Almudena Laris

Pediatra infectóloga, aprendiz perpetua. Cazadora de amaneceres.
Deja que todo te suceda. La belleza y el terror.

[Almudena Laris @AlmuLaris]

Creo que el sufrimiento de los niños nos es intolerable porque rompe con las excusas que a veces damos a la violencia estructural que condiciona que unos sufran más que otros. 1/2

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This article makes two main claims

“If it doesn’t look like The Holocaust it can’t be genocide”

“If it were genocide, Israel would kill more people”

Both make little sense 🧵

[Brad Spellberg @BradSpellberg]

In my 26 years as a physician, I have trained under, collaborated with, and worked beside some of the most brilliant minds. And the smartest of them always knew that they didn't have all the answers, and not only could, but wanted to, admit when they didn't know something.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... 🧵

1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary.

China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is responsible for 13%.

These results arise from taking the safe carbon budget and dividing into national "fair shares" on a per-capita basis, and then assessing national emissions against national fair-shares.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

First, the British establishment chose to conflate "Israel" and "the Jews" – actually an antisemitic sleight of hand that makes all Jews responsible for Israeli crimes, even those Jews who reject the notion that Israel represents them.

Now, the establishment wants to conflate "the IDF", Israel's army slaughtering children in Gaza, with "the Jews" – an even more antisemitic sleight of hand that makes all Jews responsible for the genocide currently being committed by Israeli soldiers.

There is a converse process.

First, those people, including Jews, who rejected Israel as a colonial, apartheid state – one oppressing and ethnically cleansing Palestinians – found themselves smeared as "antisemites".

Now, those people, including Jews, who struggle against western collusion in Israel's genocide in Gaza, like members of Palestine Action, find themselves smeared as "terrorists".

All of this verbal deceit is designed with one end in mind: to unmoor us from reality, leaving us confused, passive and ripe for manipulation by a western establishment feeding us lines from their script.

Don't fall for their ruse.

It looks like a genocide because it is a genocide.

And Israel looks like a violent, settler-colonial state precisely because it is a violent settler-colonial state.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Also worth mentioning: the American system is built in a way that guarantees US elites will bomb every country on the planet before providing American citizens decent education, healthcare, infrastructure and political representation. The system itself is rigged for corruption and eternal imperial wars. And, like Israel, it is no longer sustainable

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

When the story of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians is told, it will tell the story of how it cut electricity, food and water from the “human animals” and how Israelis mocked the starving thirsty children with videos of running water taps and lit lightbulbs 🧵

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

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Western journalists take note!

#IsraeliranWar

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The United States, that "beacon of democracy", has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

I've been hearing a lot about this common concern: "Are kids getting too many vaccines?"

It's a fair question. I'm a parent too. And as an infectious diseases physician who directs an antibiotic stewardship program, a big part of my job is stopping unnecessary medications. I'm a minimalist by nature - both personally and professionally.

But here's what most people don't realize:

A shocking fact in vaccine science: Kids today are exposed to FEWER antigens from vaccines than children in 1900 - when there was literally ONE vaccine (smallpox).

In 1986, kids received about 10 shots protecting against 7 diseases. Those vaccines exposed them to over 3,000 antigens - the pieces of viruses or bacteria (like proteins or sugars) that teach the immune system to recognize and respond to real infections.

Today's schedule includes more injections - about 50 by age 18 - but the total number of antigens is just ~150. That's a 95% reduction in antigen exposure, thanks to modern acellular and conjugate vaccine designs.

The data over 18 years (Offit et al., Pediatrics 2002):

🔹1900: 1 vaccine (smallpox) = ~200 antigens
🔹1986: ~10 vaccines = 3,000+ antigens + 3mg aluminum
🔹2025: ~50 vaccines = ~150 antigens + 5-6mg aluminum

As for aluminum adjuvant - a compound added to help trigger a stronger immune response - children today receive about 5–6 mg total over the full vaccine schedule, up from ~3 mg in 1986. That's a modest increase over 18 years. For perspective, infants ingest ~7–10 mg of aluminum just in their first six months from breast milk or formula.

So yes, there are more shots. But the actual antigen exposure is dramatically lower than it was in 1986 - or even 1900. Modern vaccines stripped out thousands of extra proteins while adding protection against Hib meningitis, pneumococcal sepsis, chickenpox complications, liver cancer, HPV cancers, and more.

TL;DR: Modern vaccines do far more with less. That's progress. Let's not go backwards.
@BradSpellberg @mtosterholm @ReporterGoodman @HelenBranswell @thekibosch @ENirenberg @AliSMV7 @atrupar @alejodiaz81 @zacroBID @ThePharmFox @DhandAbhay

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

❌CLAIM 1: "97% of people on [ACIP] had conflicts of interest"

✅REALITY: Only 41% received any industry payments, mostly under $55k over 6 years
This is flatly false. Reuters reviewed all 17 voting members of the outgoing ACIP panel:
6 received $80 or less TOTAL over 6 years

7 received between $4k-$55k total over 6 years (mostly travel, meals, occasional consulting)
4 had no reported industry payments at all
That's 7/17 = 41%. Not 97%.

CDC rules require recusal for any vote tied to a relevant conflict. Meeting minutes show ONE recusal in the reviewed period.
ACIP members are unpaid volunteer experts. They don't get royalties, don't keep pharma stock, don't get flown to golf courses.
A published review found <5% of ACIP votes over the past decade involved a declared conflict.
https://t.co/BlaTFQ9CYj

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

It’s understandable to have questions about aluminum in vaccines. Here are the key facts:
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[Almudena Laris @AlmuLaris]

@DrNeilStone First, clean water. Second, vaccines.

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

FA has documented a pattern of Israeli attacks on areas into which they have previously instructed civilians in Gaza to evacuate. Our research confirms that the Israeli military carried out multiple attacks in areas towards which civilians had been directed, either on the same day as the evacuation order, or on the day after. See more: https://t.co/YMOJ8EGngI

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Unfortunately, this infant isn't old enough to understand, as enlightened Western adults do, that "Israel has the right to defend itself."

[Mónica García @Monica_Garcia_G]

Me dirijo al representante de Israel en la OMS:

[Almudena Laris @AlmuLaris]

Por qué asumes que Ajit Atwal es musulmán?

[Isaac Katz 🇲🇽🇮🇱 @econoclasta]

Reino Unido y Francia serán, junto con Paquistán, los tres países islámicos en poseer bombas atómicas.

[Daniel Bernal @Dan_BernalS]

La corrupción, omnipresente en nuestra región, extrae 5-25% del presupuesto de los sistemas de salud. Sin embargo medirla, entenderla y encontrar soluciones es un reto mayúsculo.

Acompañanos para discutir algunos claros en la oscuridad.

Registro: https://t.co/dSBgvEPxui

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

Extremely important reporting from Sudan and Chad by @lynseyaddario and @anneapplebaum, on a dramatically worsening humanitarian crisis:

https://t.co/nfZQVGYtK3

[Clinical Infectious Diseases @CIDJournal]

Different (My) Side of the Opioid and Drug Crisis

✍️ @AldoBarajasMD
https://t.co/i2w6BTfAeR

[Almudena Laris @AlmuLaris]

@raulber_54 Qué buen artículo, gracias