Jay Gooch

Scientist and Communicator. PhD in toxicology. No patience for pseudoscience and fear based marketing.

[Jay Gooch @jaywgooch]

@simonmaechling And I would add that only a true expert in a field of study can adequately interpret the rigor of a study design, execution, and interpretation. It's not about the letters behind the name...

[Jay Gooch @jaywgooch]

@TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico https://t.co/RA0hIFyLUg

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Flu shot IS mismatched w/ dominant H3N2 strain this year, but still worth it.

Partial protection cuts severe illness/hospitalization risk by 30-75% (per early data) matches other strains, and makes flu milder if you catch it.

Partial > none… especially in a bad season. 💉👍🏽

[Jonathan Howard MD @19joho]

@NIHDirector_Jay

[ACSH @ACSHorg]

Living 150 years is entirely practical? Dr. @joeschwarcz of @McGillOSS says pump the breaks. Mice are not men. Any extrapolation from a mouse study to humans is highly speculative. https://t.co/SiS0sz2did

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

As 2025 ends, I look back at the damage federal science and medicine have sustained thus far under @realDonaldTrump and @SecKennedy through the lens of a classic film. Truly, it’s a madhouse at HHS. https://t.co/0JVrvWj8Nk

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For most of human history, pandemics weren’t rare events.

Plague. Smallpox. Cholera. Influenza.
Entire generations erased without knowing why.

No vaccines. Just death.

What changed isn’t luck.
It’s science.

Romanticizing the past is easy
when you’ve never had to live in it.

[Gemini @Gemini]

Feeling generous to start the new year, so we loaded up a fresh wallet and decided to give it away.

🎁 $2,026 in BTC to one winner
🧡 Like this post and follow @Gemini
✅ Winner selected January 2

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

In the continuing story of how @SecKennedy is working to eliminate vaccines, we look at one of his useful idiots, @FDACBER Director @VPrasadMDMPH, and his email saying how FDA will weaponize dead children to justify making vaccines harder to approve. https://t.co/cWPPFV7Aw9

[David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon]

@mitchellvii Land doesn't vote. People do. Cities are where most of the people are. How many times do we have to explain this to ignoramuses like you?

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

A note:

Peter Attia is *not* a physician.
He is not a scientist.
He graduated medical school.
He didn’t complete residency.
He is not board certified.
After dropping out of residency, he worked for McKinsey.
He then founded a private “longevity clinic” to hawk pseudoscience.

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[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

🌱Natural chemicals aren’t inherently safe.
🧪Synthetic chemicals aren’t inherently dangerous.
💡Your body *literally* cannot tell the source of a chemical.

Some of the most toxic chemicals are ALL NATURAL. Botulinum toxin, abrin, ricin, arsenic, cyanide.

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[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

Scientists use knowledge, nature, AND chemical synthesis to improve health.

Chemophobia is breaking public health.

It’s the common thread linking all science rejection: fear around vaccines, food, medicine, agriculture, & cosmetics.

Read my latest:
https://t.co/KJGeVfHe7a

🧵

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

The lawsuits that are rolling out are

1) entirely predictable
2) designed to line the pockets of ambulance chasing lawyers and their fake “expert witnesses”
3) a coordinated part of the pseudoscience pipeline I detailed in the article.

🧵

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Exactly this. It also undermines scientists who have devoted their lives to understanding this incredibly complex disease - and discovering new and better ways to help patients live their fullest and best lives.

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

If you have functioning organ systems, you are *detoxing* all day. Every day.

•Liver
•Kidneys
•Lungs
•GI tract

You’re all good, boo.

Stop buying into conspiracies and claims from wellness profiteers who don’t know basic science.

[Jay Gooch @jaywgooch]

@ACSHorg @DrLizaMD @camjenglish @JonEntine Today, or 9/27?

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

Today’s issue of ImmunoLogic:
the story behind the false claims about Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism.

Spoiler: it’s a tactic used time & again to blame “chemicals” on various health outcomes without real evidence.

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[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

The MAHA "autism cause" BS checks a lot of MAGA boxes:

- Simplistic & wrong.✅
- Blame women & mothers. ✅
- Blame "evil biomedicine." ✅
- Fearmonger & stigmatize. ✅

Ignore the noise. #ScienceMatters!

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

Weird some scicomm ppl gave the “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight.

They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit when he was a paid “expert” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers.

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