Tara C. Smith

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

dang that must suck that someone else used what they created without them allowing it

Hepatitis B vaccine trial is suspended, not canceled The Bandim Health Project says it’s working on changing its protocol to address concerns while doubling down on its claim that the study design is ethical.

Apparently, it is not yet dead.
"Hepatitis B vaccine trial is suspended, not canceled, per Africa CDC"

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Screen shot from american board of pediatrics showing Sean Downing as not certified.

Screen shot from american board of pediatrics showing angelina Farella as not certified.

RFK Jr. Just added two pediatricians to the ACIP. Neither one is board certified.

(it is not hard to maintain Pediatrics board certification. One just has to answer about 75 multiple choice questions and pay a nominal fee).

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South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report measles-related admissions, making it difficult to ascertain how sick people are getting.

“The public might get the false impression that measles is milder than it really is,” one expert said.

WHO updates all 3 viral strains to be included in fall flu shots

The recommendation for vaccines for the next flu season includes a new influenza variant—subclade K—that started to increase last fall.

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When The NE Ohio Regional Sewer District hires a liberal arts kid to run social:

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

Radiohead Tells Trump’s Homeland Security to ‘Go F— Yourselves’ After Song Used in ICE Video Radiohead has told DHS and ICE to 'go f--- yourselves' after their song 'Let Down' was used in a video blaming immigrants for violence..

Radiohead has issued a joint band statement decrying the use of the group’s song “Let Down” in a pro-ICE video, telling the U.S.’s Department of Homeland Security to “go fuck yourselves” for misappropriating the track.

Important for everyone to realize: the anti-vaxx activist RFK Jr did indeed TRADEMARK “MAHA”

Before he became HHS Secretary, he declared $100k earned from “a licensing agreement to use Maha brand marks”

He wanted to put it on supplements, vitamins, essential oils to make $$$

He’s a grifter

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Just the Right Amount: Microbial Nutrients Drive Success and Failure of Antibiotics New findings provide framework for developing novel medications and addressing antibiotic resistance

"While increasing nutrient supply improves the killing of bacteria, excess nutrients can unexpectedly promote regrowth of resistant subpopulations."

Just report it to student conduct so it's on their record.

Opinion | I’m an Immunologist. I Grew Up Unvaccinated.

Parents make medical decisions out of love and fear. RFK Jr. exploits that vulnerability from inside HHS to spread disinformation. Shaming confused parents fails. Raw scientific data rarely changes a frightened mind. Empathy is how we rebuild trust in public health.

South Carolina seeks non-CDC reinforcements to contain growing measles outbreak A dozen public health experts are arriving to help the state contain the largest U.S. measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but they're not coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

I'm sure it's delicious but why is our Secretary of HHS acting like he's auditioning for Diners, Drive Ins and Dives instead of running the damn agencies he's supposed to lead? South Carolina had to go elsewhere for help!

It's such a time suck for faculty. This assignment should take me ~10 mins max to grade. Instead I had to double-check every reference to make sure I was correct and then write up a discussion of what I found, and then all the academic discipline stuff down the road will take more time.

For my on-ground class, I moved everything back to paper. I used to do quizzes online/before class so we had more time in class to actually discuss shit, but too much cheating.

Oh I guarantee there is much ink spilled out there somewhere. And the RIBS. You're eating meat off the BONE from their CHEST CAVITY. RAWWWRRR

Yes, and so much more! I mean, he runs ALL OF HHS and this is his priority???

RFK Jr with BBQ employees and meat products, "First stop on my national BBQ tour, I visited Terry Black's to EAT REAL FOOD"

Yesterday: video of himself as an action figure. Today: "BBQ tour". Over 1000 #measles cases so far in 2026, H5N1 in CA elephant seals, obesity still an issue that more BBQ will not solve. I'm so tired.

ICE monitor near Roosevelt high school where kids get off the bus

Minneapolis still with the need for ICE watchers near high schools. #NotNormal

Can't. I can report to office of student conduct but for now just give a zero for that assignment.

wheeee got the first clearly AI-generated assignment of the semester today. Writing looked suspect but the hallucinated references really give it away.

Makary spent years calling doctors and scientists liars because they didn't believe COVID infections were lifelong, or that we had herd immunity May 2021.

Now, he is blaming others for the problem he created.

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Are you in #Alaska, #Louisiana, #Maine? These are the Senators who need to "just say no" to quackery.

Stay in school, kids.

I'm grateful to know the ASL I have, of course—and my Uncle Marvin loves Deaf culture.

But as anti-vax fearmongering grows stronger, I do my best to point out that my ASL use is a direct inter-generational result of *not* having vaccines.

It's as benign as these histories come, but it's clear. 2/2

Anyone who knows me knows I gesticulate like a muppet when I talk. I also literally can't spell a word without also fingerspelling it in ASL. Why?

Rubella vaccines didn't exist in Kansas in the 1950s, so although my Uncle Marvin survived, it left him Deaf. My (hearing) Dad learned ASL, too.

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