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New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, NEJM has received a similar inquiry as well.

New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n... via @statnews.com

Today's Berardelli Bonus: It's gonna be extra hot here in the Tampa Bay Area over the next week.
It may not surprise you that extreme heat days are surging in recent decades due to climate change. 90 degree days have 2X and heat index days above 100 have 4X since ~1970.

The Twitter Addict Running Our Govt’s Civil Rights Arm Harmeet Dhillon is overseeing a division in shambles—and she’s tweeting through it.

Avoid health advice from this influencer. Using a Neti pot in the shower is not only gross, but if used with unboiled shower water, exposes you to #braineatingamoeba, #Legionella, & #nontuberculousMycobacteria infections. These are bad.
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A bloodbath of institutional memory and irreplaceable experience happened today.

Measles Can Damage the Immune System for Years (Gift Article) An infection can also leave children and adults with other long-term health problems.

What people need to know about #measles before declining a safe, well-studied, and highly effective vaccine. You can read this for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w...

Social media post by Kyiv Insider (@KyivInsider ) with the text: 'While the US is lost in a sea of Russian disinformation, French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets have just appeared in Ukrainian skies.' The post includes a photo of a French Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet flying in a clear blue sky, credited to @soniah_hub

When America faltered, others stood up to lead.

This.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

The nation's television meteorologists have the power in their hands to #saveNOAA. All they have to do is say or post:
"NOAA and NWS provide essential, life-saving work everyday that makes my job possible. Call your member of Congress and tell them to save NOAA."

Yes

Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

What a slap in the face he is to those who left family back in Cuba in the name of freedom. Modern day Renfield to the bloodsuckers in the House.

I want to stress the two things are simultaneously true here.

1) Musk is a weak and pathetic bully

2) his email Squid Games are deeply traumatizing, per Russell Vought’s playbook.

These are the jobs and dreams of hard-working people. Mortgages. Health insurance for their children. And he laughs.

If you want to know how concerned to be about climate change, talk to a climate scientist. Very.

If you want to know how concerned to be about the rise of fascism, talk to a historian. The ones I’ve spoken to are as concerned about our time as any other time in the last 100 years.

US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

Bird flu claims over 100 sandhill cranes in LaPorte County, 1500 statewide Bird flu has struck Fish Lake, as hundreds of birds, including a significant number of sandhill cranes, have dropped dead.Now the community is working to dispos

Do NOT pick up dead birds without protective gear.
“disposable gloves, masks, they're double bagging these birds, putting them in the trash and then disinfecting any equipment that they use” #avianflu #avianinfluenza #birdflu #pandemicpreparedness
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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

Google, Microsoft, and Meta's increasing use of data centers has resulted in increased air pollution from extensive fossil fuel energy consumption and associated public health costs related to treating cancers, asthma, and other similar issues, valued at over $5.4 billion in the past five years.

This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout Lenacapavir, a twice yearly injection that prevents HIV transmission, was named the breakthrough medicine of 2024. But without US foreign aid dollars, its delivery to millions worldwide is under threa...

This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout www.wired.com/story/lenaca...

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is a five-alarm fire.

Opinion | A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.

"Universities must engage in politics, because, as Trump is showing now, their funding and very survival depend in part on decisions by government leaders."

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Intensive care units had to triple normal capacity during COVID peaks because so many people were critically ill from the virus. I was there. And I won’t let you rewrite history.

@drneilstone.bsky.social #medsky

Officials Are Fired at Traffic Safety Agency Investigating Musk’s Company The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has raised questions about crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving technology.

The federal agency responsible for traffic safety, which has been investigating self-driving technology in Tesla vehicles, will fire a “modest” number of employees, an agency spokesman said Friday.

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

The House Wants to Pass Trump’s Agenda in One Big Bill. Here’s What’s in It. (Gift Article) The G.O.P. bill would extend tax cuts and almost certainly make big reductions to programs serving the poor. Passing it may be hard, though.

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