Dr. Mark Slifka (@markslifka) 's Twitter Profile
Dr. Mark Slifka

@markslifka

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

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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.”

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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 The Atlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Offit Paul Offit 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

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Not just humans. Animal diseases too. The cattle virus rinderpest was eradicated by...guess what..vaccination. Clever things, vaccines

Not just humans.

Animal diseases too.

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

Clever things,  vaccines
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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: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

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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