Catholic, PhD neuroscience, husband to a wonderful wife, loves to chat about science and history, opinions are my own
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1. It is not 74 vaccines.
2. A increase in number of vaccines is actually a good thing because it shows we are able to prevent more infectious diseases.
3. Vaccines do not cause autism. You also made up that “1:2” claim.
More fear mongering for attention.
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I keep hearing about how the vaccinated are going to die in the millions from it but it still hasn’t yet. It was first going be 50 million in the first year then it keeps on getting pushed back.
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There aren’t 72 vaccines and they have been properly safety tested. It is your fault that you never bothered to read them.
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You are an embarrassment for the State of Texas. The current evidence is insufficient as while some studies do suggest a link, large sibling controlled studies do not.
This is about politics not public health.
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So several snake oil salespeople, a convicted felon, an expelled medical student, a few unlicensed physicians, most of them are narcissists, some of them are just insane, and all of them are liars.
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8 out of 156 is within the expected background rate of birth defects. This is about 3-5% of births.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Multiple studies have shown that COVID vaccines taken during pregnancy do not result in a increased risk of birth defects.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
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I still fail to see why AOC would suggest $3 billion in tax breaks and spending $3 billion is the same thing.
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Lying again. The study confirmed what we are already know, that severe adverse events are rare.
You are significantly more likely to have a severe effects leading to hospitalization or death from COVID.
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Correlation doesn’t mean causation. Crime is increased in the summer along with ice cream sales but that doesn’t mean ice cream causes crimes.
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After years of work, I passed my PhD in neuroscience dissertation defense today. I am forever grateful for everyone in my lab for all their support.
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The biggest eye-opener for me during the pandemic was realizing the most vocal anti-vax tend to be narcissists and have mental illnesses.
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He has a financial incentive to be gullible. Audience capture is a powerful thing. Same thing happened to John Campbell and Dr. Drew.
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NIH is the number funder of biomedical science in the world. Without it, progress will massively slow.
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It is funny when the conspiracy theorists get mad at Grok for not “confirming” their biases.
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You seriously linked your anti-vaccine organization as a source. Unsurprisingly but also embarrassing.
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It is because PhD students work hard and contribute to advancements to biomedical research. The pay isn’t good anyways. Last year when I graduated, my stipend was $25,000 a year. I’ve heard stories of bad PI delaying their student’s graduation because they are cheap labor.
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Medicine is risk vs benefits. The risk is never zero and the benefits outweigh the risks. It is like being hurt by an airbag in a car accident.
Dying from measles on the other hand is completely preventable. You just have to get vaccinated.
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Measles cases essentially vanished with the introduction of the measles vaccine.
RFK Jr. is a dangerous person. When a medical mistake was made in Samoa, he preyed on people’s fears and blamed the vaccine. A measles outbreak later killed 83 people due to lower vaccination rates.
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mRNA vaccines do not alter genes. Drugs like ivermectin and HCQ do not work on COVID.
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April 29, 2024 is going to be a bad day for her.
medpagetoday.com/special-rep…
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Except the data shows that Tylenol isn’t linked to autism.
The fact that you have your wife create scheduled posts shows you are an entertainer pandering to an audience rather than a serious scientist.
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And this is why anecdotes are not science. I am vaccinated and rarely got sick as a kid. Unfortunately confirmation bias is a powerful thing.
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Apparently Prasad is very unpopular at the FDA with many of the employees under him viewing him as both arrogant, incompetent, and unwillingly to listen to feedback.
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A preprint is not peer reviewed. It is more classic RFK cherry-picking. You are a national embarrassment. Resign.
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Reviewers don’t get compensation for peer review. It is also hypocritical of you considering the corruption you are part of. You make verifiably false claims because of your money and greed. You may be a little nuts since you claimed more Americans died than the US population.
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It seems like a very common anti-vax talking point: When they don’t have an actual argument, be transphobic.
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Using a compressed screenshot of a game that is not out yet, if a different genera, is not a good comparison. Try again with a uncompressed screenshot of Hellblade 2.
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Friendly reminder that McCullough is not allowed to practice medicine anymore.
He literally lies for a living.
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Complete and utter nonsense.
mRNA that can get in breastmilk would be highly fragmented and wouldn’t be absorbed in cells. Not to mention it being digested in the stomach.
Everything else is made up.
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Vaccines don’t cause aneurysms. Why do you pretend that they never happened to people in their 40s. My sister in law’s father died of one at around that age. Shame on you!
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RFK is lying, Vaccines are adequately tested. Prasad is trying to “sanewash” RFK Jr.’s false claims. No amount of evidence will ever be good enough for RFK because he and his friends make too much money lying.
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This shouldn’t have to be said but ALS is not caused by Borrelia bacteria which is the pathogen behind Lyme disease. It is a motor neuron disease that is familial in 5-10% of cases with 95% of all cases are associated with TDP-43 proteinopathy. This is an old myth.
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Unfortunately many members of ACIP don’t care about good science. They feel the need to pander to a pseudoscience audience that they have gotten a lot of attention and money from.
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I asked ChatGPT on whether RFK Jr. or a head of cabbage would be a better secretary of HHS.
While both would not be ideal, the advantage goes to the cabbage.
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Kirsch doesn’t even know basic statistics.
There is also no such peer reviewed study. The “study” is in a fake journal made by anti-vax for anti-vax.
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Holy crap, the more I read Nazi Kevin’s “study” the worse it is. No wonder he couldn’t find a publisher.
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Saline placebos are done in the first place for many vaccines but that doesn’t matter to you.
Safety doesn’t matter to you.
