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American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration
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American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration
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The flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association (#ADA) just published an editorial criticizing the #Trump admin for attempting to "Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States."
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-DismantleAt an ADA conference yesterday, some members tried to pass out copies of the editorial just before #NIH Director #JayBhattacharya was scheduled to speak. They were blocked by security and escorted out of the building by police. The ADA had called in the police. Bhattacharya cancelled his talk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.htmlPS: What's going on at the ADA? The editorial had a disclaimer saying that it only represented the views of the authors, not the association. But the association had the courage to publish it. Then the association blocked its distribution, at its own conference, even calling in the police. Does it support free speech, even in support of science? Or not? And why can police stop peaceful scientists from handing out an editorial, even at an event sponsored by the group publishing the editorial?
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association (#ADA) just published an editorial criticizing the #Trump admin for attempting to "Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States."
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-DismantleAt an ADA conference yesterday, some members tried to pass out copies of the editorial just before #NIH Director #JayBhattacharya was scheduled to speak. They were blocked by security and escorted out of the building by police. The ADA had called in the police. Bhattacharya cancelled his talk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/well/ada-conference-diabetes-trump.htmlPS: What's going on at the ADA? The editorial had a disclaimer saying that it only represented the views of the authors, not the association. But the association had the courage to publish it. Then the association blocked its distribution, at its own conference, even calling in the police. Does it support free speech, even in support of science? Or not? And why can police stop peaceful scientists from handing out an editorial, even at an event sponsored by the group publishing the editorial?
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are
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The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are
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The #CDC is sitting on a report showing that the #COVID #vaccine "cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/
(#paywalled)It was set to be published last month when #JayBhattacharya delayed it because of "methodology" concerns. But it uses standard CDC methodology for evaluating vaccines, and Bhattacharya approved the release of a flu vaccine report using the same methodology the week before the planned release of the COVID report. Bhattacharya reports to #RFKJr.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The #CDC is sitting on a report showing that the #COVID #vaccine "cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/
(#paywalled)It was set to be published last month when #JayBhattacharya delayed it because of "methodology" concerns. But it uses standard CDC methodology for evaluating vaccines, and Bhattacharya approved the release of a flu vaccine report using the same methodology the week before the planned release of the COVID report. Bhattacharya reports to #RFKJr.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost
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The Missouri v. Biden ‘Settlement’ Is A Fake Victory For A Case They Lost
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Trump Administration Makes The Conscious Choice To Make America Less Prepared For The Next Pandemic
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Even if #JayBhattacharya wasn't an anti-science crank, having the same person run both #NIH and #CDC simply isn't viable. A former senior CDC leader explains: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120020
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Even if #JayBhattacharya wasn't an anti-science crank, having the same person run both #NIH and #CDC simply isn't viable. A former senior CDC leader explains: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/120020
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How ‘structural racism’ came to dominate medical research
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NIH Boss Jay Bhattacharya Breaks With RFK Jr. On Vaccines
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NIH Boss Jay Bhattacharya Breaks With RFK Jr. On Vaccines
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There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024.
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands.
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #jfkjrantivax #JayBhattacharya
#SherriTenpennyhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15203309/cases-whooping-cough-florida-vaccine-rates.html
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There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024.
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands.
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain #jfkjrantivax #JayBhattacharya
#SherriTenpennyhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15203309/cases-whooping-cough-florida-vaccine-rates.html
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Amid all the distractions, don't forget the brave #NIH staff publicly standing up to their misguided leadership. As @gregggonsalves writes,
"It’s hard to convey how unprecedented this is. I’ve followed the NIH for 35 years, first as an activist and now as a scientist. I cannot remember a time like this at the organization—from Reagan up until this current moment."https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/nih-staff-have-broken-their-silence/
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Amid all the distractions, don't forget the brave #NIH staff publicly standing up to their misguided leadership. As @gregggonsalves writes,
"It’s hard to convey how unprecedented this is. I’ve followed the NIH for 35 years, first as an activist and now as a scientist. I cannot remember a time like this at the organization—from Reagan up until this current moment."https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/nih-staff-have-broken-their-silence/
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300 National Institutes of Health staffers sign "Bethesda Declaration," condemning the current direction of #NIH under #JayBhattacharya and #RFKJr
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300 National Institutes of Health staffers sign "Bethesda Declaration," condemning the current direction of #NIH under #JayBhattacharya and #RFKJr
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: #NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director #Bhattacharya
Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at the agency in various roles & institutes….All painted a grim picture of an institution plagued by #chaos, unclear leadership…, #mismanagement, & widespread fear & demoralization due to capricious rule changes, restrictions, & #research cuts.
