MAHA Leaders Are Recycling COVID Myths to Minimize Measles
Once again, everything old is new again. The circle of disinformation is complete.
MAHA leaders rose to power via their COVID disinformation.
Today, they are recycling those myths to minimize measles and distract from their inability to contain it.
My latest.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/newagain-2/
08.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 62 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 4
In 2023 @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about RFK Jr's role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa (time.com/6289037/robe...)
Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔
Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting
08.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 69 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 2
There should be Congressional hearings over this
08.02.2026 13:10 — 👍 587 🔁 157 💬 3 📌 1
It only took them 12 months to build massive concentration camps all over the USA. You’d think there would be more uproar, but no. No one cares unless it’s in their backyard.
08.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 5757 🔁 1873 💬 396 📌 92
Nothing is more frustrating than some factions in nominally your team ("team science") appeasing the fascists in hopes of a return to status quo.
First, status quo wasn't great.
Second, you undermine reformers.
Finally, appeasement always emboldens, not deters, fascists.
08.02.2026 10:21 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
!["Once again, [Kennedy] proves that he is one of the world’s most extreme and dangerous conspiracy theorists who loves stacking his committees with anti-science, anti-public health kooks,” Gavin Yamey, professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, tells WIRED. “The research evidence is clear that vaccines do not cause autism.” To Yamey, “it looks like RFK Jr.’s new committee has been tasked to muddy the waters and cast doubt on that evidence. RFK Jr. has spent the past year doing all he can to dismantle public health and roll back vaccination, and this new committee is more of the same.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nuqrjelqx4a2ewqzvwekhuro/bafkreicftridd4bc6sfyxmzss3azsebdpfsbvdccrgelerovzvdxm2cxq4@jpeg)
"Once again, [Kennedy] proves that he is one of the world’s most extreme and dangerous conspiracy theorists who loves stacking his committees with anti-science, anti-public health kooks,” Gavin Yamey, professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, tells WIRED. “The research evidence is clear that vaccines do not cause autism.” To Yamey, “it looks like RFK Jr.’s new committee has been tasked to muddy the waters and cast doubt on that evidence. RFK Jr. has spent the past year doing all he can to dismantle public health and roll back vaccination, and this new committee is more of the same.”
In a new piece for @wired.com, @davidgilbert.bsky.social dicusses RFK Jr.’s picks for a new federal autism panel
Many of them are extreme kooks & conspiracy theorists who "tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are 'poisoning children'.”
Here's what I say in the piece:
07.02.2026 11:51 — 👍 60 🔁 35 💬 3 📌 2
More news re. Blame: bsky.app/profile/pete...
07.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Blame is finally coming to an US film festival ⬇️⬇️
07.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is great to see - about time this made it to the US! The movie isn't really about the origin of the pandemic, but it *is* about those wrongfully being blamed for it - it's important to hear their story, and this movie does it well.
Peter mentions April, but I believe it's February!
07.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
In the USA BLAME has been selected for the renowned Sedona International Film Festival in Arizona which celebrates socially & culturally engaged cinema.
OFFICIAL US PREMIERE will on Feb 22nd w/ follow-up screening Feb 24th. Link to buy tickets below: 7/
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07.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Nominations 2026
Nominations for the Swiss Film Awards<br/>
Blame has now been nominated for the Best Documentary prize at the 2026 Swiss Film Awards – winners to be announced in Zurich in March 4/
www.quartz.ch/en/sfp/Nomin...
07.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.
Es geht nicht nur um Durchsuchungen, sondern auch um Konsequenzen: "The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on."
Möchten sich deutsche Politiker*innen und Bundesligisten. nochmal dazu äußern?
03.02.2026 11:22 — 👍 175 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 1
Write it down. Tell the story of this time in your own words. All too soon, people will try to re-write history, their own complicity in these horrors will be scrubbed away. But take a pen, take to the keyboard. And write. Remember for the rest of us.
06.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 156 🔁 62 💬 3 📌 3
Meningococcal
06.02.2026 04:36 — 👍 280 🔁 98 💬 9 📌 2
imagine being editor in chief of the wall street journal, winning pulitzer prizes, and then ending your journalism career as some billionaire's bitch boy
06.02.2026 04:40 — 👍 158 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 1
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
Die Klimakrise in der öffentlichen Debatte zwischen Wissenschaft, Querdenkern und Lobbyisten
Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein!
youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?...
03.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 616 🔁 293 💬 12 📌 5
Ich freue mich auf die Filmveranstaltung in Bern, Cinemovie, 11.02.2026
#Blame #Covid19 @bereadycohort.bsky.social @mcid-unibe.bsky.social
05.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trump Policy Threatens to Silence Scientists We Rely On
The Trump administration finalized a policy undermining the independence of federal employees.
Putting federal employees completely under the thumb of a political agenda weakens public trust in government and could result in less effective and equitable policies. It poses a monumental threat to evidence-based governance and democracy. Read More:
05.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 36 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
Kino regulär:
KINOTERMINE AB 16. APRIL 2026 (NEU)
Kiel: Kommunales Kino in der Pumpe – ab 16.04.
Magdeburg: ARTist! e.V. | Moritzhof – ab 16.04.
Regensburg: Kinos im Andreasstadel – 23.04. – 29.04.
Saarbrücken: Filmhaus – 16.04. – 29.04.2026
Wesel: Comet Kino Center – 16.04., 19.04.
05.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dessau:
KIEZ Kino – 19.02., 20.02., 03.03., 04.03. in der Reihe „Made in EU“
Braunschweig:
Universum Filmtheater – 02.03. | im Rahmen: Wendepunkt e.V.
Stuttgart:
Atelier am Bollwerk – am 11.03.2026 um 20:00 Uhr | Moderation: Astrid Beyer
05.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
München:
Monopol – 07.02. um 17.30 Uhr
| Q&A mit Christian Frei (Regie) & Prof. John Briggs, Direktor am MPI für Biochemie in Martinsried |
Moderation: Dr. Christina Berndt @christinaberndt.bsky.social (Süddeutsche Zeitung) | unterstützt v. d.: Max Planck Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de
05.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Special events:
Berlin:
Eva-Lichtspiele – 06.02. um 20.00 Uhr
| Q&A mit Christian Frei (Regie) & Dr. Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social (MPI Bildungsforschung) |
Moderation: Dorothe Nolte (Tagesspiegel) | unterstützt v. d.: Max Planck Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de
05.02.2026 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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