One of the controversies of the Tuskegee Syphilis study was denying the standard of care when it was available which put the people at unnecessary risk.
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You mouse army get so upset about “big pharma” yet want only research funded by private sector. You can’t have it both ways. Basic science is primary done in academia. NIH is the #1 funder biomedical sciences in the world and every $1 spent creates $2.46 in economic activity.
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How do lentiviral transduction works in gene therapy? How does optogenetics work? How do viral vector vaccines work? These work because of viruses. We have studies the genetics, replication cycle, structures, and proteins of the virus. Your ignorance isn’t evidence against it.
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Frankly a silly question. You have nothing to worry about. You won’t get sick from getting blood from a vaccinated person. Fear mongers just want you scared.
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It is well documented that pediatricians are among the lowest paid specialists. Vaccination tends to only break even.
Kennedy reportedly had a $560,000 salary from his anti-vaccine organization. Not to mention all the additional money he got promoting his anti-vaccine narrative.
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History will look at your tenure at HHS very poorly. You will be compared to Lysenko and other charlatans that got into power.
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Fact: large studies show no link to acetaminophen and autism. Fact: Trump sounded mentally unwell during his press conference.
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Myocarditis is more common and more severe with COVID. COVID has additional more severe effects not found in vaccination. It makes no sense you are more worried about the vaccine despite the vaccine being significantly safer than getting COVID and reduces chance of severe COVID.
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This is all completely false. For starter thiomersal hasn’t been in childhood vaccines for years. It is also not elemental mercury. Second everything is a chemical.
Tenpenny is the same loon that thought COVID vaccines make you magnetic.
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In the US, AstraZeneca vaccine was never offered. It is important to remember that no vaccine can ever be 100% safe. The benefits greatly outweigh the risk.
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Your comment is ridiculous. Vaccines aren’t linked to infertility. They save lives, the opposite of depopulation.
If vaccines were a “depopulation plan”, it would be a stupid one. Imagine killing the compliant people and leaving the paranoid conspiracy theorists alive.
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He regularly demonstrates that his expulsion was the right decision. A narcissist like him should not practice medicine.
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This sentence is so stupid. The reason why hepatitis B rate is so low is because we vaccinated against it.
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I felt very concerned when I realized I knew more than some of the people in the panel. I think many people familiar with vaccination literature know more than they do.
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Makis is the same guy who claims he treated Mel Gibson’s friend’s cancer with ivermectin. Considering Makis doesn’t have a medical license, he is either a liar, a criminal, or both. The paper isn’t real evidence either.
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To nobody’s surprise, the plague enthusiasts at CHD posted that there is no difference in safety of MMR and infection from the viruses.
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Seriously? Think for a moment instead of blindly posting memes. Germ theory wasn’t established in the 1700s. Our understanding of disease and treatments for them are massively improved since then. Stop being obsessed with a faux sense of “freedom” and learn.
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You don’t need to wait years to test a new product. It was done quickly because huge amounts of resources were put into it and plenty of volunteers.
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Apparently anti-vax are trying to push the claim that it reduces your risk of cancer. Even if that were true, it is like the claims that smoking reduces Parkinson’s, you shouldn’t slightly reduce the risk of one problem by massively increasing the risk of others.
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Considering Cureus is a predatory journal, it is incredibly easy to get published there because the reviewers and editors don’t critically review papers. We have strong scientific evidence debunking every point of the paper. The paper is predatory with no scientific value.
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Apparently he thinks you and I are “well known vaccine industry trolls”.
I am just glad that a nobody like me can get under his skin.
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There is a limit of what doctors can do regarding obesity and other conditions. It is hard enough for them to get patients to take life saving medications.
Cancer survival has improved.
We have more treatments for autoimmune diseases.
Trump’s pseudoscience isn’t an answer.
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Kennedy is a science denier. He was shown the science many times and denied it. He actively campaigned against measles vaccinations which contributed to outbreaks. Even now his anti-vaccine company pushes false claims about MMR.
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How? There was only 1 type of vaccine that even had thiomersal. Even then that only made up 4% of all flu vaccines.
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Except HIV isn’t anywhere in the virus genome and the virus doesn’t cause immunosuppression.
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You are projecting because this is exactly the stuff you do, especially on the last part. Truther actually reads scientific literature. You don’t.
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Grifters attack Dr. Hotez because grifters love a scapegoat to unite their followers under. The faux outrage brings engagement to them which makes them money. That is what people like Alex Jones does. Create outrage, direct them supplements store.
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There is something wrong with him. He makes misogynist comments to random women, threatens to cage fight people on Twitter spaces, and makes claims very detached from reality.
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It is really frustrating that these senators are moving on to another question rather than getting him to answer questions on his views on vaccines. If I were asking questions, it would be focusing entirely on his crazy conspiracy theories and financial conflicts of interests.
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The flu kills thousands every year, with the exception of 2020-2021 season where precautions for COVID worked well against flu. COVID killed more in a single year than the flu in 10 years. COVID vaccines greatly reduced risk of death from COVID.
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No surprise that she also sells supplements online. Alternative medicine and anti-vaccine attracts the narcissistic and greedy like a moth to a flame.
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It wasn’t the vaccine because strokes aren’t linked to the mRNA vaccines. Plenty of seemly healthy 59 year olds have strokes.
COVID is associated with strokes.
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McCullough is a lying grifter. Also more vaccinated healthcare workers are more likely to be around influenza patients.
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Tapper is not a legitimate doctor in anything.
The vaccine was withdrawn because they didn’t update it for the current variants. It isn’t needed anymore when there are 3 other vaccines to choose from.
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