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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

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Epidemiologist. Professor Emerita. Workplace Wrecker. Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh. When you’re going through hell, keep going. (Churchill) 1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com @defendpublichealth.bsky.social https://www.defendpublichealth.org

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·Sep 4

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·Sep 7

Jeffrey Epstein had doctors prescribe birth control and sedatives to his victims. They also screened his victims for STDs. He had dentists work on their teeth. I’d like to know who these people are and why they have been protected.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·Sep 14

Busted out my favorite T-shirt to get my COVID19 and flu vaccines. Usually I have a big smile on my face, but this time, I can’t just be happy about it. I’m also angry for all the people struggling to get their vaccines, and for the reason it’s happening. So here’s my message for RFK Jr.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·8h

The hits just keep on coming. Trump, Vought and RFK Jr. want to be able to fire at will the people at HHS who actually know what they’re talking about. Their revenge on scientists who embarrassed them for their rank stupidity continues.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·9h

The primary reason that unqualified RFK Jr. appointees at HHS are being kicked to the curb is because of the polling showing that anti-vaccine views will put candidates down by at least 10 points.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·12h

The Regime getting rid of so many incompetent people hired by RFK Jr. but leaving him in place is like removing metastatic lymph nodes but leaving the primary tumor in place. The cancer is gonna come roaring back.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·14h

About 6 months ago, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Hoeg falsely claimed that they had data showing that COVID19 vaccines killed 10 children. The public has never seen those data, and we never will, b/c they have all been booted, as they richly deserve for lying to the people of the US.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·14h

COVID19 vaccine misinformation firehose and woman who almost singlehandedly reduced the number of US childhood vaccine recommendations because she used to live in Denmark is leaving the FDA. Nobody with a brain is sad that Tracy Beth Hoeg is leaving. She was absolutely awful in her position.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·14h

The attack on science continues. Three more leaders in infectious disease research at NIAID have been told they either have to move to another agency or resign their positions. This comes right as The Regime continues to file bullshit charges against other scientists who worked with Dr. Fauci.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·19h

These two headlines together tho

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led Hantavirus presser

Trump administration rushes to steady Kennedy's HHS, with an eye on the midterms
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·1d

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·1d

This is the horror cherry on top of the egregious fraud, waste, and abuse sundae. DOGE fired the people who send NIH money to research labs—which is a complicated process—so now even more labs are going to go under. All while Jay Bhattacharya goes on a podcast and says no NIH funding was cut.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD·1d

:taps sign

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