Collector of social media sites. Infectious disease epidemiologist. Writes about vaccine hesitancy, science misinfo, zombies. Probably somewhere on a trail. Views own etc.
Tara C. Smith
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The Berlin Zoo named their baby Hippo Brötchen. :) (Bread roll 🥖)
WE DON’T NEED A FUCKING TREATMENT WE HAVE A VACCINE THAT IS 97% EFFECTIVE AND COULD ERADICATE THE DISEASE IF WE DIDN’T HAVE ANTIVAX GRIFTERS LEADING US 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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RFK Jr. claimed his calendar, including meeting details, is public.
But those records have not been released — despite more than a year of FOIA requests from @statnews.com reporters.
More on the state of transparency at HHS, w/ @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social
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New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas.
This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.
We did it with Rinderpest (virus that diverged from measles less than 3,000 years ago)
We could do it with measles. Except for the anti-vaxxers…
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Mercola has been very weird over the last few years, getting scammed by a "spiritual advisor"/psychic/demon (per his former friends) and stopping his donations to antivax groups. And now getting behind vitamin K shots for newborns.
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FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, according to three people briefed on the search.
I just learned about my emo British cartoonist doppelgänger.
OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.
“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
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After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...