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Let me see if I have this right RFK Jr wants to curtail use of GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic because he says people should instead make “lifestyle changes” but he himself takes testosterone as a lifestyle drug so he can look all pumped up & mega macho I think this is a tad hypocritical?

submitted 96 days ago • 15 comments

This is a fascinating chart and I suspect if the gaps shown here were reduced through better education from TV, Movies, schools, the press and on social media, we'd see a lot of societal issues become less prevalent or problematic.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I see hysteria about this is not limited to Twitter. 'while I'm not saying they're alike at all, I'm going to draw a heavy comparison regardless' This is not helpful in any way. It's purely going to drive up anxiety. That's bad public health messaging.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP or NVICP). Are pharmaceutical companies immune from prosecution? No Are they not liable for their products, such as vaccines? No Can you sue pharmaceutical companies? Yes So why the statements that they are immune? 1/7

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Ok, some thoughts: 1) this will be one of the biggest civil-military crises this country has ever seen. 2) it will have drastic negative effects on our military readiness and effectiveness I’ll expand a little on each point below. 1/

submitted 107 days ago • 58 comments

Kristi Noem was too dumb to train her dog. She's not going to be able to deport 25 million people.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends: • Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots • Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus • Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory

submitted 107 days ago • 36 comments

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) released a report on winter mortality that got some recent press (below) for the comparison of flu and covid mortality. I wanted to go into the basis for the findings a little more deeply. A thread. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/health-...

submitted 502 days ago • 5 comments

A first post...

submitted 501 days ago • 2 comments