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Advocate for and researcher on transparency in medical research. Former FDA reviewer of psychotropic drugs back when the FDA was a tougher gatekeeper.
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Meanwhile, DOJ lawyers are threatening medical journals for not providing adequate "viewpoint diversity" and for misinforming their readership, which I suppose means not publishing enough of the stupid shit that RFK Jr., JB, etc. keep saying. This is an outrageous First Amendment violation.

submitted 23 days ago • 197 comments

It was entirely clear this is what they were doing. They say it's about immigrants but nothing would stop them from using this on citizens. It's a clear violation of the privacy act. They're combining databases from DHS, HHS, SSA, and IRS to surveil everyone. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/goog...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Noticeably silent amid the upheaval at HHS? Big pharma. Every new drug has NIH somewhere in its DNA--and NIH funding supports the training of their workforce. Now they're finding out FDA isn't safe, either. Wrote about how keeping quiet isn't working My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (gift link):

submitted 41 days ago • 44 comments

This is absolutely devastating for public health, for scientific integrity, for innovation, for all Americans. I can't string together more coherent thoughts - just absolutely devastating.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

While, in recent years, we complained about the FDA, little did we know that, one day, we’d be looking back at those nostalgically as the good ol’ days

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

New eNeuro(@sfnjournals.bsky.social) 📄! 🤩 "Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference" w/ @kristinbigos.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @amayoco.bsky.social @drxilma.bsky.social @comm4rigor.bsky.social www.eneuro.org/content/eneu...

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Universities around the world are now actively soliciting for US PhD candidates to apply. Also, medical professionals are being told that they can be fast-tracked in other countries. The brain drain is going to be severe. Yet more dumbing down of the United States.

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

[email protected], would you agree that much of your uncle's anger toward Zelesnkyy is because, as he says, he's insufficiently grateful...he hasn't kissed the ring/feet to the degree that all narcissists require, like so many others have, in the US and abroad?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

So is this the end of FDA advisory committees?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Stats experts, do you know of any references taking the FDA to task for using archaic stats methods, esp making approval decisions based on NHST + trial counting (& not MA)? Thanks. @f2harrell.bsky.social @stephensenn.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social @healthstatsdude.bsky.social

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

Sure feels like the great political cartoonists of our time are really stepping up and meeting this dark moment in our history. And brilliantly.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting read shared by @eturnermd1.bsky.social.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Overdosing on Ozempic news. Lots of things about GLP-1 drugs - costs, quality of the evidence, drug safety, who/what is driving the market, politics, conflicts of interest - sometimes minimized or ignored in the overdose of GLP-1 news. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Emergency Video: will Congress do to itself what they are demanding of other departments? Cut congress’ budget and shrink THEIR staff now!

submitted 83 days ago • 1178 comments

New article: "Is ketamine efficacious for rapid treatment of acute suicidal ideation in an emergency setting? Lessons learned from a pilot randomized controlled trial" Short answer: Not really. No sign diff between ketamine and control (midazolam) bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

This seems like a good idea for increasing transparency www.clinicalleader.com/doc/ciscrp-s...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

submitted 93 days ago • 30 comments

RFK Jr claimed FDA is suppressing HBOT www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Paper of ours just out in JAMA Network Open @jama.com "Characteristics of Trials Preceding FDA Approval of Novel Psychiatric Drugs" @akesselheim.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments