Jonathan Howard

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Our surgeon general

@panaccindex.bsky.social wrote this 1.5 years ago and it is 100x more true now.

Policy brief suggests speedier, fairer COVID vaccine rollout could have averted millions of deaths by 2022 Wealthy countries had at least one dose per person, compared with one for every 25 in low-income nations. https://bit.ly/4yIMe8o 📷: Asian Development Bank / Flickr cc

MAGA/MAHa doctors have a solution. Just build more hospitals. Problem solved.

Remember folks, the precious feelings of Kennedy-fluffers must be our highest priority. We must be careful never to make them feel “bullied” in any way. #feelingsbasedmedicine

Maybe if I call people “dickhead” I’ll shed my reputation as a bully.

This is from a review of We Want Them Infected, which was published 3 years ago, before MAHA was a thing. @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social who now claims to “loathe” RFK mocked and berated me for writing it. That’s the wisdom and maturity he brought to the table.

Balloux called me a "bully" for this essay. Trying to have a conversation with him or @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social about science and data is impossible, like trying to have a conversation with my fish. They parade their delicate, brittle feelings and that's it. #feelingsbasedmedicine

I am the “bully.”

I'll defend We Want Them Infected in light of the real-world performance of MAHA/MAGA doctors. Will @stephenmacedo.bsky.social defend his book? Not that I've seen.

How many frontline healthcare workers did he interview for his book on COVID?

Don't expect the Princeton laptop class revisionist historians to be honest about Sweden.

We all make errors. It's good that you apologized. Now, keep going...

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MAHA

The interesting thing about today is no one has to wonder what they "would do" if science & medicine were threatened by right-wing disinformation. Juvenile professors like @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social threw tantrums against those who tried to sound the alarm bells. That's his contribution.

According to @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social, there is a context in which Balloux's Tweet is correct. Professor Fuhrer will now explain all the ways RFK is "intelligent, well read, and fundamentally honest." We all have soooo much to learn from him. I can't wait.

According to Jay Bhattacharya, RFK is devoted to the scientific method. Bravo to all who enabled him...

Remember the doctors who sat proudly next to him.

Sensible Medicine

MAGA/MAHA apologist complains about MAGA/MAHA...😂

Counterpoint: MAGA/MAHA doctors can't redeem themselves by... posting a YouTube video.

Out of curiosity, what’s your calculus here? How many dead kids would it have to be for Prasad’s collaboration with MAGA to produce a net negative? Did you bother to count?

You're going to bat for the "drunken shitposter" who insisted that getting COVID-19 would confer "15-30 years" of "natural immunity?" Who later insisted that people becoming bedridden & wheelchairbound by COVID-19 "didn't matter in the grand scheme of things?" www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-pr...

The medical community needs to do some serious introspection and acknowledge our role in allowing RFK to rise to power.

If I wanted @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social to defend me, I’d just call people “dickhead”. This is the maturity and professionalism he respects.

I don’t know the parties but that quote about RFK is utterly damning. To have written that serious is to expose at best such a failure of judgment that I think it’s appropriate to leave public life over it.

According to @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social, there is a context in which this is correct. So now, @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social is going to explain all the ways Kennedy is "intelligent, well read, and fundamentally honest." I am so excited. We are all going to learn so much!

According to Balloux and @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social, doctors who witnessed this👇 lack "domain expertise" to comment on the pandemic. Only those who experienced it from their couch have any wisdom to share.

Anyone who feels my book was “silly”and my blogs “noxious” has to make the case I overstated the dangers of medical disinformation and MAHA. A month ago I begged @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social to review my writing make that case. He refused.

SCOOP: The CDC's deputy director is leaving. Jen Shuford, an infectious-disease physician who had been Texas's health commissioner, was hired to help restore trust in CDC. Now she's out after six months. More with @lenasun.bsky.social.

Actually (as an academic surgeon myself) he started as an academic surgeon at a prominent university.

RFK in Michigan: "Mike Rogers was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood. That's something I can talk about…Islamism, which is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, took over…That's why you don't see any Muslims, any Arab Muslims winning the Nobel."

The real threat according to these guys came from GMO papayas and covid vaccines. That’s what they wanted everyone to worry about.

We should never forget how Dr. Oz got his start. He’s been lying to Americans and making us dumber for years. He doesn’t get a free pass from this just because it was a long time ago. He’s always been Americas quack as @gorskon.bsky.social put it.

And @theatlantic.com has some of the best writers and some of the worst.

Yes. She wrote several horrible articles there and elsewhere.