Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

We in the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social are honored to represent CHLP! I'm excited to share some of our work together in the weeks and months ahead!

Haha welcome! 💘

The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...

MUST READ:

'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern'

@mattherder.bsky.social
@fatimahassan.bsky.social
A Hill and
@roojinhabibi.org

Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Drug company penalties for paying kickbacks to doctors failed to dent bottom lines, analysis finds Drugmakers that were penalized for kickbacks paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue generated by selling drugs that were the focus of the alleged violations during the past quarter century.

UPDATE:
@statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social covered our Research Letter!
"Researchers suggest penalties are seen by pharma companies as a cost of doing business."
Glad to talk with Ed Silverman about DOJ's long-running underenforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

Drug company penalties for paying kickbacks to doctors failed to dent bottom lines, analysis finds Drugmakers that were penalized for kickbacks paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue generated by selling drugs that were the focus of the alleged violations during the past quarter century.

UPDATE:
@statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social covered our Research Letter!
"Researchers suggest penalties are seen by pharma companies as a cost of doing business."
Glad to talk with Ed Silverman about DOJ's long-running underenforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute.
www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...

The Amazonification of Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post continues apace.

Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Kickback Resolutions and Associated Financial Penalties This cross-sectional study investigates the size of financial penalties levied by the US government against pharmaceutical companies accused of violating the Anti-Kickback Statute.

Kudos to Tobias Liu for driving the research here! A pleasure to write again with the brilliant @reshmagar.bsky.social and @jsross119.bsky.social of @yalecrrit.bsky.social!
Link to paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

In other words, paying to settle enforcement actions brought under the Anti-Kickback Statute may just be a small cost of doing business for brand-name pharma companies.
The revenues generated from paying prescribers to prescribe (in violation of the law) may far outweigh the penalties.

New Research Letter out today!
"Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Kickback Resolutions and Associated Financial Penalties, 2000-2025"
We studied DOJ's enforcement against illegal drug marketing and found companies paid settlement costs of just over 2% of drug revenues—a tiny fraction!

Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.

One Pivotal Trial, the New Default Option for FDA Approval — Ending the Two-Trial Dogma | NEJM This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.

Notable also as the latest example of a major policy change at FDA being announced in a press release or journal article rather than the Federal Register or other "official" channel.
I find particularly galling the fact that this publication isn't open access.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The latest cynical, destructive, anti-science move by Makary & Prasad:
Blessing FDA approval of new drugs & vaccines on the basis of just one pivotal clinical trial.
They promise to "spur biomedical innovation" (as always), but this will mean more unsafe & ineffective products in patients' bodies.

Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.

And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.

It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.

people.com/jeffrey-epst...

John Roberts is not breaking from Trump and is not neutrally applying the law. Anyone pretending otherwise needs to have a long look in the mirror and reflect on what clearly core aspect of their identity needs to believe something so laughably false

we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle

RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”.

"[L]ayoffs to CDC staff who worked on smoking meant an important survey on youth smoking and vaping — normally out in the fall — was never released." So much for MAHA. www.wsls.com/news/politic...

lfg

Calling up your Dem senators and thanking them for doing this is how you encourage them to hold the line, no matter how low your estimation of them is

But EPA is "leviathan"

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Palantir, Deloitte and gravel company led by ally of US president among beneficiaries

The war on immigrants is a contracting bonanza for Palantir, Deloitte—and a gravel contractor (coincidentally a Trump donor) who's gotten $6b to build the wall.

www.ft.com/content/c741...

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.

A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license echoparklatu 22m See translation > 9:05am - One person kidnapped from Sunset & Echo Park. STAY SAFE OR COME OUT! 9:05 a. m. - Una persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN! 306682

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!

Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

We are excited to share a recently published editorial in @jama.com that discusses the FDA’s review of REMS requirements for mifepristone. (1/7)

For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social: