Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
The government's top #vaccine advisor wants to use us all as guinea pigs. My latest: https://48hills.org/2026/01/optional-vaccines-cdc-chairs-bizarre-views-would-turn-us-into-deadly-experiment/
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
#RFKJr loves to preach health eating, as he defines it. But what he won't tell you is that not everyone has the same level of choice in such things, and that lack of choice has a lot to do with #poverty and #discrimination. My latest: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/what-rfk-jr-wont-tell-you-about-healthy-diet-0
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
A Year of Living Dangerously: 10 experts weigh in on Year 1 of the #RFKJr and #Trump assault on #PublicHealth. Please read and share. I don't think most people have fully grasped what's happening. https://48hills.org/2025/12/trumps-war-on-public-health-and-how-to-fight-for-the-future/
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
I first met Perry when he was just 17, the youngest #trans person I'd ever known. Now he and every #transgender person in the U.S. face a mortal threat from their own government, and it's time for all of us to stand up. Thank you for taking the time to read this: https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-must-stand-our-trans-neighbors
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. keeps promising to “make America healthy again,” but his summer-long anti- #vaccine rampage made clear that his actual impact will be to make America sicker. A lot sicker. And, in too many cases, dead.
My latest for 48 Hills: https://48hills.org/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-madness-will-make-america-sick-again/
#RFKJr #ImpeachRFKJr
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
Well, #RFKJr's #MAHA Pt 2 is out and it's garbage, as expected. I tell the LA Times:
“If you’re putting out a report that’s supposed to address how to help our children stay healthier, and you’re not even mentioning the No. 1 cause of childhood deaths, you ought to be embarrassed,” said Bruce Mirken, a spokesperson for @defendpublichealth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Non-paywall archive link:
https://archive.is/rUYqq#selection-3019.0-3019.419
#GunViolence #ImpeachRFKJr
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
"We know why millions of Americans eat a diet that’s far less healthy than they should, and we know what to do about it. But the things that help—programs that deserve to be expanded—either get ignored by #Trump and #RFKJr or actively attacked." My latest: https://48hills.org/2025/08/the-real-reason-so-many-people-in-the-us-have-unhealthy-diets/
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
Absolute lunacy: "#NIH program staff, including myself, have had to work with grantees to align their research with the administration’s ideological agenda, which often meant removing or changing the project’s goals and terminology. I remember spending an hour on a video call with one investigator, trying to make sense of what these changes meant for his research — and the next hour crying at my desk." Vast areas of research are being disappeared. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02507-9
#science #research
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
“This administration does not want to address things like poverty and education and access to healthcare. Instead, they’re distracting the public with information on solutions to problems that don’t actually exist. When the foundation of your policy is not evidence-based, it will collapse.” @defendpublichealth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy takes the fight for REAL #PublicHealth policy straight to #RFKJr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/13/defend-public-health-robert-f-kennedy-jr-hhs
Bruce Mirken@BruceMirken@mas.to
"An international virologist group representing more than 80 #research labs across more than 40 countries yesterday reaffirmed their support for the continued development and deployment of #mRNA #vaccines, a statement that came in response to the United States’ top health agency announcement earlier this month that it was scrapping further work on projects involving the mRNA vaccine platform." The people who understand viruses and vaccines say #RFKJr is full of it.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/virologist-network-reaffirms-support-mrna-vaccine-platform