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PLOS Biology<p>Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. They have saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than 1 life every 10 seconds.</p><p>Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.</p><p>The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.</p><p>It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.</p><p>Read our latest editorial in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PLOSBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLOSBiology</span></a>: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/immunization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunization</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WorldImmunizationWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldImmunizationWeek</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccinehesitancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinehesitancy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/</span><span class="invisible">article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143</span></a></p>
Nonia Pariente<p>Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific success stories of our time. Vaccination has saved more than 154 million lives in the last 50 years — more than six lives every minute of every year.</p><p>Our technical ability to develop vaccines has outpaced our social, political, and financial systems for ensuring their use. Recent moves to strip funding from vaccine-related research are shortsighted and self-harming. As is the use of precious resources to revisit debunked claims of links to autism.</p><p>The best vaccine isn’t useful if it is not distributed, or not socially accepted. Vaccine equity and hesitancy remain great challenges. Globalizing antivaccine activism could become our greatest hurdle.</p><p>We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use. </p><p>It is not time to defund, but rather invest in vaccines.</p><p>Read our latest editorial in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PLOSBiology</span></a></span>: Vaccines work… and do not cause autism </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/immunization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immunization</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WorldImmunizationWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldImmunizationWeek</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outbreak</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/vaccinehesitancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccinehesitancy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/</span><span class="invisible">article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003143</span></a></p>
earthling<p>A security official stands guard as a health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child. Pakistan has launched its second nationwide polio vaccination campaign, running from 21 to 27 April, aiming to vaccinate more than 45 million children, Quetta, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pakistan</span></a></p><p>Photograph: Fayyaz Ahmed/EPA </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/photography" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>photography</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>polio</span></a></p>
Mark GardnerHonestly, there are some neighborhoods here in <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/texas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a> and elsewhere that could do with a jangly <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/vaccination" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vaccination</a> Man truck. <a href="https://TheFarSide.com/2025/04/21/3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://TheFarSide.com/2025/04/21/3</a><br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/farside" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarSide</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://ack.nerdfight.online/tag/comics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comics</a>
Malcolm Nance<p>The nationwide <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> outbreak now stands at over 800 cases, but you don’t know that since RFK Jr is keeping a tight lid on the news.</p><p>The <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/orange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orange</span></a> areas in this map show where the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> rate is under the 95% coverage target among kindergarteners. That’s a LOT of orange!</p>
Vermont Citizen Scientist<p>What research reveals about the rise in autism diagnoses and why vaccines aren’t the cause <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-research-reveals-about-the-rise-in-autism-diagnoses-and-why-vaccines-arent-the-cause" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/show/what-res</span><span class="invisible">earch-reveals-about-the-rise-in-autism-diagnoses-and-why-vaccines-arent-the-cause</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a></p>
Chris Hessert 🐧 🇺🇦<p>I'm very grateful to have had parents who were both highly educated, compassionate Christians... who also believed in science. (I'm now an Atheist.)</p><p>Vaccinate your damned kids! What the hell is wrong with you? Full stop.</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/measles-out</span><span class="invisible">break-texas-rfk-new-mexico-kansas-vaccine-e904ec9781f1d164c73afe4ab71774fe</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and R.F.K. Jr. very fast.” </p><p>~ Seth Rogen</p><p>Elliot Kirschner thinks Rogen's reference to $320 million is to the total amount given by the Breakthrough Prize to scientists over the years. Rogen made the comment at the recent awards ceremony for that prize.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a><br>/9</p><p><a href="https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/its-no-joke" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elliotkirschner.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/its-no-joke</span></a></p>
DionyZack 🍉✊🏽♀️🇳🇨<p>Revolut°Permanente🚩 Empêcher les personnes non-vaccinées d'être remboursées : la nouvelle idée du MEDEF pour casser la Sécu: Alors que la discussion sur les moyens de réaliser 40 milliards d'économies est ouverte, le MEDEF entend s'assurer qu'on ne touche pas à ses profits, et multiplie les propositions pour nous faire payer l'austérité.Politique / Medef / François Bayrou / Sécurité sociale / Austérité <a href="https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Empecher-les-personnes-non-vaccinees-d-etre-remboursees-la-nouvelle-idee-du-MEDEF-pour-casser-la?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">revolutionpermanente.fr/Empech</span><span class="invisible">er-les-personnes-non-vaccinees-d-etre-remboursees-la-nouvelle-idee-du-MEDEF-pour-casser-la?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> 🚩RP <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Medef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medef</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/S%C3%A9curit%C3%A9Sociale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SécuritéSociale</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Politique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politique</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Aust%C3%A9rit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Austérité</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED."