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Opinion | The CDC’s change to hepatitis B vaccination is even worse than it seems The new recommendations portend even more harmful shifts ahead.

The CDC’s change to hepatitis B vaccination is even worse than it seems

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RFK Jr.'s war on vaccines is about shaming women, not helping kids The MAHA movement regards all childhood ailments as a sign that moms are failing

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There’s a real moral hazard when decision-makers lack clinical experience and ignore those who have it. Clinicians carry the painful memories of lives lost to preventable disease—and that’s exactly why they fight so hard to ensure it never happens again.

Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

The Indian Ocean disaster is a climate tragedy — and needs more attention A region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week. The world needs to ask why this happened, not look away.

Three late November tropical cyclones have devastated cities and villages in countries around the Indian Ocean.

When "a region unused to tropical cyclones has had three in a week, the world needs to ask why this happened, not look away."

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‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia Social media is driving a boom in the use of peptides to improve appearance and physical performance. Many are experimental and come with risk of serious side effects

Injection Safety: long article, NO mention of Viral transmission risk. HepC anyone?

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Broader transmission of mpox due to clade Ib #MPXV – Global situation.
#monkeypox
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November in Covidlandia: Metformin, Mayhem, and Medical Poetry Welcome back to the monthly curation of news, clinical studies, and overlooked ideas about all-things-Covid that we call Covidlandia.

COVID-19: The Vax is better than the disease

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.

Cranks Rule HepB
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule

Authors of COVID Vaccine Study Refute Anti-Vaxxers’ Twisting of Their Research NewsGuard contacted the authors of a study on Long COVID who objected that their research was being misinterpreted by vaccine skeptics to claim that vaccines cause ‘microclots.’

It's a study of Long COVID... Not Vax

UNAIDS says Trump's cuts have killed people and left millions without medicine The United Nations body charged with fighting the spread of HIV says the Trump administration's cuts to the US foreign aid budget have sent the global aid response into "crisis mode".

Killers

The Trump administration is turning drug review into make-a-deal “FDA decision-making may be reduced to a sequence of ‘make-a-deals’ with Trump, his FDA, or even political allies,” experts warn.

The Trump administration is turning drug review into make-a-deal

CDC website altered to reflect RFK Jr’s belief in link between vaccines and autism Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage

The cranks in charge...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus:

“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.

“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”

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Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says.

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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Must-read in @theguardian.com from my friend @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bubble or Nothing Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...

Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.

It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!

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COP30 report reveals how climate change is spreading infectious diseases to new regions Climate-caused heat and floods help disease-carrying insects spread to new places.

#CookingWithCarbon

ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain? A Collection of Medical Research (60 Studies)

COVID-19 BRAIN 4 all....

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

Forever....

Meta forecast $24b revenue from scam ads, internal documents show Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are exposed to fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online casinos, and the sale of banned medical products.

At the same time, the documents indicate that Meta's own research suggests its products have become a pillar of the global fraud economy.

Opinion | How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers. More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.

Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up A report from IAG and a scientific research centre finds escalating risk from severe weather events in south-east Queensland, New South Wales, and south-west Western Australia.

#CookingWithCarbon

💡Key findings:

📍vaccines for COVID KP.2 variant had 68% effectiveness

📍Maternal RSV vaccine & RSV vaccines in adults >=60 had effectiveness of >=68% against hospitalization

📍Flu shot had effectiveness of 48% in adults ages 18-64 & 67% in kids against hospitalization
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Despite what a thinktank bleats to the Coalition, heat deaths are in fact ‘a thing’ | Temperature Check Centre for Independent Studies points to climate risk report to back up its dismissal of heat-related deaths, but neglects to use the part that actually concerns the future

#CookingWithCarbon

Winter Gray @PunkyBrewstuh It's happening. A virus keeps mutating, spreading globally, and causing devastation. People of all ages, babies, children, teens, 20s to 70s and beyond are dying. Pneumonia, sickness, school absences, heart attacks and strokes in your late 20s to 60s, dizziness, POTS, breathing difficulties, children to athletes falling dead on the field, celebrities in the prime of their lives dropping out of engagements, having heart attacks and brain aneurysms, and forgetting their own songs… are all being slowly normalized. We're like frogs in a pot -by the time the rest of the world catches up to the realization that we're dying, it'll be too late to stop it. 11:13 AM · Oct 28, 2025 · 8,587 Views

Nothing about this is normal. We are still in an ongoing pandemic, and the virus continues to circulate, mutate, infect, disable, and kill.

#PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne

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