"Rather than “elevating the role of scientific peer review”, the proposal diminishes it. The NIH proposal is paternalistic, ill-conceived, and ripe for misuse. There is substantial risk for manipulation when reviewer information is concealed. The risk is even greater given the political context." 👏👏

Good thread. The hep B Vax study in Guinea-Bissau exploits people in poverty, lacks equipoise, wastes resources that could go toward meeting needs to address an already answered question, and dooms babies to incredibly high risk of life-long suffering.

Count on it 👇

You mean Russell Vought.

Not just Trump, please.

Again. Impeach him.

Today is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day! Grateful for the amazing Aides, therapists and nurses I work with who provide palliative care for our homebound patients! Grateful for the amazing hospice care staff who helped us with my mom in law! ALL of you, every day, are a blessing!

I'll be tuning in for THAT. How about you?

Deep in our feels with these cards that Emory students made for CDC employees a few days ago. Sometimes things feel hopeless & that we’re all in our own private hell dealing with this fascism. It’s a nice reminder that we’re not & people care. Thanks Emory & thanks to all of you ❤️ Goodnight

“RFK, Jr.’s time at HHS gives us an unfortunate opportunity to see what happens when such expansive denialism acquires power to make policy” “Denialists in positions of power notoriously assemble advisory panels to support decisions they have already made”. RFK Jr. must be impeached and removed.

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

FIMI is a new acronym I just learned, short for “Foreign information manipulation and interference”. An international conference is going to have a session entitled “USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back”. So the Trump administration threatened the EU and Canada and they pulled out.

There's so much cruelty, suffering, and indifference today. But I still believe that kindness matters. That decency is more common than cruelty. Maybe hope isn't believing everything will be okay? Maybe it's refusing to give up on the possibility that it could be. Sleep well. 😴

We can seek justice in this country without glorifying violence and turning an execution into a grotesque public spectacle. What this criminal did was abhorrent and must be punished—but we as a country cannot condone livestreaming a man’s death for entertainment.