As mentioned in the article, the $8 billion figure is likely an underestimate. Even if you aren't worried about your own brain or the brains of your friends & family members, can I convince you to worry about your wallet? Brain health makes (dollars and) cents.

Interesting reading... Points to many factors and solutions but I can say, in my professional opinion, that promoting cooking with beef tallow and fear-mongering about vaccines is not going to help this problem... 🛟😷

This is the kind of work, published today, that should be fully supported and prioritized at the highest level. Currently, there is no vaccine vs the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, the source of a major outbreak www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"This is so important because everyone should have a bed to sleep in at night, and also, nothing destroys property values faster than a desperate person on a sidewalk asking for change."

The #LIRR is on strike so no trains are running. Plan ahead, folks, because this means service is slightly worse than usual 😁

More on the destruction of US science: Federal science agencies lost more jobs in 2025 (12%) than over the previous TWO decades (8%), including 30% of personnel at NSF, 20% at USGS, NOAA, and NIH. NASA lost 12% (now up to 24% by Jan 2026). (Data from www.aip.org/fyi/federal-...)

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Wow, a positive COVID PEP trial: ensitrelvir (given within 72h of symptom onset) cut household transmission by 2/3 (from 9% to 3%). Ensitrelvir is a protease inhibitor like Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir + ritonavir), but doesn't need "boosting" by ritonavir, which may mean fewer drug-drug interactions*

“Let me start with what worked…the part of the story most Americans do not know. The Nebraska biocontainment unit now holding our returning passengers is a Level 1 Regional Emerging Special Pathogen Treatment Center… the highest tier of a national network built specifically for moments like this.”

Live your life in a way that, when you leave your job, the entire remaining staff don't express "joy and relief" that you're gone

Ted Turner died of the #2 dementia in the US: Dementia w Lewy Bodies To learn more about Lewy: *Lewy Body Resource Center lewybodyresourcecenter.org - includes 2.5 hours of videos about symptoms - website in 11 languages *Lewy Body Association lbda.org - more in-depth website

Newly analyzed microstructures help explain why under certain circumstances, it can be difficult to dislodge a dandelion’s fluffy seeds.

There are only 2 teams in this world: 1) pro cancer 2) f*ck cancer We have enough research to say with confidence: if you are against the HPV vax then you are Team Pro Cancer

American Lung Association: FDA Puts Kids’ Health At Risk By Authorizing Fruit Flavored E-Cigarettes www.lung.org/media/press-...

"At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles." Bleeding into the brain is bad. Vitamin K shots for newborns to prevent bleeding are good.

Efficacy and Safety of an mRNA Seasonal Influenza Vaccine in Adults | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Guys they want to give the ballroom the equivalent of like one-third to one-fourth the taxpayer money fda gets each year… do you know how much fda does???

"It all started with a mouse!" No, it was not a Disney cruise 🐀💩🚢🦠☠️ Friendly reminder: wear gloves and a good mask when dealing with rodent droppings and nests. Hantavirus can be deadly.

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

8 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... "Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%." #VaccinesWork!

If we really want to take care of our soldiers and cops, the "good guy with a gun," then everyone should support safe storage.

More accurate estimates found that Trump’s war on Iran has cost $50B. That money would fund a year of the ACA subsidies that he and the GOP have refused to extend — with $20B left over. Instead, millions of Americans have dropped their insurance because they can’t afford it. Priorities.

Phase 2 study with low # of infections, but still everything still positive. Hopefully a Phase 3 trial will happen one day.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Research finds that the flu vaccine reduces severe illness in kids, but coverage remains low. Pediatric vaccination reduced flu-related hospitalization and outpatient visits by 60% in 2023–24. Read more on the studies: ow.ly/TTh050YR4Ol

NBA on NBC sound engineer demonstrates where all the hidden mics are that bring us the in game sounds. Pretty cool stuff. The sounds of the game are super important to me and I appreciate what they put into it. I don't think I'm gonna deal with the proper thing tonight.

RFK Jr. and the CDC’s top official, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, don’t want you to read this. Paper shows that 2025-2026 Covid-19 vaccines were effective. They censored it. That’s exactly why we need to read it. So, we published it in Inside Medicine! Take a look... open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

A sub-two hour marathon has long been seen as a tantalizing benchmark for elite runners—and shoemakers have been in a race to design footwear that can help them get there

The amazing @jeremyfaust.bsky.social got the CDC paper that Jay Bhattacharya censored, which shows that the COVID19 vaccine was at least 53% effective in reducing hospitalizations. Why doesn’t Bhattacharya want the public to see it? IMO it’s because it proves him wrong, and he is a weak man.

Seems like more and more folks are in favor of healthcare in all cases

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone. Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths. COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.

Hiding the truth? #VaccinesWork! Antivaxxers love transparency, unless it shows they are wrong (and they are ALWAYS wrong). 👇 CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits wapo.st/41JhAhb

To all the Stuyvies out there: Stan Teitel passed away cestlaz.zamansky.net/posts/stan-t...

Don’t believe headlines saying that vaccine skepticism is widespread www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/v... via @statnews.com

“Findings indicate an association between acute COVID-19 rates and increased car crashes … comparable to driving under the influence of alcohol at legal limits or driving with a seizure disorder.” www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

And even then, the conversation that night with half of those kids: "Bobby, what did you do in school today?" "Nothing."

📣 A review of our NEW study Substantial amount of medical information provided by popular chatbots inaccurate and incomplete bmjgroup.com/substantial-... by @bmj.com Bottom line: Half of answers to evidence based questions “somewhat” or “highly” problematic.

Our country might have been better off if more people spent more time at museums (AMNH specifically, for the New Yorkers) as kids

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

After 20 years of HPV vaccines, what have we learned? A new study finds vaccinated men and boys are almost 50% less likely than unvaccinated males to develop an HPV-related cancer (cancers of the head/neck, esophagus, penis, anus). www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Our last Virtual and Accessible Rally was such a success we thought we would do it again...FOR EARTH DAY!!! Join us April 22nd, 8pm ET. We will have ASL interpretation, Spanish interpretation, captioning, and visual descriptions. We would love to have you.

Cute, but the dog is also this excited when she's gone for 2 hours.

🚨WE'RE HIRING🚨 Looking for a neurologist to join our dementia center - Join our big multidisciplinary group - Cognitive or Geri Neuro fellowship helpful, or we can train you - Trialists, educators, researchers, or 'just' clinicians all welcome. Early or mid stage DM me for info!

It often seems like there has been little progress in fighting back against The Regime’s war on science, but this is a major victory. The proposed cap of 15% for indirect costs for NIH funding has been defeated in court. Doesn’t mean they won’t try again, but this is worth celebrating.