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jasonrbarron.bsky.social
Geriatric millennial walking the winding paths of health policy, the life sciences, regulatory affairs, clinical research, and rare disease advocacy. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 !
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This is NOT what our country wants. Why would a gov't dismantle systems, make senseless choices that so directly harm all of us? Simple: what's being done to science + medicine is a flexing of power, a test run of authoritarianism. It sure won't be stopping at science www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Honestly I'm glad they picked Harvard to try out this novel "we're mad" legal theory of revoking tax-exempt status, given its infinite resources, deep network of powerful alumni, and law school attended by 142 sitting federal judges. Good luck! 🫡

submitted 17 days ago • 387 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 19 days ago • 1661 comments

If there is a multiverse, we are clearly living in one of the most backward stupid corners of it. Not the one with jet packs and interplanetary travel for humans. Not the one with cures abundant. We are in the lead paint eating, poisoned water, information allergic corner of the multiverse.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and claims harassment. Recently Musk, who went on to create his own AI firm, xAI, in 2023, has tried to prevent the ChatGPT maker from transitioning to a for-profit model, culminating in the current court case. #MomSky #Voices4Victory www.reuters.com/legal/openai...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Cory Booker is a deeply capable senator. So is Raphael Warnock. A ticket with the two of them together would engender different kinds of support than we have seen before.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I know there's a lot in the news right now but honestly, what happened at FDA this week is far and away the worst in terms of its negative impact for our country and the people who live in it. Again, what happened to FDA this week is the worst thing that has happened to the US in decades.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Mina would like to know why all of these evil fuckers aren't in jail yet. Will wait. Treats are permissible in the tedium of the waiting.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 38 days ago • 1624 comments

treat the signalgate story like fox news would - what other secrets are they hiding - are there payoff backchannels - release the long form text transcripts - this requires a criminal investigation - what other backchannels are they leaking classified intel on? members of congress? fox news? russia

submitted 40 days ago • 99 comments

So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study? A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.

submitted 39 days ago • 149 comments

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 39 days ago • 168 comments

In <24 hours, Covid funding is DOGEd across HHS, CDC, NIH as if it and Long Covid didn't exist and there is no worry for future pandemics www.science.org/content/arti... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 39 days ago • 197 comments

As of now, I find only 11 study sections that didn't meet as scheduled but haven't been rescheduled, all ZRG1s. There isn't any discernible topical pattern, so hopefully will be up soon. You can always check the big sheet for rescheduled dates: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The DC Department of Health says that someone with measles visited several places in DC, including Amtrak trains, six days ago while contagious. Press release: dchealth.dc.gov/release/heal...

submitted 40 days ago • 39 comments

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 39 days ago • 1104 comments

It gives me a little bit of joy to know that right now, Hegseth and Tulsi and Rubio and Waltz are all relying on one another to delete every single incriminating Signal thread and every self-protecting screenshot and this requires 100% compliance and accuracy on all sides.

submitted 39 days ago • 84 comments

Tout this widely. The biggest danger right now is, as @dandrezner.bsky.social said yesterday, pluralistic ignorance, when “people who hold a majority opinion are unaware that it is a majority opinion”. We need to broadcast all the signs that the town halls etc are not a fluke.

submitted 39 days ago • 27 comments

WARNING: As the measles epidemic in Texas rages on, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a longtime vaccine skeptic — has been heavily promoting vitamin A as an astounding “alternative treatment” for the deadly disease. After Kennedy began pushing vitamin A as a cure,..

submitted 39 days ago • 125 comments

Is America great yet? amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...

submitted 39 days ago • 73 comments

I was ripped to shreds on #CNN for standing up for the safety of the American military before Hegseth was hired. Told I was a “disgrace” who should be “ashamed of myself”, berated through the commercial break and threatened with defamation. Look where we are now.

submitted 39 days ago • 1544 comments

I do get a touch sad when I remember there is no point trying to engage with the fascist supporters because they are going to find out about It soon anyway. The recession on the horizon will be breathtaking and intractable. All of the West is boycotting all of our goods. Nursing homes will close.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments