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Eugenicist RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Chronic Illness By Eliminating Chronically Ill People | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Eugenicist RFK Jr Wants To Eliminate Chronic Illness By Eliminating Chronically Ill People by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthe...

RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵

There are fewer than a dozen trans people in professional sports. But there are 62 million straight men visiting a “How To Rape” website. Guess which group conservatives are worried about.😢

#ImpeachRFKJr

The thing about science is that you don't know what's going to work! If you did, you wouldn't be doing it. So we've gotta have both breadth and depth!

And multiyear funding isn't going to accomplish that :)

Estimates show the 1918 flu epidemic killed about 45,000 US soldiers, about 38% of the total US military deaths in WWI. The flu and its secondary illnesses made up the majority of death by disease. Thousands (possibly as many as 36,000) died before making it from basic training to the battlefield.

I often think about what it will look like to rebuild NIH. It's going to be hard, expensive work.

And that's if we stop the damage and start rebuilding soon.

It's only going to get harder the longer this lasts.

Helping!!

Went to a workshop this morning & one of the “fireside chat” speakers was former CDC Director Dr Mandy Cohen & it was painful to hear her say it’s going to take “generations” to undo the damage & rebuild CDC—she reflected on the amazing outbreak experts, eg Marburg experts, at CDC when she ran it

Black cat sitting on a leg of photographer trying to look annoyed. But actually enjoying himself and putting loudly

Scared black cat peering around the corner wall at the top of stairs with white carpet. Just head, 2 yellow eyes and not much else visible. Not wanting to miss any action. But not wanting it known that he's interested in what is going on

2 black cats arranged on white carpeted stairs doing their best to look uninterested in photographer at the bottom of the stairs. They propose this image as an iconic record album cover

Late to the cat party. Snuggles (outgoing) and Cuddles (shy + amazing eyebrows) send greetings. They specialize in looking bored+superior & pretend they are rarely tolerant of each other. Further, they don't actually live up to their iconic names very frequently. But they are very well loved.

Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.

Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”

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“From agency chiefs like Marty Makary & Jay Bhattacharya to higher-ups like RFK Jr & Russell Vought, to low-level insiders like Matthew Memoli & Jon Lorsch at NIH, whose familiarity with the workings of their agency helped to bring it down from within, all of these men need to be held accountable”👏

Breaking Free From Alex Jones A former Infowars employee on radicalization, lies, and getting out

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.

The judge also blocked "any similar policy."

Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.

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SEATTLE! I will be at the Cascade Ideas Festival on June 6. If you’d like to attend in person, tickets are available.

You’ll also be able to listen to a podcast of my conversation at a later date.

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Ouch.

Abysmal funding rates for NIH F grants (post-doc and grad students) under current administration makes me really question if it is even worth my student's time to even apply for a F grant. My only positive thought is that Aug applications will be considered for FY27 funding with maybe better rates?

Less trainees establishing independent research agendas ≠ supporting early career researchers

This entire thread is essential reading for all USA scientists and administrators. Our USA scientific enterprise is being murdered from. No funding for junior scientists. All grant issuing activity at NIH is at historic lows.

They are intentionally destroying the future of science in America. A generation of lost talent. These are grants that go *directly* to support trainees.

The attacks on science by this administration have been relentless.

We are moving towards a fascist system where scientists now have political minders who are appointed to deny science which does not fit this administration’s political ideology.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news.

But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials.

Keep funding science!

Can't wait for discovery!

Just saying - if there was a Viagra or testosterone shortage, there would be outrage & immediate fix. Shortage of estradiol patches causing all kinds of difficulties for women? Pure misogyny. "The scarcity of estradiol patches is the outcome of a broken system refusing to provide adequate supply"

#ScienceJobs 🧠🧪

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.

The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

Trump is an indictment of our political system, our criminal justice system, our media ecosystem, and our education system.

He is a Frankenstein monster made of all our past and present failures.

A routine test during pregnancy caught my cancer and saved my life | Expert Opinion A pediatrician's pregnancy was challenged by chemotherapy, fatigue, and worry after a routine prenatal blood test caught her early-stage cancer.

This is pretty fascinating, but of course the NIH study is in jeopardy

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two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.