequency deficiency. MCAS involves inappropriate mast cell degranu...
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is there a formal name for the performative credulity and elite deference that respectable media just can’t seem to abandon? It is clearly illustrated in the case of RFK Jr. Everyone involved is expected to maintain a fiction that nobody knows what everybody knows.
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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW: in a speech to the antivax organization he founded, RFK Jr. amplified vaccine risks, falsely claiming vaccines are not safety-tested and linking them to chronic diseases, and vowed to fight for those who say they are vaccine-injured w/ @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Daniel Wu wapo.st/4xuuInG
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RFK Jr. says Americans worried about vaccines have a ‘friend at the White House’
Since being confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made clear he wants to overhaul the nation’s immunization system.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 17/09/2026
While banning imaginary chem trails, they’re actively encouraging damaging carbon emissions.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 17/09/2026
Brandy Zadrozny sat through this anti-vax crank conference, in addition to watching nearly every episode of Candace Owens’s show since Charlie Kirk’s death. Whatever Brandy’s paid, it’s not enough.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 17/09/2026
Sigh- It turns out that the Medscape writer Brittany Vargas is a reiki master who used to work for a magazine dedicated to integrative medicine quackery. So it's not surprising that she'd hype integrative medicine quacks Theoharis Theoharides and Lawrence Afrin.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 17/09/2026
This article "teaches the controversy" of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) by interviewing two long-time quacks (Theoharis Theoharides & Lawrence Afrin), along with two mainstream allergy/immunology experts. Afrin made MCAS an example of the "One True Cause of All Disease" pseudoscience trope.
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Mast Cell Activation Syndrome: Patients Look for Answers
For patients with unexplained multisystem symptoms, getting answers can mean navigating competing criteria and conflicting information.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m watching so you don’t have to www.ms.now/news/news-an...
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Amid measles outbreaks, RFK Jr. headlines anti-vaccine conference
The Children’s Health Defense conference is a homecoming of sorts for Kennedy, who seeks to rally a splintering anti-vaccine movement ahead of the midterms.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At 18, I got myself vaccinated. My mother claimed religious exemptions to skirt school requirements when I was a child. Recently, I find myself reflecting on how lucky I was to grow up then and not now. And how grateful I am to the largely vaccinated community I grew up around, who kept me safe.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CIDRAP Op-Ed: HHS is asking what to call vaccine recommendations. You have 4 days to weigh in. by Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4ixhfYw
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 16/09/2026
Michigan Medicine: [Dr. Cem] Akin warns against assuming you have #MCAS without a proper medical evaluation, self diagnosing yourself or using the diagnosis as a diagnosis of exclusion. “It’s dangerous to mislabel patients and call it something when it isn’t."
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Have an MCAS diagnosis? Well, maybe not
A leading MCAS expert breaks down what mast cell activation syndrome is and how people may be getting over, and mis, diagnosed.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Atlantic: Measles Is Winning By Tom Bartlett bit.ly/4diX3Ge
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Measles Is Winning
The two latest deaths in Pennsylvania make the United States’ measles crisis undeniable.
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LymeScience @lymescience.org · 16/09/2026
Chiropractors and other quacks use muscle testing (aka applied kinesiology) to facilitate the sale of fraudulent diagnoses and treatment:
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Dr Zack MD on Instagram: "Holding vials of progesterone or shining a pocket flashlight on an ovary does not diagnose or treat hormone deficiencies. Applied kinesiology claims that muscle strength chan...
1,149 likes, 145 comments - drzackmd on September 11, 2026: "Holding vials of progesterone or shining a pocket flashlight on an ovary does not diagnose or treat hormone deficiencies. Applied kinesiolo...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Measles kills 18-year-old in PA, 4th death as state outbreak nears 700 cases
Teen developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a known measles complication.
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