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This is the perfect case of misinformation on COVID vaccines. Failure to remove this by LinkedIn would show how ineffective they are at protecting you from such. And may demonstrate complacency towards vaccine misinformation.
🔬 230 years ago, an English country #doctor changed the course of medical history by inventing #vaccination.
In 1796, Edward Jenner (1749–1823) noticed something others would have overlooked: people exposed to #cowpox (vaccinia) did not contract #smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases in #human history.
Armed with this observation, Jenner did what great #scientists do — he formulated a hypothesis, designed an #experiment, and published his #results.
On May 14, 1796, he inoculated James Phipps, an 8-year-old #child, with #pus taken from a cowpox pustule. A few weeks later, he exposed him to smallpox. The child did not develop the disease.
💡 What Jenner truly invented was a #paradigm — the incredible impact of vaccination.
Long before Louis Pasteur and his germ theory, before the discovery of the immune system, Jenner had understood that it was possible to train the body to recognize a #pathogen in order to fight it more effectively. This is the founding principle of all modern #immunology.
📊 The result, two centuries later?
✅ In 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared #smallpox #eradicated — the first human #infectious #disease to be so in history
✅ 154 million #lives saved in 50 years through #vaccination programs, including 101 million #infants — that's 6 lives preserved every minute
✅ The #measles #vaccine alone has prevented 94 million #deaths in 50 years
✅ Vaccination has contributed to 40% of the decline in global #child #mortality, and 52% in Africa
✅ For every #death prevented, 66 years of good #health are gained — totaling 10.2 billion years of full health since 1974!
🔍 Vaccination is by far the most effective #medical intervention ever developed by humanity, for the health of individuals and populations.
Scientific boldness, combined with rigorous field observation, remains a model of epistemic thinking. Jenner wrote: "I will not wait for men to convince themselves. I will provide them with the #evidence."
In a world where #vaccine hesitancy is growing, recalling the historical and scientific foundations of vaccination is not only a #rational, committed act of #prevention — it is an imperative act of #publichealth!
🧬 Science advances through #observation, #hypothesis, #experimentation, and #publication.
Jenner did it with a #scalpel and a notebook. Today, we do it with the advances of #science and #preventivemedicine: targeted #screening, #research and #innovation, big #data, #AI, #technology, #biomarkers, #imaging, #sequencers, and #algorithms.
Which figure from the #historyofmedicine has inspired you the most? Share in the comments 👇
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To translate robust, well-supported, and credible scientific evidence into clear, population-level guidance that protects millions of people all at once–that’s public health.
Casey Means’ nomination is incredibly alarming. The issue here isn’t just that she’s unqualified.
It’s that the US government is willing to replace scientific expertise with influencer credibility when it comes to national health leadership.
Casey Means’ sole public health contribution has been to tell healthy people to obsess over blood glucose and reject scientific innovations that objectively improve quality of life.
We haven’t just lost the plot: our Federal government has failed us.
Casey Means is a Wellness Influencer, not a Public Health Leader.
Public health aims to minimize harm across all populations using infrastructure and systems that benefit the whole. Wellness businesses monetize perceived optimization gaps of an individual person by convincing you health is solely your responsibility.
Public health aims to reduce unnecessary medicalization. Wellness influencers do the opposite–they fabricate medical issues, convince you to medicalize essential bodily processes, and monetize it. The Surgeon General should be reducing health anxiety, not normalizing it, and certainly not profiting off of it.
I’m delighted to share our latest paper examining factors influencing vaccine uptake in culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia!
This review highlights that trust in healthcare providers and community leaders is central, alongside the need to address structural barriers and improve access to information and services.
Culturally responsive engagement, co-design, and coordinated approaches are key to improving vaccination equity.
Many anti-vaxxers have made claims against COVID shutdowns and vaccines. The data has shown that mRNA vaccines protected against myocardititis, leading to less severe one. But latest data have shown that excess deaths during the COVID pandemic were not linked to vaccines, but COVID itself. And this paper is even more provocative: the COVID shoot downs were cardioprotective…
The 19th century was a hard and dangerous time to be alive. Disease was everywhere, and it struck without warning. You could wake up feeling perfectly healthy in the morning and be dead before nightfall. Life was uncertain, and even children were forced to grow up quickly in a world where illness was a constant shadow.
The greatest killer was often the slowest one.
Tuberculosis, once called consumption, slowly wasted the body away. A persistent cough, blood on the lips, fever, weakness… and eventually the grave. In many places, it accounted for one out of every four deaths.
