My article in the Financial Times about my book. It includes a wonderful randomised trial of beer glasses (which you might unknowingly have been part of if you bought a pint in some British pubs c.1998)
“Testing claims matters more than ever in an age of misinformation”
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Lol our current government is actually hell for my “personality type” (ENTJ).
“Somebody is wrong, and they’re directing a large group of people! You can’t do anything about it and will have to obey whatever inefficient policies they decide to implement”
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Nothing really special, just a dog taking a moment to appreciate the roses' fragrance.
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🏳️🌈 Miami Beach just unveiled its relocated rainbow crosswalk this morning!
Now rebuilt in city-owned Lummus Park — just feet from the original spot on Ocean Drive & 12th Street, where the state ripped it out last year.
Pride always finds a way! 🌈
Pets and older adults - 83% say having a pet gives them a sense of purpose and 70% say it connects them with others, but 31% say it strains their budget. Data from University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging
Given everything else that's going on, the fact that tomorrow is both #NationalPetDay and #Caturday is not exactly front burner.
But the University of Michigan recently released data on the role of pets in the lives & health of people over 50 and it's worth a read: ihpi.umich.edu/national-pol...
A university of Michigan bus with the words natty champs on the message area on April 7, 2026
Even the buses are celebrating in Ann Arbor this morning.
A blue sign with a graphic of diverse people. There is orange writing on the sign that says guarantee healthcare for all
Each day during Public Health Week, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social will be highlighting two of the 10 planks in our People’s Health Platform.
Today we’re leading off with a banger:
GUARANTEE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM ctmirror.org/2026/02/23/t...
You want to opt out of Palantir abusing your health data, right?
Sign the petition and share, please!
If we’re going to use Denmark’s vaccine policy we also need their parental leave, health insurance, and other benefits that help prevent illness. We can’t use just one small part of their health plan.
Here @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social explains that the budget bill looks good primarily because we allowed our expectations to be reset.
Cancer and dementia research and other science have enormous power. The public cares.
Did AAAS fully use that power?
A bright spot amidst all the public health doom and gloom: we're getting closer to a Guinea worm-free world
Our very beloved President Carter was a key leader in the fight against Guinea worm
1986: ~3.5 MILLION cases
2025: 10 cases 🤯
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*Drank raw milk in pregnancy*
Good lord. You have MAHA demonizing vaccines and Tylenol when they love them some raw milk, and this is the shit that's actually dangerous.
So, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis this weekend, and what I saw was not what I would expect in the United States of America. My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of Whipple. And as a doctor, I was especially concerned about the reports of inadequate medical care. So, during my visit yesterday, I got confirmation that the facility has no specific medical policy and no real medical care on site. There was not a nurse present yesterday at all. There are no beds, no real blankets, minimal food, extremely cold temperatures. People are in locked cells and leg shackles. The agents there couldn't or wouldn't answer the most basic questions. Like how many people were currently being held? How many people had to be sent to the hospital over the last week? How many 911 calls been made in the last week?
And when I asked if any calls to 911 had been made that day, they confirmed that in fact 911 had been called at least earlier once that morning. Everything I saw showed me this operation is chaotic, disorganized, ineffective, and dangerous. I was also able to speak with two of the women who were being held there, and both of them shared harrowing experiences. The first was a woman who had been brought in the night before. She and the other women in her cell had to sleep on the hard concrete floor because there are no beds. She told me they were freezing cold, shivering the entire night. They begged agents for blankets and never got any. She told me the agents were cruel and that the women were treated like they weren't human beings. The second was a woman who'd been brought in earlier that morning. I asked to speak with her because she was in a cell alone, shackled, and she looked deeply distressed. She told me that she and her husband were both being held at Whipple and had been taken away from their 7-year-old daughter. She'd been there for hours, but had not been able to make a phone call yet, so she hadn't been able to contact her daughter, who was left with a friend and is now separated from both of her parents. She was sobbing. She asked when and if she was going to be put on a flight to Texas, but the agents couldn't even give her an answer.
These just happened to be the two people that I spoke with while I was there and both exemplified how people are not being treated humanely. Families are being ripped apart and people aren't being treated with the dignity that every human being deserves. ICE is not going after the worst of the worst. This reckless operation is tearing communities apart and traumatizing our neighbors. My visit only underscored how urgently critical it is that members of Congress are able to conduct their legal right and duty to perform oversight unannounced without advanced notice as the law requires. And it is needed to protect our constituents during this time of extreme crisis. I am more resolved than ever to do what I can to end Operation Metro Surge and get ICE out of Minnesota. quick rough transcript by @clancyny.bsky.social.
Congresswoman who is an M.D. gained oversight access to Whipple dentention center, a Trump immigrant concentration camp in Minneapolis. She posted about it on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxPn8n2Bfg In pictures is a rough transcript of her […]
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Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK.
In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is.
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Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
Conflict of interest
Our lab will be boycotting biotech vendors that have contracts with ICE (e.g., Fisher, Agilent), and telling them why. If you google “vendorname usa spending”, you can see purchases for specific depts including ICE on usaspending.gov. Please talk to your labs and email your vendors!
The formal withdrawal of the WHO will have major consequences for both the United States & the WHO itself.
First, let’s think about the U.S.
The U.S. has shot itself in the foot—it has now made itself much more vulnerable to disaster and devastation when the next epidemic or pandemic hits.
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Wondering why there's such a fuss about pushing some #vaccine recommendations to "shared clinical decision making"? The term is being conflated with "informed consent," suggesting it's about empowering parents. This isn't that; good take here. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/shared-dec...
It's why he's The Boss
My quote of the day
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Frank Lautenberg
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
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“It’s like Call of Duty,”
one could be heard saying via a TV mic, referring to a first-person shooter military video game.
“So cool, huh?”
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Local journalism matters.