One man they blamed? #JayBhattacharya.#Trump #PublicHealth #Health #science
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: #NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director #Bhattacharya
Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at the agency in various roles & institutes….All painted a grim picture of an institution plagued by #chaos, unclear leadership…, #mismanagement, & widespread fear & demoralization due to capricious rule changes, restrictions, & #research cuts.
One man they blamed? #JayBhattacharya.#Trump #PublicHealth #Health #science
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The Continuing Crisis, Part XIV: The Trumpist Worldview
Derek Lowe, Science
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/continuing-crisis-part-xiv-trumpist-worldview
"1. These people are here to deliberately destroy the federally funded science agencies...
2. They are also hostile to the very idea of real data.
3. To these ends it is permissible to say and do anything, anything at all.
4. The central fact of any organization is that there has to be a big boss who gives the orders.”#hhs #nih #fda #rfk #JayBhattacharya #research #funding #governance #Science
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Update. "Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 #NIH Public Access Policy"
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy"I am excited to announce that one of my first actions as NIH Director is pushing the accelerator on policies to make NIH research findings freely and quickly available to the public. The 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1, 2025."
PS: This announcement is from the Trump-appointed NIH director, #JayBhattacharya. It's another sign that Trump has not revoked or weakened the #OSTP #NelsonMemo, despite other attacks on research, including #takedowns of #OpenAccess texts and data. At the NIH, the largest funding agency, implementation of the Nelson memo is even speeding up.
EDIT. Another NIH reaffirmation of its NelsonMemo OA policy. From Lyric Jorgenson, NIH Ass Director for Science Policy, April 30, 2025: "We revised our Public Access Policy to eliminate the embargo period so that researchers, students, and members of the public have rapid access to these findings. NIH leadership believes strongly that transparency in all we do is critical and that we should not waste a moment in fulfilling our promise to the public."
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Update. "Accelerating Access to Research Results: New Implementation Date for the 2024 #NIH Public Access Policy"
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy"I am excited to announce that one of my first actions as NIH Director is pushing the accelerator on policies to make NIH research findings freely and quickly available to the public. The 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1, 2025."
PS: This announcement is from the Trump-appointed NIH director, #JayBhattacharya. It's another sign that Trump has not revoked or weakened the #OSTP #NelsonMemo, despite other attacks on research, including #takedowns of #OpenAccess texts and data. At the NIH, the largest funding agency, implementation of the Nelson memo is even speeding up.
EDIT. Another NIH reaffirmation of its NelsonMemo OA policy. From Lyric Jorgenson, NIH Ass Director for Science Policy, April 30, 2025: "We revised our Public Access Policy to eliminate the embargo period so that researchers, students, and members of the public have rapid access to these findings. NIH leadership believes strongly that transparency in all we do is critical and that we should not waste a moment in fulfilling our promise to the public."
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This is really good. I love that #JayBhattacharya says that the people who pushed to censor him over his disagreement with the consensus over #COVID policy, thought they were doing the right thing. Doing good. Saving lives. I wish we were a culture that cared more about discussing this hard civic stuff than holding tight to comfortable and simple beliefs, virtue signaling and entertainment.
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This is really good. I love that #JayBhattacharya says that the people who pushed to censor him over his disagreement with the consensus over #COVID policy, thought they were doing the right thing. Doing good. Saving lives. I wish we were a culture that cared more about discussing this hard civic stuff than holding tight to comfortable and simple beliefs, virtue signaling and entertainment.
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The _Journal of the Academy of Public Health_ is a new OA journal.
https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/Its inaugural editorial contains a familiar litany of objections to traditional journal publishing.
https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives/2025/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-scientific-journals-and-a-way-forward/One co-founder of the journal is #JayBhattacharya — Donald #Trump's nominee to run the #NIH.