Then there was cholera. It arrived in terrifying waves, often traced to a single contaminated water pump. It drained the body with brutal speed, leaving victims dehydrated and lifeless within hours. Entire neighborhoods could be wiped out almost overnight.
Smallpox was an ancient enemy that scarred and killed countless people. But by the 19th century, vaccination had begun to push back against it, offering one of the first glimpses of hope.
Diphtheria was especially cruel. It formed a gray membrane in the throat that slowly suffocated children in their beds, stealing their breath and their futures.
Typhoid fever thrived where sanitation was poor, spreading through contaminated food and water, tearing through families and communities alike.
These were not rare tragedies; they were part of everyday life. People lived with the constant fear that sickness could appear at any moment.
The modern world is very different.
Public health systems, clean water, sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines have transformed human life. The achievement is not only the dramatic drop in death rates, but also the disappearance of the daily terror people once lived with.
In earlier centuries, you went to bed unsure whether you would wake up sick - or whether an illness would carry you to the grave within days.
Today, many people go to sleep with a different kind of worry - chronic diseases, perhaps; but also with the knowledge that treatments exist, that medicine can manage or cure many conditions.
It is a quiet peace of mind that humanity lived without for thousands of years.
It's very easy to fact-check the things anti-vaccine influencers say. Give it a try. Paul Thomas says that most cases of paralytic polio resolve. Is that true?
Hint...
It's not. Most cases of paralytic polio are permanent.
The government’s plan was clear and communities have followed its guidance – with young people leading the way, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh...
New from me at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists "How to counter health misinformation when it’s coming from the top"
We have effective interventions against health misinformation, but they don't do us much good when tech companies aren't willing to add protections and the misinformation is coming from those in charge of our health system.
Health misinformation is most harmful when it is believed and spread by those in power- and that's exactly what we're seeing in the US. We need to reestablish societal consequences for lying & purposefully misleading the public (shame, loss of power, loss of $, etc)
Before researching this piece I knew RFK Jr was horrible, needed to be impeached/removed and that things were really bad at HHS - but it was still shocking to detail the conspiracy theorists and disinformers who are now in control of US public health.
McCullough Foundation is lying here… The issue was never usage outside of indication. It was using drugs that had no data supporting such usage. And things got even worse even the data not only showed such drugs were ineffective, and that such usage deterred from vaccination which lead to unwarranted deaths. Therefore, McCullough Foundation’s claims have and are still killing people…
Glimpse: The effectiveness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) in identifying deceptive data visualizations is investigated in this work, especially when deception results from minor reasoning errors in captions. The analysis assesses model performance across a taxonomy of reasoning and design flaws using a recently created benchmark of real-world charts paired with carefully chosen deceptive captions. The findings indicate that VLMs frequently mislabel appropriate visualizations as misleading and are more successful at spotting visual design faults than reasoning-based misrepresentation. The results underline the need for more precise detection of deceptive information and point out shortcomings in existing methods.
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The Architecture of Resilience: Decoding the Pillars of Public Health.
Every outbreak, every preventable death, every unsafe workplace points to one thing: the "strength or weakness" of our public health system.
In today’s world of constant uncertainty, Public Health is no longer just a medical concern. It is critical infrastructure for economic stability, national security, and human survival. A reality consistently reinforced by global institutions like United Nations.
The framework below reflects a shift from reactive “sick-care” to proactive, system-wide health protection.
Let’s dive into into it one after the other:
1. The Intelligence Layer: Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
Through Epidemiology and Biostatistics, we move from assumptions to evidence. We don’t guess—we detect, measure, and predict.
This is how outbreaks are identified early, before they escalate into full-scale crises.
2. The Governance Layer: Health Policy, Management, Promotion and Education.
Data alone doesn’t save lives—decisions do. This layer transforms evidence into action through: 💥 Strategic policies 💥 Effective health systems management 💥 Behavior change and public education
It ensures that healthy choices are not just available—but accessible and sustainable for entire populations.
3. The Determinant Layer: Environmental & Occupational Health.
This is the first line of prevention: Environmental Health: Clean air, safe water, proper waste systems Occupational Health: Safe workplaces, ergonomic systems, hazard control When these systems fail, disease doesn’t just appear—it spreads.
4. The Human & Global Equity Layer: Global, Maternal & Child Health
"No system is strong if the most vulnerable are left behind"
A resilient future depends on: 💥 Protecting mothers and children 💥 Addressing global health inequalities 💥 Strengthening cross-border collaboration
Organizations like World Health Organization, UNICEF and The World Bank Group continue to emphasize that health security anywhere depends on health equity everywhere.
🔍 The Strategic Takeaway: Public Health is the highest-return investment a nation can make.
