Zach Binney

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Multiple scientific papers related to this product now carry expressions of concern (a step towards a retraction), and the claim that altitude is associated with concussions in the NFL (whose effects this collar allegedly replicated) have been completely debunked.

The Groypers are on a long march through the institutions and right-wing Jews are way too complacent about the idea that it’ll be fine because these people also hate Muslims.

In the last week I've had two different people tell me independently in a work context a troublesome thing they've noticed among young people (roughly <25) is that they give up very quickly on problems.

I HAVEN'T noticed this in my classroom, however.

Have other educators or managers seen this?

OK look "I love Hitler" sounds bad but YOU try praising Yankees starter Cam Schlittler through autocorrect.

A defining feature of this admin is attacking as antisemitic everything they don’t like while constantly engaging in rank antisemitism.

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(Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

I've been waiting my whole life to say this: "Yes, I'm afraid I have concerns about your goat penis."

Oh wow, you love Hitler? Stop the presses. Call everyone. Should we throw a parade? Should we open up a new undersecretary position?

Who cares if he takes your questions when he's just going to lie (or make stuff up if he really has dementia), anyway? That's not a loss.

Look I don't love their heavy-handed tactics, but you can see the sincere concerns about antisemitism on college campuses from Republicans.

Unless you have a chemistry lab to test this stuff yourself it is insane to take any supplement, from gas station horny goat weed all the way up to vitamin D from a pharmacy. None of this stuff is independently regulated! You're trusting the company (or someone they paid) to tell you what's in it!

Is this a good time to remind everyone (as the article covers at length) that there is effectively no regulation by the FDA or any other government body of any supplement? And that the definition of "supplement" is very, very wide?

They certainly could not point to anything in the reviews that reduced their esteem of the paper. And that's the only reason you should reject a paper after sending it out for review IMO.

I chose my words deliberately.

I mean I'm a biased party obviously, but no. IIRC their argument was about it not being a high enough priority which is something you should have decided before you ever sent it out for review, period.

This is why I continue to bring my son to every protest where there's not a preexisting threat of regime violence.

It's really hard to make people scared of a crowd full of toddlers.

I sent that paper to JOSPT instead where it won the best paper of the year award, so Neurology and the editors that spiked it can take that in their pipes and smoke it.

Like if you're gonna desk reject it, desk reject it! That's fine! No problem! But to get multiple rounds of positive, constructive reviews and THEN kill it is maybe the most unprofessional thing I've seen in science, ever.

My worst experience by a mile was when I had a paper at Neurology that made it through 3 rounds of review, all positive, and then got axed by the EIC (or maybe the AE then backed up by the EIC) at the last second. Unbelievably unprofessional. I told them so and never submitted to them again.

That's just the FDA. Same can be said for Bhattacharya at NIH and Kulldorff at ACIP. They put themselves up as critical scientists willing to buck conventional wisdom when it conflicts with the truth.

Watch how often they do - or don't - do that with respect to RFK.

Once they leave their positions and return to academia, it is probably worth remembering articles like this when considering how to interpret the work of Makary, Prasad, and their ilk. It sounds very much like they're operating as commissars for RFK Jr. rather than sober scientists.

Jesus?

This is a genuine surprise to me but I guess "AOC wants to outlaw hamburgers" was ALSO a confession of an accusation?

Truth, reconciliation, things of that nature.

"This statistics class is about resistance and anti-fascism" would have made me roll my eyes out of my head a year ago, and now I don't know what else I could say! The entity I'm trying to protect you against the most isn't advertisers or lawyers but our own government.

"Both Democrats and Republicans lie."

OK, stipulated. But there is one party that sees truth purely as an inconvenience and is working to annihilate it.

If I'm teaching you to think and be able to identify lies better, you're going to apply those skills more often on one side than the other.

This is also why I now tell students on day 1 of my statistical thinking class that the course is now political. It's not my choice. There's no way around it.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.