Weekend reads: Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted; a paper mill detector for cancer research articles; infant opioid poisoning report flagged

Prasad is even more of a piece of shit now than when I mocked him about his pandemic disinformation a year ago. www.knudsensnews.com/post/vinay-p...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

"NIH has terminated or frozen 116 cancer research grants ($273 million), 65 Alzheimer's research grants ($94 million), 68 diabetes grants ($83 million), and 71 heart disease grants ($111 million)..." www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Jay's passion for replication famously only applies to research he doesn't already agree with.

A journal has retracted the largest leucovorin trial in people with autism—one of just five randomized clinical trials assessing this treatment in autistic people. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/lar...

“This is so dangerous as to approach criminality” is my opinion about RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan’s statements. Instead of seeing the measles outbreak as the preventable tragedy it is, he views it as an opportunity to see how many kids die. Another great piece by @melodyschreiber.com.

Judge stands up to the Ministry of Truth. www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-...

In this video, Podcast Jay says doctors lied about COVID killing patients. Today, he blames "elites" for breaking public trust.

A sad day at NIH... The NIH Record was a great way for NIH folks to find out what was going on across NIH. Many important stories published there over the years. nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/30/n...

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power. a 🧵 www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

The Panda et al (2024) paper on leucovorin treatment for autism that we raised concern about in our PubPeer comment in September has been retracted. #autism #leucovorin #folinicacid link.springer.com/article/10.1...

www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... 220 studies in 132 million people- similar in multiple countries and *no* safety concerns. But why let facts get in the way of blind ignorance and determined dogma

Bovino pricing flights to Buenos Aires.

I don't think you're supposed to talk about the discombobulator outside of the cone of silence. www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/p...

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

New video just moments before...he was filming ICE and they were harassing him. Source: www.reddit.com/r/law/s/vPGa...

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

NEW: MAYOR FREY: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self defense. I’ve seen the video myself and I want to tell everybody directly; that is bullshit.”

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

Has FIFA rescinded the peace prize yet?

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

NYT gift article. Sad news re Caroline Kennedy's family. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

RFK Jr. has cancelled grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics because “they no longer align with departmental priorities”. The grants were on such topics as “reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, and mental health…” The AAP has criticized RFK Jr. That’s the real reason.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

this is, of course, exactly what republicans have always intended for vouchers to do: defund public education to facilitate the creation of a private system of segregation academies

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary built his platform not on science but on spectacle. Makary turned a medical career into a megaphone for misinformation. Once a surgeon and professor, he built his brand on public skepticism, rising to power by attacking the very scientific standards he now oversees.

Q: “What’s your message to those 24 million Americans who will see their insurance premiums go up?” Trump: “Don’t make it sound so bad because obviously you’re a sycophant for Democrats. You’re obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.”

A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...

So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...

This is tragic, and a reminder that the risk of hep B virus (HBV) transmission from caregivers and household contacts (often referred to as "horizontal transmission") is a significant public health concern that extends beyond the immediate risk of mother-to-child transmission at delivery.🧵

It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by @reuters.com Here's why. 🧵 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Christina Lorey on Facebook: “*THIS* IS WHAT LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE 💙 Last year, President Biden and the First Lady honored World AIDS Day by displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt across the South Lawn.” #Pinks #ProudBlue #MomSky 📸: ABC News

Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now. Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers. Shameful.

Is the Gut Microbiome Really Causing Autism? A Scientist Breaks It Down. (Spoiler: no) www.technologynetworks.com/tn/articles/... cc @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social

CDC layoffs disrupted PRAMS, a long-running maternal and infant health survey, hindering data access and state capacity; uncertainty persists over centralized support and funding. www.wcvb.com/article/mass...

Infogrababble. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Straight-up sociopath. Asked about a Guard member who’s dead because of his bullshit and it takes him 30 seconds to make it all about how great he is.