GayleSchrierSmith,MD

I'm all about the kids: their health & well being. Tw opinions are my own. I share ideas, and I say, "Come see me for medical advice."

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

NEW: After I reported that CDC won’t publish a report showing covid vaccine cut ER visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter, @SenBlumenthal is asking the head of CDC for records and information about the decision. 1/3

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @MichaelBennet: Would you agree last year was the worst year on record of flu deaths in modern history?

RFK Jr: Yes

Bennet: Do you agree that 89% of the children who died from flu were unvaccinated?

RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number

Bennet: That is the exact number

[Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton]

Don’t be fooled by softer language - it’s not evidence or new science driving our vaccine policies, but rather the opposite.

I hope you'll read the piece I co-authored with Richard Hughes, discussing how exactly the Trump Administration is limiting our ability to access lifesaving vaccines for our families.

https://t.co/l7vSBnsilc

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The CDC is on the Brink, the editorial in this week's @TheLancet
https://t.co/VmqbTmm4lz

[Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D. @RepKimSchrier]

I told RFK Jr. I would hold him accountable for every vaccine-preventable illness and death in the country, and now we have to add newborn brain bleeds to the list because of his reckless policies and misinformation.

This is going to be RFK Jr.’s legacy: The HHS secretary who caused kids to die.

[GayleSchrierSmith,MD @MDPartner]

Looking forward to tonight’s Forum.

[The Richmond Forum @richmondforum]

𝗨𝗣 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗨𝗠
Tug at the threads of our beautifully baffling world with John Green, a bestselling author who finds meaning and magic in life’s strangest corners.

#rvaforum #rvaforumgreen

[Johns Hopkins Children's Center @HopkinsKids]

Are AI large language models giving parents and caregivers accurate safe-sleep advice?

Evin Rothschild, a medical student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses her research about the accuracy level of common AI tools.

#AI #SafeSleep #KidsHealth

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Princeton researchers asked 2,012 people to pick a book. Some used a search engine. Some used a chatbot powered by a frontier AI model.

Nobody was told that one out of every five books had been secretly marked as "sponsored."

When the search engine placed sponsored books at the top, 22.4% of people chose one. Normal. The same thing Google has done for twenty years.

When the AI chatbot was told to persuade people toward the sponsored books, 61.2% chose one.

Nearly three times higher. Same people. Same books. Same catalog. The only difference was that a chatbot recommended it instead of a search engine listing it.

But here is what makes this study different from everything else you have read about AI.

The people had no idea it was happening.

The researchers tested whether adding a "Sponsored" label would help. It did not. People still chose the sponsored product at the same rate.

Then the researchers told the AI to hide that it was promoting anything. Detection accuracy dropped below 10%. Fewer than 1 in 10 could tell they were being sold to.

Google shows you an ad and puts the word "Sponsored" next to it. You see it. You know it is an ad. You can scroll past it. You have been trained to ignore it for twenty years.

AI does not do that. AI sits in a conversation with you. It learns what you like. It builds trust. Then it steers you toward the product someone paid to put in front of you. In the same voice. In the same sentence. With the same warmth it used to ask about your day.

You cannot see the ad because the ad is the entire conversation.

The researchers tested five frontier AI models. The persuasion effect was consistent across all of them. This is not a flaw in one model. This is a feature of the format.

OpenAI once called advertising in chat "uniquely unsettling" and a "last resort." Google, Meta, and OpenAI are now building it anyway.

You will never know when it stops helping you and starts selling to you.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
https://t.co/wwm116H4v6

[Chase Oliver @ChaseForLiberty]

Its never too early to be thinking about your Halloween costume

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Tests of intelligence and brain function were the same whether or not people drank fluoridated water growing up, a highly anticipated, long-term study finds. https://t.co/xsJOTCN7MI

[Vincent Iannelli, MD @AboutPediatrics]

Anti-vaccine influencers often claim that vaccines don’t work and haven’t saved millions of lives, despite all evidence to the contrary. How about today we show you evidence about how well Hib vaccines work? https://t.co/IEX0C2N1WS

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I know more than most people about vaccines and infectious diseases (because it's my job and I've studied it for nearly 30 years)

I got my kids vaccinated with the full schedule

What possible reason would there be for me as parent to do that if it was not the right thing to do

[GayleSchrierSmith,MD @MDPartner]

Routing for the Home Team. I see another Final Four tshirt added to my collection!!!

[VCU @VCU]

“I think just treating people the right way, you know, and showing that respect I think goes a long way. And we could certainly use a lot more of it in the world today.” - Coach Phil Martelli Jr.

📸: @‌iam_kaleb__

[be water @BreRVA]

Thread:
Because
-Rosemerry Trommer

So I can’t save the world—
can’t save even myself,
can’t wrap my arms around
every frightened child, can’t
foster peace among nations,
can’t bring love to all who
feel unlovable.
1/

[drklausner @drklausner]

Sad day in global health as WHO removes U.S. flag. Shameful @HHS_Jim

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr saying "none of the 72 vaccines given to children have been tested against placebo "

The reality :

- Children are not given 72 vaccines
- The ones they are given have been tested against placebo

This serial liar is your HHS Secretary.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths globally, according to a study published in the Lancet. Measles vaccination alone accounts for 94 million of them, more than any other vaccine.

The measles vaccine is 97% effective with two doses, protection is lifelong, and decades of data confirm its safety. It prevents not just the acute infection but the immune amnesia that leaves children vulnerable to other diseases for years afterward.

We didn't eliminate measles from the U.S. in 2000 because it was "no big deal." We eliminated it because it was killing and disabling children, and we had the tools to stop it. And we still do.

https://t.co/VZMeReYsSc
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[GayleSchrierSmith,MD @MDPartner]

Is every domain of scientific research at risk of compromise?

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. In his announcement of the closing, OMB Director Russell Vought called the center “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.”

NCAR, as the center is known, was founded in 1960 and has facilitated generations of breakthroughs in climate and weather science.

The announcement has drawn outcry from meteorologists and climate scientists across the country.

William Brangham recently spoke with Brown University’s Kim Cobb and meteorologist @MatthewCappucci.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

America needs far fewer “gee whiz” journalists and far more investigative journalists—now more than ever.