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Science writer, anthropologist, Ph.D. (fieldwork in Israel), member of plague lovers' society, disease evolution nerd, author of Plague, co-author of Biowarrior, I.V. Domaradskij's memoir. Former science writing instructor at Emory.
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Oh, L👀K! One of Tom Homan’s Brown Shirts forgot to cover his face during this illegal raid Online sleuths have ID’d him as Michael Meyer, he commonly goes by name Lewis Arthur, and his group, Veterans on Patrol (VOP) is associated with Oath Keepers hey, internet, do your thing— make him famous 🤬

Childhood vaccine rates in the USA have been dropping since 2020. If vaccines caused autism shouldn’t we also see a drop in autism?

DrAndreaLove.bsky.social Just dropping in here as an infectious disease immunologist: HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. It doesn’t matter what RFK Jr, Joe Rogan, Bret Weinstein), Pete Hegseth, Woody Harrelson, Bill Maher, and others say. Their arrogance doesn’t make their claims true.

@zey.bsky.social needs to be quiet now. She can't engage intellectually on any of the science. She's made it pitifully clear over the years how she knows little and understands less. No virologists have tried to gaslight the public, Zeynep. You have, and you do, week after week, year after year.

the united states—the most powerfulcountry in the world—has now become the most dysfunctional, kleptocratic, and unfree political system of the advanced industrial democracies. by far. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...

A government that uses force while defying the rule of law is not entitled to the protections of the rule of law, nor are its agents.

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

It's frustrating how distorted that episode has been. "We think X is unlikely but we should rule it out anyway" is very common in the research process. Looking into a lab leak hypothesis and then publishing an article favoring natural origin is not even remotely evidence of a cover up.

It’s not the video games. Not the social media. It’s not the pot or the porn. It’s not that there are too many doors or too few police. It’s the gun the shooter was able to get. And it’s the gun the shooter was able to fire. It’s the gun. It’s the gun. It’s the motherfucking gun.

These people are liars, and their goal with this “leak” bullshit is to discredit real science. The want to do this to privatize US science, so oligarchs can steal the US science budget. We should reject it straight up. Trump is lying about COVID to take away your cancer cures, for profit. 1/

Maybe it's time to start this and make it hurt.

Karl Rove Warns That ‘Americans Are Already Exhausted’ by Trump and His Thirst for ‘Revenge’: This ‘Will End Badly for Him’ https://twp.ai/4ilgGE

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

So the White House is out with a silly web page aping Alina Chan’s argument for lab leak. Folks who haven’t paid attention to this for a while and are interested should see here how dishonest Alina Chan is.

Gabriel Casas, 1932 Booklovers get it. #Books #Booksky

this is going to kill people.

So if we sum up the contents of that page*, SARS-CoV-2 is a terrible virus that leaked from a Wuhan lab, BUT! No masks nor social distancing were required to stop outbreaks. (* taken from the Wenstrup report published last year)

The rest of the world has done an impressive job of ignoring Sudan's suffering: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).

The NYT has been a threat to democracy basically my entire life, since Judith Miller ran interference for the Bush Admin’s WMD claims.

No more kings! www.headsupnews.org/p/the-250-ye...

I remember. And it was my first thought. Just come home safely, Senator.

The US human rights reports ”will no longer call governments out for such things as denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn retaining political prisoners without due process or restrictions on ‘free and fair elections.’" www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

Put a Russian asset in the White House, along with a ketamine-addled Destroyer of Worlds and a pint-brained, eye-linered stumbling excuse for a politician as VP, and this is what you get.

What the actual fuck? Yale couldn't defend its Jewish students, but they're allowing the vicious Kahanist, terrorist supporter, and effective Nazi (not something I say lightly) a place to speak at Yale? He should be run out of town on a rail.

I once had dinner with a tableful of young successful women from Goldman Sachs. I thought I'd died and gone to hell. Despite their stellar records, they were the most ignorant, unimaginative, boring dinner companions I've ever had. What a depressing evening.

Marco Rubio used to be anti-Russian and pro-Ukraine. How does he feel now, inside his shifty little skull? Is he unhappy, or has he just pushed aside whoever he was before (not that it was so great) to made room for a whole new Rubio, Trump's robot?