Haley Quinn

putting d*ckmatized in a song when unionized is the same number of syllables reveals the fundamental issue of taylor swift's latest album: a lack of class consciousness. in this essay i will

Questions about vaccines for children? There's a free, virtual town hall with CDC alumni @drdemetre.bsky.social this week:

It's wild to both legitimately be experts in a similar field and being able to mostly clearly communicate how sorry we are that we don't speak the others language better! Taking recs for online (or irl in the dmv) courses to get from basic conversational spanish to profesional fluency

Having an extremely wholesome & deeply humbling experience bonding with a colleague who speaks a little more English than I do Spanish (easy enough for small talk, very difficult for professional use)

When I'm in international public health spaces I'm reminded just how embarrassing and deeply irresponsible it is that U.S. kids don't learn at least basic proficiency in Spanish as a standard part of our education

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

This doesn't even match the recommendations from the advisory council RFK filled with anti-vaxxers btw.

He also seems to think the MMR vaccine can/should be split into seperate ones? Which I think is a misunderstanding of someone trying to explain to him the difference between MMRV and MMR??

While it may be difficult for an administration that issues chaotic public health policy on social media to understand, a customer service reply from 2017 is not scientific consensus.

Disgust, horror, and "elimination": Trump and RFK Jr.'s eugenicist autism conference The most striking omission from Monday's White House pageant: autistic people.

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments."

I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cut through the noise! Join @aft.org's Federick Ingram on Sept 30 to hear from experts @vinguptamd.bsky.social and Dr Demetre Daskalakis on vaccines & childhood health: sharemylesson.com/webinars/vac...

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Trump that his desire to do eugenics is sincere

An approach to public health that is rooted in nostalgia for an imagined past, fixated on individual choice, and insists that every other source is corrupt or untrustworthy is authoritarian. RFK's dangerous ideology is a cornerstone of the authoritarian project, not a distraction from it.

The sooner a critical mass of people understand that the rise of MAHA & RFK alongside MAGA & Trump is not a coincidence, but in fact exactly the trajectory we see in authoritarian health policy, the better off we'll all be.

I cannot overstate the number of times I have said "RFK is a eugenicist and people should say so" in every professional & personal conversation I've had in the last 6 months.

It's been true! It's becoming more obvious to more people! More people should say so!

Disgust, horror, and "elimination": Trump and RFK Jr.'s eugenicist autism conference The most striking omission from Monday's White House pageant: autistic people.

The most striking omission from Monday's White House pageant: autistic people.

Realizing that the endpoint here is probably massively scaling back screening for autism spectrum disorders, limiting resources for people who need them, but leading to a decline in cases & declaration of victory.

"If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any."

autism announcement: i love my autistic friends :)

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.

UPDATE: President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. There is little strong scientific evidence for either.

🎯 When Trump said, “There’s no harm in not taking it,” that was incredibly inaccurate, as we know that fevers can cause birth defects and even fetal death.

It’s yet another reason why health recommendations 1️⃣ should come after careful & sufficient study 2️⃣ should come from actual health experts.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

this is really serious. if it continues, we’ll start to see states make do their own drug labels in some manner, possibly through collabs with other states, similar to what we are seeing with ACIP recs

(that's eugenics for those keeping track)

I am famously not a doctor but I have to imagine there are in fact downsides to not treating a fever ?

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

White House press conference with Trump, RFK Jr, Marty Makary, and Dr. Oz, for fuck's sake

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

I don't even know what I was expecting from the "autism announcement" but it's so much worse than I imagined

I'm going to become the thneed girl but with pointing out when things are eugenics

me talking to a member of my team who is literally 6 years younger than me: believe it or not back in the day we used to leave early on fridays sometimes

I am going to lose my mind :)

The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)