PhD in Professional Alarmism. “America’s Favorite Nutritionist”, childhood nickname “The Alarm BelI; sold useless breast milk Test$; Parody of a Parody Account.
Washington, DC & Vienna
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PhDing Principles of Public Health
📍SHAME😳
📍BLAME😡
📍ALARM🚨
📍Hot Takes 🔔 are more effective than “Nuanced Takes” 😴
📍Make it Political🤯
📍DESTROY Political Opponents💀
(Or at least not so subtly wish 🦠🤒 on any who mock you)
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We’re ALL in this Together❗️
Eric MD-PhDing retweeted
#RIP Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and X Men ...
On 12-4-1997, after getting a @PressClubDC coffee mug, he was asked, "Just from a purely logical point of view, why is it that a Captain whose name is Jean-Luc Picard have a perfect English accent?"
Patrick Stewart answer here:
Eric MD-PhDing retweeted
The thing about Mao Zedong was that he was not just a dictator. He was actually a f***ing idiot to such an extent that it would make Trump’s ridiculous claims of himself being a “stable genius” almost credible.
Mao forced farmers to make steel out of farm tools and in small village furnaces, which left farmers with no tools to work the fields. He forced farmers to chase away insect-eating sparrows, which led yo locust-infested fields. Millions starved to death as a result.
He thought that turning the population on itself in endless struggle was the path to proletariat prosperity - all it had done was to make more starve to death, loss of Chinese know-how across the board and China left on the brink of bankruptcy.
His views on dental hygiene were so off the planet that he eschewed both “modern” or more traditional Chinese modes of dental care, to the point that his doctors and others all mention the rotting stench that emanated from his mouth.
Not all dictators are idiots - Deng Xiaoping was a dictator but not an idiot. But Mao excelled himself in his idiotmaxxing, more a buffoonish Idi Amin than a dangerously bright Emperor Kangxi.
Eric MD-PhDing retweeted
Fancy a Cambridge professor who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
China’s path to global significance actually started when Deng Xiaoping DITCHED Maoist policy settings by gradually dismantling collectivisation, encouraging private enterprise, easing political repression (1989 aside), and adopting a more Western-friendly attitude (which culminated in China joining the WTO under Deng’s successors, and that in turn gave China Western market access which set it on the path to economic strength). And while not even Xi completely reverted to Maoism, his partial reversal of Deng’s pro-market, pro-Western settings coincided with China’s current “Japan on steroids” unceasing economic doldrums.
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Eric MD-PhDing retweeted
“Steel output grew”
Omg
Lunacy.
It only grew because its citizens were melting their own pots and pans to desperately meet the State’s quotas. 🙄
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You see that dip in global life expectancy in the 1950s?
That was caused by one man, Mao Zedong.
Mbappe should have apologised only for not being ruder about him.
Perhaps this “historian” would do well to be reminded of how Mao weaponized the youth.
40-50M dead due to starvation over the next couple of decades due to his policies.
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
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encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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Eric MD-PhDing retweeted
A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
(This went about exactly as 99% of us imagined it happened. 😏
The video of her composing her tweet as she left was “chef’s kiss”.
Everyone has bad days. Everyone.
Celebrities just have to be more responsible with their social power when they have their bad days.)
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Huge drop in Google searches for various health disinformation topics following the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers.
It makes you wonder how much of the “turbo cancer, ivermectin” nonsense is really fueled by Russian bots, & how many Americans they’ve killed…
These people always reveal themselves at some point.
Pay attention. They are telling you who they are. 💫 🤪 💫
I will never get a mammogram or a colonoscopy again.
Not because I don’t care about prevention. Because crushing breast tissue under massive pressure, forcing a scope through the colon, or sticking a needle into a mass is not prevention—it’s provocation.
A tumor is often the body’s way of containing what it cannot safely eliminate. When you smash, cut, or biopsy that containment, you can rupture it. Bacteria, debris, or cancer cells get driven into surrounding tissue. Lymph nodes that were already overloaded get disturbed. Then the next scan looks “worse,” and everyone acts shocked.
Why do we still treat these invasive procedures as the gold standard when they can create the very problems they claim to catch early?
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YOU LOVE TO SEE IT
Life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis going up and up and up and uo
That's what REAL science does.
😍
These are not “legitimate” fears.
However, “Dr” Dawn and her ilk are legitimate nincompoops.
My friend has surgery coming up in a few weeks and did not take the Covid vaccine. She is genuinely worried that, if a transfusion becomes necessary, she could receive blood from a vaccinated donor, and she is also concerned the hospital might administer a flu or COVID vaccine during her stay. Those fears are strong enough that they are causing some people to delay or avoid procedures they actually need.
She is not alone, these are legitimate fears that many of us have.
I believe that far too many otherwise reasonable and normal people were driven towards the anti-vaccine movement (disguised under the cloak of “anti-lockdown”) by the authoritarian “public health” impulses of influencers like Ding and the governments who took them seriously.
“Pure Bloods” 🙄 🤪
Such silly but dangerous nonsense.
Psst…
Direct donation isn’t safer. We’ve known this for years even before COVID.
It actually introduces potential risks and unnecessary delays in critical situations.
Patients and families are increasingly refusing standard blood transfusions. They’re demanding directed donations from people they know are unvaccinated instead.
Blood banks don’t record or label donor vaccination status, so this is the only workaround some will accept.
A Vanderbilt review found these requests caused delays. In a few cases patients got significantly sicker while waiting.
Trust in the blood supply is broken for a lot of people... this is the reality when 81% of people are vaccinated and only 19% refused the shots.
