Russell Hausfeld

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So duuuumb. It’s like the first thing you learn in a nutrition course too: It’s easy to overload on fat soluble vitamins cuz they hang out in the body longer. 🤦

a person with zero experience in drug policy is now "drug czar".... historically, the job has mainly been propaganda

Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine regulator, forced out Top FDA official Peter Marks was forced to resign as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

Cool. Seems great.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/f...

FW: URGENT DATA CALL: FW: Other unrelated data call - due today: Contracts regarding censorship Wed 3/26/2025 9:34 AM This message was sent with High importance. From: Sent: Wednesday, Dear CORS Please review the highlighted text and indicate whether you have any contracts that fall within its scope that I administer for you. Please respond to me and not reply all. Please respond by noon today. Negative responses required. Thank you. Scope: Any contract support that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or directing people to believe one idea over another related to health outcomes - this could in particular include COVID prevention (masking) or COVID vaccine usage - but is not limited to COVID. So for example, any kind of contract with a media or social media organization to take down information off websites or social media. Any advertising for COVID vaccine uptake, or public health messages about dangers of COVID or not wearing masks, etc. Any contracts to promote COVID vaccine uptake. Any such contracts or grants to fight misinformation or disinformation in general. Please check for keyword 'media literacy', 'disinformation', 'social media,' 'misinformation,' 'social distancing,' 'lockdown' 'masks, etc. This should address any contract that could be used to "censor Americans" not just on COVID, but in general."

Apparently, the administration just revoked any grants that have to do with media literacy or disinformation. After all, how can you control what a population thinks when people study and report on how the public may be fooled?

The email highlights vaccination & #COVID as subjects of disinfo study.

Like they wanted to make paying each other a social media thing. Very strange

Breaking: Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Clergy Study Found to Have Multiple Counts of "Serious Non-Compliance" with Federal Human Subject Protections Unauthorized donor involvement and unauthorized study team members "significantly compromised" human research protection program, per JHU, citing other concerns for participants' rights and welfare.

After blowing the whistle on a psychedelic clergy study over 18 months ago, I recently received this letter from
Johns Hopkins' Office of Human Subjects Research finding multiple counts of "serious non-compliance" with federal human subject protections.

www.psychedeliccandor.org/p/breaking-j...

They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared. Deportation proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy. But lawyers say the lack of information about the Venezuelan migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act is nearly unprecedented.

My partner Lucia was quoted in The Washington Post regarding one of her clients who was disappeared despite having no criminal history and being granted humanitarian protection.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

I mean, what defense agency hasn’t accidentally included an editor in its war thread.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Contrarianism in any form is maybe the true cornerstone of the scene

Our growing “Fool” wall

My mom’s dog enjoying the Spring weather

Analysis | America’s best decade, according to data When pollsters asked Americans when America had the best economy, most moral society or best music, one variable best predicted their answers. It wasn’t race, gender or politics.

This also happens to be the MAGA fallacy. When was America Great? Around when you were 11. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

From the ruling: “…while the state’s experts disagree with the prevailing medical consensus [that trans healthcare for minors is acceptable and necessary]…the state did not present…any contrary evidence-based standards [to prevailing medical consensus] accepted by any…professional medical groups.”

Favorite quote on writing, from Joe Abercrombie — author of “The First Law” series #grimdark
@joeabercrombie.com

“On Drugs” podcast recently produced an incredibly accessible episode on trans healthcare, featuring Samantha Rosenthal. I felt inspired to do a portrait of her.

www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Just a good dog watching her stories on a rainy morning

An Elon Musk Friend, Antonio Gracias, Joins His Effort on Social Security The involvement of Antonio Gracias, an investor who has known Elon Musk for two decades, suggests that Mr. Musk has made overhauling the Social Security Administration a priority.

Who has Elon hired to help him slash social security costs? The probable new owner of Lykos, Antonio Gracias! #netzerotrauma www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...

The radical leftist stock market is the enemy within.

The most #Tesla parking job I’ve ever seen.

kinda fucked up that the women who Cuomo sexually harassed are the ones teaching NYers how to not vote for him. Hardly feels like their responsibility

Just saw a trailer for this and was really unsure if it looked like a fun or terrible gimmick lol. Happy to hear it sounds like a fun one!

It’s warming up and Tilly is happy

This NYT Story Blasting Leftists Is Wildly Misleading and Dangerous. Why Did They Publish It? Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve the MAHA agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.

@msmacb.bsky.social on NYT's cringey smear of @psymposia.bsky.social: “When vague accusations of ‘DEI’ and ‘wokeness’ are already being used to gut government programs, it might not be a bad time to blame the FDA’s decision on ‘a small band of anticapitalist activists.’”
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This NYT Story Blasting Leftists Is Wildly Misleading and Dangerous. Why Did They Publish It? Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve the MAHA agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.

I wrote about the NYT story that claimed “a small band of anticapitalist activists helped sink the first psychedelic compound to come before the F.D.A.”

Let’s just say it was missing some important context…and it’s interesting to consider why that might be

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There’s more qualified people to speak on specifics of what a better design might look like. But Lykos failed to produce numerous data requested by FDA, had questionable exclusion+recruiting techniques, varied methods from trial site to site, & therapy manual w/ roots in pseudoscientific literature

YouTube video by Psymposia The New York Times Interview - Dr. Neşe Devenot, Andrew Jacobs, and Rachel Nuwer

3. We have chosen to release Dr. Devnot’s interview with Times’ journalists Rachel Nuwer & Andrew Jacobs. The interview demonstrates the lengths the reporters went to omit information they had been familiar with since Nov. 2024 when the interview took place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=grF0...

Correcting the Record: What The New York Times Got Wrong In response to the The New York Times February 4 article, "How a Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy," Psymposia requested corrections to numerous errors and false accusation

2. Between February 4 and 7, we corresponded with the Times’ editing staff about requested corrections — most of which were dismissed without explanation. Read our summary of these corrections here: www.psymposia.com/magazine/cor...

Correcting the Record: Addressing the The New York Times’ Deceptive Coverage of Psymposia Rather than unpacking the actual causes of Lykos Therapeutics' disastrous Phase 3 trials and FDA rejection, The New York Times produced a work of fictitious propaganda that prioritizes corporate inter

1. On Feb 4, NYT published an article targeting Psymposia, full of inaccuracies & false accusations. Worse, the journalists breached editorial policy by ignoring a number of fact checks & refusing to give us opportunity to respond to allegations raised against us.
www.psymposia.com/magazine/cor...

Correcting the Record: Addressing the The New York Times’ Deceptive Coverage of Psymposia Rather than unpacking the actual causes of Lykos Therapeutics' disastrous Phase 3 trials and FDA rejection, The New York Times produced a work of fictitious propaganda that prioritizes corporate inter

Last month, @nytimes.com ran an outrageous hit piece by Andrew Jacobs and Rachel Nuwer targeting @psymposia.bsky.social that was wormy with falsehoods and baseless accusations. Read our full response and corrections to their nonsense reporting here: www.psymposia.com/magazine/cor...