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Vaccines, Tylenol, and Circumcision?!

JUST THE TIP of what’s wrong with these autism claims

10-09
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Grandma Knows Best: The Generation That Survived Polio Has Something to Say About Vaccines

67 million grandparents remember what we’ve been lucky enough to forget

10-08
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Vaccine Shedding Is Real—But Not What You Think

The science behind who actually needs to worry (spoiler: probably not you)

10-07
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Why I Shower After Flying (And Why That’s Not Enough)

RFK Jr. Is Right About Sanitation—But That’s Only Part of the Story

10-03
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An Ode To Scuppers

Dogs: The Great Equalizer

09-28
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The Day Our Government Told Mothers They Caused Their Children's Autism

"Don't take Tylenol, tough it out." Yesterday's press conference wasn't just bad science—it was dangerous advice wrapped in mother-blaming

09-23
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ACIP Day 2: When I Became All Seven Dwarfs

And Wished I Was Sleeping Beauty Instead

09-20
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Day 1 of the ACIP Meeting

A Comedy of Errors (That's Not Actually Funny)

09-19
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They're About to Vote on Your Kids' Vaccines

MMRV, hepatitis B birth dose, COVID vaccines—will you still have access to them?

09-16
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When We Confuse the Smoke Alarm with the Fire

How Unverified VAERS Reports Are Being Used to Scare Parents About 25 Child Deaths

09-13
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Happy Birthday, Daddy

A Science Communicator's Tribute to the Man Who Taught Her to Translate

09-11
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From Smallpox Scabs to mRNA Shots

Inside the evolving toolbox that’s kept humanity alive

09-08
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Saturday Morning Thoughts on the Tylenol-Autism News

The public health whiplash continues as we play another round of 'autism cause' roulette

09-06
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A Public Health Scientist Walks Into a Bar: Science, Skepticism, and Finding Common Ground

Why I interrupted four strangers to talk about mRNA (and lived to tell about it)

09-03
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Work Worth Doing: A Letter from the Ruins of Public Health

When expertise becomes the enemy and conspiracy becomes policy, those who remain must decide: Is the fight still worth it? (Spoiler alert: it is.)

08-28
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One Week Later: Reflecting on "The Playbook Used to 'Prove' Vaccines Cause Autism"

The hunger for clear, honest science communication is real.

08-26
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How a government autism study could destroy vaccine access in America

My NYT essay on how RFK’s promised September study on autism will be our undoing

08-19
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Don't Be Foiled by RFK Jr.'s Rebuttal of the Danish Aluminum Study

Scientists respond with data, not rhetoric

08-12
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When Science Becomes the Enemy

From funding cuts to violence: How mRNA became ground zero in the war on expertise

08-10
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Three Things I Learned Debating RFK Jr.'s Health Policies

On the power of listening, even when it's uncomfortable

08-07
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Muberra Allahverdi

I cannot listen to this. It says the source is broken and doesn't work.

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