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@DefiantLs cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/c…

@DefiantLs Or, and stick with us here: get the MMR vaccine, skip the fever/rash/weeks of misery entirely, and still get lifelong immunity. Here's what RFK, Jr.'s CDC recommends:

Joe Rogan: "Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid. You'd get sick for a few days, then immune for life."

@grove_mitchell @Clive_Bates @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA The lowest available is, what, 18 mg/mL?

@ACSHorg @Clive_Bates @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA The efficacy of meeting smokers on their own terms, combined with an almost effortless ramp down, and the sheer agency bestowed upon the consumer in taking control of their personal quitting journey, regardless of intimate technical knowledge, cannot be overstated.

Someone should write a book called “Blind Spots”. @FDATobacco and @DrMakaryFDA continue to ignore real-world evidence in regulating tobacco and nicotine: 1. FDA has created a huge illicit vape market bypassing FDA’s near-insurmountable barriers to entry, but regulates as if this does not exist. 2. FDA’s main impact has been to the benefit of cigarette companies, Chinese vape manufacturers and criminal networks. 3. FDA defines youth vaping as the primary problem, yet vaping has almost eliminated youth smoking - a far greater problem. 4. Older adults who smoke are the main public health and healthcare system challenge and FDA has relentlessly let them down. 5. FDA constantly adds doubt, confusion and misinformation about the risks of smokefree products and nicotine, compared to smoking. Fix that, and much good would follow. 6. The demand for nicotine is based on people wanting its psychoactive effects. It cannot be regulated out of existence, but it can be made much safer. Instead, FDA protects the cigarette trade and promotes organised crime. That’s one gigantic blind spot, @MartyMakary

@DanJDavi @simonmaechling It's a weird belief, especially knowing the vast numbers of "natural" animals, insects and microbes that can kill us dead.

@simonmaechling It's endlessly amusing to me how so many people think that just because something is natural, it MUST be good for you.

“Natural” doesn’t mean what you think it means.

Those "natural" supplements you pay a fortune for? 💰 Many contain chemicals synthesized in a lab. The "natural" label is pure marketing BS. Chemist @simonmaechling exposes it with @adolaskie & @camjenglish.👇

@grove_mitchell @Clive_Bates @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA Now you get "golden-leaf dirt flavor": 2 pods for $24.

@ACSHorg @Clive_Bates @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA The daughter was in her 30’s, to be clear, an ex-smoker herself…

Drugs in your cereal. Sounds fun (to some of you), but it is, in fact, very dangerous. The LSD-related fungus they're talking about used to kill thousands of people. With modern science, we have the tools to keep our food supply safe. 🙌

@NancyMace Ms. Mace, Glyphosate saves American farmers money and labor, which ultimately means more affordable, abundant food. It doesn't cause cancer. You literally can't consume enough of it through food to cause harm. Check out our video. Call us if you have questions. Here to help.

We co-sponsored the No Immunity for Glyphosate Act because no corporation should be immune from accountability. If ANYTHING is harming Americans, the manufacturers need to answer for it.

@charlesmurray The hubris is mostly in the last sentence. If wrongly predicting mass starvation doesn't count as a "basic mistake," nothing does.

His statement is correct—all of it.

@grove_mitchell @Clive_Bates @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA The whole thing is a cruel joke. CTP, no doubt under constant pressure from Durbin and others, did everything it could to stifle progress.

@Clive_Bates @ACSHorg @FDATobacco @DrMakaryFDA Had the highly effective, by then finely tuned, mom and pop vapor shop industry been left unhindered since the date of the original FDA deeming regs, smoking would be nearly wiped by now.

@simonmaechling AND. We learned it from mother nature. Genetic engineering is organic. Let the cognitive dissonance wash all over you.

Genetic engineering is one of the greatest achievements in human history. Period.

@cremieuxrecueil Too many examples to cite, but here's our favorite.

Paul Ehrlich provides us with staggeringly certain, practically dispositive evidence that peer review allows basic, critical mistakes to be published with the imprimatur of the establishment.

We never thought we'd get a chance to use a Scrubs gif!

@dspiro1997 😝🤘

Alternative medicine grifters often abuse the phrase “addressing the root cause” when they talk about treating health concerns. The problem is not so much that “addressing the root cause” is wrong—in fact, treating multiple causes is a mainstay of mainstream health care. The problem is that in alternative medicine, a pseudoscientific or false “root cause” is often targeted. For example, you might see an advertisement that a person’s posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms can be treated by addressing the trauma they experienced in a past life using past life regression therapy. Or you might read about using Reiki to treat the “root cause” of a person’s depressive symptoms, which is mistakenly believed to be their unbalanced energy. The truth is that alternative medicine practitioners rarely possess the qualifications to evaluate the causes of health concerns, let alone diagnose or recommend treatment.

@jonathanstea If only they stayed off the internet, too...

@ACSHorg Indeed, often under the guise of marketing brands such as “integrative/functional” medicine. Harassers over the years with zero scientific or health background and no clinical experience at all would like to convince people otherwise. Thankfully, they stay on their couches.😊

@ArielleSelya It's because the government would have to reverse course if it fairly considered the experience of former smokers who quit with vaping. The only way the prohibition-inspired approach "works" is if they ignore the millions of adults it harms.

Rethinking Nicotine panel, "Tobacco Harm Reduction is Harm Reduction" I'm listening to people who use nicotine. Panelist Julia Hilbert: "I've never been asked to speak from my experience as a smoker before today"

Check out the full story below. Follow us for more in-depth science and health commentary like this.👇 acsh.org/news/2026/03/1…

Bottom line: UPFs are a convenient shorthand for worries about modern diets (obesity, flavor over nutrients), but chasing a perfect definition might be a fool's errand. Focusing on nutrition, not processing, is probably the smarter approach.

Ever heard someone say "ultra-processed foods" (UPFs) are killing us... but struggle to define exactly what they are? 🤔 It's like Justice Potter Stewart's famous line on obscenity: “I know it when I see it.” Turns out, defining UPFs is just as slippery. 🧵