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Reviewing some coverage of the DC parade today, and you really, really have to wonder who decided to play “Fortunate Son” over the sound system. My wife reminds me that a lot of people never listen to lyrics, but come on. . .

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Got the car ready

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When the National Institutes of Health cut billions of dollars of research funding earlier this year, it jeopardized our wellbeing and scientific progress. We'll be in court Monday arguing that scientific research should be guided by evidence, not politics.

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I just discovered this delightful homage to @dereklowe.bsky.social on Wikipedia (cc @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social)

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My latest @wsj.com review-delightful new book about the magic and wonder of computers (plus unusual awareness of the ineluctable messiness of biology). www.wsj.com/arts-culture... @dereklowe.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social @thgoetz.bsky.social @ihaque.bsky.social

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This deep dive on the anti-vaccine researcher hired by Kennedy to dig into HHS/CDC data is realllly interesting. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-long-med... By @kathleenseidel.bsky.social

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A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

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SCOOP: Independent US vaccine body is planned after RFK Jr’s mass firing of CDC advisory panel www.bmj.com/content/389/...

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The media has two unhelpful approaches to RFK Jr.: treating him as a legitimate critic of government systems who has a viable plan for improving American health or falling in love with him over text messages.

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We have people calling us frauds on a daily basis because they don’t like papers we’ve published. But none of us ever misrepresented data and or made errors we then refused to correct.

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House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

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In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

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Anyone who wants it, here's a non-paywall link to my 2019 column on tear gas in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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So, I had some Pam cooking spray sitting on one counter and some spray mount sitting on another counter and friends, you will never GUESS what happened when I went to spray mount my sign for the Saturday march (and yes, at least it wasn't the other way around)

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A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

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Martin Kulldorff - "one of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s Gardasil vaccine, court records show." www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

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I've been seeing so many posts about stuff that supposedly neutralizes tear gas and pepper spray. For goodness sake, friends, if you aren't putting milk/liquid antacid/etc into your eyes when they are healthy, you certainly don't want them in your eyes when they're already irritated. JUST WATER.

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Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

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Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

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Thread on RFK Jr.’s ACIP appointments. Yes, they’re awful.

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My God, what an awful idea. I’m glad it’s been rolled back.

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“Covid-19 deniers, skeptics and outright anti-vaccine individuals.” Meet the government's new vaccine advisors. Story by @sherylnyt.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4462vqO

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1. Do you believe that pathogens cause disease? 2. Why has CDC greatly reduced testing and monitoring for human H5N1 cases? 3. Do you believe that HIV causes AIDS? 4. Do you believe that the polio vaccine is safe & effective and will you commit to not changing recommendations on polio vaccination?

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Now how the heck did Novo Nordisk end up with such poor patent coverage for Ozempic/Wegovy in Canada? Incompetence cannot be ruled out:

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Catching up on blog entries: is taurine really a marker of aging? Better evidence says “Nope”!

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“I don’t think there’s any way to put this, other than saying that this is an unmitigated public health disaster" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

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In honor of the late Brian Wilson, here's a painstaking re-creation of "Surf's Up" that will give you some idea of what it takes to arrange something like this. It includes Carl Wilson's beautiful fade-out coda added in 1971 (which Brian, to everyone's surprise at the time, helped out with).

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I realize that not everyone uses blocklists, but for those who do, I have been adding a lot of names to mine with the recent influx of accounts ranting about "illegals" and taking the Trump administration line. Hit "Subscribe" on this list and you'll never hear from 'em again. Updates continue!

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Apparently the regime doesn’t like scientific integrity. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Thiol users and enjoyers, is there a reason folks don't make TIPS-SH from TIPS-Cl and NaSH? The preps out there all bubble H2S through n-BuLi

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I feel like @eliothiggins.bsky.social has been writing a lot about this, but I also feel like he hasn't been heard enough: the current protests in LA are a nasty case of when we'll see how insidious and effective the "disordered discourse" Musk has set up on X really is.

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“Pursue other opportunities”

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