Jackson

Arboviral Disease and Science Communication researcher | MPH ColoradoSPH ‘26 | Owner of the Green Bay Packers

[Jackson @jacksondecook]

@MicahhParsons11 Play Marvel Rivals with me Micah

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

In the last 48 hours, I've been called a libtard, a left-wing shill, and a hack for criticizing DHS and the killing of Alex Pretti. Now:

- Polling suggests this shooting is a 70-30 issue (at best) with growing support for abolishing ICE
- Dozens of Rs in Congress have come out calling for an investigation and/or for ICE to leave
- WSJ, NY Post, and National Review editorial boards are all calling for ICE to leave MN/Trump to pull back
- John Mitnick, who helped establish the Department of Homeland Security and worked in Trump's first admin, is calling to abolish DHS and criticizing its "fascism"
- And now, in the video below, a Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate — the lawyer *representing the agent who killed Renee Good* — is dropping out of the race and saying he can no longer stand with Republicans or support DHS going beyond its public safety mandate.

But yes, please keep telling me how this is a divisive issue, the shooting was justified, and I'm a partisan hack for being on the side criticizing DHS.

[The Real Truther @thereal_truther]

Carole claims the measles vaccine "sheds" & "spreads" measles.

Carole is wrong.

Since the MMR was released in 1971 there have been billions of doses given out around the world without a single outbreak linked to a vaccine shedding & spreading the measles virus.

Not one.

Here's what the science actually shows:

✅ The MMR contains a weakened, non-contagious form of the virus. These are attenuated strains, they train your immune system without causing or spreading disease.

✅ When infections occur in vaccinated people it’s because no vaccine is 100% effective. The MMR is about 96% effective against measles after two doses. This is why keeping high vaccine rates to protect everyone in the community is so important!

✅ In every real outbreak studied around the world the unvaccinated are disproportionately affected.

For example:

• 2014 Ohio: outbreaks in Amish communities with low vaccination coverage

• 2015 Canada: outbreak in a religious Lanaudière community w/ low vax rates.

• 2017 Minnesota: outbreak in a Somali-American community w/ low vax rates

• 2019 Rockland, NY: outbreak in an Orthodox Jewish community w/ low vax rates

• 2019 Samoa: outbreak in a low vaccinated country, especially in young children & infants who got infected & died.

• 2025 Texas: outbreak in a low vaccinated religious community.

✅ “Shedding” from the MMR is not a source of infection. The attenuated vaccine viruses may briefly appear in the body, but they do not transmit person-to-person.

✅ In the 1980s–early 2000s some oncology units restricted recently vaccinated visitors/siblings due to a theoretical risk of rubella transmission, not measles. It was precautionary & later discontinued.

No measles or rubella infections were ever linked to vaccinated visitors.

In conclusion Carole claims the MMR can "shed" & "spread" but she can't show one example in the last 50+ years where a single outbreak was caused by the measles vaccine "shedding" & "spreading" from one person to another.

That's because no example exists.

Carole wants us to "get used" to children suffering from a preventable disease that can cause pneumonia, hospitalization, deafness, neurological harm and/or death.

Most parents disagree with Carole & will continue to safely vaccinate their children!

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

74% said “Yes.”

That’s not a statistic about vaccines.
It’s a statistic about trust.

Billions of doses.
Hundreds of studies.

Every major regulator in the world confirming the same thing:

➡️ COVID vaccines prevented millions of deaths.

And yet most people on this site now believe the opposite.

This isn’t about medicine anymore.
It’s about the collapse of shared reality.

Science works with data.

Social media works with outrage.
And outrage always wins the algorithm.

The result?

People trust anonymous accounts more than epidemiologists.

YouTube clips more than peer-reviewed journals.

Anecdotes more than evidence.

If this continues, it won’t just be vaccines.

It’ll be climate, energy, food, medicine everything that keeps society alive.

When truth becomes a vote, facts lose by design.

The problem isn’t that 74% got it wrong.

The problem is that science stopped reaching them before someone else did.

We need scientists, doctors, and communicators to step back in.

Because the next “mass death” might be caused by disinformation itself.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

We cured diseases, fed billions, split atoms, mapped the genome.

And somehow, people decided science was the enemy.

The anti-science movement will go down as one of humanity’s most tragic self-inflicted wounds.

[Alice @AliceFromQueens]

These guys are too emotional to put facts above whatever they "felt."

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study. https://t.co/r3wjVEZ0x2

[Nathan Halberstadt 🧊 @NatHalberstadt]

Unclear why 22 y/os should be paying social security $ to 75 y/o homebuyers.

It is a serious political question.

Young Americans are paying into a system they have no realistic expectation of benefiting from, given demographics & the government’s own financial forecasts.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"There are now more homebuyers over age 70 than under 35," per FORTUNE.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Many Americans overestimate the impact of small climate actions like recycling and underestimate high-impact choices like avoiding long-haul flights, a recent PNAS Nexus study finds.

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

mRNA vaccines ushered in a “new era” for vaccine tech.

With nearly $500 million in funding canceled for mRNA vaccine projects, the possibility of using these vaccines against diseases like HIV, rabies, Zika, and certain cancers is dimming.

Learn more: https://t.co/rnLteRKFLk

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A study has shown that Skrillex's song 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' reduced the number of mosquito bites among bugs exposed to the dubstep track

[Marc Xavier Adams @thegoodfello]

Big balls gets beat up and Trump sends the guard into DC.... this dude allegedly shoots up the CDC, killing a police officer and absolutely crickets from this administration.

[Jackson @jacksondecook]

@LampSight @DrNeilStone Other study forms are important for sure, but in situations where a RCT is possible then you want to do a RCT. You would only really want to forgo it in cases where using a placebo is not ethical.

[Jackson @jacksondecook]

@LampSight @DrNeilStone Completely different situation. RCT’s are important in medical research because you have the opportunity to use a placebo or current best treatment and make a comparison with minimal confounding bias. Comparing a physics law to medical research is pretty ignorant.

[Jackson @jacksondecook]

@LampSight @DrNeilStone The only way to determine causality is with randomization. It is quite literally the cornerstone of epidemiology and medical research.