Tara Haelle

biting my lip to not snark "but did they control for the Benadryl" (yes this is a joke) (for the people who don't get it: the studies linking long-term Benadryl use and dementia risk didn't control for the insomnia/untreated MCAS participants were using it for)

Profile of Major General Lorna Mahlock, seated, at Tuesday's meeting in Quantico, VA

Credited to Rene Syler:

"Look at her face.

This is Major General Lorna M. Mahlock, USMC, the first Black woman in Marine Corps history to reach general officer rank. A trailblazer, a warrior, a woman who's earned every credential, medal, and command in her story."

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It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

How can––and should––health workers respond when fascist ICE agents invade our hospitals and clinics? I outlined an anti-fascist approach to caregiving in this essay.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Another excellent article by Tara Haelle. I’ve spoken to her a number of times for previous articles and she is one of the best journalists out there covering pediatric medicine. This is a complex issue and she deftly handles the controversial aspects of abusive head trauma.

No, shaken baby syndrome has not been discredited Defense lawyers have called shaken baby syndrome, or abusive head trauma, junk science. But doctors say shaking a baby is dangerous.

The story I'm referring to that I wrote a few months back is here. www.sciencenews.org/article/shak...

If you've followed anything on the #Roberson case in Texas, this is an important op ed to read from three pediatricians. I interviewed two of these pediatricians for my story on abusive head trauma.
reader.dallasnews.com/infinity/art...

Teenagers walk out of a school and down steps while holding signs with messages like "Keep ICE out" and "Abolish ICE." One student holds a megaphone.

Teenagers stand outside and listen to someone speaking. They are holding signs with messages like "Do I look like a criminal?" and "ICE is not nice" and "Protect migrants, protect due process."

More inspiring photos of Des Moines students staging a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention by ICE!

(photos by Lily Smith of the Register)

After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM If your child has recently been given an autism diagnosis, as my son was in 2003, here's what I want you to know: Learn from me, don't be me.

I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better.

My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting

This isn't just abt Tylenol, @tarahaelle.bsky.social shows how they're approving autism meds - leucovorin - with standards of evidence below the usual threshold.

One to read & bookmark✊🏻💜

#ActuallyAutistic
#Autism
#AuDHD
#Tylenol
#Paracetamol

She has so much more to answer for than just Oz. Jenny McCarthy, Dr Phil…

SCOTUS is utterly out of control. It’s remarkable that Roberts has any shred of hope left that history will not judge his legacy with disdain.

Countering false and misleading claims about Tylenol and autism from the top Journalists must rely on evidence, medical societies and experts to counter misinformation from federal agencies about Tylenol and autism.

“When officials in [US] agencies are so blatantly no longer relying on the actual evidence base to make policy, we have to assume that ‘data’ from them is so tainted that none of it can be fully trusted—and audiences need to know that.” @tarahaelle.bsky.social:

healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/09...

But what is a particular politician actually *is* a Nazi?

What’s Next in RSV Prevention? Here’s What’s on the Horizon The journey toward an RSV vaccine for children has been wrought with tragedy and setbacks. But six decades after scientists embarked on that path, they are nearing the finish line

The journey toward an #RSV #vaccine for children has been wrought with tragedy and setbacks. But six decades after scientists embarked on that path, they are nearing the finish line. I report at @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

From Tragedy to Eureka—The Long Road to RSV Drugs A tragic RSV vaccine trial in the 1960s set the field back for decades. Here’s how scientists finally made breakthroughs in RSV immunization

A tragic #RSV #vaccine trial in the 1960s set the field back for decades. Here’s how scientists finally made breakthroughs in RSV #immunization—both vaccines and monoclonal #antibodies. I report at @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-lo...

Innovations In: RSV The prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has seen incredible advancement in the past few years. In this editorially independent package, Scientific American explores breakthroughs in immuni...

Check out the incredible #RSV package from @sciam.bsky.social. Articles from me, @lizszabo.bsky.social @markkreidler.bsky.social, Suzette Brewer & editing frm @emilybazar.bsky.social. All editorially independent reporting. www.scientificamerican.com/report/innov... (we didn't know who sponsors were)

Countering false and misleading claims about Tylenol and autism from the top Journalists must rely on evidence, medical societies and experts to counter misinformation from federal agencies about Tylenol and autism.

It's a brave new world reporting on health/science w so much misinfo from once-credible institutions. Journalists must keep informing audiences w accurate, evidence-based info—even when federal leaders have totally lost the plot. #tylenol #autism #vaccines healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/09...

Even with the proviso that we don't know how this is going to end up, there's something so grimly funny about Trump's fixation on punishing Comey for "disloyalty" given that he's the guy who (at least partially) got Trump elected in the first place

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism Body says research has found ‘no consistent association’ and urges pregnant women to follow doctors’ advice The World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing back against contested claims by the Trump administration that acetaminophen use during pregnancy heightens the risk of autism, further underscoring that no scientific consensus supports such a connection. “Extensive research, including large-scale studies over the past decade, has found no consistent association,” the agency said in a Wednesday statement. Continue reading...

WHO rejects Trump’s claims of link between Tylenol and autism

Here’s Chris Hoofnagle (the lawyer brother) with a more formal paper on it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... His brother Mark is a surgeon.

They are equally useful (at least for me, in my work as a science journalist who started my career in writing about vaccines) as this framework of the four pillars of disordered doubt. The two constructs are beautifully complementary, one more forest and one more trees.

A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial In 2007, Mark Hoofnagle suggested on his Science Blog Denialism that denialists across a range of topics such as climate change, evolution, & HIV/AIDS all employed the same rhetorical tactics to sow c...

Only mentioning this here for anyone not familiar with those 5 tactics. Anyone working in debunking, denialism, mis & disinfo, etc will recognize them immediately. First described in 2007, info research John Cook made an acronym of them later. skepticalscience.com/history-flic...

I’m new to the framing you’ve described here of disordered doubt & I’m very grateful I’m seeing this 2 weeks later—it fits perfectly with my epistemological understanding of today’s info environment. It also fits perfectly w the 5 tactics of denialism described by the Hoofnagle brothers in 2007.

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

The upload to youtube has already crossed 300,000 views. Makes Sinclair broadcasting insignificant and give it the most views ever on YouTube for his show.

youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world

Now seems like a good time to re-post this story I edited by @tarahaelle.bsky.social, which details the global public health impact of vaccines. They have saved innumerable lives. They can only continue to do so if we keep using them.

genuinely crying at this one

Retsef Levi has just claimed that the CDC is not adequately assessing “outcomes and prognosis of myocarditis and other cardiovascular adverse events”.

This is a BLATANT lie. Every single vaccine safety surveillance system detected and reported myocarditis in some subgroups after vaccination.

Millions of children's lives hang in the balance. end/

You need to stand up. Work to get these people out of office. Every member of Congress needs to hear from you every day. Organizing in your communities. 29/

From Vought all the way down to CDC, NIH, FDA and CMS, these folks have got to go. For our children's sake. For the millions of childen they are now endangering. 28/