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The true test of any science is whether it holds-up & moves the field forward. In the USA, fraud can lead to jail time. Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research theconversation.com/fake-papers-...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Journavx, a non-opioid painkiller that is the first novel pain drug to win government authorization in more than 20 years. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which makes the drug, has billed it as an effective alternative to opioids that isn’t addictive.

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY #medsky #IDsky #obgynsky #pedsky CDC STI treatment guidelines have been taken down. They are archived here 👇 web.archive.org/web/20250131...

submitted 23 days ago • 166 comments

Hey, scientists: . 🌟 . * . 🌙 🛸 * 🛰️ . ✨ * YOU ARE NOT ALONE . * . 🌏 🪐 * 🌞 👽 . * . ✨ . Pass it on.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Since the fascists are waging a gender war based on their (wrong) views re: the determinacy of X Y chromosomes, I’d just like to point out that they were discovered by an unmarried woman geneticist whose findings were stolen by men after she died of breast cancer at 50. www.omic.ly/the-discover...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Hi data nerds! We are looking to 1) host copies of data or papers downloaded from the CDC on airborne viruses, especially COVID and bird flu 2) Start archiving/downloading data & papers of those things from other sources The want is real but the skills lack; pls DM w/info!

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

ALL NASA community facing/oriented groups/committees/etc. have been frozen, which tells you everything you need to know. When people get together, they can fight. If we keep people separated, we are easier to keep afraid. Keep your connections, keep talking, and keep fighting.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dismissed roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the Washington, D.C., office over the past four years, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

Dr Mohammad Zakaria was performing surgery when Russia attacked Chornomorsk, Odesa region The blast wave shattered glass in the operating room, the surgeon was injured. He didn't pay the slightest attention to explosions and flying shards of glass but continued his surgery. 📷Oleh Kiper

submitted 23 days ago • 202 comments

Well, if you were ever wondering how you would experience a fascist coup.... time to journal.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

submitted 23 days ago • 57 comments

Exclusive: Documents obtained by The Post provide extensive detail about an allegation that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

submitted 98 days ago • 132 comments

Still can’t believe this needs to be said but…there are sound public health reasons for legally requiring milk to be pasteurized and they are the same reasons for legally requiring pets to get rabies shots. And Louis Fucking Pasteur invented BOTH pasteurization (1862) and the rabies vaccine (1882).

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments