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Techbio, Virology, Drug Discovery, Data, Midwest, Engineering, NLP, science, theology, history of science https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-5038
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The fascinating history of how a left-wing hoax from the 1960s is being embraced by the right wing today. samf.substack.com/p/war-what-i...

Those opposed to vaccines are making a lot of noise online about a recent study (Karimi et al., Int J Prev Med. 2025 Mar 21, PMC11970839) that reports a moderately elevated risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

I verified that some screenshots shared on FB are indeed accurate captures of Elon's own AI angering MAGA types by telling them truths that they do not like.

From NY Times

A misplarsed column break created a nonsensical phrase that now contaminates AI models and the scientific literature. Without curation such errors are likely to multiply, and there are probably many undiscovered errors in the databases. theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...

DARVO and "what did they say to make him hit them?" on a much bigger scale www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

Riot, Protest, or Religious Parade? Today's Palm Sunday message at church Two parades in Jerusalem Caesar vs Jesus

Here are citations for what I say in the image: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... asm.org/articles/201... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Those who are accustomed to the world being biased in their favor tend to see actual justice as bias against them. I happen to be a straight, white, prosperous, older Christian man. If bias against people like me were real, then why would people like me happen to basically run the world right now?

It probably says several things about me that I first encountered the phrase "hawk tuah" from a news item about a bizarre financial scandal. If you don't already know, suffice it to say it's a phrase from a risqué video that went viral, giving somebody her fifteen minutes of fame,

Cooking is the best way to keep bird flu virus out of pet food. Raw pet food is a very dangerous idea at any time and is especially dangerous now. Pets have been killed. And it might spread to people.

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.

S&P 500 stock market index, five years up to a few minutes ago.

A historian on why the real truth about Appomattox matters: racist lies about history have consequences. time.com/7275632/true...

Palestinian Christians feel betrayed by US Evangelicals www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Superb discussion of measles and public health with two experts. The first 12 minutes, and a summary, are free to all. The full discussion and transcript are for paid subscribers. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/doctors-lo...

Good, balanced summary of what is known about glyophosate. TLDR: it MIGHT have a very slight risk but if it does it's much less risky than all sorts of things that we take for granted. www.eatingwell.com/glyphosate-a...

NY Times headline: "Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off." If only they had listened to the Nobel Laureates who tried to warn us all.

The latest on measles. It's ugly. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/third-meas...

I rarely share links from this website because I consider them extreme left biased, they love inflammatory language. But I totally agree with this article! www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

RFK Junior FINALLY says the best way to prevent measles is to get vaccinated, after a second death in the ongoing outbreak. And after RFK Junior said the opposite for DECADES. www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/r...

mccormickmd.substack.com/p/march-in-c...

Xochitl Gonzalez nails it in The Atlantic: the “comfort class” isn’t about wealth—it’s about security. Folks like me, who’ve never had to stress about rent or cancer bills, shape policy for people we don’t really understand. That disconnect shows every time we talk about “the economy.”

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

Superb article. Link should get you past the paywall. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

The central political question of our time: will Trump's core voters reject economic reality as firmly as they have rejected epidemiological reality if consequences are again what experts had predicted? To put this more bluntly: can they ignore dollars as thoroughly as they ignored corpses?

A lot of "post-left" personalities like Brand claim they were pushed away from the left but were in fact drawn to the right as a means of escaping accountability for their own actions

My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target. This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.