Chris Dockendorff

IF YOU THINK YOU LOVE FREEDOM BUT YOU DON'T CARE IF IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE, WHAT YOU ACTUALLY LOVE IS PRIVILEGE

From someone who used to watch the seagulls at Exhibition Stadium, it’s your turn this year, Michael

Martial law is justified to protect us from guys in chicken suits.

Doctors push back on Trump admin’s autism & Tylenol link | CNN Dr. Paul Offit and Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell joins The Lead

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In one of the most irresponsible presidential press conferences in history, Donald Trump declares that Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism. Again, apparently, mothers are to blame.

It’s a tough job market Bryan, but I have confidence you can get the job! Those AI recruiters have a real eye for diamonds in the rough.

“Don’t trust the experts” is an absurd thing to say because we all have to trust experts in many aspects of daily life. The real questions are what defines an expert, how do you recognize them, how to distinguish them from crackpots, and what to do when expert opinions disagree.

It’s alluded to in this perspective, but a lot of the preclinical risk in a project can be avoided by Big Pharma by not investing until late preclinical or clinical stages, so someone else pays for the early failures.

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
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I couldn’t better summarize in a single sentence what most federal grants are and what they mean for America. Future generations will ponder why many of us shrugged shoulders while literal madmen applied chainsaws to American greatness and elevated quackery.

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

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Developing measles treatment is not a “Big Pharma wet dream”. There are more than enough real problems we struggle to help patients with.

Thanks for letting me know that this happened in my neighborhood! There indeed seems to be a crisis of reckless driving in this city.

There is some substantial confusion here. This is a pollster, not a journalist. It is their job to try to determine what voters are thinking and what their preferences are, and these responses are reported. It is not their job to educate these people, and by doing so, they would bias responses.

【英譯】 Chapter 17 The best leaders are those whose existence is hardly felt. Next best are those who are both loved and praised. Then worse are those who instill fear, and the worst of all are those who incur contempt. When leaders are not trust-worthy, it is impossible for the common masses to trust them. The best leaders are always quiet and composed, rarely issuing decrees and orders. When they accomplish all their tasks, and achieve their goals, people would say, "This is what we are".

When a book falls open at the right page. From Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching.

Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

104% tariffs on Chinese goods go into effect tomorrow. Let's see how Fox News is covering the story.

Yes.
In Gerhard Bronner's words:
“There are three things that can’t be reconciled: intelligence, decency, and Nazism. If you are intelligent and a Nazi, you can’t be decent. If you are decent and a Nazi, you can’t be intelligent. And you can be intelligent and decent. But then you’re not a Nazi.”

Novo Holdings Wants to Do More China Biotech Deals, CEO Says Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish weight-loss drug pioneer Novo Nordisk A/S, is seeking more biotech transactions in China following two deals last year for the overseas rights to e...

Controlling shareholder in the Danish company that makes Ozempic says he is avoiding opportunities in the USA because “The uncertainty is just too, too high for me to give an answer as to what our response is going to be.” Shopping in China and India instead. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

EVERY SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD: vaccines are the safest and best way to prevent disease
RFK JR: I recommend rubbing dog poop in your eyes while doing the Macarena

To be fair, this was an opinion piece from an experienced med. student at Stanford, but the many specific examples are deeply, deeply concerning.

Ike asking Churchill why he doesn’t wear a suit before not suggesting that they cower to a maniac.

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With nothing to gain from America whole-heartedly supporting Putin and absurdly attacking its closest allies, like Canada, why is there not more open talk about Trump being completely compromised by Putin? Heck, even a Trump Tower Kiev would do better business...

Thread - I've been thinking a lot about Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion lately, especially in the context of Musk’s role in dismantling the federal workforce through DOGE. It’s a perfect example of what Lippmann warned about over a century ago.

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

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The Death of Government Expertise Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise.

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The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt.
Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires?
We have our answer.
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