Every day is just another outtake from Woody Allen's Bananas youtu.be/ukr3Y3unFhg?...

Repeatedly, Tr*mp said pregnant people need to just suck it up and suffer during pregnancy rather than taking Tylenol. I cannot emphasize enough that he has no medical or scientific training and is in no position to tell any of us what medications to take or when.

This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Normally I would watch this on a loop and laugh but it’s not funny anymore. He can’t say it because he doesn’t care about autism or Tylenol or you or me or even anyone in that room. This is just another laugh / power play for him.

Technologically advanced a band: Arcade Firewall

Reveal isn’t the right word. Acknowledge would be better because anyone who knows the mathematics underpinning neural networks and the ambiguities of meaning, value functions, etc already knew this

What a nice clean cut person he was

There is currently no feasible solution to the problem of accuracy / hallucinations other than human checking. Perhaps we should add a billion more parameters

Let none of us forget that in our age of corporate welfare capitalism, our pocket-book protests can be quite effective

Just so I understand this, we're going from giving kids one painful poke to giving them three separate jabs? Same serum, just broken out? Nothing about stoping those chemtrails, though, huh?

Not the same, but my high school physics teacher got his degree in Australia, and despite being American himself, revered to zero as "naught." I continue to insist that this is why I never liked / was bad at physics

In times like this I highly recommend singing songs you know using “meow” as the only word

Narrator: “The joke was on him, though, as he later found out that Gemini wrote his wife’s divorce petition.”

In more upbeat news, the NeilMed Sinus Relief fairy apparently visited the College of Population Health again. We have no idea why we keep getting these but this time they came with sterile water too!

This this this!!!

Let ABC know how you feel about their bowing to the thugs in power and cancelling Jimmy Kimmel's show: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/req...

Fun times here in the Fascist States of America www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Being greeted by two overjoyed labradoodles upon returning from any (possibly very short) time away from the house 2. A cloudless fall day 3. That gluten free cookie mix they sell at Acme 4. Playing the drums 5. Karaoke with friends

There’s truly no shortage of attacks on expertise these days, but the last thing we need is for serious news rooms to platform folks like Eliezer who ignore the totality of accumulated knowledge in a domain and yell apocalypse. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

This is how narcissists operate in all walks of life (not just presidents). it can make the rational people on the outside (i.e. you and me) feel crazy. It’s gotten exponentially worse since the entire MAGA movement adopted it as it’s standard playbook

"Everything is monads. I nailed it the first time." 💯

Putting finishing touches on a lecture for some medical residents about hypothesis testing, p-values, etc. I wish intro texts would use the decision theoretic explanations that support valid use of the procedures, as I think it makes it clearer how best to interpret such results

Show me any other industry that not just tolerates but invites is most virulent critics to its workplace, often paying hundreds of thousands to cover security costs. The Free Press does not want free speech. They want to control campus speech. In this, they are no different from Trump.

Ok I think I’m just forget the internet exists and play my banjo instead this weekend 🪕

That other site is basically 8chan. I can't even bear to go there for more than about 5 minutes.

If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these

OMG PLZ STOP

I don't seem to recall MLK calling out specific individuals and disparaging their characters. I also don't remember any Republicans calling for unity after the CDC shooting or after the murder of the Minnesota congress members, or after Paul Pelosi's attack or after...

So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.

And now for your daily cleanse

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is developing a repository of curated trainings tailored to the needs of professionals on the frontlines of communicable disease prevention. This will support DI professionals in their Certified in Disease Intervention (CDI) credential.

Well done to Chris Stein at the Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’ve thought a lot and I will preface by saying de-escalation needs to happen now. But it’s really upsetting to have endured almost 10 years of Trump, who has persistently ratcheted up rhetoric while consistently gaslighting us all about it. It’s abusive and we have a right to be angry about that

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

sad about future

This is what I get for using GenAI

@acpimphysicians.bsky.social ACP calls on President Trump and Congress to remove Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) . America’s health depends on an HHS secretary who bases decisions on accurate data and current scientific findings.

I can’t even. You fired all the people that actually tallied the number of deaths FFS

Hmm these state-level public health alliances seem familiar. Oh right, we had to do the same damn thing in 2020 when Trump‘s leadership utterly failed

the cover goes hard but the contents of this report go harder. rfk jr. is a clear and present danger to us all. he must go.

Me looking for the "thousands of doctors and scientists supporting" RFK Jr... #ImpeachTheQuack

Nothing like complaining about government censorship and then becoming part of the government and promptly censoring ::checks notes:: yourself www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

What really sucks about this is that 19 of my papers are in there. But, in almost all cases, the publishers own the copyright. I’d be interested to know if this is fair use.