Meghan May

Check out my @TEDx talk, "Science and Shoes". It is kind of about the emergence of #HIV and the arc of the #AIDS crisis... but really, it's about the process of science. There are also props. The props are shoes. It makes sense, I promise! youtube.com/watch?v=kYbwkc…

@bigstormpicture @angie_rasmussen On the one hand, yes, that’s convenient. On the other hand…. As I often say… the reason we have so many lobster boats in Maine is because Maine is where the lobsters are.

@angie_rasmussen It just takes a lotta receipts to overcome such a crazy occams razor (which you all supplied IMO). Novel Disease X pandemic breaks out right down the street from the primary Novel Disease X research center in the word — of course people will make assumptions

Really interested in seeing how the supposedly smartest people rationalize ignoring a mountain of evidence that we’ve been talking about and publishing in top journals on for years

@KindrachukJason Blah. Am quickly remembering why I swore this platform off 🙄

@DrMay5 Welcome back. Unfortunately things have regressed even further

WOW. Coming out of Twitter retirement to point out the Spn flu happened before flu vaccines were invented; Lyme disease has never been a pandemic; HIV has no vaccine (read Spillover and/or The Chimp and the River for excellent origin story); and RSV case loads the reason for vax.

@DrCatharineY @RodneyRohde In other words, we don’t consider rubella on differentials and we probably should start doing that. Just saying.

@DrCatharineY @RodneyRohde You know who’s next, right? When I used to teach ID to first year med students, I always taught that rubella was eradicated from North America, but perhaps we should consider it “eradicated”…Because it would be very hard to spot until unvaccinated girls reached child bearing age

As measles resurges across parts of the U.S. - mumps is starting to knock on the door. Mumps can cause meningitis, encephalitis, permanent hearing loss, infertility, pancreatitis, and miscarriage in pregnancy. The MMR vaccine prevents all of this.

@KellyHeaps47732 @its_The_Dr We share the same interest- suppose we just disagree on the best path forward. Wish you well, Kelly.

@DrMay5 @its_The_Dr You'll have to excuse me, but your political biases do not interest me. Helping Lyme sufferers of this horrible disease does. This community needs help and exposure. My original question stands.

RFK Jr: "The Pandemics are coming from labs. ALL OF THEM... Lyme, COVID, RSV, HIV and Spanish Flu came out of a vaccine lab." "Vaccine research has created the worst plagues in our history."

@drterrysimpson @AstrobioMike Actually, we DID say they “didn’t die of HIV”. And that was seriously problematic. Agree with you in spirit/principle though!

You are clinging to a statistic you don’t understand. The “6% died of COVID only” line comes from a CDC table listing death certificates that had no additional conditions recorded. That doesn’t mean the other 94% “didn’t die of COVID.” It means COVID caused pneumonia, ARDS, clotting, stroke, or heart failure — which is what viral infections do. When HIV patients died of pneumocystis pneumonia, we did not say, “Ah, they didn’t die of HIV.” We understood cause and consequence. Over 1.3 million excess deaths occurred in the United States during the pandemic period. That is not a rounding error. That is not “just flu.” That is a historic mortality event confirmed by excess death curves — which do not care about hospital coding, politics, or your favorite podcast. As for the claim that doctors diagnosed COVID for money — that requires believing that thousands of physicians, hospitals, coders, auditors, and insurers across every political jurisdiction engaged in coordinated fraud without evidence. That is conspiracy thinking dressed up as fiscal concern. And yes, early treatment evolved. That’s called science confronting a novel pathogen. If your standard is “medicine must be omniscient on day one,” then you are not arguing medicine — you are arguing for clairvoyance. The hospitals were full. The ICUs were full. Temporary morgues were deployed. Excess mortality surged in waves that matched viral spread across continents. You may dislike public health decisions. You may resent mandates. But denying the scale of mortality requires denying measurable reality. And measurable reality does not bend to ideology.

@KellyHeaps47732 @its_The_Dr Wishing you the same ❤️

@DrMay5 @its_The_Dr You should, the evils of this world know no bounds. I wish you well ✨

@KellyHeaps47732 @its_The_Dr It persists, the more damage it does, and the longer post antibiotic treatment it will be before healing and recovery begins. Again, I’m so sorry that you are suffering with this. It flat-out sucks, no two ways about it. Wishing you healing, recovery, and lowered inflammation ❤️

@KellyHeaps47732 @its_The_Dr I genuinely do not believe that RFK Jr is offering any real answers - just easy ones. And if there is one thing I know for certain about Lyme and its post-infection pathology, it is that there are no easy answers. Borrelia broadly dysregulates inflammation, and the longer… 5/

@KellyHeaps47732 @its_The_Dr I’m so sorry for your suffering - post treatment Lyme syndrome is an underrated cause of immense suffering. THAT SAID, it was not lab created, and that man is a charlatan offering you no solutions.

As a Lyme sufferer, I’m thankful that RFK Jr. is publicly clarifying the cause of Lyme. What will the government do to help those affected? It’s not enough to just call them out—there must be retribution for the victims. Who is standing up for that? Who will help the sick and disabled reclaim their health and lives? People are suffering now, not later.

@angie_rasmussen OMG, I don’t know where to start with this nonsense. Perhaps the easiest one is to question on what planet Lyme disease would be considered a pandemic.. Either he has a poor understanding of the distribution of Lyme disease or a poor understanding of the word “pandemic”. Or both.

I am very interested in hearing the Spanish flu vaccine lab hypothesis, considering it took several years to figure out it was even caused by a virus. Initially they thought it was a bacteria. Pretty hard to make vaccines when you don’t know what to make them against

@OneNationOrg So…. She performed the base function of her job. Cool.

Senator Susan Collins delivered MILLIONS in funding to upgrade Maine’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure🚰. Call and thank Senator Collins for her leadership and protecting Maine’s water: 202-224-2523.

@SecKennedy A preprint is not a validly published study. Anyone can post a preprint making any claim they wish. If it remains only a preprint, that is a strong indication that it did not stand up to scientific scrutiny. Kind of assuming HHS Sec would know that…..

As usual, the mainstream media attacks me for something I didn’t say in order to distract from the truth of what I did say. At yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, I said: “There are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it’s highly likely because they’re given Tylenol.” An August 2025 Preprints.org review by Patel et al. directly validates my point that the observed autism correlation in circumcised boys is best explained by acetaminophen exposure, not circumcision itself. Newsweek reflected my comments most accurately. USA Today partially reported what I said but used misleading framing. New York Post distorted it completely with its headline, implying I said circumcision causes autism. So once again, MSM chooses to character assassinate me instead of educating Americans by digging into the science. The paper I was referring to identifies the 2015 Danish circumcision study as “the most compelling ‘standalone’ evidence that acetaminophen triggers autism in susceptible babies and children.” It presents a mechanistic model showing that acetaminophen acts in combination with oxidative stress to cause neurodevelopmental injury. The study’s authors call the evidence “overwhelming” and argue the precautionary principle demands avoiding acetaminophen during pregnancy and early infancy, precisely echoing my public warning. In short, the preprint provides a rigorous scientific framework that substantiates my interpretation: the risk stems from acetaminophen use in infants, not from circumcision itself. SOURCE: preprints.org/manuscript/202…

@LCTweeter @ProjectLincoln I bet you’re right, come to think of it

@ProjectLincoln Holy cow, he got COVID again. And he's not telling us. Just getting pumped up with the best experimental drugs money can't buy like the last time.

What are they hiding about this guy's health? He sounds like crap here.

@Logically_JC Correct assessment…. But not in the way he thinks.

Sadly, he’s right.