A substack bio that reads: David Newman @researchtranslator Research Translation SMART Summaries ER doc fallen from grace, proud dad and data diver. As a former writer for the Times, HuffPo, and others, and author of See more... 758 subscribers
I'll be darned.
*That* David Newman is back, and writing about medicine.
"Fallen from grace" indeed.
In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
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theonion.info
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
I thought that a brief PubMed search would reveal several articles showing this but no.
🤔
Diluting formula with extra water than is called for because of the price when an infant is under 6 months old and should not be consuming plain water at all.
"The head football coach ordered about 80 students to perform continuous, whistle-driven push-ups for an entire class period — about 45 minutes or more — without water, rest or breaks.
Coaches required them to do push-ups for two more days."
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"Anyone who decides to learn to speak another language realizes the extent to which any language comes with a specific conception of the world and the universe around us. It’s really a way to learn to see the world – our world – through a different lens.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Remarkable SCOTUS reporting in the NYTimes, which pretty much confirms what observers have always assumed, but still astonishes. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Multiple AI scribes inferior to human note writers
"Although ambient AI scribes hold promise for reducing clinician burden, independent, vendor-neutral evaluations of note quality are essential before large-scale clinical deployment."
#bioethics
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas after doctors delayed treatment.
The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to the deaths, but the doctors were given minimal punishment.
By Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
The Usual Suspects remake based on army soldiers except instead of them all meeting at a line-up they meet during the call-back confirmation testing when their initial pooled blood sample tests positive for syphilis
Wild how Burger King's decline has mirrored the loss of power and prestige among all monarchies.
Drop your crime fighting Catholics
I’m worried he may pull a Platner
When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.
In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.
📣 Our NEW study on AI chatbots & medical misinformation: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/4... cc @ualberta.bsky.social
"...chatbots performed poorly when answering questions in misinformation-prone health and medical fields."
Headline: Sailboat stuck in New Haven Harbor belongs to fugitive accused of child sex crimes
A sailboat on its side at low tide with Long Island Sound in the background
Saw the pedo-boat today.
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
I can’t believe I have to say this but this is becoming a problem. People “meowing” on the active frequency has become a thing and it is interfering with comms.
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.
Taxing billionaires is not radical.
What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.
Si pudiera viajar atrás en el tiempo, me gustaría conocer a Snoopy. De la película olvidable Josie and the Pussycats
This is amazing...
Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA."
Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."
Monday is a good day to repost this.
