sorry. a bunch of really stupid guys with a bunch of money who think they're smart got in a group chat together and started sharing facebook memes and now the government has decided curing cancer is not only not a priority, it's actually bad

Snakes on a Plane opening weekend here in Atlanta. I'm not sure I have to paint a picture beyond that.

OK look lots of insane discourse on here today, but I've got a topper: My toddler's daycare is having Chanukah spirit week next week. Wednesday is class color day. His 3-year old class has asked them all to "dress head to toe" in... ...white.

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

conservatives used to mock anti-vaxxers as clueless libs but as soon as it became associated with the right it took over the party and became a mainstream threat to public health

Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...

A collection of businesses for our time.

In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Another perfect statistics final exam @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

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That would be this district right here that Dems just flipped. Lol.

Well maybe we just live in a more honest age now.

Wow, they're saying DONALD TRUMP killed all these people with Operation Warp Speed. I would never allege this kind of misconduct by our commander-in-chief, who won by a very big margin. We need FDA leaders who value LOYALTY and put AMERICA FIRST.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

If you are interested in either a data science career or hobby, including in sports analysis, this opportunity is not to be missed. Watch the lectures. Read the chapters. Do the work. I would be concerned about any applicant who hadn’t done this already.

Chat let's drop our older relative monkey stories. My grandfather served in the Navy in the Pacific in WWII. Jewish and mad he wasn't fighting Nazis he smuggled a monkey on board on as a pet. He named him Hermann. You know, as in Göring. Anyway, nobody recalls what became of that monkey.

I am so excited for Some Dumb Shit.

Is this not the condescending, sanctimonious public health nanny state crap conservatives profess to hate so much? (Tbh I hate it, too!)

my most parochial take is that a lot of national dysfunction and elite pathologies genuinely do primarily spring from roots in the SF Bay Area. like why do so many tech sector types have such insane opinions about the efficacy of the govt?

If you took the people who thought, for example, kids under 18 should not be able to get gender affirming care, I doubt maybe more than like 20% would have said they wanted the government to do something like this? Maybe I'm blind but like...just...this isn't scoring you any points. Purely spite.

As Vinay transformed from a critical voice in medicine to whatever he is today, it was his amplification of Hoeg that made it clear we were no longer allies when it came to the importance of evidence. All benefit-of-the-doubt evaporated then. She is an ignorant crank and he is a terrible hypocrite.

there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose

Why is an operations management professor being allowed to make decisions about vaccine policy? Imagine how Retsef would feel if I was appointed to be an editor for something he wrote on logistics. I don't imagine he'd be very friendly to it.

Not to get all pro-inflation or anything but I do worry we made cocaine too cheap.

"Wants to get involved in local politics" and "has a strong prior for just staying out of everybody's business" is a VERY rare combination, but if that describes you and you have the stomach for it you are DESPERATELY NEEDED in local and hyperlocal politics. Just show up!

I did not like what it turned me into and so when my main job was done I went back to the farm Cincinnatus-style, but simply turning up to neighborhood meetings made me co-chair of a committee revising our bylaws to allow asynchronous voting so parents, nurses on night shift, etc. could have a say.

This horrible conspiracy addled freak should never have been allowed within ten miles of US vaccine policy and given the chance to destroy countless lives for no reason at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

he believes that if they die they were meant to die and that those that live are the fittest

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Oh great, RFK's Special Committee on Baby Killing is meeting again.

Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today. He is a monster.

Your NFC #1 seed Chicago Bears. I love this dumb sport so much.

It's overly simplistic to suggest this is money that would've gone to other university aspects like education and research b/c this is to some degree donor-funded and those donors care about football and not those other things. But it's still galling and grim to compare faculty and these parasites.

The kind of "gold standard science" they're touting doesn't exist. fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...

By this standard I do not know how the University of Alabama's fraternities and sororities are legal, and I hope someone asks that question (via a lawsuit?) soon.

It still wows me that the U.S. News & World Report college rankings' chief data strategist said in the New York Times 2.5 years ago that they tweak their algorithm to get the results they want, and we just...keep on using them? Aren't we supposed to be about, y'know, knowledge and truth and stuff?

Any football analytics folks have availability and willingness to come "judge" and provide constructive feedback for my sports analytics course's final projects next Tuesday, 12/9, some time between 1 and 215p ET? Reply here or DM me if so! Just need ~15 mins on Zoom.

Padres are hiring Sport Science interns. Very important roles for us w/ boots on the ground data collection and application!

Any football analytics folks have availability and willingness to come "judge" and provide constructive feedback for my sports analytics course's final projects next Tuesday, 12/9, some time between 1 and 215p ET? Reply here or DM me if so! Just need ~15 mins on Zoom.

He's going to kill so many people and we're powerless to stop it. One of the most vile humans currently wandering around this watery rock.

I think it would be good to ensure our health policies try to prevent rather than encourage more babies dying. But I may just be a groupthinking liberal science sheep.

Presenting the rubric for The Assignment (OU/TPUSA kerfuffle) many academics here are discussing. Please note I am presenting this without any further comment or opinion. If you wish to state an opinion publicly have at it. I will not.

Yup. Even if Trump's policies were both effective and popular (lolololol, I know), Trump's pardons *alone* would be ample fodder. This weekend Trump pardoned *yet another* drug lord and *yet another* infamous scammer! This isn't low-hanging fruit, it's fruit delivered in a holiday basket!

this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position

The evidence of the COVID vaccine causing child deaths is, AFAICT, a single claim by a conflicted anti-vaccine political activist (Tracy Beth Hoeg). And the FDA, of course dedicated to radical transparency in RFK's HHS, has refused to provide any details for the people to double-check the work.

That's Johns Hopkins Professor of Medicine Marty Makary, who will be welcomed back by his colleagues with open arms when his time in this admin ends.

these guys love a lab leak theory because they hate science

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

*The disclaimer at the top of this page "The events in this movie are fictional. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidental," was left in due to an agreement with the Chairman of the Senate HELP committee, Senator Bill Cassidy. Also the Senator made out with Slimer.