T. R. Levin

We’ve Got To Do Something About Evidence Generation Part 1: General Issues

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Bureaucracy and inefficiency prevent us from getting answers to meaningful clinical questions

A cell-free DNA blood test could be an option for patients who repeatedly decline colonoscopy or stool testing for #ColorectalCancer screening. #ASCO25

Read the new JAMA Original Investigation to learn more. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Manhattan is the Maryland Crab Soup of Clam Chowders

Critics Ask If Trump and Musk Are 'Intentionally Crashing the Economy' | Common Dreams "If you think back at the last economic crashes... the rich were able to buy up assets on the cheap and emerged even wealthier and more powerful than before," noted one progressive commentator.

We need to ask ourselves whether the chaos is a feature not a bug www.commondreams.org/news/trump-m...

Inside the Collapse at the NIH Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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Chaos and lawlessness continue at the NIH

The Plot Against America How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes.

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Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

A clear and compelling description of what is happening to science right now. www.bmj.com/content/388/...
@amergastroassn.bsky.social @replsimon.bsky.social Ironic we have to go to the BMJ to read about it.

The things about him that make the most sense are the most likely to block him being confirmed— we DO need a healthier food supply and we do need to get serious about chronic illnesses like diabetes.

RFK Jr. Is in the Wrong Agency He could be a great agriculture secretary.

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I think we all know the answer

Better that than the one I saw outside Atlanta:”Lee May have surrendered, but I didn’t”

If Harvard were truly committed to increasing access to an élite education, it could have invested a fraction of its fifty-three-billion-dollar endowment in free college-preparatory academies across America and guided hundreds of poor Black and Latino students through the university’s gates.

“Harvard did not have to pursue such a comical vision of social justice. It could have vastly expanded its class sizes, relaxed its admissions standards, and cut off its pipelines from exclusive private schools. It could have opened its doors to hundreds of community-college transfers.”

Why the Champions of Affirmative Action Had to Leave Asian Americans Behind The original concept in pursuit of diversity was vital and righteous. The way it was practiced was hard to defend.

Our first mistake was trusting Harvard to be the guardian of increasing fairness in college admissions. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/why-the-champions-of-affirmative-action-had-to-leave-asian-americans-behind