This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
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This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Experts have studied this for decades, but RFK and his band of liars claim they found an aggregation of causes in a few months. What a disgrace to the nation.
Seems like these people all want to be The Mule
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
The election deniers are in charge of elections. The vaccine deniers are in charge of vaccines. The climate deniers are in charge of climate. The list goes on.
Love to see it
The whole point is to flood democratic cities with troops and guns now so they can suppress peaceful demonstrations after he steals elections later
The guy who runs the NIH will be speaking. So will Jay Bhattacharya.
LMAO hey look, the NYT just published the playbook for opponents of gender-affirming care for young people.
The kayfabe and the aesthetic is fundamental to the authoritarian playbook!
7 months into the job. Empty shelves; office full of podcasting gear.
A large-scale, government-funded study tracking 1.2M children over two decades found something Kennedy doesn't like, so he wants it retracted. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
to give a sense of how arbitrary the criteria are, last year Florida State was ranked the third BEST school for free speech. this despite the fact that the Stop WOKE Act prohibits teaching certain concepts related to race and gender. FIRE just didn't factor it in.
Might have to page @dieworkwear.bsky.social
The buck stops with anyone but me!
Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.
When people talk about "legitimate concerns" about trans athletes I like to remind them that many sports governing bodies had existing policies based on scientific/medical evidence that were working just fine until a bunch of bigots got mad and forced those organizations to reverse their policies.
The media demands that elected Democrats answer for random comments made online, while elected Republicans are allowed to say they hadn't personally seen that particular tweet from the Republican president so they couldn't possibly comment.
Farritor helped to downsize or kill nine agencies, including USAID and CFPB. His role with USAID should haunt his reputation and his conscience. He manually shut off life-saving programs, violating the law and promises of the Secretary of State . donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doges-will...
Among the many issues that this piece highlights is how the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 origins have remained almost entirely focused on a handful of chat logs and email threads from five years ago while the science has been evolving and pointing more and more towards zoonosis.
I guess the job wasn’t as easy as podcasting?
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
An NPR reporter describing Trump’s anti-woke AI executive order as an attempt to address “overcorrections” for diversity in technology is a chef’s kiss perfect example of how racism is so effective in serving as a cover for his authoritarian overreach.
Theory turning into *praxis*
Delusional rich assholes think they can just “One Neat Trick” their way into fixing difficult and complex societal problems! No subject matter experts here, but AI will take care of it! drbobmorris.substack.com/p/copy-rfk-j...
“Neutrophil extracellular traps” (NETs) were discovered in the early 2000’s and we are hoping to see some clinical applications of this idea in the near future! The Hard Work takes lifetimes of toil and intense thinking. www.science.org/content/blog...
On top of that, the loser podcasters in charge are obliterating the funding and capacity of researchers and others willing to do The Hard Work. The destruction to the research enterprise now has ramifications *decades* away from now, as we see in the antithetical case with the success of GLP-1.
We're hurtling through unprecedentedly stupid times, with loser podcasters in charge of the nation's health trying to "one neat trick" their way through the most complex societal health challenges. They are lazy and do not want to do The Hard Work.
Something that has stuck in my brain all day from this article is this fact: it's taken about 20 years from the initial GLP-1 approval in 2005 to get to where we are today with all its expanding indications. This is such a huge understatement in these times! erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid...
“The biggest risk of AI hallucinations might be wasted time and resources. But the failure rate of new drugs is already so high that scientists at these startups think the risk is worth taking.” www.wired.com/story/artifi...
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.
what does that even... mean... what kind of dipshit false dichotomy is this?
The clincher at the end of the article is not true, any fact he personally doesn't like is absolutely off limits!
Applauding? Encouraging maybe?
The New York Times' obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, but as Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/culture/7000...
We are about to witness levels of media illiteracy that the human mind cannot even fathom.
Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”
“Keeping from despair is going to be my first goal on this Independence Day.” “I will not give up on those things without a fight. I will not give up.”
Hammering liberals for totally made up "antisemitism" controversies while Trump slurs against jews isn't "hypocrisy" - the fact that this represents nonsense makes it a thrilling demonstration of their power over us and their control of the media. Hilarious to conservatives! They laugh and laugh
This is every day listening to and reading the news. Stenographers of liars printing the lies. View from Nowhere bullshit means that to be objective or neutral, you can’t print that the sky is blue or 2 + 2 =4. The liar says it’s green. Critics say it’s blue! Now you are less informed than before.
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Added to my 2026 list (OK it’s the first one because I haven’t started one yet)
/7 Anyway, when people sit and watch the lawless bigoted atrocities of this administration and smirk at me and say it’s a foolish fear, I increasingly question whether their dismissal is sincere or whether they’d actually be fine with my kids being deported.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
They are not serious people who want to do real jobs with real responsibilities that impact real peoples’ lives.
