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A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism | NEJM It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

Trump again just implied that the MMR vaccine causes autism.

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism.

This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

It’s an astute observation that MAGA have strayed so far from traditional American ideals that they can’t quote Lincoln or Reagan anymore.

In fact they have more in common with despotic regimes from the 19th & 20th century than American democracy. From United States to a divided country.

Such a fun environment! We did that a few years ago and had a great time.

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

What's especially amazing about Hagerty's attempt to say the quiet part out loud here is that it's brilliantly self-defeating:

If the Constitution had to specify (in an odious way) how to count *even enslaved people* in the Census, that's only that much more evidence that *everybody* gets counted.

We are the baddies.

I remember when this happened.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

almost six months to the day since Trump issued an executive order titled "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship"

anyway,

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Hard to argue with that.

Immigration is what made America great. If they want to “make America great again” they should understand this.

Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.

the philosophy of a judicial originalist is very simple: instead of expressing actual beliefs in plain language, the founders were instead constructing a kind of crossword clue that, if solved, happens to always say whatever you wanted the outcome to be

Unbelievably detailed work by the great @molly.wiki showing how Donald Trump is personally and likely illegally raking in millions from foreign interests for his cryptocurrency at an upcoming dinner. Utterly appalling

www.citationneeded.news/trump-memeco...

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

NIH Funding Has Stagnated Since 2003 This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.

"The NIH budget has not increased in more than 20 years despite research being more expensive to conduct. This is a necessary data point for policymakers to consider as they determine funding priorities." 🧪

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns ) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

Never forget.

The future sucks. No flying cars, no self drying clothes and no hoverboards. Instead we’re debating pasteurizing milk, polio vaccines and innocent until proven guilty.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

This is figure 3, which shows EMI score versus congressional productivity measured as MLI (left), LPI (centre) and log-transformed number of laws (right).

Research in Nature Human Behaviour tracks the language used in congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022 and suggests that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. go.nature.com/42y9Y0T 🧪

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

Seeing posts go viral by pointing out if the stock market goes down 50% on one day and up 50% the next day, you aren’t back where you started. $100 -> $50 -> $75.

We are so cooked if elementary school math is blowing people’s minds like this.

Ok. As a professor not a millionaire this cracked me up. And I am old enough to remember this show. 🧪🧪

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

OpenAI Plots Charging $20,000 a Month For PhD-Level Agents

My favorite response to this is that Ph.Ds don’t make $20,000 a month.