THE LIST: 105 Organizations, Institutions, Individuals, and Tools that UCSF's Vinay Prasad Has Attacked
An Embarrassing History of Outrage Farming
Recently and rather unfortunately, the Trump Administration has foolishly elected to cherry-pick University of California San Francisco Professor Vinay Prasad, an oncologist with an obnoxious obsession of insulting others on social media, to defend their crusade to cripple and humiliate the National Institute of Health, one of the world's leading centers for medical and scientific research. Prasad has received not a single NIH grant and has zero real-world experience working with the NIH.
This was a very foolish choice for the Trump Administration to make. As a loudmouthed crank who has destroyed his own reputation amongst medical & scientific professionals in order to profit from the modern anti-vaccine movement and their war against public health, Vinay Prasad has unleashed a pitiful torrent of unprofessional, childish personal attacks against nearly every target imaginable. The Administration of the University of California San Francisco has refused to condemn this completely unacceptable misconduct.
Here is a list compiling the incredibly broad range of Prasad's targets for outrage farming amongst his anti-vax fanbase on social media:
Institutions (16):

National Institute of Health ("zero RCTs", "run incompetently,โ โresearch is sillyโ)
NIH Researchers (falsely accused of living large on taxpayer $)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
CDC ("I would fire at least 10,000 people")
CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ("mediocre group of scientists")
CDC's Morbidity & Morality Weekly Report ("propaganda newsletter")
CDC MMWR study on LongCovid in kids (โtrashโ)
Health & Human Services Department (he endorses RFK Jr. to lead it)
FEMA (for providing COVID-19 Funeral Assistance)
FDA ("a corrupt entity that needs to be entirely renovated [by RFK Jr.]")
California Health & Human Services
UCSF Hospitals, Vinay Prasadโs employer (instituted a mask mandate)
The University of Minnesota (accused of corruption)
Philadelphia Schools District (for a day of virtual learning due to toxic wildfire smoke)
Australia (for preventing COVID-19 outbreaks until a vaccine was available)
World Health Organization ("You just make shit up")
Organizations (13):

