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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Measles cases just topped 4,000. Hospitalizations at 414 RFK Jr. is still in La La Land about the death count. As if nothing else matters.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

352 hospitalized At this rate there will be more than 5,000 cases this year. More than double last year’s total.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How did we get from the elimination of measles to the worst outbreak in 35 years. It's about the persistence of scientific misinformation. Call it The Wakefield Effect youtube.com/shorts/st3pg...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This image from 2020 puts current events in clear focus. At the time, if this is right, we faced a dire situation because 6 companies controlled 90% of conventional media. Today three of these companies are about to become one under a conservative billionaire. Ah for the world before Trump 2.0

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

RFK Jr.’s tricks for hiding the outbreak are even stranger than you think #episky #medsky #measles #cdc drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-magic-...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

None of this makes any sense. A child currently receives vaccinations on 6 occasions by 18 months. What does this reduced dose schedule look like? This certainly doesn't sound like a way to reduce the total number of injections. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The lineup for the CHD conference in DC with four sitting Congressmen, the HHS Secretary, and Andrew Wakefield raising money to support anti vaccine propaganda is a true murderer's row. Literally.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But, in many cases, whether measles, COVID, or climate change, bad science has serious negative consequences. In this case, it is the partial reversal of one of the great public health achievements of the last century. 🧪 #episky #medsky

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The findings resonate with non-scientific groups that have personal reasons to want to believe the findings. In this case it was to explain a rise in autism primarily due to diagnostic shifts and repeatedly shown not to be related to vaccines.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Authors such as Wakefield often begin by doing good since but fall to the temptation of some combination of money and recognition and conduct deeply flawed and, in this case, fraudulent science.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Misinformation Kills: In the past month alone there have been four deaths attributable to these two men. And this is a pattern. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just when you think they can't go any lower, This. www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/ It's real and these monsters think it's just a game.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I figured out where he got the idea.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trump sleeping through the rape of public health

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Note that Bhattacharya posts the WWE image first. The mention of the memorial for the slain security guard was a comment he posted 50 minutes later as an afterthought. "Today was also a somber day" . No words.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That allows us to estimate how many deaths would have occurred if there had been different levels of NPIs. Without NPIs, the model estimates the 2 million Americans would have died of COVID, 850,000 more than observed. Matching the state with the most effective NPIs would have saved ~250,000 more.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Once we take into account other factors that influence COVID transmission and mortality (population density, vaccination rates, and initial COVID surge), we can predict COVID mortality for each state with remarkable accuracy.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The reduction in flu deaths varied from state to state. Those that had greater reductions in flu mortality tended to have lower COVID mortality rates.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The answer is in another disease. The flu. Influenza mortality dropped dramatically during COVID. The only plausible explanation for this is that the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) instituted to control COVID were limiting the spread of ALL respiratory infections, including the flu.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So, after the reflecting pool was filled and algae bloomed and just as crews began to pour in peroxide, a paint stripper, vandals waded in and sliced a 350 ft "gash" in the coating in a way that made it separate in huge sheets from the concrete to which it was bonded. No photographs. No witnesses.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

His game was to add them to the list of substances that can be used in compounding. 6 were recommended for approval. For 3 of them, there were no human clinical studies of any kind. The driver appears to be RFK's personnel experience injecting grey market peptides. Read and subscribe for more.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In order to push seven peptides towards approval against the advice of FDA scientists, RFK Jr. stacked the advisory panel with 8 members: 4 are in the business of injecting untested peptides, 3 from pharma, and 1 has a longevity practice.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But let’s blame Canada for the fires.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

But let's blame Canada for the wildfires.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The 10 Best—and 10 Worst—Presidents in American History newrepublic.com/article/2117... via @newrepublic.com

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, Science has left the building.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Prevention is only visible when you break it. Drinking water treatment and pasteurization played a critical role in the elimination of typhoid along with other diseases. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Please share your cancellation notice in the comments. CBS News fires ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Scott Pelley after clash with new producer www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I can assure you, my only source of funding for this blog is reader support. If you want to see more work like this, please become a paid subscriber.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

And one more. This one in response to my Misinformation Masterclass post.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This drew extensive criticism from Alex Washburne, the first of which I post here. Again, I strongly encourage you to read the full comment thread. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lots of comments on this one. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I fully support open discussion of these issues. With that in mind, I share one of many comments by Michael Weissman. I strongly encourage you to view his full commentary in context. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Alex Washburne points out that I relied on the Chinese epidemiological data, which may have been faked or manipulated to draw attention from the lab. That seems like an epidemiological Truman Show to me. Tough to pull off. But I encourage you to read his comments. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Time to distribute one of these to each member of the Trump Administration.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

COVID-19 showed up as a cluster around a wildlife market. Proponents of a lab leak argue that the appearance of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan within a few miles of a lab studying novel coronaviruses is too great a coincidence. This is a legitimate question that merits careful consideration.

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Bob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

There are two plausible ways for a pathogen to spread from a lab to the general population: direct environmental release which will appear as a cluster of cases around a plume, or infection of a lab worker (or escape of a lab animal) followed by human-to-human transmission

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