And what does this have to do with scientists in the US? WE DEVELOPED MUCH OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AND RELEASED IT INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT GUARDRAILS. ✨science IS political✨

It sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but here is a notable example of how fighting for democracy anywhere is fighting for democracy everywhere: Ukraine hits Russian data centers...and election related misinformation, Trump trolls, and bots drop off social media in the US.

I just called

And take what little joy is left in this end stage capitalistic hellscape??? Nah. You can pry Big Autumn ™️ from my cold, dead, skeleton gloved hands.

I’ve seen a few folks comment that “Guinea-Bissau is a low income country and cannot afford the hep B vaccine birth dose, so why is this study unethical?” It’s a good question. Let me have a go at answering it. In a nutshell, researchers cannot ethically exploit poverty & scarcity to do a trial

for context: When parents have Hepatitis B, their kids can get the vaccine within 24 hours of being born to protect them. If they don’t get this vaccine at birth, they can contract it and will remain HepB-positive their entire life

Thanks for your activism! In research (I'd worked in hep B molecular genetics in the US) many knew trials went abroad because of lower financial costs - but a hidden sinister underlying eugenics agenda was known too, and not decried. Reality is spookier than ghost stories.

I’m talking about ICE, RFK jr’s unethical study on babies in Africa, live-streamed (firearm) executions (of a disabled man), state sponsored surveillance of a populace, and more. We MUST speak out. Why? Because the public doesn’t trust us to do the right thing…let’s show ppl we stand up for them.

The reprehensible plan to withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from infants in Guinea-Bissau was stopped once, and we need to stop it again. If you’re in the US, the first action item is to contact your members of congress. There are instructions in the thread below. Please consider using your voice.

It is SO IMPORTANT that scientists, doctors, and folks in STEM speak out against human rights abuses for several reasons: 1. We cannot allow our tech and research to be used to harm people. 2. We are the seat of evidence when the case is made that harm was caused. 3. We are “experts”! Thread 🧵

lol this aged well.

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