Bob Morris, MD, PhD

Estimating the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID mortality using reductions in influenza mortality as an effect indicator - Journal of Public Health Policy This study uses influenza mortality reduction (IMR) as an indicator of the aggregate effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI’s) on the spread of respiratory infections to assess their impact o...

That paper is now published. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Another day, another reminder...

Someone waived Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-offender status. Imagine that. I wonder who?

How did we get to a place where an unhinged, sociopathic President is using his personal social network to announce preparations for a possible nuclear war?

And where is the FBI investigation?

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone.

Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sounds way too close to Musk's useless community notes. Too little, too late is a terrible strategy for controlling misinformation.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Stalin ass shit

‘1984’ is upon us

Trump Escalates Fight With Brazil, Taking Aim at Its Economy and Politics

Trump is using the federal government to target a judge in a foreign country who is overseeing a specific case against Bolsanaro. Imagine any foreign country doing this to us.
Trump Escalates Fight With Brazil, Taking Aim at Its Economy and Politics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

SARS-CoV-2 origins: imperfect but clear evidence A year ago, August 2024, we addressed the state of discussions about COVID-19 origins in our Editorial COVID-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue. We did not lay out the evidence because the space we...

Lancet Microbe re lab leak theory for COVID origins: “On the specific point of non-zoonosis hypotheses of COVID we still take the position we took a year ago: advocates of unsupported hypotheses ‘have their reasons, but none of these are public safety’.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Origin and cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China - Nature Communications Bats are a likely reservoir of zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs). Here, analyzing bat CoV sequences in China, the authors find that alpha-CoVs have switched hosts more frequently than betaCoVs, identify a...

Bats in China, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand etc. Multiple scientific papers, including this one www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tax Strike!!

The day inconvenience became the basis for scientific certainty.
Welcome to the Convenient Lie

NIH is shrinking the number of research projects it funds due to a new Trump policy NIH plans to shrink the share of grant applications it will award for the remainder of the fiscal year, in some cases by more than half.

By entirely funding more awards up front, the NIH is on track to fund just 1 in 25 applications

Such a payline “would chase a lot of people out of science” former NCI director Ned Sharpless told us 🧪🔬

www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

Alabama child dies after being left in hot car while in state custody Police investigate death of Ke’Torrius Starkes Jr, three, who was left inside car by contractor for state human resources

Another day of finding out horrific things about my country by reading the foreign press.

His name was Ke’Torrius Starkes Jr.

He was 3 years old.

He was left inside car by a PRIVATE COMPANY contracting with a state agency—the one called Human Resources.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The tragedy in all of this.

Parasitic sea vampire bites RFK Jr in health chief's bizarre new stunt Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr was bitten several times by a parasitic creature, marking his latest bizarre run-in with nature.

The Onion shuts down after 38 years.
"We can't compete with this shit," complain frustrated writers after reality leaves no room for parody.
Meanwhile, MAHA faithful clamor for more.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Why I didn't retract this paper when I was Editor-in-Chief at Science (THREAD 🧵)

The notion of press release science is a key concept, particularly in the current media landscape. A speculative paper may merit discussion among a community that recognizes its limitations but media esp. social media strips away nuance and creates misinformation through false certainty. 🧪

The NIH is being torn apart because its leader was called “fringe” and his “premises” were criticized in an email 4.5 years ago.

This is some wild, Dickensian bullshit.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

www.history.com/articles/in-...

Full on dictatorship

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“Grok is broken”

How is it that @hypoautonomic.bsky.social has 2k followers and not 200k?

Please don't confuse Richard Ebright with facts.