Jake Scott, MD
@jakescottMD
Infectious diseases doctor, Clinical Assoc. Prof @StanfordDeptMed | vaccines, stewardship, sci com | http://jakescottmd.bsky.social | views mine | no COI
RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵
RFK Jr is on Fox News going full anti-vax
Add this to the list of things that’s going to do absolutely nothing
Froot Loops is finally following its nose — toward common sense. Thanks to the many parents who spoke out and pressured @KelloggsUS to remove harmful food dyes from its products. I urge more companies to step up and join the movement to Make America Healthy Again.
There is NO evidence that exchanging high fructose corn syrup sweetened cola for cane sugar sweetened cola will have ANY impact on human health. NONE. ZERO. @SecKennedy I invite you to produce ONE study demonstrating that substituting cane sugar for high fructose corn syrup…
.@BioLayne: "Biochemically there is very little difference between cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup...if you're telling me a 5% difference in fructose.. is somehow going to change our nations health...you're putting energy into stuff that won't make a bit of difference"
Static vs. cidal: it’s not complex; it’s simply incorrect @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @ABsteward doi.org/10.1128/aac.00…
True, for bacterial CAP. But, if you have a viral test+ & a negative procal, it can help stop abx after first dose. That does make a difference. It's also super helpful for people with possible aspiration in hospital, whereas all docs want to give a week of abx, can stop day 1.
Im not concerned with strength of recommendation. In the @Wiki_Guidelines approach, there is no strength to recommendation. It's like Yoda, either do, or do not. I AM concerned with strength of evidence. The evidence for short course CAP Tx is overwhelming. It is NOT weak.
A brilliant UCLA Hematologist, Dr. Gary Schiller, said something to me when I was a medical student that I didn't understand at the time, but in retrospect, turns out to have had a profound, long-lasting impact on me. Specifically, on how I view the concept of "expertise".
When clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. - Carl Sagan, 1995