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The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

submitted 1 day ago • 383 comments

Trump is Putin's bitch.

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

submitted 4 days ago • 512 comments

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

submitted 7 days ago • 415 comments

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

submitted 8 days ago • 879 comments

Heh.

submitted 9 days ago • 376 comments

Trumps new Surgeon General pick is right up the alley for his HHS: Doctor in name only, hasn’t practiced, is an “influencer.” How far we have fallen. Fear not - this isn’t the end. We will push back at every step.

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

> @iansams.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 276 comments

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

submitted 15 days ago • 158 comments

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

submitted 17 days ago • 552 comments

"The millions who will die due to this administration’s policies have lives, names, friends and family who love them. Let them not just be figures in scientific papers—let their memorial be the whole earth." — @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 51 comments

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 17 days ago • 780 comments

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

submitted 18 days ago • 1814 comments

the richest, most powerful man in the world is the kid in the school cafeteria who ate mustard packets for attention

submitted 18 days ago • 232 comments

A "direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ" would mean fluoride exposure correlates to high IQ. This guy is so fucking dumb.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Not a word of this is true. Literally not a word.

submitted 18 days ago • 738 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 19 days ago • 1139 comments

People forget that Cancer (the disease) donated like $300,000 to the Trump inauguration fund

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

To think he called Biden ‘Sleepy Joe’. 🙄

submitted 21 days ago • 446 comments