When these pillars are strong: 💥Economies grow 💥Healthcare costs stabilize 💥Communities withstand shocks
And most importantly—lives are saved before they are ever at risk.
💬 Let’s discuss: Which of these pillars deserves the most urgent investment in 2026—and why?
⚖️ Fact Check: Does an autopsy study prove COVID-19 vaccine mortality?
A report from "The People’s Voice" claims that 74% of sudden deaths in a recent study were caused by COVID-19 vaccines. But a look at the scientific record tells a very different story.
At Tech ARP, we investigated the Hulscher et al. paper cited in these viral claims. Here is what the data actually shows:
🔍 Retraction Record: The study was twice retracted by major journals (The Lancet and Forensic Science International) for failing to meet basic scientific standards. 🔍 Selection Bias: The authors only looked at vaccinated individuals, making it statistically impossible to prove the vaccine was the cause of death. 🔍 Subjective Findings: The "74%" figure was reached through subjective "desk reviews" rather than objective medical protocols.
In the era of "predatory journals," distinguishing between verified science and flawed data is more critical than ever.
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#One_Health The One Health perspective is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals, and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent. The approach is built on the understanding that most modern health challenges cannot be solved by a single sector alone. It focuses on several critical areas: · Zoonotic Diseases: Approximately 60% of existing human infectious diseases are zoonotic (originate in animals), and 75% of emerging infectious diseases have an animal origin. One Health promotes early detection in wildlife and livestock to prevent spillover into human populations. · Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): The overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and agriculture leads to resistant bacteria that circulate through water, soil, and food chains. · Food Safety and Security: Ensuring that the journey from "farm to fork" is free from contamination requires monitoring animal health, soil quality, and water safety simultaneously. · Environmental Health: Climate change, deforestation, and land-use changes disrupt natural habitats, forcing animals and humans into closer contact and increasing the risk of disease transmission. Instead of veterinarians, ecologists, and physicians working in isolation, One Health encourages: · Joint Field Investigations: Collaborative teams responding to outbreaks in rural or highland regions. · Shared Data Systems: Integrating animal surveillance data with human clinical data to see the "big picture." · Community Engagement: Working with local populations to understand how land use and traditional practices impact the total health of the area.
(One Health= Human Health + Environmental Health + Animal Health)
Je viens d’écouter attentivement cet échange entre Pascale BERTHET et quelqu'un que j'ai la chance de connaitre : Jérôme Lemonnier. Cet entretien mérite vraiment qu’on s’y arrête.
A travers son ouvrage récemment paru ("the Marathon of the Messenger"), Jérôme nous partage son expertise sur les vaccins, mais plus globalement sur la recherche scientifique et la façon dont la science s'oppose aux délires complotistes actuels (jusqu'à la Maison Blanche et dont même ce réseau n'est pas exempt).
Ce que j’ai particulièrement apprécié, c’est la manière dont Jérôme revient, avec précision, sur l’histoire réelle des vaccins à ARN messager. Loin du récit simplifié centré uniquement sur Moderna ou Pfizer, il rappelle le rôle déterminant de la #recherche européenne, depuis les travaux académiques des années 90 jusqu’aux premières étapes d’industrialisation.
La partie sur les défis technologiques m'a également beaucoup plu : gestion des réactions inflammatoires liées à certaines séquences d’ARN, enjeux de purification, maîtrise de la traduction protéique… autant d’obstacles invisibles pour le grand public, mais essentiels pour comprendre pourquoi ces innovations ont nécessité des décennies de recherche.
Autre point fort : son analyse des fragilités industrielles révélées par la crise #Covid. La dépendance européenne à certaines briques critiques (enzymes, réactifs, propriété intellectuelle) pose des questions très concrètes de souveraineté scientifique et industrielle. Ce sujet est au coeur des enjeux de souveraineté et des missions des SATT et des PUI (SATT Nord, Pôle Universitaire d’Innovation Lille).
Enfin, Jérôme démonte avec beaucoup de pédagogie une idée reçue tenace : non, les vaccins à ARN messager ne sont pas sortis de nulle part. Ils sont le fruit d’un long continuum entre recherche académique, biotechs et industrie, avec des niveaux de risque très élevés portés en amont par les chercheurs eux-mêmes.
Au-delà des vaccins, les perspectives évoquées (en oncologie, en thérapie génique ou encore pour certaines maladies chroniques) donnent une idée du potentiel encore largement inexploité de cette technologie.
Un échange rigoureux, accessible et particulièrement utile dans le contexte actuel, où la compréhension des démarches scientifiques reste un enjeu clé.
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