Did he ride into town on a pale horse...?

Oh hey, maybe don’t put a TV quack in charge of important real stuff.

Cohort study of 615k+ vaccinated & ~2.3M unvaccinated males ages 9-26 finds males vaccinated w/ 9-valent-HPV vaccine had lower risk of HPV-related cancer vs. the unvaxxed cohort. The negative assoc. of the 9v-HPV vax w/ HPV-related cancer was found in males ages 9-14 as well as 15-26.🛟😷

Okay Bluesky, what are great Beatles song covers? 3 off top of my head: -Aretha's Eleanor Rigby (why? different, first person take and soul arrangement) -Johnny Cash's In My Life (his gravelly old man voice fits "looking back" lyrics & gives them gravity) -Nina Simone's Here Comes The Sun (just bc)

Great story. Nicely shows the money hustle behind the antivax movement & the MAHA "brand" as children & communities are at risk bc of RFK Jr., Del Bigtree & Aaron Siri (of antivax org ICAN)'s legal efforts to undermine state vax laws, including a longstanding one in MS that predates CA, NY, CT, & MA

Melania: “I never had a relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Most people will see this headline and focus on the poll results. But what grabbed me is the hilarity of trying to sell super-annoying Harry Enten as a "data guru" when his whole shtick is basically sports bet oddsmaker meets NYC local news affiliate sportscaster masquerading as political pollster.

Concerning downward trend in British Columbia. Context: BC vax policy is rather lax--since 2019, asks parents of school age kids to submit vax records so an accurate record can be kept. But in Ontario & New Brunswick, parents must submit proof of measles vax or valid medical/non-med. exemption.

“We live in a society that accords its citizens enormous benefits. In return, states can, in a measured way, require certain exactions & accommodations to the broader social interest... WV's compulsory vaccination law does exactly that... a legitimate exercise of the state’s power"🛟😷🧭 health policy

Riverside City Council bans nitrous oxide and kratom sales citywide... 🛟health policy 😷

I’m gonna go into a dark room and scream for an hour can I get you guys anything

Could be worse: Trump Burger's Houston location mysteriously closes amid legal battles and ownership disputes Owner Roland Beainy, 28, was arrested earlier this summer. He's facing deportation after ICE officials said he didn't leave the country when he was supposed to. 9 Oct 2025

Psychologists and other literal mental health providers with advanced degrees (like doctorates!) cannot prescribe medications to the patients they see and treat in person but sure why not let an AI startup start people on psychoactive medications

Wow, teaching example gold about the sunk cost fallacy. "Trump Merch Store Closes After Low Sales Amid Iran War" www.thedailybeast.com/trump-merch-... “I am not even making ½ of my rent...I never did this for the money but I don’t know how much longer I can last w/ paying for all the stuff.” Also👇

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Mmmmm... affluence... so delicious...

New DHS Secy Markwayne Mullin, in an interview with Bret Baier, says he wants to consider pulling Customs out of international airports in “sanctuary cities,” which would effectively shut down a huge amount of international travel to the U.S. LA, NYC, BOS, SF, Chi, SEA, Miami, DEN, Phil, SD….

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

PLAY PINK FLOYD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON NASA YOU COWARDS

NASA Announces Plan To Put Moon On Mars By 2040 https://theonion.com/nasa-announces-plan-to-put-moon-on-mars-by-2040-1849041634/

Like guerilla warfare: "The problem for the US is...asymmetry. Protecting each & every oil shipment that passes thru the Strait of Hormuz... req's continuous military presence. Iran needs only to hit an oil tanker once in a while to cast doubt on the reliability of the world’s oil shipments."

The Artemis II astronauts have regained contact with NASA after a communications blackout, and they are headed for home. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4tpDmlI

Why are scientists, particularly geologists, so excited to get new images and human observations of the far side of the moon? A planets geology is the ultimate “crime scene”. Let me explain…. #Artemis ⚒️🧪

Gift Article: The Genius U.S. President as Strategist: The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Airport Sociology: No line at coffee stand but ppl ordering at kiosks. I walk up to the register, order, pay, & get served bf them. Earlier, server told me to pay for my lunch via QR code on table. Req'd sign up to log in. I had to ask to just pls process my credit card. Disengagement is structured.

