Of course. Leaders in health care should donate all external payments from industry to charity. Only then will they have credibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Re-upping this seems like a good idea today... www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v... via @statnews.com

It's so important to cool the temperature of political discourse and not panic at every ill-advised policy choice they make. It's so important not to reach straight for accusations of intentional harm. But it's so hard when then they do stuff like this. wapo.st/4nnE8xc

And so, the steady stream of direct attacks on the integrity of US federal science infrastructure goes on...

“AI devices often come to market with limited testing, so research funding could, in principle, help fill critical evidence gaps. But without transparency, those payments risk blurring into marketing rather than science,” www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/a... via @statnews.com

Great convo today: “… if the theory of the case is that no one really believes in …values of equality and inclusion … if that’s your theory, then you’re going to be surprised when…. in fact, many tens of millions of Americans believe these things sincerely…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

“…these two psychological reflexes — to disavow blame and project it completely onto the polluting other — transform trans people, a tiny, embattled and increasingly isolated minority in the United States, into a biological threat to the national body politic.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

So, rather than hiring a highly skilled worker, employers will need to hire a less skilled one and try to train them up. Isn’t that the exact criticism they have of affirmative action? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Without the ACA subsidies, next year CBO says “4.2m people would lose coverage, and many more would face steep premium hikes—for example, $2,600 more annually for a family of four earning $64,000 and nearly $17,500 more for a 60-year-old couple earning $80,000.” www.ama-assn.org/health-care-...

Physician Stress Returns to Peak Pandemic Levels and “55% of healthcare workers said they will search job openings, interview for a new position, or switch to a new role in the next 12 months.” www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

BTW, I don't mean to imply I'm opposed to all proposed changes to international aid programs. Just don't call it generosity when it's not generous. When the explicit goal is to try to get as much as you can from everyone over whom you hold some power, that's called greed.

“We will continue to be the... most generous nation in the world, but we will do so in a way that directly benefits the American people and directly promotes our national interest.” Yeah, relentlessly self-serving deal-making is not 'generosity.' www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/t... via @statnews.com

"Few of us would ever contemplate barbarism like this. But most of us participate in the ways of looking, the ways of judging, the ways of writing off, the ways of civic contempt, that make barbarism more probable, that give it permission." the.ink/p/essay-a-tu...

President Trump's first Surgeon General will be getting the COVID vaccine this year, for a bunch of reasons but mostly because it's safe and it works. "In 2023-2024, 95% of people hospitalized due to COVID had not received the latest COVID vaccine." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

“We’ll have nothing left at the NIH if people don’t speak out about this,” says one staff member at the agency, who asked not to be named..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“the real corruption on display isn’t in journals rejecting flawed studies. It’s in bypassing peer review entirely, shopping for any analysis that supports predetermined conclusions, then presenting it as evidence on a Senate stage.” www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/a...

MAHA “says government programs should provide “whole, healthy food” for low-income Americans, but Trump [has] slashed funding for food assistance…we should [address] poor water and air quality, but the administration has rolled back pollution regulations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

IDSA: “Any federally funded research into the cause of autism must be based on credible science and not reach premature, inaccurate or preordained non-scientifically based conclusions.” www.idsociety.org/news--public...

"The MAHA movement is rewinding the scientific clock, returning American medicine to a time when quack healers peddled snake oil." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Ladapo might think data aren't important when making policy decisions, but that doesn't mean data are not available, and others might care. "...in Florida alone, a 15% decline in vaccinations against measles over 25 years would lead to 1 million measles cases." www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/h...

Health policy nerd humor... from @statnews.com

Can anyone get a Covid shot if they want one? No www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/c... via @statnews.com

“The breaking of this firewall is, therefore, not just a policy decision; it is the functional abandonment of the US ethical and moral obligation to care for vulnerable noncitizens in favor of enforcement expediency.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Right now, the federal government’s expertise in disasters is essentially transferring to private companies…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“Honestly, the only real difference between Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages is we’re above ground and they’re below.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/w...

“If someone achieved a certain SAT score after months of tutoring and someone else earned the same score having never seen an SAT before, it would be reasonable to be more impressed with the latter result and think that the second test taker has more potential.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Made a little #Bollywood magic at my son’s wedding last week… incredibly fun!!

News flash: This was never about protecting children…

Terrifying:”Now, Dr. Gardner wonders if those efforts have backfired on him — providing a library of recordings that can be used to impersonate him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Example #637 of recent efforts to forcibly and explicitly unlearn the lessons of WW2. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

"...it is unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize district courts for “defy[ing]” the Supreme Court when they... must grapple with ...interim guidance from the Supreme Court that appears to set ...precedent aside without much explanation or consensus." Wow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Similar situation in Colorado... my prediction: people in pseudoscience states will travel to states that still believe in science for vaccines, and perhaps pay out of pocket. coloradosun.com/2025/09/03/c...

Hot take: Colorado will see som COVID vaccination tourism this fall... if you are in Florida and can't get vaccinated, c'mon over for a visit! www.denverpost.com/2025/09/03/c...

This is just making stuff up. The information on vaccine safety and effectiveness has been available all along. The problem is bad actors spreading disinformation and their unwitting victims. www.statnews.com/2025/09/01/t... via @statnews.com

“Based on actions Mr. Trump has taken this year… it is unlikely that there will be *any* unionized federal workers outside of policing agencies by the end of his term in 2029.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Royal Vesper - a vesper martini made with #EmpressGin… fantastic and visually stunning.

“…in 2024, slightly less than half of eligible children received one …[and] 275 children died due to influenza; 90% occurred in children who weren’t vaccinated.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/30/f...

“…Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers… Meanwhile, a coalition of mostly-blue states led by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines…”

Important: How states can step into the void left by the evisceration of the CDC… newrepublic.com/article/1998...

“The question likely isn’t whether vaccines will be removed from the childhood immunization schedule, but which ones, how quickly and how many people will pay the price.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“Public health is built on honesty, service, equity, evidence, and protecting the most vulnerable. At its heart, it’s about defending scientific integrity and standing up for your country.” yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/courage-at...

“COVID-19, mpox, and Ebola have showed that political inertia, weak institutional accountability, and fragmented financing—rather than insufficient evidence—are the primary barriers to timely responses. “ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Contrary to much popular opinion, college is not in the information transfer business; we are in the identity formation business…a return to a more conversational, extemporaneous style will [help] …restoring a sense of community to our institutions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Victims of the senseless violence in Minneapolis today deserved a rapid and compassionate response from the president, and they got it. It’s pathetic he wouldn’t do the same for those targeted and killed in Atlanta.

“Scientists seem stunned by the ferocity of the attack on their expertise by an army of unqualified voices and the lack of a loud, spirited defense of their work.” www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

"Even if one disagrees with specific claims, the best way to refute them is to provide counterarguments, not to “disappear” the contradictory statements. What’s the point of history if the parts of it that you don’t like can just be removed?" www.thehastingscenter.org/lets-not-era...

“One of the fundamental aspects of the American research enterprise since World War II has been the stable, apolitical, scientifically driven funding of research,” he said. “And people are now questioning that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

“We are decades into the digital revolution and I still can’t easily port my health records from one doctor’s office to another’s. It makes sense to assume…that the same frictions will bedevil A.I.” Ouch! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

“…the only way to have the rule of law is to have the rule of law. There is no one weird trick where first we abuse the law to prosecute our political enemies and then, somehow, we have the rule of law again.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Historian Douglas Brinkley: “It’s the epitome of dumbness to criticize the Smithsonian for dealing with the reality of slavery in America.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...