American Academy of Pediatrics ("should be abolished")
NYC Health+ Mobile Test to Treat (said they should give Prozac to those infected with COVID-19)
Nature Medicine (โjust publishes garbage long covid studiesโ)
Hospitals with mask mandates ("dehumanizing")
Child-sized n95 manufacturers
Putrino Lab (accused them of scamming, demanded they return grant funding)
New England Journal of Medicine
STAT's Infectious Disease Experts ("not good thinkers")
Peer reviewed journals publishing Long COVID studies
People's CDC
Teachers' Unions ("good riddance")
Pfizer
Moderna
Individuals (21):
Fmr. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky (blamed her for RFK Jr's success)
Fmr. CDC Director Mandy Cohen
Fmr. Surgeon General Jerome Adams ("panicked" in 2020)
Fmr. FDA Director Dr. Robert M. Califf
Fmr. NIH Acting Director Laurence Tabak (accused of COVID origins coverup)
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dr. Galucomflecken (implied he was responsible for UnitedHealth CEOโs murder)
Dr. Peter Hotez (a frequent target of Prasadโs, said RFK Jr. would โdestroy himโ)
Dr. Deepti Gurdasani (implied she was mentally ill)
Dr. David Fisman (for supporting a teacher's union)
Dr. Ziyad al-Aly (Long COVID researcher)
Dr. Ellie Murray (for proving that mask mandates work)
Dr. Jonathan Howard (โjust trying to make money from selling a bookโ)
Dr. Taylor Nichols (falsely declared a liar on ZDoggMD)
Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist (accused of slander, publicly threatened)
A dermatology resident at University of Washington
Mehdi Hasan, Journalist ("a dunce")
Laurie Garrett, Journalist (โcrazy shit,โ a frequent target of Prasad's)
Tara Helle, Journalist
Ed Yong, Journalist ("Invented Long COVID")
A journalist who pointed out anti-Indian racism from a DOGE employee
Tools (22):
COVID-19 Vaccine
Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11 Year Olds
Yearly COVID Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters
Intranasal COVID Vaccine
The COVID-19 Vaccine for pregnant women
Vaccine mandates
Paxlovid, a COVID-19 antiviral ("billions wasted")
C02 Monitors (โirrational anxietyโ)
N95 Respirators
Child-sized KF94 Respirators, blaming the CDC & AAP
Respirators to Protect from Toxic Wildfire Smoke ("Mental Illness")
Flo Mask
Mask mandates
HEPA Ventilation
Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes
Asymptomatic testing ("smash every test")
Improved ventilation standards
FarUVC lighting
Policy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (โItโs a cold. toughen up.โ)
Lung cancer screening
COVID-19 research studies after 2022 (โa jobs program for upper-middle class peopleโ)
Figments of Prasadโs Imagination (13):
"Any strong advocate for Kids covid vaccination is off their rocker"
"A tiny fraction of people...suffering from long pandemic."
"Idiots on Twitter trying to slow spread of Covid in kids"
"Covid Influencers"
"zero COVID zealots who cannot read research"
"The Misinformation Police"
"Mask and vaccine politics in California"
"Testing Profiteers"
"Laboratory scientific experts"
"Mask Zealots"
โCovid-19 Zealotsโ
โCOVID Tyrants...Pieces of Shit...Still Lyingโ
"Future public health tyrants"
Groups & Concepts (20):
Anyone trying to avoid COVID-19 ("...is stupid")
Academic researchers ("do shit science and live off NIH grants")
Public health deans (for not promoting his obviously biased paper)
Doctors who advocate for pediatric COVID boosters ("committing malpractice")
Doctors critical of RFK Jr. and his extensive anti-vaccine history
Concerned parents as "panicking" and "hysterical"
Scientists who didn't perform the RCTs he demanded
Scientists who tested the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine
Kids being hospitalized by COVID-19 are apparently "imaginary"
Critics of Unpasteurized ("raw") Milk Consumption
Critics of anti-vax grifter RFK Jr.
Critics of "the Cochrane Review on Masks" (long debunked)
Critics of Leana Wen, a Brookings Institute lobbyist
Critics of "immunity debt" (a complete *fiction*)
Critics of RCT Zealotry
Public health officials (โshould lose your trustโ)
Studies linking COVID-19 to brain damage
Long COVID disability (โLong COVID mental illnessโ)
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
Working From Home
A Dishonest Dayโs Work
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What Vinay Prasad is doing to medicine and science is what Youtube, Twitter, and other social media platforms have enabled for discussions around entertainment media like films, videogames, and even professional wrestling for many years now.
Itโs called outrage farming. Itโs become an entire industry at this point.
Youโre likely well acquainted with it by now - whether itโs screeching that โwokeโ has ruined Star Wars, that videogames donโt have enough bikini babes anymore, or that All Elite Wrestling is going bankrupt in two weeks - thereโs no end of exploitative, chatGPT-brained slop on social media meant to drum up hate - and Vinay Prasad has brought this to medicine. He enjoys cultivating a fanbase that openly drools for blood and fire in the streets:

The problem here is that nobody dies if a bad videogame is released, a blockbuster film is underwhelming, or an episode of Dynamite doesnโt pop a 9/10 rating on Cagematch. Countless Americans died of COVID-19, in no small part because they were fed an endless torrent of fiction that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was harmless and benign, and that the real killers are doctors, vaccines, and public health.
Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco has personally profited from contributing to this torrent of hate, and his obsession with stoking the flames of hate against his colleagues has no place in any medical or scientific setting. There are many hardworking doctors, nurses, and scientists at UCSF that shouldnโt have to share their workplace with someone who profits from fanning the flames of hatred on social media that have ended in harassment and bomb threats in the real world.
If you find this sort of exploitative misconduct concerning, here is the contact page for the UCSF Office of Faculty and Academic affairs. Feel free to make your voice heard, after far too many have been silenced by the harassment & abuse that Vinay Prasad has enabled.
Shame on University of California, San Francisco and the UC Regents for allowing this behavior from one of their physicians. They are fully aware of Prasadโs heinous conduct including his call for retribution. They have said and done nothing to protect the public from this dangerous ideologue. Their phones should be ringing off the hook. Also, correcting disinformation isnโt cancel culture, itโs quality control. Donโt let anyone try and tell you otherwise.