There’s never enough money to forgive student loans or give people healthcare but always money to drop bombs on brown people.
The 1970s have come to #Washtenaw county in more ways than one this week #measles #Ypsilanti #Canton
(And contracted in #Florida, of course)
Oh, and look, here's that class action suit! That anyone with half a brain would have seen coming! From, like, a million miles away!
Just because you work in tech doesn't mean you're smart.
Vinay Prasad announced without evidence that COVID19 vaccines caused the deaths of 10 children.
Members of ACIP have made numerous false claims about how harmful they believe COVID19 vaccines are.
Now, ACIP won’t be discussing them because it’s political poison.
They were lying all along.
Another reminder that health insurers in the US are THE WORST.
This week it’s @bcbsm.bsky.social next week it’ll be another one.
More scientists/science writers in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: Carl Zimmer, Arthur L Caplan, Shobita Parthasarathy, Maryn McKenna, Carl Bergstrom, Elisabeth Bik, Michael Eisen, Peter Suber, Dennis Overbye, Anna Abalkina, Sheila Jasanoff, Marcus Munafo, Jon Turney, and the list goes on.
Scientists/science writers I found in Grammarly's 'expert review' system: David Spiegelhalter, Ivan Oransky, Mary Roach, Rebecca Skloot, Ed Yong, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Deborah Blum, Tom Knight, Michael E Mann, Corinne Le Quere. [pic: results of 5 trials w/ free burner acct]. No doubt many more.
Oh that reminds me, Faine, John Oliver dedicated this week’s show to USAID, if you haven’t been informed by a million other people.
youtu.be/tU8S13xYJNM?...
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New email to Director Bhattacharya about a new Scientific Freedom lecture to be given my Matt Ridley on The Search for the Origin of COVID-19.
Ridley is a British scientist and journalist who published a book in 2022 on the subject.
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It’s worth pointing out that none of the scientists who have studied this important question have been invited to give a talk at the NIH on the topic.
I’m sure any of those scientists would welcome the opportunity to present their scholarly work, conducted over the last six years, at the NIH.
Our understanding of the origin of COVID-19, while still incomplete, is one of the most well-supported scientific theories of any pandemic.
When it comes to “Scientific Freedom”, it must be based in science and evidence - this is the opposite, platforming pseudoscience instead.
"failed to meet basic scientific standards in his own research"
Y'all, I know about their history. I know their refusal is unlikely. But the other side is calling incessantly and lord, if you don't want to, you don't need to pollute the mentions with your pessimism.
Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
I also spoke with a former minister of health in Guinea-Bissau, who pointed out that there is no other public health research organization in the entire country, so the Danish researchers are deeply connected. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
EXCLUSIVE: @standupforscience.bsky.social sent an investigator to Guinea-Bissau and shared their unpublished findings with members of Congress. I obtained a copy of that report, which details how deeply the researchers are enmeshed - and what that means for US:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Remember when Portman was an embarrassment? Who knew how low we'd sink. And Husted IMO is usually better than Moreno.
Years of rolling change to take to the bank. It's so fucking absurd.
It sounds like it? Cause clearly folks with low income never use paper money?
This is how rich people think poor people live, when in reality everyone who's ever been poor knows very well how to live within a budget and stretch every damn dime.
Yet every day someone lectures me how he's "not antivaccine".
This has always been Kennedy's goal.
Being an ACIP member used to mean you were at the top of your field. Now the bare minimum is "this shitty paper didn't actually get retracted but everyone can see it's awful."
there is a type of person who claims authority from a text (Bible, Constitution, a Trump executive order) and will literally swear under oath that they have a 100% exact understanding of the precise wording and intent of that text, but will be completely unable to tell you what it means when asked
"Russian flu," the pandemic that hit in 1977, bears an evolutionary signature of having emerged from a lab, perhaps as part of a failed vaccine effort. Covid, mpox, Ebola, and other influenza pandemics don't. Here's my story on a new way to trace the origins of pandemics. Gift link: nyti.ms/46N0W33
Being an ACIP member used to mean you were at the top of your field. Now the bare minimum is "this shitty paper didn't actually get retracted but everyone can see it's awful."
Yep. Back on Twitter many of us were calling him out so of course now he's in a position of power.
