Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

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That was my understanding about ads—that they are the one place that free speech can be overridden in favor of the truth.

But as you say, lolz at the thought of them doing anything under The Regime.

I do sometimes wonder if some of these snake oil peddlers could get in trouble for lying in advertisements for their practices, like if they included an ivermectin product on a website and said it would treat cancer or something.

But I have no idea.

In my experience, the key piece for medical board complaints that don’t involve personal misconduct is that they generally only take action if whatever happened occurred during a patient encounter.

It would be a tough row to hoe for boards to police things like social media posting.

This medical board did the same thing I’ve experienced when I’ve reported people like Sherri Tenpenny for spreading misinformation: nothing.

From what I can glean this doctor verbally abused a pharmacist who refused to fill an ivermectin prescription, and that’s why the doc got a warning letter.

Doctor says state boards destroyed his livelihood and had him ‘blacklisted’ For the second time, a former state senator and physician is suing two state licensing boards over an investigation into his practices related to COVID-19.

This article provides a good overview of what often happens when a healthcare provider is reported to a state board for spreading scientific misinformation.

The doctor merely got a warning letter (that was later rescinded) about a separate but related issue, and now he’s suing the board.

I don’t know, except to say that it is documented that misinformation flows faster and further than facts. This already puts us at a deficit.

Yes. He was in the back of my mind.

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Of course not. But Brenda from Facebook says differently, so I don’t know what to believe!

Lolll yep yep especially if one is a professor.

Ivermectin is making a post-pandemic comeback, among cancer patients The anti-parasitic drug became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now being embraced as an alternative treatment for cancer. It is as politically polarizing as ever.

There is no credible evidence that ivermectin has any impact as a cancer treatment.

If you choose to take it instead of undergoing standard treatment, you will die from your cancer.

I’m sure he is. What will likely happen is that the charlatans on Temu ACIP will do a power-point on it during their upcoming meeting and call it fact.

Former FDA heads, Sen Cassidy push back on FDA official’s claim of 10 COVID vaccine deaths “We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions about vaccine safety and proposals that would undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, and available,"...

It’s been more than 3 months since RFK Jr. appointee Vinay Prasad claimed, without evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children.

Where are the peer-reviewed data, Prasad? Having a little bit of trouble finding someone who will publish scientific misinformation?

I gotcha. 💜

I’m late on this and for that I apologize.

To any trans human being out there who sees this, I’m furious that Kansas has committed another act of abuse against you by invalidating legal documents that are necessary to function.

It’s wrong and it’s devastating. I’m so sorry this is happening.

Social media companies must be forced to take accountability for misinformation on their platforms, period.

The reason I hid your replies has nothing to do with the topic and everything to do with your obnoxious strawman posts, which you continue to write. Do better.

In a head-to-head competition, a virus will defeat your raw milk, beef tallow, and red meat diet every time.

You are not immune from the consequences of refusing to vaccinate.

“Late Wednesday, the federal government paused $260 million in Minnesota’s Medicaid funding. This represents a catastrophic funding loss for the Medicaid program and the Minnesotans it serves…”

The Minnesota DHS has released a statement about Trump’s malicious funding cuts.

The measles outbreaks we are seeing are not “routine”.

These people genuinely want to see kids get sick. They do not care about their daughter’s baby or their neighbor’s kid with cancer.

No. They must be right and they will contort themselves in any manner they need in order to defend their lies.

As measles spreads in South Carolina, RFK Jr’s allies work to gut vaccine laws Activists who dispute safety of vaccines are pushing to limit immunization requirements in schools

“Epidemiological data is being used politically and selectively to create a scapegoat for routine infection rates that rise and fall…” says RFK Jr.’s BFF, Leslie Manookian.

No, Leslie. Measles was eliminated in the U.S.

It’s easy to be an anti-vaxxer because you’re not confined to facts.

The problem with snake oil peddlers like Casey Means is not just that they promote products that are at best useless for profit.

The danger is in the complete lack of character. If she’ll lie to you to sell books and supplements, imagine what she’ll do to gain and maintain power.

I’ve hidden her responses to you because they were completely unnecessary.

Everyone is stressed right now. I try to show grace as much as I can, but sometimes it goes too far and I need to do a cleanup on aisle 6.

The poster to whom you’re responding said nothing about wanting to jail protestors, and your rudeness is wholly unnecessary.

Sure. When someone is post-screaming “HAS THERE EVER BEEN A STUDY THAT SHOWS THE HPV VACCINE PREVENTS CANCER, YES OR NO!!!!”, it’s really easy to explain the carcinogenesis pathway and surrogate endpoints.

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X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israeli Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Twitter is a propaganda operation.

That is its sole purpose.

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact.

But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.

Photo of a desert landscape. There are prickly pear cactus in the foreground and a lot of dirt and more cacti. In the top left you can see a crescent moon though in fairness it looks like a blob. Then you looking further out over the horizon you see a blue sky with yellow orange and red colors that are in the shape of a the top of a circle.

Looking east during sunset in Tucson. The Belt of Venus.