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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

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Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”. Montague R. Leverson, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 1895 Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack 2025 Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias" "That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..." "The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine". Falsely state that vaccines cause death "Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox". "This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..." Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence "...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..." "Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science". Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination" "They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to

The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.

Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.

Explosion at Harvard Medical School building deemed intentional, police seek 2 suspects Police say an explosion inside a building on the Harvard Medical School campus in Boston early Saturday morning appears to have been an intentional act.

These two blew up a bomb in a building at the Harvard Medical School.

www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Top labor groups break with federal union's demand to end shutdown The largest federal workers' union backed a Republican government funding bill.

We won’t back down. Not now. Not ever.

abcnews.go.com/US/top-labor...

The CUNY letter to ORI is, well, I'm at a loss for adjectives. I wonder what ORI's response will be.

For others troubled by the exoneration of Hoau-Yan Wang, there's an analysis of the difficulty prosecuting scientific fraudsters at 13:00 in this @bjkspod.bsky.social podcast. I didn't anticipate the role of institutional research integrity offices in manufacturing "reasonable doubts."

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

Landing page for "Officer Down Memorial Page" (ODMP). Honoring officers "killed" (died) in 2021

A list of all officer deaths recorded, broken down by cause. - The list includes causes of death including "inadvertent gunfire" (friendly fire, shooting self), - In 2021, more cops died from Covid than All Other Causes Combined! - "Duty related illness" (Covid) - "Automobile crash" includes driving to & from work. - 11 Heart attacks counted

2021 Total Line of Duty Deaths: 723 9/11 related illness 49 Assault 6 Automobile crash 23 COVID19 503 Drowned 4 Duty related illness 4 Fall 1 Gunfire 63 Gunfire (Inadvertent) 3 Heart attack 23 Motorcycle crash 3 Stabbed Struck by vehicle 14 Training accident 13 Vehicle pursuit Vehicular assault 17 Weather/Natural disaster 2

A female healthcare provider wearing scrubs & a mask holding up a syringe. She's looking at a police officer in uniform with a word balloon "Stop Resisting"

Just like other LEO. More than 2.5x dead from COVID than all other causes. *Combined* (& underreported as they change cause to ensure insurance coverage, ie shooting themselves, crashing on the way to work & on the way home, etc

The Dark Side of Daylight Saving Time Setting the clock back is a strange, and perhaps insidiously unhealthy, practice.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and various European societies for sleep medicine and biological rhythms have spoken out against changing the clocks in the Spring and Fall.
time.com/7330395/dayl...

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Hey @dereklowe.bsky.social, welcome to the club.

x.com/SciGuardians...

JIB/JAB is back for a new season - in Episode 41, I speak with @bcfinucane.bsky.social of @crisisgroup.org about the U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers, and its implications for the international rule of law:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

ICYMI: Trump's second pick for Surgeon General, "wellness entrepreneur" Casey Means, is ineligible for the post as a physician (the USPHS' "Medical" category).

So the White House will try to name her through a different category—"Health Services"—for which she is even *less* eligible.

Details:

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So on target

It's also instructive to remember that, at the time, the surge in anti-vax had nothing to do with public health. It was all about not letting the economy sag so Trump could win reelection.

RFK JR heading up DHH & DeSantis ending vaccine mandates this week? That's where all of that came from.

Congressional Republicans are hurting their own constituents — Pennsylvanians who just need a little help to feed themselves and their families.

Gov. Josh Shapiro frees up millions for Pennsylvania food banks with SNAP benefits set to lapse Gov. Josh Shapiro is freeing up around $5 million to help feed Pennsylvania residents impacted by the lapse in SNAP benefits.

Gov. Josh Shapiro frees up millions for Pennsylvania food banks with SNAP benefits set to lapse - CBS Philadelphia share.google/0K0J3bWJxp6O...

Both parties are not the same.

Please repost!

Marty Makary says more 'deregulatory' action is coming soon at FDA The FDA commissioner told reporters that potentially next week, the agency will 'make another announcement on the elimination' of certain unidentified animal testing requirements for new drug developm...

“You’re going to see some very specific announcements coming out very soon on guidance, and they’re going to be moving in one direction. I’ll tell you right now, deregulatory.” endpoints.news/fda-commissi...

Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities – Full Fact Social media claims that autism is less prevalent among Amish people because they don’t get vaccinated aren’t supported by the evidence.

Amish people do vaccinate - and autism exists in Amish communities fullfact.org/health/amish... via @fullfact.org

States reject Dr. Oz’s claims of Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants Officials from Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, and Washington say CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz posted incorrect figures about their Medicaid spending on X.

States reject Dr. Oz’s claims of Medicaid spending on undocumented immigrants
Sharp reporting by @danielpayne.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/01/d... via @statnews.com

Lies, damn lies, and shoplifting statistics For 32 years, the National Retail Federation (NRF) — the lobbying group representing major retailers in the United States — has produced the "National Retail Security Survey." The survey, widely cited...

"The new NRF report acknowledges that retailers do not 'have a unified industry database collecting retail crime data,' and many retailers lack 'the resources or capabilities to collect and track retail theft.' Yet the NRF still issued a report claiming shoplifting has increased 93% in four years."

Happy Halloween. 👻

Feed the People: No One Should Go Hungry — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER Dr. Grace Bagwell Adams is a public health expert, professor, and mother. She submitted this essay to The Bitter Southerner as a righteous call to anger — a professional and personal take on one of th...

"..SNAP & WIC were never designed to solve the problem of poverty or to eliminate all food insecurity. They were, however, designed to ameliorate the very worst effects of privation. Quite literally, they exist to prevent people from starving to death..."
bittersoutherner.com/feed-the-peo...

Why is the border patrol/ice commander carrying a rifle the length of himself in this leafy suburb?

“At what point must a senior officer refuse to obey an order that, while issued by the command, is in fact illegal — or that would serve the interests of an aspiring autocrat rather than the Constitution and the Republic it protects — a moment when the armed forces may be our last line of defense?”

Pediatrics Corner:

The AAP just released a statement regarding the use of leucovorin in patients with autism:

"𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 (𝗔𝗔𝗣) 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻 (𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗱) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻."
www.aap.org/en/patient-c...

More Caesar the No Drama, Anti-Fascist Llama is the best character at Portland ICE protests! #iceout #portland