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greennoise.bsky.social
Investigative journalist writing about health, science, and drugs, especially 🌿. @theguardian.com contributor. soon to be epidemiologist in training! ex-marketplace, ex-spotify. jewish filipino queer. 🏳️‍🌈 chicago now 🌭 missing LA 🍵 #ADHD
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My drug of choice is sleep.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

🤖🩺 Trusting AI too much? A new study finds people over trust medical advice from AI – even when it is inaccurate – often rating it as more trustworthy and thorough than doctors’ answers. 🧪 Risky responses still felt 'valid' to users. 🔗 doi.org/10.1056/AIoa... #AI #HealthTech #SciComm

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

submitted 18 days ago • 39 comments

Anyone have novel recommendations about growing up bi and mixed? I have only ever found one, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, and it’s still my go to when being a bi mixed Asian kid feels lonely. (Also it’s amazing, read it whatever your background is.)

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday, The Guardian published my investigation showing that TPG, one of the world’s richest private equity firms, was seeking a bankruptcy deal that could prevent thousands of personal injury claimants from getting their day in court. Today, that deal fell apart.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

An update following an investigation published by us yesterday by @greennoise.bsky.social www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

When a company files for bankruptcy, all lawsuits against it are automatically frozen. What does this mean when 1000s of people have filed personal injury claims against that company? My first special investigation for The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

In her latest for the Guardian, @greennoise.bsky.social takes a deep look at the bankruptcy of Exactech, the medical device maker, and what the company's financial issues has meant for people who have tried to sue the group and its private equity owner, TPG: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Is your life overshadowed by dread and fear as you await your next Pap-smear appointment? Does every five years feel like way too often? Fear no more! www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

As cannabis rescheduling continues to stall, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Dina Titus have introduced a new bill that would, at the very least, allow the federal government to research the impacts of state level weed legalisation. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

“It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of [white Afrikaners] to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitution democracy” —South Africa’s foreign ministry

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

What the actual fuck with these FAFSA form race categories. How do they decide who gets to check a box and who has to type out their country of origin?

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

New research finds that leading podcasters, like Joe Rogan and Russell Brand, are increasingly serving up misinformation about climate change and the impact of eating meat. @jesslsr.bsky.social reports:

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

They are stealing from us.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I hate exit polls and immediate election analyses. THEY ARE ALWAYS WRONG. And by the time actual data arrives people are ALREADY set on the *narratives* - this includes the MSM, pundits, politicians and regular voters.

submitted 40 days ago • 19 comments

Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.

submitted 40 days ago • 110 comments

It’s so fun how US drug policy means your ADHD stimulant prescriptions can be delayed or back ordered for weeks and weeks, but if your doctor calls your prescription in even a day early, you have to start the whole process over again.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

THREAD: As India launches strikes against Pakistan tonight, misinformation is rapidly spreading online. I'll fact-check viral falsehoods in this thread. This video, viewed over 660,000 times, shows Israeli air strikes on Gaza in October 2023. It's unrelated to Indian strikes tonight.

submitted 42 days ago • 24 comments

hulu will merge with fubo so fubo will drop their lawsuit blocking venu

submitted 162 days ago • 118 comments

A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it’s also wrong

submitted 48 days ago • 85 comments

Here is fun way to play with data. The below graph shows the United States total cancer death rates from 1968 through 2023. In 1970 the United States started funding research to find how to prevent and cure cancer. See ALT for more. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

“They invented coca cola. They invented cocaine. They created a monster.” Juan David Piñacue on how the United States corrupted the coca plant, and his mission to reclaim it for the Indigenous Andean community.

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

Legal weed cultivation at Acción Técnica Social in Bogota, Colombia. In Colombia, every individual can legally grow 20 cannabis plants. At ATC, they help keep the drug supply safer by teaching the community how to grow while avoiding contamination.

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Using a microscope to check cannabis for contaminants at ACCIÓN TÉCNICA SOCIAL in Bogota, Colombia.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

I’m pretty sure I’m more offended by the radio edits of certain songs than other ppl get offended by the explicit versions.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

submitted 55 days ago • 725 comments