</p><p>~ David Gilbert</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a><br>/8</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/department-health-human-services-possible-collapse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/department-hea</span><span class="invisible">lth-human-services-possible-collapse/</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"'He's dead wrong, the measles vaccine protects you for the rest of your life. The notion that it's a leaky vaccine is dead wrong,' Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told USA Today."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a><br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Sugerman estimated that each measles case may end up costing the government between $30,000 and $50,000 for a public health response.</p><p>Meanwhile, Kennedy was once again pushing misinformation about the measles vaccine, calling it 'leaky' and saying that it 'wanes,' during a separate press event on Tuesday."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'We do believe that there’s quite a large amount of cases that are not reported and underreported,' Sugerman said during a rare meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Tuesday. ...</p><p>The majority of cases have been among unvaccinated children, with 2 children and one adult marking the first U.S. measles deaths in more than a decade and the first child measles death since 2003."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a><br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"David Sugerman, a senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that a large number of measles cases are going unreported—and that the government’s ability to respond has been strained by recent federal budget cuts."</p><p>~ Walter Einenkel</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a><br>/4</p><p><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/17/2316837/-The-measles-crisis-is-worse-than-we-know-and-the-CDC-can-t-keep-up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/17</span><span class="invisible">/2316837/-The-measles-crisis-is-worse-than-we-know-and-the-CDC-can-t-keep-up</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Public health experts worry that childhood vaccination rates could dip further under the current Trump administration with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the US Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"After a decade of nearly 95 percent of children nationwide receiving all four of the major childhood vaccines—MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella), DTaP, poliovirus, and chickenpox—coverage declined to 93 percent from 2019 to 2023. It fell again, to below 93 percent, during the 2023 to 2024 school year, while the number of exemptions from one or more vaccines among kindergartners grew."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"This year, there have been at least 7,599 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, up from 3,473 cases at this time last year, according to the latest tally by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...</p><p>Nationwide, there were 35,435 cases of whooping cough in 2024, compared with 7,063 in 2023, according to a provisional surveillance report from the CDC."</p><p>~ Emily Mullin</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhoopingCough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoopingCough</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>measles</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/measles-cases-are-rising-other-diseases-could-follow/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/measles-cases-</span><span class="invisible">are-rising-other-diseases-could-follow/</span></a></p>
AnthonyWe in the US are living in a eugenic modernity, by the way, when the putative head of "Health and Human Services" is making the kinds of statements he makes about autistic people. This is not just an anti-vaccination meme; it's an attempt to subordinate an entire class of people, suggesting they are subhuman for being who they are. This is a eugenic move. One has to wonder whether the "human services" people in HHS imagine themselves providing has to do with "improving the human stock" of the nation, the services not being provided to humans but instead having humans as an output.<br><br>Rather than get mired in the thought-terminating arguments around political parties or political factions, though, I think we'd do well to reflect on what sorts of <i>other</i> ways of thinking feed into this one: the measured life; standardized testing; the internet of things (sensors); tracking apps of various kinds; electronic health records; data science as a profession and Big Data generally; predictive modeling; generative AI and other optimization-oriented or productivity-promising technology. All of these function to render life as an <i>object</i> of <i>knowledge</i> in one way or another. All of them trace their origins through eugenics and the patterns of thought that led to it, and all of them threaten to enable and enhance further eugenic thinking. This is not to say these things are always all bad; this is meant to be a reflection on what exactly they're <i>for</i>.<br><br>Why read the number of steps your FitBit told you you took today, unless there were some sense in which you want your future self to be better than your present self? It's not an accident that this is called "physical fitness", "fitness" being the Darwinian concept describing which organisms should survive. Why subject children to standardized testing unless there were some belief it made them better students? To what end tends to be left out. Why adopt a technology meant to improve productivity, unless you're of the belief that improvement (optimization) were even possible?<br><br>Generally speaking, if one is able to bring oneself to believe that a human being is made better by a data-informed technical intervention, isn't one playing the same game as these anti-autism anti-vaxxers, just with different terminology? If your answer to this provocation is that your data is better than theirs or that you're more aligned with reality than they are--some variation of "the science is on our side"--you've ceded the territory: this is more of the same optimization logic that brought us to this point to begin with. I think we have no choice but to do better than this.<br><br>That's my reflection anyway.<br><br><a href="https://buc.ci?t=uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccination</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenics</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=bigdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigData</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=predictivemodeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PredictiveModeling</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataScience</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a><br>
All The Brazilian Politics<p>Chikungunya vaccine to be added to Brazil’s public health care system </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brazil</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <br><a href="https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/saude/noticia/2025-04/chikungunya-vaccine-be-added-brazils-public-health-care-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/sa</span><span class="invisible">ude/noticia/2025-04/chikungunya-vaccine-be-added-brazils-public-health-care-system</span></a></p>
Bruce Mirken<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bicmay</span></a></span> Certainly not most industrialized countries. And since we've abandoned all other forms of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> prevention (not me, but our gov't and most people), <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> is the last line of defense. And the data about <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> is increasingly scary, e.g. increased rates of cardiovascular problems among children and adolescents.</p>