Benjamin P. Geisler

Interesting Fierce Pharma article by Angus Liu on Vinay Prasad's departure from the F.D.A.:

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The "Right to Try" is the law and shouldn't be a partisan, de-regulatory issue. Experts and regulators should consider if it's doing our patients justice or not.

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

Terrific visual story in the FT about data centers, walking through the inside, satellite images and maps where they are, and importantly info on their energy and water us

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Artificial intelligentsia: an interview with the boss of Anthropic Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, Dario Amodei on why safety sells and how to value people in a world without work

Artificial intelligentsia?

Money Talks interview with The Economist’s Henry Tricks, Dario Amodei and Anthropic’s in-house philosopher Amanda Askell

economist.com/podcas... (gifted article with limited number of free views/listens)

A Drink of Death (Published 2006) Steven Johnson tells how a doctor and a curate solved the riddle of London’s 1854 cholera epidemic.

Are you a "consilient" thinker - like John Snow, the father of epidemiology?

Are you combining "insights from different disciplines and different scales of investigation"?

Just discovered David Quammen's 2006 review of Steven Johnson's "The Ghost Map"

www.nytimes.com/2006...

More vaccine skepticism after the HHS Secretary’s comments means preventable diseases could surge -- especially in young kids, the elderly, and otber immunocompromised. Measles, chickenpox, whooping cough, even polio may return, straining healthcare, and widening disparities

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MAHA Report: many others might have wondered if the inaccurate references were LLM hallucinations
Seems confirmed now that the report, at least in its entirety, was not written by humans
Are there lessons to be learned here? No, it’s not just students 😅

www.washingtonpost.c...

Can you imagine a different situation?

Great article

blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ | MedPage Today At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'

At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about "competing viewpoints" and how they handle misinformation

HT: Leo Celi

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In today’s intellectual task workplace, the line between real productivity & “performative busyness” is vanishing

Sadly, success often hinges more on projecting competence than delivering results, with self-promotion & AI amplifying the illusion of work

www.fastcompany.com/...

Is Reddit a non-narcissistic social media alternative for travel tips?
Is Threads too American and does Bluesky have too few beef?

…and more opinions on SoMe in this FT Magazine piece (link only good for three visits)
on.ft.com/3YrnkL4

Do viruses like VZV have a role in developing dementia? The shingles vaccine (in a natural experiment) prevented some dementia - but only in women

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xiT...

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Happy #MatchDay everyone, especially the IMGs!

Atul Gawande on Elon Musk’s “Surgery with a Chainsaw” - The New Yorker Radio Hour Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.

"2 weeks after the Inauguration[, Musk] tweeted, 'We spent the weekend feeding USAID into a wood chipper.'"

David Remnick Interviews Atul Gawande about the consequences. Do listen.

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Crazy. I was hoping for most investments into front line care!

For non-Brits, it may be be difficult to understand why NHS England is being abolished..

Interesting modeling study! In most of the world, we don't know what measels cases look like. There's only supportive treatments available.

"Just do your own research!"

Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.

Is public health [in the U.S.] almost dead as Céline Gounder proposed & Siddhartha Mukherjee writes about here
I guess it was already pretty private before the pandemic, our stress test of so many things
What should remain private/public or made public?

www.nytimes.com/2025...

Just tried to look up the long-term side effects for ketamine/esketamine (treatment-resistant depression) - and they are actually not that clear yet. An abuse potential is mentioned, and delusional thinking seems to have been described

www.uptodate.com/con...

At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated - The Atlantic Jay Bhattacharya has spent years railing against the National Institutes of Health. What happens when he runs it?

What kind of environment Jay Bhattacharya may create at the National Institutes of Health is of course unclear

Bullying researchers into "academic freedom" seems like an oxymoron to me

I do hope that he will surprise us all

www.theatlantic.com/...

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Cost-Effectiveness in Healthcare: It's Like Managing Your Fridge 😁

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Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago But some of its authors think it has been misused by partisans

Hard to believe that the Oregon Medicaid lottery study is back in the news
It’s not hard to misinterpret the study

Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago

www.economist.com/un...

Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago But some of its authors think it has been misused by partisans

Hard to believe that the Oregon Medicaid lottery study is back in the news
It’s not hard to misinterpret the study

Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago

www.economist.com/un...

Organ Transplant System ‘in Chaos’ as Waiting Lists Are Ignored The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over.

Once I had a patient whom I got to tell (during on overnight shift in the ICU) that they got an organ.. imagine the feeling
So much good work has gone into the allocation system - I wonder what the pandemic has to do since the development since 2020

www.nytimes.com/inte...

Dr. Offit explains that RFK Jr.' 's many weird beliefs about the causes, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases are rooted in the fact that he doesn’t believe in the germ theory, but something called the miasma theory. Show notes at https://www.microbe.tv/btn/btn-054/ Become a patron of Beyond the Noise #54: Understanding RFK Jr.

The miasma theory was abandoned in the 1880s.
What Paul Offit reports here about our the new head of HHS is simply amazing.

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The crux of the matter: Frederick Thielen from ASCERTAIN explains why drugs that are approved to be marketed in the EU are not necessarily available in all countries

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Putting yourself into a pretzel IS kind of a cute expression