shocking to see an editor of @jama.com argue that public opinion determines what is settled science
NO
if people say the world is flat, its still settled science that its not
more research = veiled attempt to validate vaccine hesitancy
🙏 please everyone, even in a room of children, be an adult 🙏
Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
When Trump fired all those inspector generals, one of them was the IG for the Defense Department. He was examining whether Musk/ SpaceX were failing to meet reporting protocol to safeguard state secrets as huge beneficiaries of Pentagon contracts. 3/
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Cap indirect costs at universities. Currently, the federal government pays a portion of the overhead expenses associated with university-based research. Known as “indirect costs,” these reimbursements cross-subsidize leftist agendas and the research of billion-dollar organizations such as Google and the Ford Foundation. Universities also use this influx of cash to pay for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) e!orts. To correct course, l Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research e"orts. This marketbased reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.
7. This order did not come out of nowhere. It was a core component of Lindsey Burke's Dept. of Education chapter in the Project 2025 report.
(Private foundations typically pay 10-15% overhead rates, and the logic of this comparison is made explicit in today's Supplemental Guidance from NIH.)
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
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Colchicine in Acute Myocardial Infarction - Did not reduce the incidence of the composite primary outcome (death from cardiovascular causes, recurrent myocardial infarction, stroke, or unplanned ischemia-driven coronary revascularization).
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We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Tamiflu (Oseltamivir), the most commonly prescribed influenza treatment, causes more adverse effects (nausea and vomiting) but has little to no effect on clinical outcomes compared with placebo (i.e.mortality, hospitalization, time to alleviation of symptoms). #medsky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Les Enfants d’Ouranos (flipped), by JR, 2022
I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK.
If you're going to write "the true story of the Samoa measles outbreak" it's a good idea to include some facts. The author would rather speculate, then later admit he doesn't know what happened but still conclude that RFK had little to do with measles deaths in a weird bootlicking opinion piece.
"Beyond the absurd suggestion that RFK Jr. is the perfect man to research #vaccines, Drs. Prasad and Kulldorff are perpetuating a dangerous and false anti-vaccine myth" | #sciencebasedmedicine | sciencebasedmedicine.org/python/?utm_...
RFK Jr thinks Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates are part of a “vaccine cartel” that intentionally killed people by denying them hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin (which don’t work for Covid).
I’m sorry, Canada
Health insurance industry PR is working overtime right now diverting blame to physicians for claim denials and rising costs. I feel compelled to remind everybody that Optum (UHC) is the largest employer of physicians in the US. We have never had less power in healthcare than we do right now.
Number of radiologically-confirmed pneumonia cases in the community continues to astound me. Where is the public health messaging around this?
Those familiar with the history of the antivaccine movement know Brian Deer as a pivotal person, and he’s been rightfully honoured by his fellow journalists, but in terms of the importance of his work, his name should be far more widely known. Without him, Wakefield might’ve harmed far more children
This isn’t the Shipoopi I remember…..
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This was a fascinating meeting on UPF policies and I was happy to present some preliminary results of our ongoing RCT on mechanisms by which diets high in UPFs cause excess energy intake. Here’s a brief summary 🧵
Always. Be. Selling.
If these people were interested in helping people who need it, they'd advocate a lot more for public health approaches to nutrition.
Instead what they offer are bullshit apps, so-called nutraceuticals, and "functional foods" to sell to the worried well.
Censorship will begin - in the name of "anti-censorship"
Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
Good thing Trump’s new HHS Secretary RFK Jr is an advocate for raw milk. That pasteurization stuff that saved hundreds of thousands of kids from bovine tuberculosis and other diseases is all deep state nonsense. 🙄
#TLM24 late-breakers out now, feat ESSENCE phase 3 of #semaglutide in #MASH
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Phil Newsome presents the much-anticipated ph 3 ESSENCE trial of semaglutide in MASH—data shown are for the week 72 interim analysis, involving 800 participants #TLM24 #LiverSky
RFK believes pandemic lockdowns were more restrictive and oppressive than the Holocaust, that vaccines cause autism, and that tap water may be turning kids gay.
But, sure, let’s question whether the “conspiracist” label applies because some countries in Europe don’t fluoridate their water.
Figure showing hospital-level variation in the percentage of patients discharged with a prescription for SGLT2 inhibitors.
Published in JAMA Cardiology: Prescription rates of SGLT2 inhibitors have increased substantially for patients with heart failure and a left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 40%. #AHA24
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