Chris Dall

Is it me or is Mama Mia like a 90-minute Mentos commercial?

Are the Mets going to win another game this year? Doesn’t feel like it!

It's really good, considering how little archival footage there is of the band.

He’s got a gift.

What if I told you there was a vaccine that was 97% effective at preventing measles?

I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business.

Here's a special audio statement on my reaction to the HHS breaking announcement that it is terminating $500 million in investments in mRNA vaccine research.

More details to come in today's podcast.

As a longtime public health reporter covering the rise of anti-vaccine groups, I have seen them use personal stories to raise doubts about vaccines.
Today I saw immunization advocates push back by highlighting the stories of the toll of vaccine-preventable illness. A thread:

I would take starters simply being able to regularly get through 6 or 7 innings.

This team should not be struggling as much as it is.

Never, and I repeat, never allow a window salesman into your home. You will feel like you're being held hostage.

I feel seen.

Kevin Hall, uncensored: Top nutrition scientist on clashing with MAHA and what he actually eats 'They’re not interested in the science': Former NIH nutrition scientist Kevin Hall on how his work with MAHA fell apart.

Kevin Hall says NIH tried to silence his nutrition research. With his lab closed, he’s revealing how ultra-processed foods impact public health.
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David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

When the FDA Commissioner goes on TV to elevate an unverified anecdote about a "friend's parent" dying from a COVID vaccine—while ignoring safety data from 1M+ people published 48 hours earlier—we have an institutional problem. This misleading rhetoric is deeply irresponsible. 🧵

Friday Patio beers with The ‘Mats.

I certainly had no problem with them trading Correa. That guy never impressed me.

You had to know after last night that Diaz was on the verge of one of these bad stretches. He needs a few days off.

Here’s the ‘lab leak’ family of Covid conspiracy theories, all of which are utter BS, being used to justify Project 2025’s destruction of federal science

(Also, leaf-blowers-on-lizards was NSF funded, not NIH, and it was both cheap and clever)

among many other major issues with this statement,

the government is not a business and should not be run like a business

no on expects the US Army to turn a profit

we don't spin of Texas when they have a bad quarter

anyway the ROI on NIH funding is positive: each $1 of NIH spending yields $2.46

What a ride by Wout van Aert today. Very happy to see him win a stage of the Tour.

There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal Each MMWR article now requires clearance by the HHS secretary, sources said

Major publishing slowdown at CDC's flagship journal: Every article submitted to Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report—MMWR—must be cleared by RFK Jr, who has no background in microbiology, public health, biostatistics, or science of any kind www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

Here's the thing: Not all mercury is alike. The only thimerosal (which contains ethylmercury) still in any vaccines are in flu vaccines in multidose vials as a preservative. Methylmercury (the toxin) has NEVER been in any vaccine. Think of ethyl alcohol (in wine) v. methyl alcohol in wood alcohol.

Radar (aka Max) has been with us for a week and a half or so and has bonded with me. Hard. Never have I been so adored by man or beast. In the lap every evening, by my side during the day. Radar cures loneliness. You can adopt him.

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All the ways your access to vaccines has changed under RFK Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership at Health and Human Services has led to changes in vaccine recommendations and access, sparking concerns among medical experts.

💉Our rundown of the changes in access to different vaccines under RFK Jr’s HHS:

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Never really considered this but it's true. Haven't they tried to grow trees on Nicollet Mall?

jesus christ man, all these people are absolute fucking dipshits. i mean, i know this, you know this, everyone knows it, but goddamn, man.

I donated to a station in New Mexico yesterday. I think my next donation will be to a station in Alaska.

Gotta disagree on ferns. Can’t stand them, and they multiply like bunnies.

They need another bat…and for Lindor to snap out of it.