Mike Johansen
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Primary Care doc, likes research, teaches residents,
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Don't be a point-estimatologist. Don't think you will beat the algorithms. Don't do
#quantifauxication
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NY Times Pitchbot
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Jeffrey Epstein said that Trump “knew about the girls.” But what did he really mean?
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We need a vaccine; ebv is so terrible.
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Quinta Jurecic
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new meme
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦
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This comment shows how totally foolish that Cochrane review actually is
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
(And contrast with the
@jaccjournals.bsky.social
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www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
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Semaglutide for adults living with obesity - Bracchiglione, J - 2025 | Cochrane Library
Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD015092.pub2/detailed-comment/en?messageId=468529573
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wow
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about 10 hours ago
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Visualize your data.
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Justin Hendrix
about 11 hours ago
"President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement crackdown has hit a disgusting new low, after federal agents reportedly pepper-sprayed a 1-year-old in Chicago and then lied about it."
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Damning Video Shows DHS Agents Pepper-Spray a Baby
The Department of Homeland Security has denied it.
https://newrepublic.com/post/203046/video-department-homeland-security-agents-pepper-spray-baby
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Maybe door dash hired some of the laid of stats folks?
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦
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#nephsky
Organ donation and subsequent hydroceles
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🎯
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Jason Kirk
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"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible
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Helen Czerski
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/china-co2-emissions-flat-or-falling-for-past-18-months-analysis-finds
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This is an amazing read and provides justification for open data.
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My knees just broke.
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Diagnosis of ALS is often delayed beyond what it should be. Remember, it is a motor neuron disease. If you are worried-find the sub-specialist.
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This study is pretty unique. 1. The effect size is large for cvd outcomes in a super high ris population. 2. Counters previous narratives 3. More data unlikely to impact any meta-analytic findings The interpretation really comes down to only one thing: whether you think the data are reliable.
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There is nearly ~0 recognition of how much employers pay for health insurance. If people understood this, our system would change.
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Dr. Jen Gunter
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Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in
@motherjones.com
it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/the-many-problems-with-the-fdas-big-menopause-announcement/
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Health Nerd
2 days ago
This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen. A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
https://pubpeer.com/publications/C08779C45DB6E407DFAC85583BE9C4
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Michelle DuBarry
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My son Seamus died 15 years ago today. He was killed by a careless driver in a crosswalk. He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.
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Adrianna McIntyre
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As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance.
academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
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This is just an amazing story. LSU's initial offer was <1/2 what he was contractually owed.
www.espn.com/college-foot...
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Report: Kelly rejected LSU buyouts, seeks $54M
Former LSU football coach Brian Kelly reportedly rejected settlement offers of $25 million and $30 million dollars and is asking LSU for written confirmation, by Monday 6p ET, that he will get the $54...
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46915913/ex-lsu-coach-brian-kelly-rejected-2-settlement-offers
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James Stein
2 days ago
jamesstein18.substack.com/p/my-hot-tak...
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My Hot Take on PISCES, the New Fish Oil in Hemodialysis Study
I love when a new study challenges what we think we know.
https://jamesstein18.substack.com/p/my-hot-take-on-pisces-the-new-fish
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The editorial of this paper is kind of funny. They don't recommend use given "outsized results of early trials have failed to be replicated". Given the effect size is ginormous, the likelihood that any meta-analysis would not show that this is beneficial is very small.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Fish-Oil Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis | NEJM
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients receiving hemodialysis, yet effective preventive therapies remain limited. Supplementation with n−3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, esp...
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2513032?query=featured_home
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FlexNP
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We invented the most powerful weight loss drug ever and it might be an effective oncology drug too 😳🤯 "Low-dose RETA significantly reduced tumor volume by 3-fold compared to vehicle, demonstrating efficacy comparable to anti-PD-1 therapy, which achieved a 5-fold reduction in tumor volume"
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bahahahahahahhahahahahahha. MORE RESEARCH LIKE THIS!
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Kevin M. Kruse
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When a man's livelihood depends on finding a spurious correlation. . .
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If someone constantly needs to tell you how good they are, they aren't that good.
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The currents drugs are going to get cheaper b/c they are 2nd generation. 3rd generation drugs are approaching quickly. Who even knows how many generations there will be in the next 10 years.
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cc:
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Pro tip: understand the small data before going to the big data regression mess.
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Dorothy Bishop
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I appreciate
@bmj.com
follows a formal process, but just how much evidence do they need before adding an Expression of Concern. Numerous PubPeer comments for stem cell for heart disease paper - which had huge media attention hailing it as a medical breakthrough.
pubpeer.com/publications...
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PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...
https://pubpeer.com/publications/C08779C45DB6E407DFAC85583BE9C4
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Dumb statistical choices tend to beget dumb statistical choices.
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Chris Murphy
4 days ago
This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
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Sarah Gollust
4 days ago
Seems like a good time to do a special issue of
@jhppl.bsky.social
on the Politics of Private Health Insurance. Call for papers will be out soon, so stay tuned. There’s seem to be, uh, a few politically relevant topics to discuss.
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
@adrianna.bsky.social
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Senator Ron Wyden
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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Affordability week coming to a close.
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jamelle
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initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface
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Heterogeneity of effect size! The RRR is consistent in all these ascvd preventive treatments.
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Naming things is important
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Julia M. Rohrer
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I feel like psychometrics is uniquely bad at naming things. Parallel, congeneric, tau-equivalent, essentially tau-equivalent measures? Configural, metric, scalar, residual invariance? Item difficulty defined so that the higher the difficulty, the easier the item???
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Nick (derogatory) ✨
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Look I’m just a local idiot, but from where I stand this is the worst set of political maneuvers I’ve ever seen grown adults make.
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Chris Geidner
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LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦
5 days ago
And
@brendonneuen.bsky.social
with another simultaneous pub in
@jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Flozination by GFR/albuminuria
#KidneyWk
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SGLT2 Inhibitors and Kidney Outcomes by Glomerular Filtration Rate and Albuminuria
This meta-analysis examines whether estimated glomerular filtration rate or degree of albuminuria, as measured by urinary albumin to creatinine ratio, modifies the effects of sodium-glucose cotranspor...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2841163
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What on Earth is this? This is a double blinded RCT of high risk HD patients in Canada and Australia at numerous sights. The pre-test probability is low. However, the results are stunning with CI's that don't broach 1. Everything got better, stroke, MI, vascular, and point estimate of all cause.
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I can confirm this take is true.
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Anne Applebaum
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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