Dr. David Sanders

@roomcguire I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

Roo is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya posting again

I understand the desire to not antagonize or contribute to polarization, but manufacturing good will for someone who would never do the same for you, and is factually wrong, is a bad idea. You cannot be that beholden to power.

@HollyBlomberg @JoeConchaTV I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

@JoeConchaTV You’re not really this ignorant are you Joe? MD, PhD = doctor Also consider that Trump’s NIH & CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya is an MD, PhD who never treated patients but chose to focus on economics

@DailyJLee @KrutikaKuppalli @CDCgov I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

@KrutikaKuppalli @CDCgov Jay Bhattacharya runs the CDC, this is his Focused Protection masterplan, where what everyone wants to do is protected, everyone just "live their lives normally and build up immunity"

Public health can’t protect people if it stops communicating. Measles. H5N1. A multistate Cyclospora outbreak. Ebola. In the past, the @CDCgov would have issued a Health Alert Network advisory to rapidly inform clinicians what to look for, who to test, and how to respond. Those alerts help frontline providers recognize outbreaks earlier and improve patient care. Where is that communication now? Outbreaks don’t become less important because we stop talking about them. Timely, transparent communication from public health is one of the most powerful public health tools we have—and we should be using it.

@CIDRAP I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

Ebola workers strike as CDC head says agency’s response will last months. Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya addressed CDC staff in an internal email on outbreak response. Read more: bit.ly/4h3eqgU 📷: World Bank, Vincent Tremeau / Flickr cc

@alancer24 I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

Early 2025, trump cut more than 3,000 jobs from the CDC, 1/4 of its workforce. They are w/o a permanent director. Jay Bhattacharya, who leads the NIH, was recently named interim director. The harm will come to people who don’t even know what the CDC was protecting them from,

@WhiteCoatWaste I recently had the opportunity to hear Bhattacharya in person during his visit to Purdue University. I expected to endure scientific ignorance, right-wing pandering and claims of victimisation, and I was not disappointed. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

Trump’s NIH Director broke a massive promise he made to us and the entire MAHA movement. Jay Bhattacharya told our Senior VP Justin Goodman, to his face, in April 2025: “I’m going to end all dog, cat, and non-human primate testing.” It was a “crystal clear promise.” WCW President Anthony Bellotti was elated. “There was no equivocation, and there was no room for confusion.” Then, under Bhattacharya’s leadership, the NIH approved nearly $150 MILLION for new dog and cat experiments. This is not funding that was simply left over from the previous administration. This is new funding that was explicitly approved under Jay Bhattacharya’s leadership. Bhattacharya and his Deputy Director, Nicole Kleinstreuer, keep telling the public they’re doing everything in their power to end funding for animal testing. But their claims could not be farther from the truth. @anthonybellotti @SciFrTheFringe @Bryce_Nickels

@Spottingthespot @Thatsregrettab1 I am depending upon the inclusion of the statement in an institutional document to bring attention to the issue.

@DavidSandersRep @Thatsregrettab1 Agreed, however universities and their ethical committees are full about 'ethics' and claim/write a lot on how ethical they are but their actions are often completely different. So I don't really buy it.

"upholding his...scientific responsibility,it is incumbent upon[Adriano Aguzzi]to withdraw these...publications/correct errors contained therein. Should[he]fail to ensure publications are corrected/retracted,this would constitute a separate violation of good scientific practice."

@Spottingthespot @Thatsregrettab1 Thanks for writing. I don't know, but I was highlighting the fact that some institution seemed to regard that action as worth stating as critical. I have not seen that insistence very often in such documents.

@DavidSandersRep @Thatsregrettab1 But do you think those papers will get retracted? (Some might have already been).

For your consideration @RetractionWatch @OxygenIvan @MicrobiomDigest @SmutClyde @lonnibesancon @addictedtoigno1

@Thatsregrettab1 My main interest was in"Should[he]fail to ensure that these publications are corrected/retracted,this would constitute a separate violation of good scientific practice." I think that this statement is quite important;I have been arguing for such a standard for more than a decade.

@DavidSandersRep Thanks for sharing. I think they did a relatively thorough job, but I have quibbles about a few things. One broad concern: if a senior researcher has (independently identified) concerns in 3 dozen papers over almost 3 decades, who cares about “intent?”

@sciam “I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. nature.com/articles/d4158…

The U.S. Preventive Medicine Task Force is an independent group that offers guidance on what health screenings and medications health insurance should cover spklr.io/6012EOCAI

As a member of the Greater Lafayette Steering Committee on Homelessness,I am opposed to the criminalization of homelessness enacted by the supermajority in the Indiana State Legislature. Photo is with Don Sawyer, director/producer of BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution To Homelessness

@DrIanWeissman “I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. nature.com/articles/d4158…

“I think the secretary has caused a lot of irreparable harm, and when you look at many of the polls out there, the trust in public health, specifically CDC, has decreased dramatically, over 20 points in many polls." thehill.com/policy/healthc…

@FaceTheNation “I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deb Houry said vaccine information was temporarily restored to the agency's website during HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation process because officials believed its removal "could hurt the secretary's confirmation." @margbrennan: “So, all of these have been taken down because you're trying to comply with what the president wanted?” “Correct,” Houry replied.

@DrJBhattacharya Jay Bhattacharya, director of the US National Institutes of Health, has been visiting universities in the US in his ostensible role as champion of academic freedom. It is a part to which he is ill-fitted. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/nih-di…

Fireworks over DC. Happy 250th birthday, America!

@FaceTheNation “I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. nature.com/articles/d4158…

When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanded that the agency stop running vaccine awareness campaigns back in 2025, the chief medical officer at the time, Dr. Deb Houry, said she initially thought it was “a misunderstanding.” “It's an active flu season, it's not like flu is over. And we'd already paid for these ads, so it didn't make any sense,” she said. “And so, I brought it to our political leaders and brought it back to our communications staff, and asked them to please relay back to the department: ‘Surely this isn't what you want.’ And then, we got a note back: ‘It's a direct request from the secretary.’”

Some thoughts on the 250th Anniversary Independence Day. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

@DavidSandersRep You have my support!