Edward Nirenberg

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

Claiming that routine immunization requirements for school are an issue of parental rights dehumanizes children. Kids have intrinsic rights just as anyone, and parents are obligated to provide the best care possible for them. That includes providing them with indicated medical interventions.

Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.

I hate how consistently the best way for me to figure out what I should write when I have no idea what to write is to just start writing it. It literally always works. And I forget that it works every time.

I'd like to take a second to explain all the ways that this comment is disqualifying as a marker of legitimate expertise in vaccination. 🧵 www.nytimes.com./2026/04/09/h...

I am begging people to stop using "optional" as a shorthand for "shared clinical decision-making" (SCDM) or "individual decision-making" when describing vaccine recommendations. They aren't synonyms, and describing them this way is misleading. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/shared-dec...

The new ACIP charter includes liaison memberships for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Physicians for Informed Consent, and the Independent Medical Alliance. None of these are expert societies and all of them have a history of disseminating antivaccine propaganda.

I had a question about how a dietary factor is proposed to promote inflammation and I am now in a mucosal immunology black hole (I may or may not write about some of the most interesting aspects at some point, probably contingent on feedback from subject matter experts)

This is a really disappointing turn of events. I wish people would slow down a bit before reacting on social media. People are more reasonable than our least charitable interpretations of them would imply them to be.