Joel M(ultiplex)

We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...

This plus the new health drop is a fun mix.

Big "I'm from Arizona" energy.

Maybe such a problem should be studied. and then maybe you should consult those studies.

And...crucially...stop listening to those who refuse to do the same.

By saying less and having the humility to acknowledge our limitations and ignorance. Something that is unfortunately antithetical so certain manifestations of "faith'

I understand and am with you

100% He has always been and will remain an asshole lawyer.

Interoperability between drastically different instrument measurements is bad maybe.

Lol that's just BioShock. Not even trying.

RFK Jr: “We're developing a universal vaccine at NIH which is a vaccine that addresses the entire phylum of viruses.” “It's a vaccine that mimics natural immunity and it is effective against any kind of mutation.” “We believe it's gonna be effective against not only coronaviruses but also flu.” “And it's gonna be a much safer and a much more effective vaccine.”

RFK has announced that he is developing a vaccine against all viruses. Yes, every single one. The whole, uh, "phylum"

Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'

AAP will continue to publish its own vaccine recommendations after CDC advisers sow distrust The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices plans to form a work group to review child and adolescent immunization schedules despite them undergoing constant review in real time.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct

publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Absolute bloodbath at FDA, very bad

Came to recommend this book.

Following with keen interest.

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

The Surveillance AI Pipeline A rapidly growing number of voices argue that AI research, and computer vision in particular, is powering mass surveillance. Yet the direct path from computer vision research to surveillance has remai...

we did a systematic analysis of over 40k CV & CV research based patents and found that the field is not advancing cancer research or anything useful but rather powering surveillance arxiv.org/abs/2309.15084

FDA Announces Completion of First AI-Assisted Scientific Review Pilot and Aggressive Agency-Wide AI Rollout Timeline FDA announced an aggressive timeline to scale AI across all centers by June 30.

Prediction: This will definitely accelerate review times. It will also cut corners.

Gutted, but respect. maybe someday.

I have yet to see anything useful.

Glad to see actual viral titers measured rather than inferring from delta CT values.

Going with Jared leto is a real choice.

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Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

I always wonder about the feelings around this. Are travel staff viewed as scabs even if there is no strike? What makes good travel staff? I have no frame of reference.

that's impressive. where are you getting that low of a price?

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Andor season 1 is the best star wars ever written and its not even close.