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Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 16 hours ago • 51 comments

Does this mean the CDC will update its guidance again? www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

FYI: Another study showing that starting screening colonoscopies for colon cancer at age 45-49 intesd of at age 50 is worthwhile.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.

submitted 18 hours ago • 426 comments

Trump has so paralyzed the federal agencies responsible for protecting civil servants’ rights that federal employees may now be able to win relief directly from courts instead, the 4th Circuit rules. A very good decision for the independent civil service. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9m...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

This man is not a New Yorker. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/n...

submitted 22 hours ago • 201 comments

Wow... Context? Why would Ono: a) leave UMich for UF given FL higher ed politics over last few yrs (& his UM contract had been extended to 2032) b) announce his UF candidacy bf officially hired? Short time at UBC bf moving to UMich & if UF hire was ok'd, shortest UM Prez term (but now is anyway).

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

The value of public health: IDing "...contaminated seafood is difficult...Treating pts...is primarily supportive bc there are no antidotes...Adaptive strategies include enhanced disease surveillance, coastal water monitoring, improved wastewater controls, & public educ. to reduce exposure risks." 🛟😷

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Study: drug decriminalization in BC assoc'd w/ reduction in police-reported drug possession events, but not in rest of Canada or for BC drug trafficking incidents. Findings "do not support decriminalization in isolation as an effective policy at reducing drug overdose harms."🛟😷 policysky sociology

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But re-naming military bases back to their Confederate names is ok? www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6uM... In addition to Milk other ships named after notable leaders also on Navy's renaming "recommended list." E.g., ships named for Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman & Cesar Chavez.

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🛟😷 sociology medsky demography health policy policysky

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how it started / how it's going

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"The false citations in the MAHA Commission report are an example of how even pieces of Kennedy's health care agenda with broader appeal are being carried out 'in a way that is unserious,' said Chris Meekins, a managing dir. at Raymond James and health official in the 1st Trump administration." 🛟😷

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So if we follow the FDA Commissioner right, low COVID-19 vaccine uptake by pregnant women is "...probably because they want to see an a randomized controlled trial...?" SMH.

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Jay Bhattacharya’s right wing MAGA anti-science kookiness is having awful consequences

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

So the woman sitting next to me at a wedding tonight explained to me that NIH is only cutting poor quality science grants like the one trying to make mice transgender. We have lost the communication battle

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

This just popped up on a Tidal playlist of "folkified favorites"--super clever revamp of the original... First time I've heard it. 👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzfO...

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Maybe one day someone will tot up the DALY (disability life-adjusted years) effect of Musk, with a cost estimate as well. Ideally stick it to him as a crimes against humanity bill. Not saying it’d ever happen, but you can wish……

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"Be curious, not judgemental" www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPE...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

🛟😷 medsky

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Missed this a few mos. back. MAHA is the latest evolution of the antivax hustle of which Bigtree has been its carnival barker, preacher's son & fmr Dr. Phil segment producer & The Doctors production team. Really shows what's at the heart of all the maligning of (easy target) Big Pharma: cha-ching! 🛟

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🧪 Academicsky Science for Policy

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Brief thread on exemptions from childhood vaccines for school entry. First, each state sets the requirements for which vaccines are needed to attend school and what the exemption process is. There are three primary types of exemptions: medical, religious, and personal belief.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Good, but the rest of the article highlights how public confusion via contradictory statements is (unfortunately) optimal for discouraging vaccination--in this case for COVID-19 vaccination for kids and pregnant women... 🛟😷 medsky health policy

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🛟 medsky health policy 😷 idsky

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Called it. Casey Means didn’t drop out of residency because she was “disillusioned with the medical establishment.” She had already taken a prolonged leave of absence & was having serious performance issues. There’s no way she was on track to graduate after already missing 3 months. It’s all a grift

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries. For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse. New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Good this study was done but assumes damage wld get addressed. We know many ppl (esp kids) just live w/ bad teeth, normalize discomfort, & the stigma of bad tooth smiles. Plus how many ppl (kids & adults) are thrilled to see a dentist (& have dental ins.)? My pt: many impacts are hard to quantify. 🛟

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This article could be used to teach about why one must consider age, period, and cohort effects, & why selecting cases on the dependent variable is problematic. Contrary to the framing, story also highlights how unexceptional Gen Z really is.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If you know anything about RFK Jr the fact that he falsified the MAHA report should not surprise you in the least.

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🛟😷 medsky sociology

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Look, either AI wrote this BS report and fabricated science and references, or a MAGA hired by RFKJr and the Republicans did. Which is worse? White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Jane Baldwin, PhD just gave a brilliant presentation highlighting how a warming planet impacts global health. Also: "Humidity's Role in Heat-Health Outcomes: A Heated Debate," from Environmental Health Perspectives, 2023. #episky #signalboost ⚒️ @kkjetelina.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social

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UC Merced Prof ejected from graduation ceremony after attempting to ask outgoing UC System President Michael Drake about policies regarding pro-Palestine protestors at UC campuses and Drake grew visibly angry...

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submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

LLMs should not be used to review papers. The foundation of scientific credibility is peer review; LLMs are not our peers.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments