Michael H. Bachmann, MD ScD

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This paper does a great job with a "It's a Wonderful Life" scenario about NIH, supposing the consequences of the bottom 40% of the funding NIH grants never existed.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

tl:dr The world would lose a lot, but directly and indirectly

Donate today! Spread the word! Money goes the furthest for food banks bc they can purchase food much more cheaply than us.

Please share.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Gender equality in the U.S. and around the world is not a pipe dream. Fifty years ago women in Iceland showed the way.

Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result.

Science isn’t static. Our last Ode to #NationalFoodDay is a great example of this. We used to tell parents to avoid peanuts. Then new research showed early exposure prevents allergy, which has likely saved thousands of kids from developing peanut allergies. 🥜💡
www.npr.org/2025/10/21/n...

On World Polio Day we commemorate and bow in gratitude to all who worked tremendously hard to eradicate this debilitating, sometimes deadly virus. Nostalgia for the good ol’ days when poliovirus maimed and killed is misplaced and misguided. We still have work to do the eliminate its last vestiges.

Tonight marks a milestone for all of us at the PBS News Hour. On this day 50 years ago, we aired our first broadcast. The show had a different name, but the same mission to deliver thoughtful & trustworthy journalism. Half a century later, we're still at it & guided by the same principles & mission.

No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country Gatherings had a street carnival atmosphere as demonstrators packed Times Square in New York and lined Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Saturday

“Relativ klein”??

No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country
Maegan Vazquez, Katie Tarrant and Kim Bellware, Oct 18, 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

💔😢 Every human getting killed is an entire universe being lost. May she have a safe journey beyond this world and find a place of peace, love, and joy!
And may you yourself be safe, stay strong, and be able to bear witness and keep the stories coming.🤞🤞🍀🍀🍀

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

What could possibly go wrong if the US public health infrastructure is dismantled? Measles virus is already having a heyday, SARS-CoV-2 is killing >1,300 Americans per week (per @michael_hoerger), H5N1 influenza and Ebola are looming threats. No ostrich puts its head into the sand when in danger.

💯% agreed. For those who like to play partisan politics with public health, viruses, bacteria and parasites are not partisan and will infect and affect you +/- your loved ones as equal opportunity invaders, no matter what your political leanings are, when there aren’t enough to form herd immunity.

Nürnberg (English: Nuremberg)

It again depends what stories and narratives we listen to and reflect on - or unthinkingly absorb - and then take action on. Before that, we do well if we are following Einstein’s dictum, “The important thing is to not stop questioning.”😊

NOVA | Human: Origins | Season 52 | Episode 12 Trace the remarkable origin story of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

The recognition depends on the attitude and wisdom of the beholder. Too many forget that ultimately, we all are one family originating from Africa and arrived after a long, arduous journey we or our ancestors made. That deeper understanding brings more kindness and respect.😊
pbs.org/video/human-...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

🙏 TYVM for the birthday reminder of one of (surprisingly) America’s bestselling poets!
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
— Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, translated by Coleman Barks

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?

👍👍 Correct. By chance or not, @pkrugman.bsky.social pointed this out today in detail.

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
Paul Krugman, Substack, Sept 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
#climatecrisis #climatechange #430ppm #energytransition

My $0.02: The only way money can buy you happiness is by giving it away to those in greater need so they survive and can thrive. On the contrary, greed for money achieves the opposite since it narrows the mind and precludes generosity and empathetic joy, both prerequisites for happiness and grace.

"I'm sorry, where's my change?" said the Zen master.

"Brother," said the vendor, "change comes from within."

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...

A Zen master was visiting London. He went up to a hot dog vendor and said, "Make me one with everything."
The vendor fixed up a hot dog with fried onions, gherkins, and mustard and handed it to the Zen master, who paid with a £20 note. The vendor put the note in his register and snapped it shut.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Having always watered others’ minds, hearts and souls with your energy, wisdom and wit but receiving too little back is only sustainable, if you are consciously connected to the cosmic source of all there is. It can take you beyond the divine comedy of emperors without clothes and empty suits to ♾️.

Having a good sense of humor is a precious gift, the highest form of defense, and of offense, too. And if it turns into gallows humor, it provides relief when little else does. No wonder you’d like to have some give ‘n take reciprocity because it would replenish and -balance your life energy (Chi).

Geoff Bennett: You say that poetry is not useful, and that's exactly why we need it. Why?

David Duchovny: "We want to get educated to be able to work, to have a job of some kind, which is great and it's necessary. But we've lost sight of educating a mind on how to think or a soul how to feel."

U.S. immigrants who win Nobel prizes are the highly visible ‘crème de la crème’ in science. Less conspicuous, but no less important are the many immigrants who form a substantial part of the scientific enterprise and who enable, support and contribute to these stellar achievements.

Leopard Panthera pardus Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering range—from su…

Majestic #leopards are adaptable and a range over several continents, yet they're #extinct in places due to #palmoil #deforestation, #poaching and other threats. Help them every time you shop and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-199

The future of every country depends on its teachers who are educating and buidling up the next generation. The long-standing failure in the U.S. to support them adequately has numerous consequences, including for economic productivity and international competitiveness.

Let’s make a planet in which nobody is starving. Let’s make a planet in which men and women have equal access to power. Let us make a planet in which no ethnic group has it over another ethnic group. Let’s have a planet in which science and engineering is used for the benefit of everybody on the planet. And my personal idiosyncrasy, let’s have a world in which we go to other worlds. ~ Carl Sagan

Being a woman in STEM and not only surviving but thriving takes extra energy, resources, and a supportive network and environment. Physics prof Filomena Nunes at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has assembled the needed elements for success into a course that deserves wider attention and implementation.