Kristen Kroll

🧪 Many official government websites now have partisan propaganda about the government shutdown (as below for NIH/HHS)--this is an illegal violation of the Hatch Act. See the instructions below for registering your objection to this illegal use of government webpages for partisan propaganda.

For many years now—we must stand up for democracy, if we want to continue living in one.

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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) What the best evidence actually shows: Large, modern, better-controlled designs The 2024 Swedish population study (n≈2.5M) used sibling analyses to control for shared genetics and environment. Result...

🧪Guideline convergence across specialties and borders leads to the same recommendation: acetaminophen remains appropriate first-line therapy for fever and pain in pregnancy.

Don’t let disinformation drive clinical care. substack.com/@kristenkrol...

I’m guessing those kinds of assertions are coming, never mind that of causes of death to be concerned about include the obsession with guns in America but with no corresponding gun laws whatsoever. You want to prevent unnecessary wrongful death, that’s where you start.

Speaking diplomatically when the person you’re talking to is not basing anything they ‘think’ on actual facts and reality IS somewhat crazy-making. I only try so hard, after that you have to call it off and tell them when they want to deal in reality, you’re there for them.

There’s a choice of whether or not to learn science—if they don’t want to learn, they’ll have to know that their opinion means nothing because they are willfully ignorant

I think we have to address the misinformation coming from this admin in particular and referring to the actual science, of the kind explained reasonably here. And I have worked with many brilliant scientists on the spectrum, and often appreciate their unique approach and perspective on our research.

Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) For those who have asked me about recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding Tylenol and autism, please see this article and the NYT deep dive penned by Sam Wang, who has also studied this topic in depth....

🧪on recent assertions by RFK Jr. regarding autism and Tylenol: You may wish to pass this along to others who need to separate facts and data from the unsupported or falsifiable assertions made by those with much less knowledge leading our HHS.

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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) Anyone who watched the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner got a glimpse of how much Trump hates being mocked. President Obama and Seth Meyers spent nearly five minutes roasting Trump over his pro...

So important
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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) https://youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’—amazing!

Stephen and Jimmy go online to create their own show…and warn that our mainstream media and the current regime would like for them to ‘shut their traps’:

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Stephen’s conservative cousin returns to have “a word” with us 😂😂

Please stay, satirical Colbert, as reality truly has that “well known liberal bias” you once called out, regarding democracy and the common good.

Now more than ever, we need you: other Stephen Colbert!

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Kristen Kroll (@kristenkroll) https://fb.watch/C8WkS8BNio/?fs=e Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich

Love both of these guys—sane, humane, thoughtful voices in a world that increasingly seems utterly unhinged. Thank you Stephen and Prof. Reich

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Happy to speak with you further, as a prof in the life sciences at Washington U. My email is kkroll@wustl.edu and I can also reach out to you…although I’m currently working on many grant applications and manuscript submissions so I’m more than a little over-committed at this fraught political time.

We’re still holding on for now, in part due to philanthropic support stepping in where the NIH is beyond sluggish. I think anyone wholly depending on federal funds will have problems these days, because the system is broken.

One can only hope, as we now need a prescription to qualify for a COVID booster, and likely the new variants will be worse than ever given declining herd immunity/vaccination.

Congratulations, Stephen! You saved our sanity for decades with incisive satire, brilliant commentary, kindness and humanity.

Will miss you dearly. And yes, reality DOES still—perhaps now more than ever—have a “well known liberal bias”.

Please don’t be a stranger in our living rooms and lives

Indeed

And then we brought them to the US to work for us

🧪AUTHORITARIANISM IN ACTION RFK Jr. has banned government scientists from publishing in the world’s top medical journals.
This will isolate U.S. science from the global community — and people WILL DIE as a result.
Now would be a great time to contact your Congressperson!

Dark blue poster with text in white, saying, “it’s the damn guns” Text in red says, Again

RIP, Charlie Kirk.
Your motto was “Prove Me Wrong”

Especially on guns, I think you were proved wrong, unless your grieving wife and children still believe that the cost of 2nd A in America is gun death.
And, now you aren’t here to Prove me wrong.
I’m sorry.

#DemVoice1
#Voices4Victory
#Pinks

Cut the Failed Red States Loose: Why America Can't Keep Carrying the Dead Weight Jackson, Mississippi residents spent weeks collecting rainwater in buckets during their third water system collapse since 2021.

Cut them loose so the rest of us can move into the 21st century, rather than back to the dark ages.
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Very cool—thanks for sharing!

🧪Very cool work to unleash new repair capacity in a damaged brain after stroke

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

🧪An excellent article about what we’re losing in science and education in America and why it is mission critical that we fight for it:

“Why on earth would we abandon institutions that have genuinely made America great?”

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The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…

The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...

The Republican Party Chose Hungary's Playbook. Here's How That Movie Ends. Let’s begin with a principle that transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from the consent of the governed, expressed through free and fair elections in which all citizens can part...

Let’s begin with what transcends partisan politics: democratic legitimacy derives from consent of the governed, expressed through free & fair elections where all citizens participate. This isn’t a progressive/conservative position. It’s the premise upon which the American experiment rests.

Bully the Bully: The Psychology of What Gavin Newsom Is Getting Right Your grandmother was wrong.

Research on bullying reveals... that those who “returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature.” Boys who stood up to bullies were “judged more socially competent by their teachers,” while girls who fought back were “more popular and more admired by teachers and peers”.