Just vile.
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Mallory Harris, PhD
Профиль Vivelythinking about infectious diseases, information, and behavior Postdoc UMD College Park 📍Austin, TX https://mjharris95.github.io/
In case it's helpful, I snipped this exchange where Dr. Manly asks Dr. Bhattacharya to explain how cutting NIH grants that mention health disparities squares with his claims to be interested in improving life expectancy for all Americans. youtu.be/QL2xvh8Zbm0?...
Excerpt from NIH Council of Council meetings May 14-15, 2026YouTube video by Mallory Harrisyoutu.beTheresa Kim, PhD, MSScroll to about 4 hours and 35 minutes. Dr. Manly comes in with a great question. Our director gaslights her and the entire #NIH community. Pass this around. It is public. Don't let this continue. Hold Dr. Bhattacharya accountable.
BTW, this is the persn currently directing* CDC * sort of, legally speaking
Mallory Harris, PhDIt's such a crazy coincidence that RFK Jr put the same guy in charge of the Autism Data Science Initiative & the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines (a man who said a few months ago he isn't familiar with the literature on whether the polio vaccine causes autism & he shouldn't comment)
Life comes at you fast
Jenna NortonRemember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
1.5 years ago @danvergano.bsky.social wrote about how HHS's current leadership is all hotdogs guys trying to find the guy who imploded public trust in science and this has only become more relevant www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists“Propaganda works” is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering postpandemic distrust of sciencewww.scientificamerican.comMelody SchreiberAn EXCELLENT point by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Great advice here and I particularly like: "People often heavily weigh the risks of taking action while forgetting the risks of inaction."
Jenna Norton9 lessons from Bethesda Declaration organizers on how to rescue US science: www.ovid.com/jnls/dartmou... 1. Scientists can no longer safely claim the privilege of being outside of, or above, politics 2. Inaction can be riskier than action. 3. Progress requires work. 4. Do not wait for someone else.
This administration routinely justifies its attacks on vaccines with the idea that some large share of Americans does not trust vaccines anymore and that is not true.
Drew AltmanSocial media makes the anti science, anti vax crowd seem much larger than it is. Surveys show it’s actually a very small share of the public greatly outnumbered by science believers. My new column: on.kff.org/4wthpni
Incredible piece, including new insights into federal interference with ACIP.
Katherine EbanEXCLUSIVE: As the White House embraces talc + tobacco, chaos reigns at @hhsofficial.bsky.social, agency lawyers warn of legal peril - and Sec Kennedy talks UFOs w/ a billionaire. Inside the MAGA-MAHA crack-up based on 35+ sources, dozens of internal HHS docs www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Excellent reflection on the CDC's recent vaccine effectiveness webinar via @b-lopman.bsky.social
Kathleen Bachynski“Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, & other appointees in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS have raised persistent doubts about Covid vaccines and about vaccine science more generally. What happened at the Grand Rounds appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a scientific debate where, in reality, there isn’t one”
From the White House, Scott Atlas (along with the current NIH Director) tried to manufacture scientific support for Trump's unpopular approach to the pandemic but was largely unsuccessful due to criticism from the scientific community. Better to get rid of us altogether 🤷♀️
Colette Delawalla, PhDRight, so here is the Hoover Institute saying we should abolish the NIH: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Looking forward to sharing the work we've been doing at @scienceimpacts.org mapping impacts of science funding cuts during the next parallel session on Data, Infrastructure & Software @icssi.org! scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical ResearchDeveloped by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwidescienceimpacts.org3 years ago, Musk tweeted that it was time to "move on" from the Fauci Files a full week before his hand-picked journalist released a story he flew internationally twice to write, revealing...Fauci had comms staffers tweeting on his behalf. But conspiracy theories can keep running on fumes forever
Renee DiRestaTulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...
Our scoping review "Emerging frontiers in infectious disease modelling: reassessing the data-driven feedback loop between human behaviour and disease dynamics" is out now! From a group of epidemiologists, behavioural scientists, & mathematicians. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Emerging frontiers in infectious disease modelling: reassessing the data-driven feedback loop between human behaviour and disease dynamicsAbstract. Mathematical models have produced important insights into the relationships between disease transmission, risk perception, and human behaviour. Hroyalsocietypublishing.orgLast few weeks have been a string of "FDA approves thing blocked capriciously by Vinay Prasad and Tracy Høeg when they were for some reason directing centers." I wonder what the cost of those pointless delays was...
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPHRFK Jr & his closest MAHA ally Jay Bhattacharya are going to be sad & angry When they canceled federal funding for mRNA vaccine R&D, they each wrote utterly pathetic editorials defending their decision (I was interviewed about those ridiculous OpEds here: www.bioxconomy.com/modalities/e...)