The actual finding here is about research methodology and doesn't debunk previous studies that find no association between Tylenol and autism.
You should not report studies like this in a way that implies RFK Jr has a point!
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
The share of counties where 95% or more of kindergartners were vaccinated against measles has dropped from 50% before the pandemic to 28%, according to our analysis of public records from 44 states and the District of Columbia. At least 19,000 schools are now more vulnerable to outbreaks.
Breaking: people with “struggle unless they are interested” disorder do well once they can work in an area that interests them
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
*mom
my mon just retired and has flown all across the US (including Alaska and she lives in Georgia) and to a handfull of other countries (currently hiking somewhere in Spain), so "getting really into travelling" could be an option I guess
I don't know that I've figured it out, but every time I get bored of all my usual leisure actiivities on weekends/holidays and think that the only thing that sounds interesting is whatever I'm doing at work at the moment, I wonder what I'm gonna do with myself in retirement
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?
Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.
wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something?
www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
Excited to share this collaborative review with @dsegre.bsky.social and @devmoy.bsky.social. We discuss common issues with context-specific genome-scale metabolic network models and provide recommendation for future model development.
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
Here are some ways to process the scale of $100 billion in ICE funding: 343 times what Elon Musk spent to swing the 2024 elections 140 times the cost to make New York City buses free 1,451 times private prison company CoreCivic’s net 2024 income 568 times the cost to pay all US students’ public school lunch debt 1,923 times the amount saved by the bill’s defunding of Planned Parenthood 62.5 times what the US paid in reparations to over 82,000 interned Japanese Americans 2,000 Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sánchez weddings 388 of the HIV vaccine program the Trump administration eliminated, effectively ending chances for a shot to prevent infections
8 times what the US spent to develop and purchase Covid vaccines in 2020 185 years of operating the Guantánamo Bay prison 2.1 times what it would cost to hire enough teachers and nurses to end both national shortages 7.6 Rupert Murdochs 385 Rick Scotts, the richest US senator 170 times the amount Trump’s bill cuts from the national parks 2.63 times what the US Agency for International Development spent in 2023 12 times the 2023 Federal Bureau of Prisons budget 2 times Harvard University’s endowment, the largest of any university in the world 7 times the 2021 federal child care funding 4.4 times what the US has spent on Israel’s military since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks
Truly staggering numbers, per www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The “bubble” framing also fundamentally misunderstands what most people want from social media. When you go to a knitting circle, are you disappointed that most people there want to talk about knitting? When you join a book club, do you complain that everyone seems interested in books? Pundits and politicians may want to broadcast to the largest possible audience, but most people are looking for community, not maximum reach. Most people aren’t looking for a debating arena. They want to talk with people they like about topics they care about—whether that’s knitting, local politics, or professional interests. This becomes impossible when the platform owner has hung out a shingle for Nazis, and your attempts to discuss your hobbies get drowned out by fascist propaganda algorithmically pushed into your timeline. That’s not “diverse discourse”—it’s just a bad user experience.
Well put by @mmasnick.bsky.social.
www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/c...
FUCK HIM UP
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
The worst measles outbreak in 30 years is happening right now - in unvaccinated children - and the people who are in charge of all of our public health are pretending they’re the real marginalized victims because they got everything wrong during the pandemic and people told them they were wrong
The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!
the goose from Untitled Goose Game holding a rainbow-colored knife in its beak, captioned Be Gay Do Crimes
Happy Pride, all! And especially to @anarchygoose.bsky.social !
Text: "gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose"
These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution
I think that a major driver of adherents to the COVID19 lab leak theory is that they cannot handle the simple truth that we are not in control of pandemics. The idea that novel pathogens emerge naturally is too frightening for them to handle. Yet that is how pandemics have begun throughout history.
The resurrection of this guy as some sort of scientific martyr is unbearably bleak. He was wrong about COVID and recommended policies that would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths! Why is his marginalization anything other than a societal good?
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
NEW: Trump's war on government is killing a generation of scientists, researchers, and policy experts. As I note in a recent issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, this will cost the US far more than the phony savings Elon Musk and DOGE claim.
link.motherjones.com/public/39805...
Ever since I started my graduate school career, I've known I want to work in science policy for the federal government, but right now that possibility is looking less and less likely each day. Thanks so much to @vivianla.bsky.social for doing such a wonderful job telling this story!
"STOP BEING MEAN TO US AS WE TEAR FAMILIES APART AND SELL PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY IN EL SALVADOR!"
The problem we have about health is that it’s marketed as this personal thing & conceptualised as the result of what you do to yourself or what individually happens to you -your bad luck-
But health is largely a collective expression of our environment & circumstances. This requires societal action.
Quote from NYT article about how AI "hallucinations" (aka completely made-up crap being passed off as true) are getting worse with each new iteration of the glorified autocorrect technology that's ruining the planet.
About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
