toxicological.bsky.social
Toxicologist, systems biologist. Bringing bioinformatics to environmental health. Interested in using computational toxicology to design safer chemicals? There’s a book for that! https://www.amazon.com/Green-Toxicology-Making-Chemicals-Benign/dp/1839162287
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If you don't want to see "zaslaving" then you shouldn't be speaking a language that absorbs and assimilates words like the Borg. English just does this and sometimes, we like to give it a little push in the right direction (cough cough santorum)
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There appears to be a lot of people left and right who think there were easy solutions. And who want to think this was a lab leak and therefore controllable and will never happen again.
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Having lost a parent to dementia and seeing another age into normal old-guy frailties, they are. . .not the same at all.
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I was just about to say - this needs Mike and the Bots!
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Same. But letting the Koch’s ruin civility seems sad.
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The part that bothered me the most was misconstruing Andersen changing his mind as evidence of some sort of pressure. Data changed his mind - that is the way science works!
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Glad I wasn’t the only one who reacted this way. I thought it was disingenuous in its framing. Also - RFK as skeptic?
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That’s old school grifting
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Wait let me guess. . .was she censored for daring to tell the truth?
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Do not give them an INCH!
It's not: Well, maybe there are some areas where DEI has become too much a focus.
It's: FREE COUNTRIES DON'T SEND OUT BANNED WORDS LISTS TO THEIR SCIENTISTS
It's not: Well, science isn't perfect...
It's: FREE COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE SCIENCE COMMISSARS
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They aren’t chemical pesticides? So they are. . .subatomic particle pesticides?
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Oh I remember that book! Bit of a time capsule but well worth a read.
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One of the sadder aspects of this era is how vulnerable science is to having the doubt, uncertainty and skepticism that is intrinsic to the process be weaponized against it.
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Before we could do DNA sequencing, observable traits were the only metrics we had to understand ancestry. But they are bad metrics. No one is denying that humans are diverse in many observable ways, but using race in the genomics era is like saying vapors are real because bad air makes you sick.
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There are good reasons the genetics community moved away from “race” towards ancestry to describe human diversity.
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I’m sorry, you deserve better.
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Just add that in so far as “toxins” are reducing life spans, it’s mostly air pollution. From cars.
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Taxation without representation
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Thanks!
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Every one of these is more important than the mental acuity of the former President. We are in trouble. Focus.
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Do you have a link for the study?
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Also the uniformity really stands out.
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Also, real scientists admit they were wrong! Many in the public health community he scorns have said with hindsight some calls were wrong. No such humility here.