Alberto Brogi

Who gets the $220 million that Columbia University paid to the Trump regime? This is extortion of unprecedented magnitude. Brown University paid $50 million. Who's pocketing the money?

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccines The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

The Trump administration is fully aware that anti-vaccine disinformation campaigns can cause incredible harm.

After all, it is he who ordered the United States to do exactly this to
China. The difference is that this time The Regime is running the op on Americans.

something that drives me insane: there are like 15 different articles about how AI capex is a big part of the US economy's growth as well as GDP, yet none of them actually say how much is being spent on all this stuff!

Which party is more out of step with its voters on Gaza? Polygraph | Newsletter n°313 | 5 Aug 2025

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Both parties are out of step with their base on Gaza. Especially Democrats. This table compares approval and disapproval ratings of Israel’s actions in Gaza between Democrat and Republican senators and voters. For Democrats, approval is 35 percentage points higher in the Senate than it is among the voter base, while disapproval is 32 points lower. For Republicans, approval is 29 points higher and disapproval is 22 points lower. Difference = Senators % minus Voters %. Senators % reflect votes on S.J.Res.34 (30 July 2025). Voters % from Gallup poll on Israel’s actions in Gaza (29 July 2025).

Only 8% of Democratic voters approve of Israel’s actions in Gaza, yet 43% of Senate Democrats just further enabled them by approving another bomb shipment.
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The World Nearly Beat Polio: Fake Records and an Imperfect Vaccine Aided Its Return Mistrust of eradication effort persists

The world nearly beat polio but fake records & an imperfect vaccine have aided its return. Some vaccinators in Pakistan have been instructed to mark records of unvaxxed kids as fully immunized. Pakistan is a country where polio stubbornly continues & mistrust of eradication effort persists👇

2 dead and at least 58 sick from growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in Harlem Two people have died among the nearly 60 people diagnosed with Legionnaires' Disease in Harlem since last month, according to health officials.

2 people are dead & at least 58 are sick from a growing Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City's Harlem. Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia that's caused by the bacteria Legionella, which grows in warm water. People get infected by inhaling water vapor containing the bacteria👇

Effects of therapeutic interventions on long COVID: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Exercise training should be prioritized for improving cardiopulmonary function and exercise capacity in Long COVID, supported by high-certainty evidence. Respiratory muscle training and PEA-LUT offer ...

After 5 years of seeing people suffer with #LongCovid, this meta-analysis of 51 small randomized trials is very sobering. Essentially there is nothing, no clear validated treatment, and I don't agree with their conclusions and emphasis.
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An independent assessment of 11 proteomic organ aging clocks and improved survival confirms the brain and immune system strong links www.nature.com/articles/s43... @nataging.nature.com

Screenshot from WSJ that says HEALTHCARE With RFK Jr. on Their Side, Parents Feel Emboldened to Question Vaccines Exemptions from immunization requirements among kindergartners hit their highest level on record this past school year By Sabrina Siddiqui Follow and Liz Essley Whyte

“RFK Jr.’s anti-vax disinformation campaign is wildly successful”.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

There are many horrifying elements to this statement by RFK Jr. and one of them is that I bet he thinks it’s a compliment.

Unfortunately I think we may have reached the stage where there is going to have to be a devastating pandemic to show why vaccines are critical to the health of people and their communities.

I know what you’re thinking. But this time, the pathogen will find and harm unvaccinated children first.

Again I have to point out that anti-vaxxers don’t generally put themselves in harm’s way.

Instead they send their unvaccinated children out to be preyed upon, undefended, by dangerous pathogens.

Being informed about vaccines means knowing that ingredients like gelatin and aluminum aren’t scary; they’re there for specific, science-based reasons. Knowledge beats worry every time. @voices4vaccines.bsky.social

#NIAM2025 #firstdayvax

Ha voluto gestire Pnrr tutto e solo lei da Palazzo Chigi, insieme a pochi soliti suoi sceltissimi e fidatissimi amichetti?
Questi sono i prevedibilissimi meravigliosissimi risultati
#ilGovernodegliInetti
#inchemani

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Aggregation potency and proinflammatory effects of SARS-CoV-2 proteins - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Aggregation potency and proinflammatory effects of SARS-CoV-2 proteins

Ten proteins of SARS-CoV-2 show aggregation propensity and pro-inflammatory features, which can be linked to the neurological sequelae of Covid and, prospectively, neurodegenerative disease

#LongCovid

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Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds Sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake papers

Scientific fraud has become an ‘industry,’ alarming analysis finds | Science | AAAS via @cathleenogrady.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

How ‘memory institutions’ can preserve our digital future In an era of disappearing textbooks and locked-down digital archives, here’s what universities must do to protect access to knowledge

Many thanks to @timeshighered.bsky.social for featuring "Our Future Memory" campaign on their website. Has your institution signed on to protect open access to knowledge?

I would very much like the next person who interviews RFK Jr. to ask him for evidence to support this quote, and to not nod stupidly along with his response.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

For people with Type 2 diabetes, a randomized trial indicates it's not hard to beat the typical American diet for achieving better glycemic control
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#Altan

Sarà, ma più passa il tempo e più continua l'imperversare degli #OrridiIndividui nei vari posti di comando nel mondo, io intollerante lo divento sempre di più...

RFK Jr.'s Stunning Claim About Black People And Vaccines Sparks Concern From Medical Experts Experts weigh in on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial take and what they want everyone to know.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”

This is from RFK Jr., HHS Secretary, speaking in 2021.

In case you are wondering, this is not true. It is a racist trope.

Local Projections (March 2025) - A central question in applied research is to estimate the effect of an exogenous intervention or shock on an outcome. The intervention can affect the outcome and controls on impact and ...

Paper in "Journal of Economic Literature": aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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This is a useful new survey paper on the state-of-the-art of local projections, which are widely used these days in economics research to estimate the effects of a policy intervention or shock on an outcome variable over the response horizon.

Scientific fraud as an industry - Enrico M. Bucci Phd - Research Sbarro Health Research Organization, c/o Temple University – 1900 N 12th St – 19122 Philadelphia, PA – US Until recently, the existence of scientific fraud has been related to the misbehaviour of sing...

L'INDUSTRIA DELLA FRODE

Da molto tempo, sostengo che la frode scientifica è ormai un modello di business diversificato, tipico di una vera e propria industria.

Lo dissi per esempio nel 2018 (research.pasteur.fr/en/event/enr...).

Ben svegliati, Science e PNAS!

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Sadly, 13 deaths reported today

🔸COVID-attributed deaths: 1
🔸Not COVID: 2
🔸Not available: 10

4 were in their 60s
2 were in their 70s
3 were in their 80s
4 were aged over 90

Of these people, 6 were women and 7 were men.

#COVID19NZ

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates Matthew A. Guzman, Scott A. Imberman, Neil R. Filosa, Tara Kilbride & Nat Malkus X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 33849 DOI 10.3386/w33849 Issue Date May 2025 Schools have long played a frontline role in efforts to contain infectious diseases and prevent spread to the wider community. These include vaccination requirements, school closures during periods of high illness, and the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) during outbreaks. In this paper we investigate the impact of mask mandates in schools on COVID spread. We use event study and difference-in-differences models that exploit the removal of mask mandates in districts serving 50% of public school students in the U.S. surrounding the revocation of CDC guidance recommending school masking in February and early March of 2022. We estimate that going from 0% to 100% mandated masking in a county reduces COVID deaths by 0.57 per 100k people. We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. Due to the fact that COVID deaths among students and, to a lesser extent, school staff were rare in the U.S. given school age profiles, we argue that the bulk of these deaths were from spillovers to residents in the wider community.

USA: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to almost 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year.

Issue Date: May 2025

Source: www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Study Links Pesticides to Monarch Butterfly Deaths in Pacific Grove | Xerces Society In late January 2024, hundreds of monarchs were found dead or dying on a private property near the trees of Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary. A new study links the deaths to pesticide contamination.

To the yahoo's who asked for refs that pesticides kill Monarchs...here ya go. We all share the air and a giant ecosystem collapse is getting closer and closer. Explain your pesticide choices to your kids and grandkids....

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Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID IBS and gut issues are rising fast after COVID, and scientists believe long COVID may be fueling the gut-brain chaos.

Why Your Gut Hasn’t Been the Same Since COVID

"A major international study has revealed a troubling surge in gut-brain disorders like IBS and functional dyspepsia since the COVID-19 pandemic."

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Interesting paper on the manipulation of GDP statistics in weak and non-democracies: "The results suggest that autocracies overstate yearly GDP growth by approximately 35%."