A bit alarmist. The AR of getting sick is still quite low. Can't conflate reduced detection with reduced safety,i.e, the food isn't more dangerous just bc fewer people are counting cases. That E.coli experiment is MECHANISTIC, not risk estimates. If you're in a vulnerable pop, fine. Otherwise, meh.

Finished #StarTrek: Star Fleet Academy The writing is uneven, but Holly Hunter as Nahla Ake is spot on 🎯. Side note: Just started #discovery and the episode w/Harry Mudd (similar plot to TNG's "Cause and Effect") was great entertainment. All we needed were Tribbles. They even remembered Stella.

Mixed Effects Logistic Regression 📈 #stats

So entitled, so contemptuous of the people they represent. "In her Thursday filing, Sinema said she had 'no recollection' of several of the messages mentioned in the lawsuit, including the one in which she supposedly suggested he bring drugs on a work trip."

The body armor analogy is 🎯 re: measles. Suggest watching this video. Cool plant in the background as a bonus. 🛟

Oldie but 🧐

🎁 “And often they make the IVR” really difficult to get through, so you get frustrated and go online.” "She described working with one government agency that programmed its IVR to simply hang up on people who’d been on hold for a certain amount of time." Try using the CVS IVR! #sludge #modernity

Brandolini’s Law in the wild. #stats 🛟 Medical error is real. The “3rd leading cause of death” statistic is not. It came from extrapolating a few small studies and comparing the result to official mortality categories. [PS Good book. But this stuff is jarring. 🤦]

This is alarmingly accurate. Somewhere an anthropologist just got tenure.

No. Research shows that shaming vaccine-hesitant parents doesn't work. Calling them 'freaks' hardens the committed, pushes persuadable parents into anti-vax echo chambers & alienates the movable middle. Attaching an insightful piece. I share the frustration, but this isn't it. 🛟

**Australia excluded

Just added to my queue. #dinosaurs @clayjones.bsky.social a potential candidate for consideration.

Peanut butter cup flavored toothpaste? I'm sold.

Great tune and timely. #IYKYK

I was prattling on about "regression to the mean"(many pathologies will resolve w/no intervention) since my friend's 5 year old son is sick as his dad (a physician) was battling to do a nasal swab His son: "Jeff must be super cool". What a brilliant, talented boy with a bright future! 👨‍⚕️ #stats

🎁 (GIFT) Worth a read.

Friendly reminder that the doctor telling you colonoscopies are too dangerous to bother with is a psychiatrist who also thinks COVID wasn't real. 🤡 Oh, there's also informed consent, you know: that form we all sign BEFOREHAND. Colorectal cancer kills 50,000 Americans a year. Get screened.

He deserves all the obloquy and more. Why is he returning? Prasad was on leave, not fired so returning is procedurally routine. Blocking him would've handed ammunition to people screaming 'political litmus tests' and opened UCSF up to lawsuits and the Admin's ire. The path to least resistance...

🚨"In a post on X, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the FDA will appoint a successor before Prasad returns next month to the University of California San Francisco, where he taught before taking the FDA position last year." UCSF welcoming back Prasad with open arms of course. 🫂🫂 #medsky #podhost

120 patients, one doctor, one specialty. Is it the sitting or just THAT guy sitting? Subjective outcomes, no blinding, and we have no idea if it holds in an ED or a tough conversation. Interesting signal. Needs a lot more work but directionally intriguing. Reducing the power dynamic is 👍. #medsky

🚨 OMG! No words! #academicsky #idsky #statsky

✈️“It’s usually only a small number of folks on airplanes who are making noise by not using headphones, so this is a graceful way to handle those folks.” United's CEO quote: "Take that ratchet behavior to Spirit." Imagine raw dogging your music on a flight.

Hillary Clinton is one of the sharpest politicians in the Democratic party. Huge missed opportunity there.

He's right of course. Employer-linked benefits aren't natural law but a WWII wage-control workaround we never bothered to fix. It's also why Americans are afraid to start businesses or leave bad jobs. We've chained risk-taking to a paycheck.

A sign of emotional intelligence is the ability to laugh at yourself. "...displaying amusement (vs. embarrassment) is perceived to be a more emotionally calibrated response to many common faux pas." Life skill: chill.

Food is not a reward for hard work. #medsky

This sentiment from Captain Picard on "time" is worth a rewatch. #startrek #TNG

🎥Why do villains who don the ghost mask have supernatural resilience and strength? Saw #scream7 tonight and can't recommend. However, it IS what it IS if that's your thing.

📢Hollering for those in the back and grifting freaks: "Vaccines don't cause autism!" "The science is settled!" "Consuming raw milk is not safe. There is a clue 🕵️ on those containers". "There is no correlation between being a popular podcast host and a qualified Surgeon General" Repeat.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird So yeah, It's often prudent to STFU and even better to show compassion.

Been passively following the tenure travails of former HBS prof Ben Edelman. He's clearly a brilliant scholar but could be abrasive (Chinese restaurant kerfuffle didn't help). Tenure track is littered with landmines. The attached are illustrative. "Protect the brand". #academicsky

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive." 📚 - James Baldwin

Negative news headlines drive engagement as we apparently chomp at the bit to click. Each additional negative word increases clicks by 2.3%. Negativity sells. Our feeds are saturated with doom as it sells. Touch grass and resist the urge. Pacts with Mephistopheles don't go well. Read Faust.

Good! 👍

#newprofilepic Jeffrey hating the 🌨️🥶

Blizzzad! 🌨️🥶 Hate doesn't accurately capture my disdain Let Jarret come here if he longs for this.

Blizzard! 🥶

"If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history." Hannah Arendt

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ~ Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor.

Important article. Also TIL: "Since 1978, the Jeryl Lynn vaccine strains have been used to make all mumps vaccine in the United States. This combination of two strains was cultured from the throat of Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, daughter of mumps vaccine developer Maurice Hilleman, in 1963." 🛟

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Live Not by Lies (1974)

Great article on public speaking, something I frequently ponder. There are those speakers who appear naturally charismatic, own the room with their well timed quips and expressions. Then there are others (me) who fret about how attendees will groan at my ersatz joke. Anyway, worth your time.

🎁 "You will be sitting down in an exam room when the neurologist delivers the diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.. She tells you that your son will continue to lose brain function as time passes, resulting in seizures, severe dementia, and.... death." #medtwitter

This is bonkers. "Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken legal action to support Mary Talley Bowden, M.D., in her case against the Texas Medical Board ("TMB")." #medtwitter 🛟

Banger of an ad. Wasn't she also "concerned" about our HHS Secretary before voting to confirm him? #medtwitter 🛟

Becca Rothfeld on the death of the book section at WaPo: "What they often evinced was better than interest, better even than bibliophilia; it was the rare and precious capacity to be interested in what they didn't already know interested them. It was a willingness to be changed." 📚

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"It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad. In his latest drive-by shooting, the leader of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine division rejected Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine without even a cursory review." 🛟

Dr @mdwallach.bsky.social 's post popped up on LinkedIn (we have mutuals there) whilst I was on a Zoom call and I spit up my coffee with that last sentence. He's 🎯 and I will link a gift version of the WSJ cited. The image from the island of Dr. Moreau was not included; my gratuitous add. #medsky 🛟