Why don’t we just ban science. It would have about the same effect. And of course, this is while US companies are shopping in China for new technology. www.science.org/content/arti...

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

CBER/OVRR has an amazing density of infectious disease experts. Prasad and Hoeg have no such expertise. Note Dept. Director of OVRR appears to have left suddenly, and CBER is still leaking like a sieve, indicative of very unhappy staff. www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...

Seems like a prudent idea.

If you tried, you couldn’t make a parody sillier than this. And all these folks looking to make a buck or increase their brand.

Wonder what they promised him to take on this onerous task? CAR-T? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...

Brendan Loper, New Yorker.

We will be next. Modern medicine will now be able to track secondary morbidity and mortality sequelae to measles infection. Good for the study of immunology, bad for children. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/m...

Team Cave. That should be their brand now. Folks who are retiring get to decide the future of young people who have to live with this decision.

When the chickens come home to roost carrying H5N1.

A visual metaphor for the moment.

🎵 I threw the sandwich ... but I did not catch the felony 🎶

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

These people are so Manichean in their viewpoint. Like there is a unitary feminine and a unitary masculine. Instead of a continuum with significant overlap. Just like they view biological gender. Which anyone who knows biology sees as silly. Tl/dr, plus infuriating. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

Lizzy Lawrence must not be getting much sleep, covering all the leak/ grousing. But the issue is real: this is a regulatory agency, not high school. And see Fernandez Lynch’s point about legal precedent. Don’t get out over your regs, not legally defensible. www.statnews.com/2025/11/04/f...

Moving goalposts. The new Prasad regime. FDA submission for UniQure Huntington's drug thrown into question The company said the agency had changed its position on what level of data were sufficient for it to apply for approval for its gene therapy. www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/h...

The US resorts to the Al Capone method of diplomacy. And apparently got their way. So we will see more of this.

What is it about Sunday night at the FDA? Really this is head spinning. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/h...

Maybe she played/watched too much Tomb Raider?

Hmmm, I am not a financial expert, but this does not look good. m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

Using regulatory authority to inflict financial harm… www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...

And folks say we are not planning a crusade….

This is an impressive amount of leakage. The center is effectively a giant colander of leaks. Also, center directors depend on their personnel whether they understand that or not. This will not end well. www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/v...

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Peer-rival…Got that? It’s been coming for quite a while, but the FT makes it official.

Oh, so true.

Trump Chinese TACO recipe: 1 tbsp Rare Earths 1 bushel soybeans 1 cup chips 1 tsp Fentanyl 1 shot of TikTok

THE SHUTDOWN IS TRUMP'S FALSE EXCUSE FOR ILLEGALLY WITHHOLDING SNAP FUNDING. IT IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT TO REPORT IT AS THE CAUSE. I scream into the void

Too much TV? Too many video games? Or is he just nuts?

“Not causative but suggestive”. What an irresponsible a$$hole. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I still think we are expending too much energy on this guy, but she nails it. Young people do stupid things, but not doing something about it after 18 years seems clueless. And exonerating it is worse. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

This

The Antichrist responds… www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

This is true—Bessent owns $25 million of farmland in North Dakota—and a reminder of why farm bailouts are nothing more than a giveaway to feudal lords who demand the government grossly distort agricultural economics to make their tax haven "farms" even more valuable to them.

“projected temperature increase to 2100 declined slightly, from 2.6° C to 2.4 °C. Chance of staying below 2 °C remained low, at 17%. The chance of the most catastrophic climate change, above 3 °C, has gone down, from 26% to 9%.” So bad, maybe not catastrophic. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Seen in DC

With his usual “ just a little intellectual exercise, here” he folds this in to a bad urban architecture argument. I thought he was an actual “ let’s conserve things” conservative. And he dragged Ezra Klein into this monstrosity. NYTimes Gift Article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Can’t wait to see the fallout from all this. Explore this gift article. U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

Because we are cluelessly all in on fossil fuels, while China achieves dominance in solar. So forward thinking.

I guess there is a buck to be made everywhere. But an economy based on disaster seems sort of futile.

Anti science at the grassroots will be hard to reverse. apnews.com/article/vacc...

It’s a pipeline. We are stopping the flow. Less trained scholars and scientists coming out the other end. And if you think this won’t disincentivize the US as a place for grad study, or turn US students off further education, you are kidding yourself. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why is Vought’s role as Trump’s budget director so key to the president’s plans? “Every goddam thing in the executive branch goes through OMB,” a former official explained. The agency is the choke point for $7 trillion in federal spending.

Given the “unscheduled disassembly “ currently going on at the White House, I offer a quote from the Roosevelt memorial in DC.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

We are doing in phytoplankton. And that will do in us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember how conservative grifters started selling “anti woke” products at a premium to separate gullible conservatives from their money? Well under Trump that’s just the economy now, since we’re all paying more in the name of being “anti woke” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

FDA is planning on Tuskegee style clinical trials, so this modification of practice of medicine must be next.

The NYTs can barely be bothered, but the Guardian. I knew there was a reason I cancelled WAPO and paid for Guardian. Millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

“Appeared “ to violate the Hatch Act? Appeared? Why yes, NYTs, this most certainly did violate the Hatch Act. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...