Francis Bacon wrote about how people were like this 400+ years ago, when it wasn’t supercharged by the bullshit flattery machine and tailored bullshit self-reinforcing feeds, and talked about how science (not the name he used) was the method by which we could be accountable to objective truth.

I have been lectured to my entire life that the greatest sin in politics is to look down on these cosmically ignorant fuckwits, or to hold them accountable for their decisions. We're just supposed to flatter their Illusions and dutifully repair all the shit they destroy.

“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org

Right now, the FDA has no official commissioner or directors of CBER and CDER. This is almost dizzying.

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

Debunking Prasad, like dunking on a 7 foot hoop.

... couldn't fit it into this piece, but the only reason we have naloxone available outside of ER's and ambulances to rapidly save people is harm reduction: Dan Bigg, a cofounder of the National Harm Reduction Coalition and a person who injected drugs himself, made street distribution go national.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

Gonna try live post on this terrific live conversation, which kicked off 9 mins ago! @boghuma.bsky.social says she thinks of the Andes hantavirus outbreak in 2 phases: on the ship, & post-embarkation She feels much more comfortable that containment is possible now we're in the post-ship phase 1/n

We did it. My last graduation ever in the books, a Master of Science in Health Policy and Law. Thanks @uclawsf.bsky.social and @ucsfhealth.bsky.social.

Find out what's really happening at the NIH. Fact check of Jay Bhattacharya at the March House Appropriations committee hearing from @27unihted.bsky.social by NIH staff (in their personal capacities). www.27unihted.org/jay-fact-che...

Dispense with the legal restrictions against racism and just you watch how quick that hole fills right up with the very thing they proclaim bygone

NIH & CDC Director’s response to hantavirus: Um, ah, um, dunno, will need to look that up UK Health Security Agency Response: Specialist army team & medics parachute onto Tristan da Cunha to deliver crucial medical support since a British national on the island was suspected of being infected 1/2

On Friday, I had the opportunity to present my capstone on communications strategies to reverse the backsliding on harm reduction in San Francisco for my Masters in Health Policy and Law via @uclawsf.bsky.social and @ucsfhealth.bsky.social. Two more years of formal education under my belt. Onward!

Normies think “developers” are any real estate professional who makes money, not people who build new homes; “affordable housing” is cheap apartments they can afford, not means tested subsidized housing; and “condos” are any new multifamily housing, not apartments people own.

My latest @nytimes.com oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran. By my calculations—and I show my work—this war will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

Glad the Democrats are bringing this up and I hope they continue to hammer this administration and all of their lackeys and Vichy scientists over their attempts to destroy institutions and refusal to honestly engage with science and evidence. democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Aspire to not be hated so deeply that you will at least be missed by some people when you are fired from the position that you sold your soul and any sense of respectable reputation to reach.

Liberating from paywall: The proposal from Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad that caused Richard Pazdur to resign. This proposal to rely on a single trial for drug approvals contradicts Vinay Prasad's previous position that two trials were preferable. doi.org/10.1056/NEJM...

Like the 20-something elite swimmer we coded for 2.5 HOURS, 2 weeks before Christmas in 2020, Bobby? Or like Chad here, who died at 19 from covid?

This week, on the @statnews.com First Opinion Podcast, I talked to the one and only Dr. Glaucomflecken about his advocacy around PeaceHealth in Eugene, Oregon, which sought to replace community-based ER physicians. www.statnews.com/2026/05/06/d...

The #hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship off the coast of Africa is a serious public health event that needs to be handled properly. But if you are having #Covid flashbacks, put those worries to rest. The risk here is to people on the ship & their close contacts. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/h...

The reason why MD Breathe sucks and yet we can't ignore her is even in Ohio we have some mediocre white dudes who are trying to force pharmacists to dispense ivermectin without a prescription. Because her stupid ideas are contagious and she got her feelings hurt when pharmacists refused to fill it.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

We gotta talk about this "Farmers were lied to" thing. You know who doesn't say that? Farmers. Try reading the farm press! They say things like "We took a gamble, and it hasn't paid off. (Yet.)"

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

The end of this interview - and the smirk on this handsome journalist's face as he just stares the soul out of the guy who hammered his own jaw to try to look half as good as the journalist - will never not be absolutely hilarious to me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKC...

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

One of the things I find most striking about this era is the persistent desire by the media to utterly avoid any of the “this is important!” Signals they used to use. Burying shit like this is insane. This stuff sells papers. “Americans to starve because of trumps’s incompetence” is a gold

We knew Vit K was effective in preventing bleeding more than 60 years ago In 1961, the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending all newborns receive a vitamin K injection as part of routine newborn care In 2026, if we allow kids to bleed and die, this is beyond shameful

Clarence Thomas is set to become the second-longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court. His legacy is marred by ethics scandals that highlight the lack of accountability for justices. It's past time to reform the Court. bit.ly/42Ql6qg

“We’d really like to see Congress hold RFK Jr & HHS broadly to account for everything they’ve done over this past year that has been so harmful to the autistic community and to public health generally, with oversight hearings." @autisticadvocacy.org's Zoe Gross: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Woof. I've been critical of this Urban Institute study since it first dropped, but it turns out that the methodological errors were even more serious than I understood. econjwatch.org/file_downloa...

The fact there are calls to oust my colleague over a few words in a speech to students (that the students clearly enjoyed) while Vinay Prasad, who has ruined #publichealth and likely responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths/illnesses is welcomed back into #academicmedicine with a red carpet

A way to be an ally to Jews is to relentlessly point out that there are more Christian Zionists in the US alone then there are Jews in the entire world (many of whom are not even Zionists). The conversation about Zionism should be dominated by that rather than laying all blame at the feet of Jews.

Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...

The health professions are maybe in the vanguard of firmly rejecting MAGA crackpots. Hopefully, UCSF will dump Prasad.

UCSF is already irreparably harmed by the sheer number of Covid grifters associated with it

He received a promotion at UCSF after calling doctors “fucking morons” for not treating rare temporary vaccine side effects as a fate worse than death.

This will be interesting to watch

Way to go, UCSF employees! I'm skeptical the UCSF leadership will give this any consideration, since the last time Prasad was there, they fucking promoted him knowing he was anti-vaccination, but it may inspire more opposition.

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Well, this is interesting. Pretty complete exegesis, too.

Honestly I’d been wondering why UCSF hadn’t taken some kind of action yet. Prasad could really tank their reputation and I’m glad doctors and researchers are speaking up.

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