Dr David Robert Grimes

F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines

The FDA made this assertion without releasing an iota of data to support it or uttering a word about risk-benefit. This is what science by press release looks like, a damning indictment of the ideological capture RFK Jr has enforced

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/h...

Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate. The perfect opportunity to remember the 1997 Macy's parade, when Barney the dinosaur committed public seppuku and the Cat in the Hat put someone into a Coma..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Ma...

Who the hell was stupid enough to think that giving Robert F Kennedy power over medical scientists would make him listen to them? No - mendacious idealouges like him always abuse that power to force their lies on everyone else. We fucking told you so

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Fish go walking, fish get shoez

..the housing and cost of living crisis isn't being caused by immigrants or asylum seekers: it's a consequence of decades of poor governance, nimbyism, and greed. The hard right do not care about solutions, they just want a scapegoat to blame and resultant anger to direct.

Hard-right love "Ireland being overrun" narrative on immigration. But as @fotoole13.bsky.social notes, actual numbers small: here's log-plot of raw inward migration [2024-2025] in terms of Croke Park. As @csoireland.bsky.social
explain, net immigration falling too.. t.co/lxq09kU7XU

..also, RJK Jr is *so much* worse than many of us realise, and is the most perversely unsuited person imaginable to hold such office. We must resist the temptation to accept any of this as normal, when it is frankly obscene

"Make America Healthy Again" will make not only America but the entire world sicker. RJK Jr and the MAGA movement are modern Lysenkoists, and the consequences of their anti-science agenda will be severe, as I write in @emboreports.org www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

So @jamesheathers.bsky.social & I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97 Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks

Seems everyone has a James Watson story. I met him when I was 27 in Oxford and he told me to fuck off after a joke at his expense, which admittedly I half deserved 🫠 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

..Celebrities can't even keep their own sex tapes secret, and they typically only involve 2 people.. 😬

Kim Kardashian is wrong (shocker!) - moon landings certainly happened. As I showed before, Apollo had >400k staff who'd need be complicit. Chances of them keeping it secret? Virtually zero. Probability of a celebrity saying something daft, alas, approaches unity🤪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

To most Irish people, Mary McGee was the woman whose supreme court battle legalised contraception. To me, she was my aunt with a cheeky sense of humour & great laugh. Took this of her & my dad just a few weeks ago - RIP May, you'll be missed
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Putin’s Willing Disinformation Agents When it comes to war in Ukraine, Putin has found left and right-wing figures willing to spread his propaganda, as Dr David Grimes explains

..piece is here, from early Ukraine invasion, and there's been even more alarming comments from both since. So I am hopeful Connelly rejects this, as it would be a serious error to indulge either... bylinetimes.com/2022/03/17/p...

Extract from byline time piece

After that AI slop from Mick Wallace (not sharing, it's grim), hope President Connelly rejects the asinine nonsense from her former compatriots, Wallace & Daly. As I wrote in @bylinetimes.bsky.social their useful idiocy & propaganda vectoring is something she'll hopefully not enable..

Funny how the reprobates assaulting Garda in #Citywest get so worked up when they think an immigrant may have committed a crime, but don't give a damn otherwise. All this is just a figleaf for the worst people to pretend their racism is justified, or even laudable

Have they tried a different dichotomisation?

guess who got a paper published called...

Cake Causes Herpes

(well @drg.bsky.social did i just helped by taking out all the rude words)

State Department says it has revoked visas from people who allegedly ‘celebrated’ Charlie Kirk’s murder | CNN Politics The US State Department said it has revoked visas from at least six individuals who allegedly “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s murder.

Bizarre in a "free speech" country - that Kirk veered into conspiracy theory & religious cryptofascism is matter of public record. Going after people for this is like the apocryphal words of Galileo after his conviction for heresy "..and yet it moves.." edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

It's fine when they give you excel - it's just bad when they think strikeouts, coloured text, and random 9999999 values mean anything to us!

Negative lookahead? Needs perl = TRUE to work..

x <- "A,B,C, D"
strsplit(x, ",(?!\\s)", perl = TRUE)

I use something similar is some of my code to clean up weird entries...

Disappointing to see Joe Wicks fearmongering about ultra-processed foods. Aside from fact that data on UPFs is inherently confounded & often reflects things like poverty (an actual killer), this reel by Joshua Hill explains why such nonsense is so deeply harmful
www.instagram.com/reel/DPUGquB...

The strange history of the anti-vaccine movement Vaccine scepticism may seem like a new, growing movement. It’s probably a lot older than you think.

"Widespread and on the rise."

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Acting CDC director calls to 'break up' the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three shots Individual vaccines for each virus aren't available in the U.S., and no published scientific evidence shows a benefit to separating the combined vaccine.

Do not mistake this as benign - breaking up MMR into separate shots is inherently antivaccine, as it promotes myth of "vaccine overload" & makes it much more unlikely people will get their children vaccinated. Also, single vaccines aren't available in USA!
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Ha, that reminds me - I've built a shiny app you might like that does something fun with retracted papers, I'll DM you..

Atara Jaffe, ND Atara Jaffe is a Naturopathic physician licensed in Vermont and  Washington state. Her philosophy to medicine is a patient-centered approach, where provider and patient work as a partnership to...

It appears this is the complainant, too - a naturopath into craniosacral therapy..

www.stowefamilywellness.com/atara-jaffe-...

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

And before anyone says "well pitch your own piece!" the reality is that outlets like the @theguardian.com (and many others) are less and less receptive to freelance pitches, Correctives are highly unlikely to see the light of day, and never get the clicks of offending article either 🤷‍♂️

Since the piece went live, I've got a steady stream of worried people asking about it -I wish outlets would stop this kind of harmful journalism. In medical science, we need factchecking and expertise more than ever, not unhelpfully credulous pieces which elevate pseudoscience..

One response it is just a human interest story, but this doesn't negate responsibility of @theguardian.com to check things. As I wrote in The Irrational Ape, Andrew Wakefield's mendacious linking of autism to MMR vaccine only got traction in UK media due to such irresponsible credulity!