The Artemis II crew got a message today from Jim Lovell, who recorded it before he died last year: 🥹🌝

Not a single TV station or network, that I can find on our set, has dedicated time to live broadcasting this historic #Artemis Moon fly. Lots of exciting things happening that would make great TV. How can we encourage science culture if we don't make things like this exciting? #CBC #CBS #CTV #Global

Sound thesis advice And ‘use’ is always better than ‘utilise’ 😏 Though ‘fatuous numbskull’ has its uses too

SHUTTER THE RAW MILK DAIRY 9 people were infected with E. coli O157:H7, a strain of the bacterium that can cause severe gut infection. 3 people were hospitalized, and 1 person developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can cause kidney failure. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b...

A petition is circulating asking UCSF leadership to not allow Vinay Prasad to return to a position at their institution now that his FDA job is ending. I'm not an author, but the petition nicely details a number of concerning issues and reasons for such an action. 🛟🧪🧭😷📈

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Last year Kanye West took out a Super Bowl ad to sell swastika t-shirts. This weekend he sold out two shows at SoFi Stadium. To all of those in attendance—what the fuck is wrong you. That’s a rhetorical question.

Some Kanye math for y’all: If 9 Nazis are sitting at a table and you join them—there’s 10 Nazis at the table. If one Nazi throws a concert at SoFi and you attend—congrats, you broke the American record for Nazi rally attendance previously held by the “Pro American” rally at MSG in 1934. Fuck off.

Paediatricians do not want to see the return of epiglottitis from Hib. An absolute medical emergency.

Last night, I was at a restaurant and got approached by The Rock AND John Cena to thank me for working out regularly bc my effort inspires them to get to the gym regularly and stay buff. I told them, I can't be slowed down. Yeah, like Hassett's claim, that isn't true either.

After Hib vaccinations began, the # of infections fell to <50/yr. Many drs. who’ve trained in past 40 yrs have never seen a case. Now parents unfamiliar w/the highly contagious & fast-moving infection are skipping Hib shots for their kids. % of babies w/full Hib series: 2019 (78.8%), 2021 (77.6%)🛟

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Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

And the gullible fools who thought they were voting for something else got… this.

'Senior Army officers reacted with anger...to the news of General George’s dismissal' The reason for the dismissal? Gen. Randy George disagreed with Hegseth blocking the promotions of 2 women and 2 black Army officers. Arguably the more consequential firing today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

This is hopeful... 🛟😷 Medsky

Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?

Disheartening. Ages 50-64 "very difficult pop. to recruit." More than 80% fail pre-screening (FDA req's participants have 0 chronic conditions). -exec involved in the trial Currently, no COVID-19 vaccines have full FDA approval for healthy ppl 50-64 for which COVID causes an est'd 8k-12k deaths.😷🛟

New—RFK Jr. will host a World Autism Awareness Day event Thursday at HHS, ft. a group fitness activity (???) and remarks from Diana Diaz-Harrison, National Autism Coordinator, and Peter Nye, Program Officer at the Administration for Community Living (ACL) Invite sent to employees + shared with me:

I like it how you can see the time when Trump's speech occured

Eye-grabbing headline, but Devil's in the details for this. Of 600 papers, 145 had enough details to reproduce. Many of the team's reproducibility failures might have been due to "needing to make guesses abt procedures or to recreate raw data." More open data sharing & methods transparency shld help

Under 50 in Hawaiʻi? This matters. Colon cancer is now a leading cause of death in your age group, DOH reports. 👉 Read more: https://www.khon2.com/local-news/colon-cancer-awareness-hawaii/

"There is still no clear timeline for a committee vote. Means must first be approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee before her nomination can advance to a full Senate vote. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the committee's chairman, declined to say when the panel might act."🛟

Rick Hasen, UCLA election law expert: “...the order wld use the USPS...to interfere w/ a state’s lawful transmission of ballots. If the state does not comply w/ these rules, fed. law wld purport to interfere w/ a state’s conduct of its own elections...(POTUS) does not have the authority to do this.”