Thomas Rauscher

Iridologie, auch Iris-Diagnostik genannt, ist das esoterische Konzept, allerlei Eigenschaften aus dem Aussehen der Iris abzuleiten. Das ist natürlich völliger Unsinn. Ich habe am linken Auge einen dunklen Fleck, der klar darauf hinweist, dass ich nur evidenzbasierte Diagnostik nutzen soll.

Welches Wissen unter Trump unterdrückt wird Hier eine Liste unerwünschter Informationen – über den US-Präsidenten, Sklaverei, Klimawandel, LGBTQ+ und mehr

Ich habe eine Liste angelegt, welches Wissen unter Donald Trump unterdrückt wird

Hier kann man nachlesen, welche unerwünschte Information bereits zurückgezogen wurde 👇

Gerne teilen, damit diese Vorfälle bekannt sind!

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Heute vor 215 Jahren - Ganz tief & ganz demütig beugt man sich dem Diktat des Diktators. Es könnte ja sonst noch schlimmer kommen...

mRNA Vaccine

I liked this XKCD comic for describing it to people myself. It's also where I finally figured out how it worked. xkcd.com/2425/

YouTube video by Vick Krishna How mRNA Vaccines Work? - The 1 min movie

I think this video

THIS. VIDEO.

Did more to educate people than anything else. So bears bringing it back again

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_4...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

We investigated three remnant lifetimes and different r-process heating prescriptions to explore the impact on kilonova lightcurves and spectra.

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Low-metallicity nova explosions: a site for weak rp-process nucleosynthesis. Athanasios Psaltis et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15162

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

The mRNA vaccine platform has already been assessed across diverse clinical indications, many with remarkable progress:
—cancer neoantigen vaccines [in patients with refractory disease (e.g. pancreatic)]
—more than 15 infectious diseases
—autoimmune diseases
—rare disease for genome editing

"Why was the flight delayed for an hour?"
"The pilot saw a problem with an engine, but it is okay now."
"Wow, you replaced an engine in an hour?"
"No, we replaced the pilot."

(This is an old Soviet Union joke, but it now applies to America under Trump)

what about gravitational wave emission? Binary neutron stars lose angular momentum by GW emission, leading to neutron star mergers. I would imagine BH, being more compact, to even lose more energy by this mechanism

Add it to the list of space mysteries 🔭🧪

YouTube video by JONAS Die Zerstörung der TikTok Wahrsager

"Die Zerstörung der TikTok-Wahrsager": YouTuber JONAS seziert einen Trend – und wir helfen dabei mit den Ergebnissen unseres Prognosen-Checks:

"Die Vorhersagen von Wahrsagern und Astrologen taugen nichts." 🔮👎

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Zuckerberg entließ die Faktenchecker. Der Ersatz ist ein Witz Meta ersetzt Profis durch ein Community-System. Was bleibt, ist ein Chaos der Desinformation.

Meta hat 2025 alle professionellen Faktenchecker rausgeworfen. Ersetzt wurden sie durch sogenannte „Community Notes“ – Nutzerhinweise, die nur dann veröffentlicht werden, wenn Menschen aus unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern sie als „hilfreich“ bewerten.
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On holiday and brought a card game (Dungeon Mayhem). So far, have played three times and every time there have been fist fights. Still they all want to play more. Gruelling.

One more paper from the group out arxiv.org/abs/2508.00062 🎉 Led by Lieke Sippens Groenewegen, who finished her MSc in my group @grappainstitute.bsky.social in February, and with @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social we developed an end-to-end pipeline for kilonova lightcurves and spectra #highenergyastro 🔭🧪

Eine Wortmeldung aus der Vergangenheit zu Stil, Deal & Nachgeschmack

Hiroshima A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

Eine der besten Reportagen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Jeder sollte sie einmal gelesen haben.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

Europe’s tech sovereignty watch | Proton for Business Europe’s biggest businesses run on US tech — putting its privacy and sovereignty at risk. Read our study on how bad the problem is and why we urgently need a Europe-first tech policy.

Europe’s digital house is built on foreign foundations.

Our latest study reveals that over 74% of publicly listed European companies host email—and by extension their entire tech stack—on US platforms subject to foreign laws.

Find out why and what needs to change 👇

A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet lies within a relatively crowded region of space though. About 7,000 light-years distant and filled with glowing gas and an embedded cluster of young stars, the region is known as M16 or the Eagle Nebula. Hubble's iconic images of the Eagle Nebula include the famous star-forming Pillars of Creation, towering structures of interstellar gas and dust 4 to 5 light-years long. But this small dark nebula, known to some as a Bok globule, is a fraction of a light-year across. The Bok globule stands out in silhouette against the expansive background of M16's diffuse glow. Found scattered within emission nebulae and star clusters, Bok globules are small interstellar clouds of cold molecular gas and obscuring dust that also form stars within their dense, collapsing cores.

🔭 Small Dark Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler

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One in 4 people carry one copy of the APOE4 allele, the strongest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. We've just learned how that risk is mediated—the immune system
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Wie momentan die Klimakatastrophe bekämpft wird... 🙈

What would happen if you replaced the sun with a black hole? 🔭🧪

I would love for a reporter to ask Duffy to explain the basic principle of a nuclear reactor (fission chain reaction) or even just ask him what fuel a lunar reactor would run on and where it would come from

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Nebular spectra of kilonovae with detailed recombination rates -- I. Light r-process composition. Smaranika Banerjee et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18345

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Consistent $N_{\rm eff}$ fitting in big bang nucleosynthesis analysis. Sougata Ganguly et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23354

None but one of these individuals (Koonin) is a member of the National Academy, and in the latter case, in a field (nuclear astrophysics) completely unrelated to the subject matter of this "report". That's the best they could do. Speaks volumes.

Wie eine Megakatastrophe unseren Sommer schuf und was der Mond damit zu tun hat. Meine Ferienkolumne für den Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger … (gerade noch rechtzeitig bevor das stabile Hoch kommt). #kolumne #mond #astronomie #Wetter #Sommer #sommer25