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March 25, 2026 at 8:44 PM
On top of this, hormone patches are extremely hard to get right now! Why is the government messing with GenX women? #WhopperOfTheWeek #DefendPublicHealth

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March 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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This week's whopper is about RFK Jr's nostalgia for the 1960s when few Americans had any chronic diseases, (according to him.) It's an easy to refute, thanks to the yearly surveys that the National Health Services have been publishing since 1957. Thank goodness for government funded survey data!
Whopper of the Week: When RFK Jr.’s Uncle Was President, Americans Were Not Healthier | Defend Public Health
Secretary Kennedy frequently says that Americans were healthier and had fewer chronic diseases in the1960s but the data are mixed and in some ways Americans are healthier than their grandparents. The ...
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February 26, 2026 at 4:50 PM
🤥 #WhopperOfTheWeek: attacking a medicine with 25+ years of safety data to restrict abortion access.

Mifepristone is safe and widely used; lies have no place in healthcare.  #ScienceNotSpin #ReproRights #DefendPublicHealth

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr’s Bogus Attacks on Mifepristone Threaten Abortion Access | Defend Public Health
Secretary Kennedy has repeatedly challenged the safety of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in most abortions. Hundreds of studies using decades of data have conclusively shown that mifepristone is ...
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February 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Gun laws, not medicines, explain the uniquely American scale of gun violence. Misinformation harms patients & distracts from real solutions. 2/2 #WhopperOfTheWeek
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
RFK Jr. keeps pushing the conspiracy that SSRIs cause mass shootings. The evidence? Doesn’t exist. Data show mass shooters are less likely to have taken antidepressants than the general public. 1/2

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December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
😱 We need to call out dangerous rhetoric when it comes from the top. #WhopperOfTheWeek by @defendpublichealth.bsky.social exposes how RFK Jr. is pushing to “fortify your immune system” as an excuse to undermine vaccines & modern medicine. 1/2

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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Kennedy says his CDC panel is “unbiased.” But he fired all of the prior vaccine experts and replaced them with people who’ve publicly questioned vaccines for years. That’s not science; that’s ideology. #PublicHealth #Vaccines #ScienceMatter #WhopperOfTheWeek
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Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I didn’t have writing about the sperm count of teens on my #SciComms bingo card. Alas.

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October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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RFK JR. GETS THE SCIENCE WRONG AGAIN, BLAMING TYLENOL TAKEN IN PREGNANCY FOR AUTISM (aka he lied)

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Blames Tylenol Taken in Pregnancy for Autism | Defend Public Health
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October 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
September 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
RFK Jr has 19th C ideas about pathogens and is condemning the US to 19th C infectious disease fatality rates.

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social explains why germ theory denial is terrible for Americans’ health.

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Whopper of the Week: RFK Wants You to Fortify Your Immune System So He Can Deprive You of Modern Medicine | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. believes that with a healthy diet, exercise, and the avoidance of environmental toxins and stresses alone, an individual can prevent disease. While these are good health practices, they are no...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Kennedy says his CDC panel is “unbiased.” But he fired all of the prior vaccine experts and replaced them with vaccine critics and cranks that will advance his anti-vaccine agenda.

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Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
While JD Vance Congratulates RFK for shifting the Overton Window, the rational world decries the unprecedented harm RFK is inflicting on Americans

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Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
😱 We need to call out dangerous rhetoric when it comes from the top. #WhopperOfTheWeek by @defendpublichealth.bsky.social exposes how RFK Jr. is pushing to “fortify your immune system” as an excuse to undermine vaccines & modern medicine. 1/2

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December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM