Saw the video. That looked like straight up murder.
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Saw the video. That looked like straight up murder.
PSA: Please stop ordering echocardiograms for every patient who presents with possible syncope. It is not remotely a cost-effective test in the absence of a specific suspicion for structural heart disease.
Itās also not accurate to frame this as ācensorshipā if there is no original content getting censored. But it is ironic that this has brought a lot more attention to Howardās criticisms of VP. Plus, whether VP is technically in the ārightā on this one issue, it makes him look small.
Did you actually see his original channel? It was nothing but reuploads of long clips from other channels. No commentary. >99% of the channel was reposting other peopleās content. Howard does important work, and i get why this feels unjust, but his YT channel was definitely not fair use.
PSA: Please stop ordering echocardiograms for every patient who presents with possible syncope. It is not remotely a cost-effective test in the absence of a specific suspicion for structural heart disease.
itās hard to overstate: -how beneficial vaccines are -how massively overwhelming the evidence is showing no link between vaccines and autism -how impossible it is that RFK will somehow āfind the causeā (at all, let alone in his first year) -how much RFKjr want to get rid of childhood vaccines
Our school district was fully remote for 11 months, and half remote for another 3. Others were remote for longer. While I wouldnāt call remote school the same as āmissingāāschool for a HS student, for our 6 year old it was awfully close to that.
Yeah, we also got some pushback in one of the ERs because they didnāt think our exposure warranted it. (Woke up with 2 bats in the room)
Iād bet good money that the whole lot of them (VP, JB, MM) stay silent when that day comes.
I suspect VP sees his own support of RFK Jr as means to an end, where that end is VPās authority to dictate vaccine policy for the country.
I donāt think they do know. I think the way in which they experienced the pandemic and the years of interactions with people who praised their contrarian mindset has biased them to the point that they honestly think they are doing good, and that history will vindicate them.
I think the average person would be absolutely shocked by how many routine, everyday medical decisions are based on "low quality" evidence.
Plus, whether he is now a federal employee is irrelevant because the content was created prior to this. If VP's videos were created as a part of his current job within the federal govt, in most cases that would actually be considered public domain by law and copyright would no longer apply.
The whole point is that Howard's original channel didn't express a viewpoint. It was just reuploads of other people's content without original commentary. There's no censorship if there's no original speech there to be censored!
I totally agree with that. I'm sure VP doesn't actually care about the copyright issue - it's just an easy way to punch back. It's obviously much faster & easier to click a "Agree with copyright violation" checkbox than it is to counter a well constructed argument.
If there are any other YouTube channels that reupload VP's content, I can't find them. I think the people who are linking to reuploads of his videos on Twitter must be using a platforms other than YT to host them.
There is some nuance here, but generally speaking that is correct.
As I noted to Howard directly, a copyright holder is not obligated to be consistent in pursuing the enforcement of their copyright. One can consider it to be akin to selective free licensing of the content. Also, YT makes removal of infringing content unusually easy. Other platforms not so much.
No, not necessarily. This is how the notice looks irrespective of whether the original content creator or YouTube's copyright infringement detection system initiates the process.
The day this happened (in 2011), Stanford only had enough for 1 of us. š¤·āāļø
Honestly, the framing of this whole issue reveals how little the public understands copyright & Fair Use. I support Howard's motives, and I enjoy his posts on Science Based Medicine. And I totally get why this is frustrating and feels unjust. But YouTube was correct to terminate his channel.
The way YT's copyright system works is the site automatically seeks out content reuploads & flags them for the original content creator as poss copyright violations. It's not that YT/Google went along w VP's request, but rather VP agreed w YT's assessment that Howard's channel was in violation.
As someone who is very experienced w YouTube, Howard unequivocally violated both copyright and YouTube's ToS. Whether or not VP is harming the country, and the fact that he now works for the federal govt, doesn't mean his content (that predates his employment) can be reuploaded by another channel.
Oh for sure. I didn't have any side effects from the rabies immunoglobulin - it's just the shot itself that was unpleasant.
The biggest benefit: Only a tiny fraction of the unnecessary group text pages
Ugh. This happened to me, my wife, and our 1 year old. Taking a baby to ER for rabies exposure...š± And since local hospitals didn't stock more than 1 dose-worth of rabies immunoglobulin, we had to wait to be seen in an ER 3 times.
From personal experience, the vaccine shots were fine. The immunoglobulin was worse.
Reuploading large chunks of someone else's content without alteration is absolutely, unequivocally *not* Fair Use. Try educating yourself before calling people names. support.google.com/youtube/answ...
There is neither a requirement nor expectation that a copyright holder needs to be consistent in who they choose to go after. Yes, one can certainly argue that VP is being a bit of a jerk here, but in this particular case, itās his right. /3
Because of the prevalence of violations on YouTube, they make it relatively easy to remove infringing content - so easy that it often gets abused by entities who actually donāt hold copyright or for for content w is unambiguous Fair Use (not the case here). 2/
Copyright holders have the right to selectively enforce copyright for whatever reason they want. Individual creators and companies do this all the time, depending on context and whether itās worth their time to do so. 1/
I know it sucks to be on the receiving end of this, but he has the right to selectively enforce or not enforce his copyright for whatever reason he wants. I selectively enforce copyright on material āborrowedā from me depending on context (though never just because the person disagrees w me)
Everyone has the right to copyright protection irrespective of their views. If people want to see the original videos, they're still there on Prasad's own channel. I doubt he'll remove them. And they can always be reuploaded by a 3rd party - if done so w consideration of Fair Use guidelines. 2/2
I'm sorry but this is absurd. I support Howard's mission in general, but he was objectively infringing on Prasad's copyright and violating YouTube's ToS. (The offending videos were from Prasad's personal YouTube channel, posted before he worked for the FDA). 1/2
Wait, you all are still using stethoscopes across the pond? How quaint! š
You've been hammering him pretty hard, and it's easier to go after you like this than to address the merits of your arguments.
Reuploading content without alteration or criticism isn't "fair use".
No. "Entire video" refers to the reuploaded video, not the original. So if Prasad's original video is 20 min, and someone reuploaded an otherwise unedited 4 min clip w/o any additional commentary, "entire video" would be the correct designation when reporting (or confirming) a copyright violation.
Gee, I wonder who could be responsible for this trend...
Anecdotal, but Iāve now lost count of how many men Iāve treated for massive heart attacks with minimal risk factors for heart disease except being on testosterone therapy that they never needed. Theyāre buying it online or getting it from functional doctors who convince them itās a panacea
Also, letās scrap the structure of having 5 permanent members of the Security Council. This should have already happened after Russiaās invasion of Crimea in 2014.
Yep. Those reaction videos are a scourge living in the grey zone of debatable āfair useā. Itās one thing to react to movie scenes, but when they feature prolonged clips of unknown YouTubers and score 10x more views than the originalā¦thatās just BS.
The UN should begin plans to move their headquarters to a more neutral location. The US no longer deserves the honor of hosting them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Heās worse than a dangerous crank. Heās a sociopath, in the strict sense of the word. - Lacks empathy - Shows no remorse for harm heās caused - Disregards safety of others - Disregards standards for socially appropriate behavior - Deceives for personal gain
It seems like the law should mandate who does and doesn't receive long-term Secret Service protection. It should never have been up to the President in the first place.
VP might be doing this manually on his own, but as I noted in another comment, YT also will flag videos if it detects prob copyright infringement and send a notice to the original creator. Once automatically flagged, it takes seconds for the original creator to take the infringing content down.
Also, it doesn't necessarily mean that VP is actively seeking out ways to get under your skin. YT will automatically flag videos for creators if it detects probable copyright infringement and send them a notice. I just received one an hr ago about infringement of my content that happened 4 yrs ago.
I'm not a VP apologist, but as someone who has experience w YouTube, posting unedited clips from another channel w/o additional commentary is an unambiguous copyright violation. I'm sure copyright violation is not VP's actual motivation here, but that's not relevant to the removal request itself.
Itās back to school night, and I just saw that my daughterās 6th grade social studies textbook on āAncient Historyā at a public school in CA portrays biblical characters (eg Moses, Abraham) and their related stories as actual history. š”
the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"
Donāt feed the trolls!
I look forward to his reception when he eventually returns to campus.
What are you talking about? Heās seen some videos on Facebook. That + Google is almost the same as a medical degree, right?
New: In 7 months, Kennedy has broken the CDC, perhaps irreparably. For all heās done with mass firings, gutting expertise, and attacking vaccines, Wednesdayās loss of its most senior and competent leadersātruly the CDCās backboneāis the most consequential attack yet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...
Regarding the scorn some of the contrarians have for folks working from home during the pandemic: You know who I NEVER SAW ONCE on Stanford Medās campus during the pandemic? Jay Bhattacharya As far as I can tell, he spent all of 2020-2025 working from home.
āI am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the publicās health.ā Thatās from the resignation of CDCās Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) š§Ŗ
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
I would not be surprised. She may have also given him a well justified earful after his abysmal response to the CDC shooting and he couldnāt take having a woman dress him down.
What is going on at HHS?!? RFK just fired CDC director Susan Monarez - the only reasonable person in the HHS senior leadership - leaving the agency w/o a leader again. Now RFK has the freedom to do whatever insane thing he wants to the agency w/o resistance. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
I hate this trend in the reporting of the scientific literature. It reminds me of the push to rely on visual abstracts as the primary means of communicating a study because this format also tends to deemphasize the methods to the point that limitations are often no longer identifiable.
But misinformation is still misinformation, even if it would have supported oneās preferred political narrative. Itās important to stay skeptical of everything on social media, but particularly of those things which are either easy to believe or which you want to believe. 2/2
This video I posted 2 days ago was critical of an anti-Trump TikToc that claimed he had very limited life expectancy and had certain medical diagnoses w/o strong evidence. In response to my video, Iāve been receiving colorful messages which assume I support Trump and MAGA. 1/2
One of the things I had not anticipated when our grant was terminated was how quickly co-investigators and consultants who had been involved for years would abandon the work. Itās more upsetting than the government doing so tbh.
Joe Scott also has a great video on Lysenko. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqn2...
Read about Lysenkoism and tell me this doesnāt sound just like āMake America Healthy Againā. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenko...
When doctors & scientists severely criticize the MAHA movement, this is the history we have as our guide. This is what is at risk. It will already take years for American science to bounce back from this. Imagine the consequences of a bird flu pandemic when the HHS is led by an antivax quack. 4/
The consequence of Lysenko in the Soviet Union? Legit scientists were imprisoned & executed. Tens of millions of people died from starvation when his agricultural theories resulted in nationwide famine. And Russian science has never recovered. 3/
In both cases, men believed themselves to be far smarter than they were. They politicized science, rejecting mainstream scientific thought to pursue fringe theories. As science in the counties was decimated, they were nevertheless praised by those in political power. 2/
There are frightening parallels between what RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya are doing to American healthcare and what Trofim Lysenko did to genetics & agricultural science in the Soviet Union in the 1930s-40s. 1/
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but itās clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
I don't know, I'm actually tempted to try her 50 minute "distance energy session" during which she "connects with my energy to help balance out disharmonies in my field with the help of nature allies." Only $300/session! š¤¦āāļø
The first thing I did when RFK Jr fired all 17 members of the ACIP was to make peds appointments for my 2 teenage children, specifically so they could receive the HPV vaccine before this imbecile tries to ban it.
I'm hoping that Aseem Malhotra lives up to his reputation as an unreliable source.
Interesting study, but I wonder about the effect if groups of human test-takers were subjected to the same conditions. "None of the above" is generally loathed as an answer choice by students, and the standard structure for a USMLE MCQ doesn't even allow it.
I'm much more concerned about the impact of AI-induced deskilling on clinical reasoning than on AI-assisted colonoscopies. When we use a chatbot to "solve" a diagnostic case, that one patient might get a faster, more accurate diagnosis, but at the expense of our ability to learn for future cases.
A viral video circulated across multiple social media platforms over the weekend claiming a doctor predicted Trump had only "6 to 8 months" left to live. Far too many people shared and commented on these posts uncritically. youtu.be/lIePdI0cztw
What is the overlap between parents who are convinced pediatricians get kickbacks for pushing vaccines on their kids, and the parents who get upset when their kidsā pediatrician declines to prescribe antibiotics unnecessarily?
This is the same imbecile who spread this fictional story claiming that Stanford was banning a slew of words on campus including āAmericanā. Some day our institution will need to come to terms with the fact that we are responsible for producing people like him. www.foxnews.com/media/stanfo...
Military rule is not a fucking stunt. Get real. The president is burning our constitutional order down and Democrats are shrugging it off. This isnāt an opposition party, itās a group of incompetents. Everyone should just move aside and let @aoc.bsky.social and @raskin.house.gov run the show.
This is a great graphic: all of the studies with a dot in the corner were conducted by the Geiers -- one of whom, David Geier, practiced medicine without a license
Hey @cnn.com, this is *not* a "crime crackdown"! It's an unlawful military takeover. Don't let fascists define the framing of this moment.
Jay "Why Won't My Department Invite Me To Give A Lecture on COVID" Bhattacharya.
This is just the same phenomenon as when RFK fired all 17 members of the ACIP: The incompetent idiots in charge fire experts when their assessments & recommendations contradict the politically favorable story. And the nation is left that much worse off. www.bbc.com/news/article...
It would be amazing if this tit-for-tat crosswalk battle turned into a nationwide movement to add rainbow crosswalks all over the place.
Jay will be remembered for crying, "Censorship!" when the science community rejected his unfounded claims, gaining power by bowing to Trump, and then leading the most insane scientific censorship campaign in US history. www.wsj.com/health/scien...
This is horrifically unethical, egregiously immoral, and likely quite illegal. Any institution which complies should be boycotted by patients and blacklisted by healthcare professionals seeking employment.
Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.
Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...
"Cockroaches" the exact literal term most used in Rwanda by Hutu ultranationalists against Tutsis in the lead up to when they killed hundreds of thousands of them in a matter of weeks. Also used by Begin to describe Palestinians, "drugged cockroaches in a bottle."
Congratulations everyone. We did it.
100% agree for toxic, attention-seeking people who are looking for power. Unfortunately, some toxic people already have power and ignoring them can be dangerous.
These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
This is a bit colorful, but otherwise a surprisingly accurate summary of the state of affairs here in the US. www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...
We fired cancer researchers, for this
Time to add to the blocked words list?
March-May 2020 was obviously a very unusual time, and not implying anything nefarious, but 2 weeks for IRB approval strikes me as unexpectedly fast.
If you want to understand why RFK Jr. has halted $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine development, look no further than Synthroid and herbal medicines. It has nothing to do with following better science and everything to do with alt med beliefs. sciencebasedmedicine.org/what-do-mrna...
Sounds like some domestic terrorists need to be charged with attempted murder.
"But her emails!" www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...