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Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS? …And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (“poppers”) used by gay people? Oh wait…🥴

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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.

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Oh.

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Sir Bedevere: “How do you know she is a witch?” Enraged villagers: “She looks like one! And she’s got MS-13 tattooed on her knuckles!”

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For what it’s the record, I encourage neologisms and freshening up cliches.

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I’ll never get over how many in the media seem surprised that a con artist is charming in person. That’s like #1 in the list of grifter qualifications.

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You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.

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ABBA’s eponymous LP turns 50 today — including the single “Mamma Mia”. “In the beginning, lyrics were a sort of necessary evil for us,” said Bjorn Ulvaeus. But “when my grasp of English had got much better because we'd traveled a lot, I began to think that it would be fun to say something as well.”

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A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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If the United States learned any lesson from HIV, it should have been that negligence can be a death sentence, @katherinejwu.com. https://theatln.tc/xK6xmSnk

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Ten bonus points if you can identify the source of this quote.

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Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

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Wanna feel old? This is Bugs Bunny now.

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Guy who claims to be a master dealmaker can’t even strike a deal with one of his closest allies to secure the return of a man he mistakenly sent to prison?

submitted 20 days ago • 613 comments

Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

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The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

submitted 27 days ago • 853 comments

I worked on PRAMS from 1991-2007. It made tremendous contributions to maternal and child health in the US.

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It's poetry that racist Strom Thurman's filibuster record to stop the Civil Rights Act was broken by a black man in the Senate. Condolences in Hell, Strom.

submitted 33 days ago • 83 comments

31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.

submitted 34 days ago • 80 comments

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

submitted 34 days ago • 163 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 36 days ago • 670 comments

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 36 days ago • 852 comments

Trump will be known as the fertilizer president (in polite circles, and otherwise as the horseshit president).

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Truer words were never spoken.

submitted 44 days ago • 1679 comments

This is true. The number of prophecies follows a zero-inflated Poisson distribution.

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Happy Pi Day

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Trump Adds ‘Toyotathon’ And ‘Happy Honda Days’ To List Of Banned Woke DEI Words www.wonkette.com/p/trump-adds...

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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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“Veterans will die, but we’ll course correct.”

submitted 57 days ago • 528 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

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…okay, who did this? and what’s your beverage of choice, because you should drink for free for the rest of your life www.opmreply.com

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