Great way to put this

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get.

Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

Too many elite medical groups (looking at you AMA President) are unwilling to criticize the Trump Administration or the physicians who Trump & RFK Jr hired to do their extreme MAGA/MAHA bidding (IMHO these physicians are helping to give Trump & RFK Jr 'credibility'—a kind of collusion with fascism)

Oh…

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Anti-Vaxxers Plan to “Make Europe Healthy Again” An anti-vaxxer sitting on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee pitched European parliament members on “MEHA.”

NEW: Basking in the destruction of America’s public health, anti-vaxxers are trying to bring Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” anti-science agenda to Europe.

www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vaxxe...

Meet the man who built RFK Jr.’s kitchen cabinet Jeffrey Tucker, who elevated Covid contrarians now working for the health secretary, is building support for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.

If you care about public health, vaccinations, and masking, you should read this deep dive on the Brownstone institute.
then look at their contributors.
You'll find some surprising connections between the WHO, Oxford University, the Trump Administration, and the far right.
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Who is Funding the Brownstone Institute? New tax filings provide some clarity about the funders of the prolific COVID-19 conspiracy outfit.

We kept an eye on this organization over the years. We also were the first (with CMD) to identify (some of) its funding.

www.importantcontext.news/p/who-is-fun...

(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.

Scientists lose jobs and grants as US government shutdown takes a toll

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they've never admitted their error.

“That’s the contention of “We Want Them Infected,” a painstakingly documented new book by Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating our efforts to fight the pandemic.

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

“Dr. Bhattacharya has pledged to welcome conflicting views, describing dissent in his confirmation hearing as ‘the very essence of science.’”

How’s that coming along?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

"There is undoubtedly a coordinated and concerted attack on science by today's Republican Party."

Under Attack: Science, Research, and the Trump Administration Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 10:30 A.M. CDT / 11:30 A.M. EDT

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order and budget proposal aimed at cutting support for the scientific research community.

How will possible cuts affect scientists, and what solutions may exist? This Thursday, join the Bulletin for an expert discussion.

Senate Democrats Blame Trump’s Assault on Clean Energy for High Electricity Prices - Inside Climate News Amid tension over a looming government shutdown, minority leader Chuck Schumer heads an effort to tie presidential policies to lost jobs and soaring utility bills.

Democrats charge that the Trump administration’s squeeze on clean energy supply is having an inevitable consequence: higher electricity prices. The energy debate has ramped up as a government shutdown looms.

Trump’s Tylenol Briefing Peddled Junk Science Parents deserve answers about autism — not debunked theories and misinformation.

Instead of the promised "answer to autism," Trump offered families distorted science, false hope, and dangerous medical advice. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

How vulnerable is our vaccine programme to a potential vaccine sceptic Health Secretary? We've witnessed the way that RFK Jr and Trump administration have weakened US access to vaccines. Could it happen in the UK?

now in a substack post too, with links.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-vulner...

IMPORTANT 🧵

We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.

But it could happen in UK too.

It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.

Read on!
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The best article I’ve read on the medical misinformation about Tylenol and autism.

Fevers and sickness can be a risk factor, and left untreated, it could make matters worse. Tylenol is a red herring that could be reducing the damage caused by the fevers.

RFK is wrong. Congress should remove him.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con job ever.""Climate change -- it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in...

"President Trump and his administration continue to spew lies and disinformation about climate science(...) Climate change is here, it's costly, and people need real solutions, not propaganda designed to boost the profits of fossil fuel polluters," said UCS's Rachel Cleetus.

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight.

They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit,

when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers.

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He repackaged it for journal publication to give it the appearance of legitimacy.

Even though the strongest studies— between siblings—showed no relationship between autism & Tylenol use in pregnancy.

He cherry-picked studies & gave parental memory [recall] more weight than quantitative data.

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And THAT is the “study” the Trump administration is using as “proof” Tylenol causes autism.

He’s part of a group of physicians with zero toxicology or biochemistry expertise who brand themselves as “environmental exposure experts” and even get academic positions under that heading.

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It’s ACTUALLY the lawsuit pipeline:

1️⃣ Get paid to testify as an “expert”
2️⃣ Publish weak observational science under an academic title
3️⃣ Use the paper to get credibility for court or policy

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This is EXACTLY how RFK Jr built his career: turning civil litigation against “chemicals” into a pseudoscience cash grab.

What’s shocking is seeing people who claim to do scicomm sanitize this well-known tactic,

ESPECIALLY as our federal health agencies have been hijacked by science deniers.

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When Trump, RFK Jr, & their MAHA allies scream about this “new paper” as proof Tylenol causes autism:

It’s tossed-out courtroom testimony, now dressed up for PubMed.

Legitimizing bad science with dangerous policy allows fear to spread instead of facts, and puts the public at risk.

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“There is always an executive order” is the new “there is always a tweet.”
Feel free to never take anything these guys say about science seriously