*twitches*

Cool headline, bro www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

You know, I say those of us left are on the same team, but you guys are making it real fucking hard when there are cupcakes in the breakroom AND YOU TAKE THE ICING OFF THE LAST TWO LEFT AND LEAVE THE CAKE. Seriously wtf.

A large study of COVID19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy showed that vaccination was significantly associated with reduced: -Preterm births -Hospitalizations -Admissions to critical care unit Yet RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad and Hoeg continue to spread disinformation about it.

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

Worst Bettina

Systematic review of 17 clinical trials finds RFK is an idiot. www.statnews.com/2025/12/15/s...

I miss the days where my old WoW guild had one rule: you were not allowed to be anti-vax. It was an insta kick to platform anything of the sort. Like, remember when people were sane?

I love how when I try to use ChatGPT for a professional task, I have to very meticulously specify how not to sound like a golden retriever.

📖We are often asked where you can find reliable vaccine information. It breaks our hearts to say it, but it’s no longer at CDC The vaccine integrity project is a great source & has compiled recommendations from medical societies into 1 place for easier reference: www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...

Counterpoint: yes, I do. And I can. And I will.

Listening podcasters try to interpret my team’s papers using ChatGPT while live is a special kind of triggering. No, that is not what that stat means. No, that’s also not what that means. That’s not how that kind of thing works. Please stop ChatGPTing for the love of god.

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

People having a range of reactions to Tim Miller platforming Nuzzi, but my personal takeaway after trying to listen to 5 minutes is that she is even worse than the worst of what I thought. It was already unlikely, but now there is no way in hell I am masochistic enough to read her book.

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

Looking for a compelling history of the emergence of AIDS in the US? And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts is one of the best, exploring the history through those involved across the globe and the rise of ACT UP (Also a 🎥). We wish all health histories were this good. (1/3)

Oh no, whatever will the billionaires do, maybe they should give them jobs with living wages idk it’s so obfuscated. There is also a laughable graph in here saying millennials will spend $1.5k on average for the holidays and that gave me a nice long laugh to start the week.

“Leader of the “free” world, everyone.” — my partner

K-shaped answers to my questions about that Forbes article.

Realizing that while we make fun of “Florida man” every time he gets naked at a Waffle House or tries to punch an alligator, we are all Florida man to the rest of the world at this point. 😟😭

David Rose. Now Sarah Beckstrom. Both should be alive. 😟

I can’t go from this to Thanksgiving dog shows, I need more tryptophan.

Did we miss the rapture, AGAIN? Come on folks.

Starting to just get bored of the Lizza Nuzzi RFK jr stuff because although it’s salacious it’s mostly just annoying awful people thinking they’re more fascinating than they actually are

I like how I started off the century thinking Jayson Blair was the worst case of journalism ethics failure.

*keeps wondering why a superior alien race hasn’t invaded Earth* *reads recent tweets from Candace Owens* Okay, yup, that answers that question.

Not my area (again), but given the fact that a lot of people expect epis to have broad expertise in most areas, having this background is super good to know. I had no idea this was a thing that was happening in the comms space.

I like how conservatives are lecturing us all on being judicious with money during the holiday season, and it’s like bitch, I haven’t bought clothes that weren’t secondhand in YEARS. My car is old. Various other shit. Don’t tell me not to buy slippers for my grandma.

I love my dog who wakes me up at 5am every morning for no reason I love my dog who wakes me up at 5am every morning for no reason I love my dog who wakes me up at 5am for no reason I love my dog who wakes me up at 5am every morning for no reason I love my dog who wakes me up at 5am every morning for

Agree 💯

If you think ChatGPT sounds like a real human, you have definitely not talked to enough actual living humans who have jobs, kids, stress, fuckery, and zero time to ask you if you’d like them to graph the rate of water evaporation from local reservoirs per query.

Sitting here comparing careers of Emma Tucker and Bari Weiss and it’s not a comparison. Idk what kind of experience you get following Bret “genocide harder” Stephens around for years.

Hate to tell this dude this, but poker winnings aren’t taxable in Canada, so never play against a socialist. They all play. My boyfriend was pro for a few years.

I miss the Canadian geese on campus. They were a vibe. Specifically, the fuck you, make me vibe.

Stop trying to make felch happen, Gretchen

I have many questions, but not this particular one

Good synopsis in the form of a question, revealed by a new feature that shows locations of account owners.

Same.

The gift that keeps on giving. Sorry, I’m fueled by 90% Schadenfreude these days.

The weekend is really the shitshow that keeps on giving, eh? I guess ‘tis the season.

Forget Tim, a former director of the Ohio Department of Health is running, you say? Color me intrigued.

The last 24 hours have given me the Schadenfreude I needed to come back from the previous 24 hours.

Yup.

She lasted what? Three weeks as a contrarian before bowing out? Also I know her district. She would have been fine in the primary imo.

This guy so fundamentally doesn’t understand epidemiology it is physically painful from afar. Please keep him away from the IARC monographs jfc. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This first part is actually what I wanted to put as my status message on Teams today.

There is a WSJ article today that’s quite fear mongering on ADHD medications for children, so I won’t link it. The infographic is a special level of horrible, and I seriously question WSJ’s analysis of Medicaid data given they don’t even mention the major limitations of the data.

So much rage at the office today, for obvious reasons.

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...