If that suggests a particular take on health and medicine, it should. For details on the "COVID contrarian" orientation of the journal, see:
1. @KristinaFiore's article in MedPage Today
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/1141792. @ct_bergstrom's thread in Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lhh7w3vco222 -
The _Journal of the Academy of Public Health_ is a new OA journal.
https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/Its inaugural editorial contains a familiar litany of objections to traditional journal publishing.
https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives/2025/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-scientific-journals-and-a-way-forward/One co-founder of the journal is #JayBhattacharya — Donald #Trump's nominee to run the #NIH.
If that suggests a particular take on health and medicine, it should. For details on the "COVID contrarian" orientation of the journal, see:
1. @KristinaFiore's article in MedPage Today
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/1141792. @ct_bergstrom's thread in Bluesky
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@DrPsyBuffy It's going to get worse. With #RFKJr running HHS and #JayBhattacharya in charge of #NIH, the government will soon be actively trying to make us sicker.
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@DrPsyBuffy It's going to get worse. With #RFKJr running HHS and #JayBhattacharya in charge of #NIH, the government will soon be actively trying to make us sicker.
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Here's a piece amplifying why #JayBhattacharya should be completely disqualified from leading the #NIH https://www.panaccindex.info/p/covidians-and-cults-jay-bhattacharyas
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Here's a piece amplifying why #JayBhattacharya should be completely disqualified from leading the #NIH https://www.panaccindex.info/p/covidians-and-cults-jay-bhattacharyas
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On the one hand, the #NIH will pay for #replication studies. On the other hand, (1) researchers must nominate their studies for replication and few are interested, and (2) the replication studies will NOT be #OpenAccess, contradicting the pioneering NIH principle to provide public access to publicly-funded research.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-launches-initiative-double-check-biomedical-studies
(#paywalled)On the one hand, this is happening under the #Biden admin NIH. On the other, it has the support of #Trump's nominee to head the NIH, #JayBhattacharya.
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On the one hand, the #NIH will pay for #replication studies. On the other hand, (1) researchers must nominate their studies for replication and few are interested, and (2) the replication studies will NOT be #OpenAccess, contradicting the pioneering NIH principle to provide public access to publicly-funded research.
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-launches-initiative-double-check-biomedical-studies
(#paywalled)On the one hand, this is happening under the #Biden admin NIH. On the other, it has the support of #Trump's nominee to head the NIH, #JayBhattacharya.
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#JayBhattacharya, #Trump’s proposed leader of the National Institutes of Health, is even worse than I thought.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nih-pick-sanewashes-a-scientific-crank-jay-bhattacharya-peter-duesberg -
#JayBhattacharya, #Trump’s proposed leader of the National Institutes of Health, is even worse than I thought.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nih-pick-sanewashes-a-scientific-crank-jay-bhattacharya-peter-duesberg -
Question for #MedMastodon: Has #JayBhattacharya ever retracted his advocacy of a "herd immunity" (i.e. let 'er rip) strategy for #COVID? There was a brief window when it might not have seemed totally insane, but the frequency of reinfection and the rapid emergence of #LongCovid quickly revealed it as untenable. Has he ever acknowledged that he got it wrong? Or is he as stubborn in his ignorance as #rfkjr
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Question for #MedMastodon: Has #JayBhattacharya ever retracted his advocacy of a "herd immunity" (i.e. let 'er rip) strategy for #COVID? There was a brief window when it might not have seemed totally insane, but the frequency of reinfection and the rapid emergence of #LongCovid quickly revealed it as untenable. Has he ever acknowledged that he got it wrong? Or is he as stubborn in his ignorance as #rfkjr
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@taylorlorenz #Stanford University has TWO ‘#DoctorDeaths ‘? 😳
#ScottAtlas is the other, in addition to #JayBhattacharya.
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@taylorlorenz #Stanford University has TWO ‘#DoctorDeaths ‘? 😳
#ScottAtlas is the other, in addition to #JayBhattacharya.
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" told Byline Times that former investment banker #AlexanderCaccia, ... a ‘bio-inspired engineering company’ funded by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) – wrote the Declaration at the meeting on 3 October hosted by the libertarian think-tank, the American Institute for Economic Research (#AIER)...
#Caccia is the partner to ... Oxford epidemiologist ... #SunetraGupta, to whom the #GBD has been attributed alongside ... #Kulldorff of Harvard ... and ... #JayBhattacharya."
Unsettling.