Some basic facts RFK Jr continues to ignore. Global health advances have reduced child deaths 75% over the last 50 years. 40% of those gains were from vaccination. And 60% of those gains were from the measles vaccine alone. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
If RFK Jr. actually cared about: Mercury he would have a toxicologist on ACIP Adverse vaccine outcomes he would have an epidemiologist on ACIP Cumulative effects of vaccines on the immune system he would have an immunologist on ACIP ... This is a show trial
A CDC “background briefing” on thimerosal — noting evidence doesn't support a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism — was posted to the agency's website Tuesday. Today, it was taken down. HHS explanation below. www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/c...
The scientific establishment of this nation cannot handle people who blatantly and shamelessly lie to your face, who commit massive gaffes on a regular basis, who have no expertise and no right to destroy all of your hard work. The media sanewashes them with a lexicon of soft euphemisms.
The scientific establishment of this nation cannot handle people who blatantly and shamelessly lie to your face, who commit massive gaffes on a regular basis, who have no expertise and no right to destroy all of your hard work. The media sanewashes them with a lexicon of soft euphemisms.
“to Skrmetti: the question of whether equal protection allows trans kids to access the same hormones and prescriptions available to cis kids is, fundamentally, a question of who is allowed and enabled to participate in our republic. Who is an equal citizen—and who is separate "but equal."
Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.
Failing up
For Simon
there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT
Gee wow, a factual headline for once.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
Thank you Apple Photos for accurately selecting a highlighted photo for, “My Time in Massachusetts”
Wow sorry, I meant to say, “popular vaccine critic”!
Yeah man, the guy who incredulously claims that 17 million people died because of the mRNA vaccine is just a “critic”!
No matter how much of a deranged anti-scientific crank you are, you get to be labelled a “critic” in the mainstream media. The asymmetry in the spectrum of subject matter expert to critic to crank is just wild.
He gobbles up the slop
I really did not want to have to be reminded of these names after the pandemic times.
All of the complaints about BlueSky, even the valid ones, need to ask “compared to what?” For example, BlueSky does not routinely threaten companies with lawsuits and the implied threat of unfavorable treatment by the government in exchange for money! The business model is not based on blackmail!
the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight
i submit to you that these people say whatever is expedient in the moment and serves their self-flattering narratives. you don't have to cover the internal fantasies of grandiose dullards as facts
why does the times continually run cover for these childish self-serving narratives? he's not disillusioned with washington! he's a tweaked out know-nothing whose fantasies of being copresident kind of blew up in his face and, utterly unable to do anything right, he finally had to flee the scene
This is really the perfect use of generative AI: to create a report whose purpose is solely to exist as A Report, which no one is supposed to read because no one involved in its creation even pretends to have the slightest genuine interest in the actual facts at issue.
I would guess that’s a significant mentality of the anti-vaxxers/maskers/lockdown
Could that blame include importing bird flu-infected ostriches to your private ranch in Florida?
If you're only following this "debate" through popular media you probably have the impression that studies on youth gender medicine are roughly split between benefits and harms. Nope! Nearly every study finds benefits. The "debate" is just a bunch of people going, "Those don't count."
Every Independent Thinker™ thinks the exact same stupid shit.
"cracking down on drugs has benefits, and legalizing them has harms" — does anyone actually think legalizing drugs has literally no downside whatsoever? If you're such a Rational Thinker you should be able to summarize your opponents' arguments without resorting to caricature.
Boston! I'll be in town on May 30 for the WBUR Festival, where I'll be in conversation with NPR's Ailsa Chang. I'm pretty sure we'll be talking about books and ideas. @ailsachang.bsky.social @wbur.org
This shot outperformed multiple existing, FDA-approved vaccines in a Phase 3 clinical trial in humans. But how will it perform against a saline injection? And how does it perform in mice?
1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Mayday = HELP ME May Day = Help me... pick these flowers
people who drive everywhere and live sedentary lifestyles go to rome and walk everywhere for a week, lose weight, and declare that it is because the food contains fewer “poisons” or some nonsense bsky.app/profile/most...
you are not “doing your own research.” you are not running rct’s. you are not even doing a literature review. you are looking at stuff online
To be clear, I am not an expert in any of these topics, except maybe the latter. But keeping up with the industry news goes a long way!
Who would have thought a networking event would require me to leverage my knowledge of recent clinical trial results, novel treatment paradigms, and Baldur’s Gate?
Had to explain to a colleague today what the word “apartheid” meant, because they had never heard of it before.
This isn't a new product. It's an updated vaccine to account for new strains and viral evolution. Are they going to do this for all COVID and influenza vaccines yearly? Because that effectively shuts them down. There isn't enough time between identification of strains included & release of vaccine.
It’s that time of year again! Do I feel this way because of my allergies, or the allergy medicine?
Really enjoying the fast charging infrastructure driving between MA and CT. And these temperatures are giving me fantastic range!
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
Defending her constitutional liberties is defending all of ours.
The entire concept of "ideological conformity" applied to academia makes no sense. Is the belief that the Earth is round a type of conformity? On some level, yes: Everyone thinks the same thing. But sometimes everything thinks the same thing because that thing is true! This is how science works.
I constantly sound like a conspiracy nutjob explaining plain verifiable facts about current events to friends and family who just don’t care to keep up with the news.
Couldn’t happen to a better guy