Elizabeth Weil

The Father-and-Son Duo Who Toppled Our Trust in Vaccines Thirty years ago a doctor named Mark Geier spread fears about vaccines and autism. Now his son, David, is reportedly looking for a link for RFK Jr.

New York Magazine just published an in-depth article about Mark and David Geier, tracing Mark’s professional journey—from his emergence as a prominent anti-vaccine advocate to the controversy that led to the loss of his medical license

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"That’s a matter between me and my grammarian" — this story is perfect

The Father-and-Son Duo Who Toppled Our Trust in Vaccines Thirty years ago a doctor named Mark Geier spread fears about vaccines and autism. Now his son, David, is reportedly looking for a link for RFK Jr.

The son here is leading RFKJr’s #vaccine research team.

Sorry, that should be “research.” nymag.com/intelligence...

America’s Overheated Landfills Have Been Making People Sick Beneath layers of waste, landfills around the US have been reaching scorching temperatures, spewing toxic gases and geysers of trash juice.

long loud 👏👏👏👏👏 to @mslaurabliss.bsky.social for this literal and figurative garbage fires ... "or the industry’s preferred phrase is 'elevated temperature landfill,' or ETLF, which operators say has nothing to do with fire." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

a woman is holding a pair of glasses and says that 's all Alt: Miranda Priestly holds her glasses and says "That's all" before throwing a meaningful glance and swiveling on her chair to show her back

Anyway. David Geier is just another person who thinks he somehow knows better than everyone else and doesn't have the ability to critically self-introspect about why he is the way he is, much less do rigorous science

“[David] actually was fairly aggressive with [parents of autistic children] and told them, if you keep bothering me, we’re going to testify that [thimerosal] doesn’t cause [autism] and you’re really hurting the issue.” -Mark Geier, David’s father
Think we can annoy David into telling the truth?

The Father-and-Son Duo Who Toppled Our Trust in Vaccines Thirty years ago a doctor named Mark Geier spread fears about vaccines and autism. Now his son, David, is reportedly looking for a link for RFK Jr.

Compelling read about the Geiers and rise of the autism-vaccine movement: nymag.com/intelligence...
Refresher: Officially, David Geier is advising HHS scientists how to... find lost vaccine injury data?
Choice article quotes 👇

RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...

If you want to understand what @pauloffit.bsky.social is talking about here (“Either he adds autism to the list of compensable injuries, which would be devastating to that program .... ") @sheinvestigates.bsky.social has got you. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

While your head is exploding, meet the father-son tennis hustlers in matching clothes who helped undermined public health.

Ugh my pre-coffee typo

While you’re head is exploding, meet the father-son tennis hustlers in matching clothes who helped undermined public health.

LOVED this. thank you.

The Coyotes of San Francisco

glamour shot of neighborhood celeb www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

when ppl talk about Freud they are usually talking about the legacy of Freudian thought, and fair enough, but you do have to allow that the title of his 1912 essay “On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love” is all-time

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

the pleasure is all mine. this @nymag.com sort-of followup is not the future any of us want. nymag.com/intelligence...

THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

Don't let the bastards & the bots grind you down. thecon.ai

You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

It was a honor to play a tiny part in midwifing this book's birth. nymag.com/intelligence...

And ... happy pub day to @emilymbender.bsky.social, co-author of The AI Con

It’s been a long time since I read a book and immediately wanted to start over.

Disrupting Decorum Podcast Episode · What Rough Beast · 01/10/2025 · 37m

This is a reallllyyy great @lizweil.bsky.social interview about climate protest and the concept of breaking decorum

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Thank you!

Thank you, Apple News

www.thecut.com/article/tele...

‘I Can Hear Thoughts’ A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read their parents’ minds. The truth is more complicated.

If you have a spare half an hour or so, read this incredibly fascinating article debunking that viral podcast The Telepathy Tapes. The podcast says autistic non verbal people can communicate with telepathy, which isn't true. www.thecut.com/article/tele... also CW: Talk of SA

‘I Can Hear Thoughts’ A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read their parents’ minds. The truth is more complicated.

‘I Can Hear Thoughts’ A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read minds. The truth is more complicated. www.thecut.com/article/tele...

‘I Can Hear Thoughts’ A podcast called The Telepathy Tapes claims a group of nonspeaking autistic people can read their parents’ minds. The truth is more complicated.

I wrote a piece for @nymag.com about a viral podcast called The Telepathy Tapes — though it's really about longing, language, out-of-body-and-mind parental love, and how skepticism is an artifact of good luck. www.thecut.com/article/tele...

NEWYORK ICan Hear Thoughts A podcast claims a group of nonspeaking autistic children can read minds. But what's the real story behind The Telepathy Tapes? BY ELIZABETH WEIL

Well this was a fucking ride

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of course! just messaged you

The megahit podcast ‘The Telepathy Tapes’ has sold many parents on the idea that their nonverbal autistic children might have an otherworldly gift. But the truth is more complicated.
@lizweil.bsky.social reports: www.thecut.com/article/tele...

The photographer did an incredible job.