Dr. Mark Slifka

Professor, @OHSU, CSO, Najit Technologies, Inc. Interests: infectious disease, immunology, vaccines. Open to new ideas, not a fan of dogma. Opinions are my own

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

We thank the editors @NatureComms for featuring our paper, "Campylobacter vaccination reduces diarrheal disease and infant growth stunting among rhesus macaques" on Editors’ Highlights, showcasing the 50 top papers in “Microbiology and infectious diseases” https://t.co/xfQ3Okxln8

[E. John Wherry @EJohnWherry]

Check out this article: https://t.co/GrjaGg63Qx

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

What is the NIH worth to you and your state? Check out this link to find out https://t.co/cmHHQJU6v6

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Two birds with one stone: Keep up with vaccinations and reduce risk of Alzheimer's: https://t.co/7A8KxUYqfF

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Gotta keep science, based on science. Multiple peer-reviewed studies performed in multiple countries examining >10 million children prove there is no link between vaccines and autism. The answer is clear

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“RFK Jr.’s performance did not appear to assure Cassidy, who laid out a possible rationale for rejecting the nominee’s confirmation” https://t.co/2LkYGYGVik

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

some shocking stats and important information here

[Paul Offit @DrPaulOffit]

RFK Jr. rejects the germ theory of infectious diseases.

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

For some pathogens to break through, the country’s immunization rates may need to slip quite a bit. But for others, the gap between no outbreak and outbreak is uncomfortably small, @katherinejwu reports: https://t.co/FaaGJi2p1W

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Good point - helps cut through the nonsense

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

New rule:
ANYONE that uses the word toxic about a substance or exposure must include at which dose and route of exposure and whether that applies to humans.

Yes -every media outlet - I am looking at you too.

Example:
water is TOXIC if you drink 5.2 liters at once.

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Just passing this along as a public service announcement on vaccine safety https://t.co/ZNF7jxwU6b

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Not just humans.

Animal diseases too.

The cattle virus rinderpest was eradicated by...guess what..vaccination.

Clever things, vaccines

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Offit @DrPaulOffit knows his stuff. It may be hard to spread the word without being throttled, but we need to follow the science and not the pseudoscience. The scientific community will need to step up to help explain how these things work

[Paul Offit @DrPaulOffit]

This will be the first of 6 essays I wrote about RFK Jr. In this first piece, I describe a conversation I had with him about 20 years ago, which marked the beginning of his anti-vaccine activism. Is this the man we want to be in charge of our health?
My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. https://t.co/vaq1noqyt5

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

People on both sides of the political spectrum need to listen to this. Please!

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

This is worth watching

[Paul Offit @DrPaulOffit]

RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary!!?

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.

We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.

I recently wrote in @TheAtlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇

https://t.co/rVXqEzE2qT

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Dr. Paul Offit: “There were seven misstatements of fact within three-and-a-half minutes. I’m not sure what the record is, but that has to be close.”

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Just kind of remarkable how reading older literature will sometimes provide insight into current events

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

From a historical paper I read today: "vaccination had controlled smallpox reasonably well during the first one-third of the century; however, during the period of the Jacksonian Democracy, laissez-faire doctrine prevailed and in 1837 the vaccination laws were repealed (1/3).

[Howard Lutnick @howardlutnick]

I met with Bobby Kennedy for over two hours and he was the opposite of what the media portrays. Sunlight is the best disinfectant — he wants to study the full data (not what the NIH decides to put out) and let the American people decide.

[Dr. Mark Slifka @MarkSlifka]

Reference: A.M. Kass CID 1993, PMID: 8399883 (3/3)

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Vaccines work. Vaccine denial kills. It’s that simple.