Dr Jennifer Marino

I am not surprised that the people who want to run unethical studies to provide "evidence" for their repeatedly-debunked fictions about disease aetiology have had to eliminate the IRB

Some really excellent content from my colleagues in the Australian Research Consortium for Trans Youth and Children (ARCTYC) in this issue!

The MJA special issue on gender and health is out now!

Available online at buff.ly/3f7UnqS

Featuring research and perspectives on trans health, reproductive health and heart health

University staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

University execs come up with the dumbest excuses. And they get away with it.

‘…WSU said its "change process" was being led "by our own people" and consultants were engaged because staff working on the restructure were facing burnout.’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

-80 freezer at -20

I think that your correspondent’s essential point was that Trump does not consider that he will miss out on anything with the destruction of the US health research and public health systems. Trump is wrong, ofc, we will all miss out, terribly, but that point stands.

You need to understand: this administration is not merely destroying access to treatments, but the possibility that they might exist at all.

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Oh, well-done! How exciting!

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

No exaggeration - I mourn the death of the US public health system

"That is a real problem in every western country: middle class women do not have enough kids. Women in the welfare system have lots of kids," Mr Abbott said. "If you're very wealthy you can afford to have as many kids as you want."

Hey, researchers/commentators! Narrative that the wrong kind of women are having too many kids while the right kind of women are having too few is grotesque. Statistical models are abstract and fail to account for the thing that makes us human: humanity. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

A detailed and damning report by a respected team of clinicians and researchers. It confirms that the Cass Review was little more than a thinly veiled deceitful attack on the rights, humanity and dignity of transgender people in the UK. Shame on them and shame on UK politicians for falling for it.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

An excellent new article outlining all that is wrong with the Cass Review, condemning its harmful impact on UK policy and practice, and calling it a failure of evidence-based medicine. Written by those involved in trans children's healthcare in Australia.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

I think the moment for me was when he was talking about the highly discredited Cass Report a couple of years ago and talking about other trans issues more recently. highly recommend adding a section on it.

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

An Australian report evaluating the Cass Review has recommended that it should not be used as a guide of any kind in regards to the care of young trans people.

The new report was one of a series published in a special edition of The Medical Journal of Australia

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks.

The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

I drink water. Sewage systems are sexy.

To all the fed employees potentially getting furloughed tonight, this sucks and I’m sorry even though I know a lot of you want the fight, so a tepid hell-yeah as well

Mississippi has historically had a low rate of vaccine-preventable diseases as they were one of the few states that allowed only medical exemptions to vaccination. That changed in 2023, so expect to see more infection and more deaths.

Population-Level Effectiveness and Herd Protection 17 Years After HPV Vaccine This cross-sectional study investigates population-level effectiveness and herd protection in the first 17 years after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among adolescent girls and young women at ...

💉New study of HPV vaccine shows “robust population-level effectiveness & herd protection in adolescent girls & young women”

From 2006-2023:
➡️ Proportion of vaxxed women positive for high-risk HPV-16 & -18 types fell 98.4%, proportion of unvaxxed women fell 71.6%
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Image of man breaking cigarette with words "Policy incoherence: Leadership needed to combat illicit tobacco and end tobacco oversupply" "Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health"

🚭 Leadership is needed to tackle illicit tobacco in Australia.

A new commentary argues:
- Tobacco market is over-supplied & under-regulated
- Cutting excise isn’t the answer
- Stronger licensing & caps on retailers needed

Read 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Urgent—Clean Water is Key to Protecting Public Health Janet Golden

This is a really critical piece by jgolden08.bsky.social about historical context of clean water in the U.S. and how it too is in danger.

Nobody wants to talk about sewage systems until it’s too late, but we’d better have a chat pretty soon.

I'm also an epidemiologist, not that kind, but of sexual behaviour. Sewage systems are sexy.

honestly, me too - I thought my kind of work would certainly be a target but I would not have guessed they were going to go after everyone in all kinds of science.

Post a banger that's not in English (an oldie but a goodie)

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Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

This is really great reporting from Mother Jones - the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine disavows the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine for misusing his work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

a fat tux cat with her mouth open as she sits in her armchair

*yodeling*

Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study - PubMed Novo Nordisk Foundation and Danish Ministry of Health.

This one followed every child born in Denmark from 1999-2010, with more than 650,000 children.

No association between MMR vaccine and autism was observed.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30831578/